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