Laboratory of Genetics - Fall Colloquium Series 2017
Wednesdays, 3:30 PM, Auditorium (Room 1111) of the Genetics/Biotech Building
9/6/2017
Ahna Skop – University of Wisconsin, Madison – Genetics
“What is the connection between cell division and neurodegenerative disease?”
9/13/2017
Beth Weaver – University of Wisconsin, Madison – Cell and Regenerative Biology
“Unexpected roles of mitotic regulators in tumor initiation and treatment”
9/20/2017
Arash Bashirullah – University of Wisconsin, Madison – Pharmacy
“Genetic control of body size and cell death in Drosophila”
9/27/2017
Daven Presgraves – University of Rochester – Biology
“Sex chromosomes, conflict, and complex speciation in Drosophila”
10/4/2017
Meleah Hickman – Emory University – Biology
“Ploidy dynamics in an opportunistic fungal pathogen”
10/11/2017
Ian Dworkin – McMaster University – Biology
“Genetic background and its impacts on the analysis of mutations, genes, and evolutionary trajectories”
10/18/2017
David Pagliarini – University of Wisconsin, Madison – Biochemistry
“Mitochondrial proteins, pathways, and pathogenesis”
10/25/2017
Patrick McGrath – Georgia Tech – Biology
“50 years of solitude: The genetic basis of adaptation of C. elegans to its laboratory environment”
11/1/2017
Mohan Babu – University of Regina – Biochemistry
“A Global Interaction Mapping in the Bacterium Escherichia coli”
11/8/2017
Asher Cutter – University of Toronto – Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
“Worm tales of evolution: Sperm, speciation, and population genomics”
11/15/2017
Niles Lehman – Portland State University – Chemistry
“Cooperative RNA Reproduction and the Origins of Life”
11/22/2017
Qiang Chang – Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison – Genetics and Neurology
“Molecular Functions of MeCP2 and Mechanisms of Rett Syndrome”
11/29/2017
Christian Landry – Université Laval – Biology
“Hybridization as a driving force in yeast speciation”
12/6/2017
Erica Larschan – Brown University – Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
“TBA”
12/13/2017
Clayton Mathews – University of Florida – Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine
“TBA”