Laboratory of Genetics - 2021 Spring Colloquium
Wednesdays, 3:30 PM, Online via Zoom
1/20/2021
Derek Applewhite – Reed College – Biology
“The Drosophila spectrplakin Short stop integrates cell-matrix adhesion during cell migration”
1/27/21
Ewelina Bolcun-Filas – Jackson Laboratory – Genetics of Fertility & Reproduction
“Exploring and exploiting phenotypic and genetic diversity to understand oocyte biology”
2/3/21
Daifeng Wang – University of Wisconsin, Madison – Genetics
“Machine learning interprets functional genomics in the human brain and brain disorders”
2/10/21
Ehab Abouheif—McGill University-Biology
“What soldier and supersoldier ants teach us about development and evolution”
2/17/21
Marla Sokolowski-University of Toronto-Ecology and Evolution
“The foraging gene: Unravelling gene-environment interplay on Behavior”
2/24/21
Jason Tennessen-Indiana-Biology
“Cancer, fruit flies, and rotting bananas – exploring the metabolism of tumor growth using Drosophila melanogaster as a model system”
3/3/21
Maria Barna – Stanford University – Genetics
“Ribosomes in Gene Regulation: Controlling the diversity of proteins made in specific cells, tissues and organisms”
3/10/21
Amrit Singh – Ohio State University – Molecular Genetics
“Connections between mRNP composition and mRNA decay”
3/17/21
Matthias Schlichting—Brandeis University-Biology
“Neuromodulation is key to keeping track of time in Drosophila”
3/24/21
Blake Riggs—San Francisco State-Cell and Mol Biology
“Organelle dynamics during mitosis:
a pathway for generation of cellular diversity”
3/31/21
Harmit Malik – University of Washington – Genome Sciences
“Genetic conflicts: rapidly evolving tales of rapidly evolving histones”
4/7/21
Valentina Lo Sardo—UW Madison—Cell Regenerative Biology
“Deciphering the non-coding genome with iPSCs and genome editing”
4/14/21
Judith Campisi – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – Biomedical Sciences
“Cancer and aging: Rival demons?”
4/21/21
Zeba Wunderlich – University of California, Irvine – Developmental and Cell Biology
“The Connections Between Enhancer Architecture and Function”
4/28/21
Anita Corbett – Emory University – Biology
“The RNA Exosome and Human Disease: Using Model Systems to Explore Disease Mechanism”