MB&B 338 Fall 2024 Seminar Series
All Seminars are Wednesdays, 12:10-1:10pm in Shanklin 107, unless otherwise noted
September 11th+
Dr. Pavithra Vivekanand, Susquehanna Univerisity
Honey gold nanoparticles attenuate IL-6 secretion from a human macrophage cell line
Host: Weir
September 18th*
Dr. 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 25th+
Dr. Alina Chan, Broad Institute
The case for a laboratory origin of COVID-19
Host: Cohan
September 27th* (Friday 1:10pm in Exley 058)
Dr. Sanford Bernstein, San Diego State University
Mechanistic Insights into Myosin-Based Muscle Diseases
Host: Mukerji
October 2nd*
Dr. Nicholas Tolwinski, Yale-NUS College
Can We Make Flies Immortal: Modelling Aging and Age Related Disease in Drosophila
Host: MB&B
October 9th+
Dr. Angela Freeman, Salisbury University
Title: TBD
Host: Feng
October 16th ∧ (Biophysics Retreat, Beckham Hall)
Dr. Olga Boudker, Weill Cornell Medical
The dynamics and evolution of glutamate transporters from bacteria to humans
Host: Olson
October 23rd+
Dr. Vanja Klepac-Ceraj, Wellesley College
Title: TBD
Host: Arevalo
October 30th*
Dr. Matthew Young, Molecules to Medicine Collaboratory
Title: Discovery of an electrostatic switch that underlies allosteric regulation of multiple protein kinase enzymes
Host: Thayer
November 6th+
Dr. Devaleena Pradhan, Idaho State University
Title: TBD
Host: Feng
November 13th*
Dr. Katherine Vest, University of Cincinnati
Title: TBD
Host: Padilla-Benavides
November 20th+
Dr. Carlos Garcia-Robledo, University of Connecticut
Title: TBD
Host: Singer
December 4th*
Dr. Dean Wilcox, Dartmouth University
Title: TBD
Host: Fisher
+Hosted by the Department of Biology
*Hosted by the Department of MB&B
^Hosted by the Biophysics Program