MB&B 338 Fall 2023 Seminar Series
All Seminars are Wednesdays, 12:10-1:10pm in Shanklin 107, unless otherwise noted
September 6th
MB&B and Bio Graduate Student Welcome Lunch
September 13th*
Sarah Hainer, University of Pittsburgh
Cell identity is altered through regulation of genic and gene-distal elements in embryonic stem cells and acute myeloid leukemia
Host: Padilla
September 20th+
Nate Grubaugh, Yale University
Genomic tracking of emergence of arthropod-borne viruses
Host: Cohen
September 27th+
Matthew Fuxjager, Brown University
Neuroendocrinology of drumming behavior in woodpeckers and gestural displays in other species
Host: Feng
October 4th*
Soni Lacefield, Dartmouth University
Title TBA
Host: MacQueen
October 11th^
24th Annual Biophysics Retreat
Sua Myong, Boston Children’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School
Built-in pop-up switches that modulate gene expression
Kylie Walters, National Cancer Institute
Mechanisms of protein degradation: from structures to PROTACs
Host: Mukerji
October 18th+
Justin Kumar, Indiana University
Eye differentiation
Host: Johnson
October 25th+
Fatima Aysha Hussain, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT & Harvard
Phage-bacteria and bacteria-bacteria interactions in the ocean (past) & in the human vaginal microbiome (present/future)
Host: Arevalo
November 1st*
TBD
November 8th*
TBD
November 15th*
TBD
November 29th*
TBD
December 6th*
TBD
+Hosted by the Department of Biology
*Hosted by the Department of MB&B
^Hosted by the Biophysics Program