School of Arts and Sciences
Department of Biology

Seminar Series

seminar

Spring 2022

Friday, January 28, 2022
“Functional coupling and regulation of the T7 replisome during Okazaki fragment synthesis”
Alfredo Hernandez, Harvard Medical School
Host: Biochemistry Search Committee

Friday, February 4, 2022
“The Shu Complex in DNA damage recognition and repair”
Sarah Hengel, University of Pittsburgh
Host: Biochemistry Search Committee

Friday, February 11, 2022
“Visualizing transcription initiation in live cells at single-molecule resolution”
Vu Nguyen, Johns Hopkins University
Host: Biochemistry Search Committee

Friday, February 18, 2022
“BRCA1 and 53BP1-dependent regulation of DSB repair pathway choice”
Jordan Becker, University of Oxford
Host: Biochemistry Search Committee

Friday, February 25, 2022
(1st Year Graduate Student Rotation Talks)

  • Nicholas Mandel
  • SJ McGeady
  • Jiayue (Nicole) Tai
  • Nicolas Luow
  • Bradley Pedro
  • Polina Feschenko
  • Rachel Riccio

Friday, March 4, 2022
(4th Year Graduate Student Research Talks)

  • Adam Eichenwald – Reed Lab
    “Tracking the cascading impact of desert tortoise decline on birds in the Mojave Desert”
  • Angela Tung – Levin Lab
    Title TBA

Friday, March 11, 2022
(4th Year Graduate Student Research Talks)

  • Brendan Carson – Orians/Crone Lab
    Title TBA
  • Isaac Weinberg – Starks Lab
    Title TBA

Friday, March 18, 2022
(4th Year Graduate Student Research Talks)

  • Nathaniel Murphy – Crone Lab
    Title TBA
  • Jaylee Boer – Freudenreich Lab
    Title TBA

Friday, April 1, 2022
(Barnum Museum Lecture)
David Wagner, University of Connecticut
Host: Sara Lewis

Friday, April 8, 2022
(Postdoc)

  • Emily Erickson – Crone Lab
    “The interactions between ornamental flowering plants and insect pollinators”

Friday, April 15, 2022
(4th Year Graduate Student Research Talks)

  • Ben Tidswell – Tytell Lab
    Title TBA
  • Emilie Jones – McLaughlin Lab
    Title TBA

Friday, April 22, 2022 
(1st Year Graduate Student Rotation Talks)          

  • Gizem Gumuskaya
  • Alejandro Calderon       
  • Kasturi Lele       

(4th Year Graduate Student Talk)

  • Jessica Wright-Lichter – Allen Rutberg Lab (Grafton)
    Title TBA

Friday, April 29, 2022
(Roeder Memorial Lecture)
“Prey tracking and interception strategies of echolocating bats” 
Cynthia Moss, