MCDB Seminar Series: 2020-2021

Fall 2021

October 20

MCDB Seminar

Daniela Drummond-Barbosa, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Title: “Control of the Drosophila germline stem cell lineage by diet, temperature, and whole-body physiology”
Hosted by Vivian Irish

October 27

MCDB Seminar

Megan King, Yale School of Medicine
Title: “Nuclear mechanics and dynamics: lessons from yeast to mice”
Hosted by Vivian Irish

November 12

Sussex Symposium

November 17

MCDB Seminar

Petra Levin, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: “The environment shapes the bacterial cell”
Hosted by Vivian Irish and Andy Goodman

December 15

MCDB Seminar

Mark Stitt, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Title; “How do plants budget carbon? Can we expect a simple solution in a wild world?”
Hosted by Josh Gendron

Spring 2022

February 23

Libo Shan; Texas A&M, Institute for Plant Genomic & Biotechnology
Title; Non-self Recognition in Plant Immunity and Beyond
Hosted by Vivian Irish 

April 6

MCDB Seminar

Ankur Dalia, Indiana University
Title:  ‘Regulation and mechanism of horizontal gene transfer by natural transformation”
3:45pm Tea time
Hosted by: Michael O’Donnell and Jing Yan

May 16

Andrea Ablasser, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Title;  “Sensing DNA as a danger signal through the cGAS-STING pathway”:
Hosted by Craig Crews