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

Discovery of an electrostatic switch that underlies allosteric regulation of multiple protein kinase enzymes

Host: Thayer

November 6th+ 

Dr. Devaleena Pradhan, Idaho State University

Mechanisms by which organisms align life history transitions with their external environments

Host: Feng

November 13th* 

Dr. Katherine Vest, University of Cincinnati

Putting copper in its place: controlling allocation of an essential but toxic trace nutrient

Host: Padilla-Benavides

November 20th+ 

Dr. Carlos Garcia-Robledo, University of Connecticut

Title: TBD

Host: Singer

December 4th* 

Dr. 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