Seminars 20-21

The Gut-Brain Axis in Cancer

Leah Pyter

Associate Professor
Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research
Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Ohio State University College of Medicine
May 10, 2021


Thriving in the shifting landscape of scientific publishing

Prachee Avasthi

Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
May 3, 2021


Massively multiplex single-molecule oligonucleosome footprinting

Dr. Vijay Ramani

Sandler Faculty Fellow
Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics
University of California San Francisco
April 26, 2021


New single-cell technologies to dissect reprogramming and development

Dr. Samantha Morris

Associate Professor
Developmental Biology and Genetics
Washington University in St. Louis
April 5, 2021


Hedgehog Signaling: New Mechanisms Reveal New Biology

Dr. Rajat Rohatgi

Associate Professor
Depts. of Biochemistry and Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
March 29, 2021


Insights into Lipid Metabolism: From Fish Bioassays to Cardiovascular Disease

Steven A. Farber

Principal Investigator
Department of Embryology
Carnegie Institution for Science
March 22, 2021


Science Outreach: You Too Can Be a Nerd!

Dr. Cagney Coomer

Founder
Nerd Squad
March 15, 2021


Technology development for public health at scale

Dr. Lea Starita

Assistant Professor, Genome Sciences
Co-director, Advanced Technology Lab

Brotman Baty Institute
University of Washington
March 8, 2021


Initiation and propagation of alpha-synuclein in the nervous system

Laura Volpicelli-Daley

Associate Professor Neurology
Assistant Professor Neurobiology

The University of Alabama at Birmingham
March 1, 2021


Making the Cut: Proteolytic Cleavage in Synapse Development and Neurodegeneration

Dr. Timothy Mosca

Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience
Thomas Jefferson University
February 22, 2021


Active Zone Plasticity as a Gating Mechanism for Behavior Control in Drosophila

Dr. Stephan Sigrist

Professor in Genetics
Institute of Biology
Freie Universität Berlin
February 15, 2021


From Brain to Behavior: Dissecting Olfactory Circuits in Drosophila

Dr. Silke Sachse

Research Group Leader
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Jena, Germany
February 8, 2021


Ironing Out the Details: MYCN Drives a Ferroptotic Vulnerability in Neuroblastoma

Dr. Anthony Faber

Associate Professor
Natalie N. and John R. Congdon Chair in Cancer Research
Program Leader, Developmental Therapeutics, Massey Cancer Center Virginia Commonwealth University
February 1, 2021


The Shocking Abilities of the Electric Eel

Dr. Kenneth Catania

Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences
Vanderbilt University
January 25, 2021


Ultrasound Protein Measurement Technologies and Implementation Strategies for Precision Clinical Diagnostics 

Dr. David Walt

Professor
Wyss for Biological Inspired Engineering
Harvard University
Dept. of Pathology
Bringham and Women's Hospital
January 11, 2021


Genome-wide Discovery of Novel Drug Targets in Lung Cancer

Dr. Alice Berger

Assistant Professor
Human Biology Division
Innovators Network Endowed Chair
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
October 19, 2021