MCDB Seminar Series: 2022-2023

Fall 2022

September 14

MCDB Seminar

Jesse Zamudio, UCLA
Title: “Piecing together Argonaute protein function in the mammalian nucleus”
Host: Nadya Dimitrova

October 5

MCDB Seminar

Chuan He, University of Chicago / HHMI
Title: “RNA methylation in gene expression regulation”
Hosted by Anna Pyle

October 26

MCDB Seminar (canceled)

John Rinn, University of Colorado, Boulder
Title: “The role of Firre RNA in transcriptional regulations”
Hosted by Nadya Dimitrova

November 4

Sussex Symposium

Hosted by Vivian Irish

November 9

MCDB Seminar

Alissa Armstrong, University of South Carolina, Stem Cell & Developmental Biology
Title: “ Using Drosophila melanogaster to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying fat-to-ovary communication about diet”  
Hosted By Valerie Horsley

Spring 2023

February 15

Olivia Rissland, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Title: “Developmental Control of RNA Binding Proteins”
Hosted by Siggy Nachtergaele

February 22

MCDB Seminar

Keith Slotkin, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center 
Title: “The Initiation of Transposable Element Silencing in Plants”
Hosted by Yannick Jacob 

February 7

MCDB and Chemistry Seminar

Roland K. O. Sigel, Professor of Chemistry, University of Zurich  
Title:  “From RNA G4s to group II intron and theta ribozymes – a tale of metal ions at the core of structure and function”
Hosted by Anna Pyle and Chemistry 

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

David Sherwood, Duke University
Title: TBD
Hosted by Shirin Bahmanyar