Spring 2023
January 11
MCDB Faculty Search Symposium
February 1-2
MCDB/IBDD and MCDB/MSU Assistant Professor Search
February 10
MCDB Faculty RIP
Damon Clark
Title “How flies evaluate evidence for self-motion”
February 15
MCDB Seminar
Olivia Rissland, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Title: “Developmental Control of RNA Binding Proteins”
Hosted by Siggy Nachtergaele
February 16-17
MCDB/IBDD and MCDB/MSU Assistant Professor Search (Rain Date)
February 22
MCDB Seminar
Keith Slotkin, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Title: “The Initiation of Transposable Element Silencing in Plants”
Hosted by Yannick Jacob
March 24
Faculty RIP
Michael O’Donnell
Title: “Messages in bottles: how microbial metabolites are packaged for delivery to the nervous system”
March 29
MCDB Seminar
Josh Gendron
Title: “Illuminating clocks and calendars in plants”
April 3
MCDB Seminar
Iain Cheeseman, MIT / Whitehead, Department of Biology
Title: “Rewiring Cell Division”
Hosted by MB&B Students
Co Hosted by David Breslow
April 5
MCDB Seminar
Daniel Nomura, UC Berkeley
Title: “Reimagining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms”
Hosted by Stavroula Hatzios
April 19
MCDB Seminar
Jiefu Li, Janelia/ HHMI
Title: “In Situ Cell-Surface Proteomics: Method Development and Applications”
Hosted by Weimin Zhong
April 26
MCDB Seminar
Lucia Strader, Duke Univerity
Title: “Understanding transcription control through the lens of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORs”
Hosted by Josh Gendron
May 3
MCDB Seminar
Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Stanford University
Title: TBD
Hosted by Josh Gendron
May 10
MCDB Seminar
David Sherwood, Duke University
Title: TBD
Hosted by Shirin Bahmanyar