Laboratory of Genetics - 2018 Fall Colloquium
Wednesdays, 3:30 PM, Auditorium (Room 1111) of the Genetics/Biotech Building
9/5/2018
Peter Ralph – University of Oregon – Math
“Landscapes of genetic variation and linked selection”
9/12/2018
Noelle Dwyer – University of Virginia – Cell Biology
“How Neural Stem Cells Divide to Build the Cerebral Cortex”
9/19/2018
Yukiko Yamashita – University of Michigan – Cell & Developmental Biology
“Asymmetric stem cell division and germ cell immortality”
9/26/2018
Xuehua Zhong – University of Wisconsin, Madison – Genetics
“Epigenetic regulation in plants”
10/3/2018
Jikui Song – University of California, Riverside – Biochemistry
“Mechanistic Insights into Mammalian DNA Methylation”
10/10/2018
Neena Haider – Harvard University – Ophthalmology
“Gene Identification to Gene Therapy: Development of the First Broad Spectrum Therapy for Inherited Retinal Disease”
10/17/2018
John Postlethwait – University of Oregon – Biology
“The puzzle of sex determination in zebrafish”
10/24/2018
Helen Salz – Case Western Reserve University – Genetics
“Sexual identity maintenance in Drosophila female germ cells”
10/31/2018
Shen Yang He – Michigan State University – Plant Biology
“Toward understanding the “disease-climate-microbiome” interactions in plants”
11/7/2018
Alan Shuldiner – University Maryland – Medicine
“The Path to Precision Medicine: From Discovery to Patient Care”
11/14/2018
Nick Rohner – Stowers Institute – Molecular & Integrative Physiology
“Metabolic Evolution in Cavefish”
11/21/2018
****THANKSGIVING***
11/28/2018
Brian Parks – University of Wisconsin, Madison – Nutritional Sciences
“Non-additive inheritance of obesity”
12/5/2018
Caitlin Pepperell – University of Wisconsin, Madison – Medical Microbiology & Immunology
“Adaptation of Mycobacteria”
12/12/2018
Jayshree Samanta – University of Wisconsin, Madison – Comparative Biosciences
“Enhancing Remyelination by Neural Stem Cells”
12/19/2018
Dana Opulente – University of Wisconsin, Madison – Genetics
“Evolution of metabolic diversity in the budding yeast subphylum Saccharomycotina”