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

Host: 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