BIOL/MB&B 338 Fall 2024 Seminars
All Seminars are Wednesdays at 12:10-1:10pm in Shanklin 107, unless otherwise noted
September 11+
Pavithra Vivekanand, Susquehanna University
Honey gold nanoparticles attenuate IL-6 secretion from a human macrophage cell line
Host: Weir
September 18*
Maria Angelica Bravo Nunez, Harvard University/Cornell University
THE (KARYO)TYPES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’: A meiosis derivative causes aneuploidy in a human fungal pathogen
Host: MacQueen
September 25+
Seminar will be held on Zoom
Alina Chan, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
The Case for a Laboratory Origin of Covid-19
Host: Cohan
September 27*
Special Friday session
Sandy Bernstein, San Diego University
Mechanistic Insights into Myosin-Based Muscle Diseases
Host: Mukerji
October 2*
Nicholas Tolwinski, Yale-NUS College
Can We Make Flies Immortal: Modelling Aging and Age Related Disease in Drosophila
Host: Mukerji
October 9+
Angela Freeman, Salisbury University
Mechanisms of social behavior in non-traditional model speciesHost: Feng
October 16^
Biophysics Retreat
Olga Boudker, Weill Cornell Medicine
The dynamics and evolution of glutamate transporters from bacteria to humans
Host: Olson
October 23+
Vanja Klepac-Ceraj, Wellesley College
Bugs and brains: Co-development of the infant gut microbiome and neurocognition
Host: Arevalo
October 30*
Speaker: Matthew Young, Molecules to Medicine Collaboratory
Discovery of an electrostatic switch that underlies allosteric regulation of multiple protein kinase enzymes
Host: Thayer
November 6+
Devaleena Pradhan, Idaho State University
Feather to Fin: mechanisms by which organisms align life history transitions with their external environments
Host: Feng
November 13*
Katherine Vest, University of Cincinnati
Putting copper in its place: controlling allocation of an essential but toxic trace nutrient
Host: Padilla-Benavides
November 20+
Carlos Garcia-Robledo, University of Connecticut
Stop heating your study organism: fitness estimates of plant-insect interactions under projected global warming
Host: Singer
December 4*
Dean Wilcox, Dartmouth University
Molecular Origin of the Affinities of Cysteine-rich Proteins for Metals: from Zinc Fingers to Metallothionein
Host: Fisher
+Hosted by the Department of Biology
*Hosted by the Department of MB&B
^Hosted by the Biophysics Program