MCDB Seminar Series: 2023-2024

Fall 2023

September 6

MCDB Seminar

Claus-Dieter Kuhn
Title: “The role of enhancer RNAs in stimulating transcription” 
Host Yannick Jacob

September 11

Special Silliman Seminar

Elaine Fuchs, Rockefeller University, HHMI
Title:  “Our Body’s Stem Cells: How They Cope With Stress and Learn from Their Experiences”
Hosted by Valerie Horsley

September 13

MCDB Seminar

Dianne Newman, Caltech
Title: “Context matters: agathokakological roles for nitric oxide”
Hosted by Jing Yan

September 20

MCDB Seminar

Min Wu, Yale, Cell Biology
Title:  “A topological view of lipid metabolism and metaphase cortex patterning in mast cells”
Hosted by Anna Pyle, Josh Gendron

October 3

MCDB/Chemistry Seminar

Susan Rempe, Sandia National Laboratories
Title:  “K Channel Transport: Hard Knocks, Solf Knocks, Others?”
Hosted by Anna Pyle and Tianyu Zhu

October 21

MCDB, Microbial Pathogenesis, Immunobiology, Comparative Medicine & Pharmacology

Dr. Charles Rice, Nobel Laureate and Professor at Rockefeller University 
Title: “From yellow fever to hepatitis C and back…and beyond”
 

October 25

MCDB Seminar

Shirin Bahmanyar, Yale 
Title:  “The nuclear envelope: a paradigm for membrane dynamics and function”

November 8

MCDB Seminar

Sophie Dumont, UCSF
Title: “Mechanics of mammalian cell division”
Hosted by Binyam Mogessie

November 29

MCDB Seminar

Carsten Janke, Institut Curie, Paris, France
Title: “Diversifying cytoskeletal functions with the tubulin code”
Hosted by Binyam Mogessie

December 6

MCDB Seminar

Hattie Chung, Broad Institute
Title: “Proteogenomic tools for tissue biology”
Hosted by Scott Holley 

December 13

MCDB Seminar

Mansi Srivastav, Harvard
Title: “Mechanisms of regeneration and their evolution”
Hosted by Jacob Musser 

Spring 2024

January 22

MCDB/SBI Faculty Search Symposium

January 24

MCDB Seminar

Yannick Jacob
Title: “Mitotic inheritance of genetic and epigenetic information”

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 20

MCDB Seminar

Sarah Knox, University of California, San Francisco
Title: “Nerve-tissue crosstalk driving organ development and regeneration”
Hosted by Valerie Horsley 

April 3

MCDB Seminar

Adam Gracz, Emory University 
Title: ”Regulating epithelial identity in hepatobiliary development and metaplasia”

Hosted by Valerie Horsley 

April 10

MCDB Seminar

Adam Gracz, Emory University 
Title: ”Regulating epithelial identity in hepatobiliary development and metaplasia”

Hosted by Valerie Horsley 

April 17

MCDB Seminar

Jose Pruneda-Paz, University of California San Diego
Title: “Unraveling how organ-specific circadian clocks function in plants”
Hosted by Josh Gendron

April 24

MCDB Seminar

Peter K. Jackson, Stanford University School of Medicine
Title:  “Signaling in Primary Cilia Controls Tissue Regeneration, Metabolism, and Diabetes”
Hosted by David Breslow

May 15

MCDB Seminar

Tania Lupoli, NYU, Chemistry
Title: “Activation and Incorporation of Rare Sugars into Bacterial Cell Surface”
Hosted by Stavroula Hatzios