Spring 2018 Calendar
| Date | Event | Speaker/Presenter | Title | Host | Time/Location |
| 1/12/18 | Rotation Reports | 1st year MCB Graduate Students |
1-5 pm LMM 107 |
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| 1/31/18 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Dr. Peter Chien, U Mass Amherst |
Regulated protein degradation in bacterial growth and stress response |
A. Deaconescu |
12 PM LMM 107 |
| 2/7/18 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar |
Dr. Jef Boeke, NYU |
Evidence that retrotranspotion of LINE elements is linked to the S phase |
J. Sedivy |
12 PM SFH 220 |
| 2/9/18 | MCB Data Club |
Alexandra Mascaro Diego Jaime |
4 PM SFH 220 |
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| 2/9/18 | MCB Recruitment Reception |
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5PM - 6:30 PM SFH Atrium |
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| 2/14/18 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Dr. Al Ayala, Brown University | Novel Roles for the Inhibitory Co-receptor, Programmed Cell Death Receptor (PD)-1, and its Ligands, in the Response to Sepsis/Shock | M. Johnson |
12 PM LMM 107 |
| 2/21/18 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Dr. Engin Ozkan, University of Chicago | Protein Interactomes to Connectomes: Neural Connectivity through proteomics, structure and function | A.Jaworski |
12 PM SFH 220 |
| 2/23/18 | MCB Data Club |
Megan Gura William Jordan |
4pm LMM 107 |
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| 2/28/18 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Dr. Antonina Roll-Mecak, NIH | The tubulin code: how cells build specificity into microtubule networks | C. de Graffenried |
12 PM LMM 107 |
| 3/9/18 | MCB Graduate Program Rotation Talks | 1st year MCBGP students presenting findings from their 2nd rotations | |||
| 3/14/18 | MCB Thesis Defense | Alexander Conicella |
Structural Determinants of TDP-43 Liquid Phase Separation
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N. Fawzi |
12 PM LMM 107 |
| 3/23/18 | MCB Data Club |
Shawn Williams Amy Sinclair-Davis |
4 pm LMM 107 |
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| 4/4/18 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Dr. John McDonald, Georgia Institute of Technology | The potential of machine learning for the improved diagnosis and treatment of cancer | M. Dawson |
12 PM LMM 107 |
| 4/5/18 | MCB Thesis Defense | Jennifer Forcina |
Functional Analysis of HAP2 Reveals Insights into a Gamete Fusion Mechanism |
M. Johnson |
1:30 PM LMM 107 |
| 4/11/18 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Dr. Beronda Montgomery, Michigan State University | Selective Plant Vision: Spatiotemporal Phytochrome-Dependent Regulation of Photosynthesis and Growth | A. DeLong |
12 PM SFH 220 |
| 4/12/18 | MCB Thesis Defense | Robert Thorn |
Development, Disease, and Regeneration: Using Zebrafish to Model Neurological Perturbations |
R. Creton |
1:00pm Salomon Center, Room 001 |
| 4/13/18 | MCB Thesis Defense | Stephanie Post | Characterizing Distinct and Shared Functions of Drosophila Insulin-Like Peptides in Regulating Metabolism and Longevity | M. Tatar |
9:00am BMC 202 (Purple Palace) |
| 4/13/18 | MCB Data Club |
Sean Gillis Angela Tata |
4 pm SFH 220 |
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| 4/18/18 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Dr. David Plachetzki, University of New Hampshire |
Inferring the sensory repertoire of our deepest animal ancestors: a story of paradigm shifts and plot twists |
E. Morrow |
12 PM LMM 107 |
| 4/25/18 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Dr. Carmen Williams, NIEHS |
Epigenetic Reprogramming in Reproduction by Developmental Exposure to Estrogenic Chemicals |
G. Wessel |
12 PM SFH 220 |
| 4/27/18 | MCB Data Club |
Brett Baggett Christy Rhine |
4 PM LMM 107 |
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| 5/3/18 | MCB Masters Thesis Defense | Megumi Mori | Gene Expression Changes Associated with the Differentiation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells to Primordial Germ Cell-Like Cells |
11 am LMM 401 |
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| 5/11/18 | First Year Rotation Talks |
1st year MCBGP students presenting findings from their 3rd rotations |
1:30pm - 5:00pm LMM 107 |
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| 5/23/18 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Dr. Sohini Ramachandran |
12pm SFH 220 |
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| 6/1/18 | MCB Data Club |
Victoria St. Amand, Tech, Reenan Lab |
4 PM LMM 107
