Frontiers in BIology
2020 - 2021
| Date | Speaker | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2020 | |||
| Sep 23 | Yin Shen | UCSF | Charting the 3D epigenome in brain development andneuropsychiatric diseases |
| Sep 30 | Raj Rohatgi | Stanford | Hedgehog signaling: newmechanisms reveal new biology |
| Oct 7 | Diane Shakes | College of William & Mary | From skewed sex ratios to cracking the meiotic secrets of agenetic law-breaker |
| Oct 14 | Gisela Storz | NIH | Genes within genes |
| Oct 21 | Silvi Rouskin | Whitehead Institute, MIT | Regulation of alternative splicing byRNA structure |
| Oct 28 | Sarah Zanders | Stowers | wtf gamete killing meiotic drive |
| Nov 11 | Ron Davis | Stanford | Progress and Challenges for a Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ChronicFatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)Diagnostic |
| Nov 18 | Katharine Ullman | Huntsman Cancer Institute | Membrane remodeling during celldivision: roles and regulation of the ESCRT pathway |
| Dec 2 | Kornelia Polyak | Harvard | Heterogeneity in breast cancer |
| Dec 9 | Lynda Stuart | Gates Foundation | Title Pending |
| Winter 2021 | |||
| Jan 13 | James Nunez | UCSF | Programmable transcriptional memoryby CRISPR-based epigenome editing |
| Jan 20 | Jacquin Niles | MIT | Chemical-genetics applied to target-based drug discovery in malaria |
| Jan 27 | Eric Haag | University of Maryland | Using Caenorhabditis nematodes to reveal the impacts of sexual mode on cells, genomes and species |
| Feb 3 | Ralph DeBerardinis | UTSW | Title pending |
| Feb 10 | Luciano Marraffini | Rockafeller | CRISPR-Cas13 immunity: sacrificingthe host for the population |
| Mar 3 | Maria Elena Torres-Padilla | Helmholtz Zentrum, Germany | Epigenetic mechanisms of cellular plasticity and reprogramming tototipotency |
| Mar 10 | Irene Miguel-Aliaga | MRC Imperial College | Sex and reproductive differences inintestinal plasticity |
| Mar 17 | Cliff Tabin | Harvard | Vignettes from a dev bio/evodevo lab: What makes a limb cell a limb cell? And How did birds evolve the capacity to vocalize? |
| Mar 24 | Meng Wang | Baylor College of Medicine | Title pending |
| Spring 2021 | |||
| Mar 31 | Derk ten Berge | Erasmus Medical Center | Slicing up the pluripotency spectrum - how pluripotent state transitions drive embryo morphogenesis |
| Apr 7 | Paul Turner | Yale University | Phage therapy to combat infections by antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens |
| Apr 14 | Gustavo Silva | Duke University | K63 ubiquitin and the regulation of translation during oxidative stress |
| Apr 21 | Maria Elena Torres-Padilla | Helmholtz Zentrum, Germany | Epigenetic mechanisms of cellular plasticity and reprogramming to totipotency |
| Apr 28 | Anshul Kundage | Stanford University | Title pending |
| May 5 | Levi Garraway | Genentech | Frontiers in theraputic development |
| May 12 | Karine Gibbs | UC Berkeley | Micro-crowdsourcing: How a swarming bacterial pathogen uses a local sense of identity to assemble and move as a community |
| May 19 | Title pending | ||
| May 26 | Huda Zoghbi | Baylor College of Medicine | Epigenetics and Brain Plasticity: Lessons from Rett Syndrome and other MECP2 disorders |
| Jun 2 | Georgia Panagiotakos | UCSF | O Ca(2+)ptain! My Ca(2+)ptain! Dynamic regulation of intracellular signaling during cortical development |