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| 7/6/18 | MCB Thesis Defense |
Samantha Jeschonek, Mowry Lab |
11 AM SFH 220 |
Fall 2017 Calendar
| Date | Event | Speaker/Presenter | Title | Host | Time/Location |
| 7/21/17 | MCB Graduate Student Thesis Defense | Emily Kaye | GA-Binding Proteins Regulate Dosage Compensation in Drosophila melanogaster | E. Larschan | 12 PM SFH 220 |
| 8/24/17 | MCB Graduate Program Thesis Defense | Judson Belmont | A. Salomon | 10 AM SFH 220 | |
| 9/13/17 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Jill Kreiling, Brown University | Unraveling the Role of Heterochromatin Dysfunction in Aging | J. Bender |
12 PM SFH 220 |
| 9/15/17 | MCB Data Club |
Anna Petrashen Lauren Olinski |
Translational regulation of insulin-like growth factor 1 by MYC Opsin 3-mediated regulation of human skin pigmentation |
4 PM LMM 107 |
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| 9/20/17 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Ann Stock, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/Rutgers | Two-Component System Design Principles: Balancing Cost and Benefit | A. Deaconescu |
12 PM LMM 107 |
| 9/27/17 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Chun Geun Lee, Brown University | TGF-beta and its modifiers in the pathogenesis of lung fibrosis | M. Johnson | 12 PM SFH 220 |
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9/29/17 |
MCB Data Club |
Yee Veon Teo
Anastasia Murthy |
Cell-free DNA as a biomarker for healthy aging Mechanisms of liquid-liquid phase separation of the RNA-binding protein Fused In Sarcoma |
4 PM SFH 220 |
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| 10/4/17 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Judy Liu, Brown University | Molecular, Cellular, and Circuit mechanisms of Cortical Malformations | E. Morrow |
12 PM LMM 107 |
| 10/11/17 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Kausik Si, Stower Institute | What memories are made of | R. Reenan |
12 PM SFH 220 |
| 10/13/17 | MCB Data Club |
Sun Maybury-Lewis Gregory Thompson |
Dynamics of chromatin accessibility in neural stem cell activation D-Tagatose metabolism induces chromosome instability in the opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans |
4pm SFH 220 |
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| 10/18/17 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Dick Nassel, Stockholm University | Action of insulin-IGF signaling on postembryonic neurons in Drosophila during development, aging and diapause | M. Tatar |
12 PM LMM 107 |
| 10/25/17 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Ethan Garner, Harvard University | A tale of contrasting dynamics: How two different polymers define the rod shape of bacteria and divide them in half | BIOL 2050 (Gerbi & Miller) |
12 PM SFH 220 |
| 11/8/17 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Amar Sahay, Massachusetts General Hospital |
Rejuvenating and re-engineering aging memory circuits |
A. Webb |
12 PM SFH 220 |
| 11/10/17 | MCB Data Club |
Arjun Mather Nathalie Oulhen (Postdoc) |
4 pm LMM 107 |
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| 11/15/17 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Joseph LoTurco, University of Connecticut | Modeling and Tracking Cellular Disruptions in Neocortical Development with PiggyBac and CRISPR/Cas9 | E. Morrow |
12 PM LMM 107 |
| 11/29/17 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Xin Chen, Johns Hopkins | Breaking Symmetry--Asymmetric epigenetic inheritance during Drosophila germline stem cell asymmetric division | BIOL2050 (Gerbi & Miller) |
12 PM SFH 220 |
| 12/1/17 | MCB Data Club |
Trenton Woodham
Liam O'Connell |
Piloting a chromatin accessibility technique for use with senescent cells and characterizing replicative senescence in astrocytes
Insane Without The Membrane: The Role of Low Complexity Domains in Transport Granules |
4 pm SFH 220 |
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| 12/6/17 | MCB Graduate Program Seminar | Sebastian Klinge, Rockefeller University | Assembly, structure and function of the ribosomal small subunit processome | BIOL2050 (Gerbi & Miller) |
12 PM SFH 220 |
| 12/8/17 | MCB Thesis Defense | Allison Taggart |
The Life Cycle of the Intron: What rare splicing intermediates can teach us about pre-mRNA processing and gene expression |
William Fairbrother |
10:30 AM LMM 107 |
| 12/15/17 | MCB Data Club |
Abigail Brown Mikko Jaakkima Sokka (Postdoc) |
4 PM SFH 220
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| 12/19/17 | MCB Thesis Defense | Kevin Murphy |
The Aging Heart: Mechanisms of Arrhythmogenesis and Sudden Cardiac Death |
Gideon Koren |
10:00 AM LMM 107 |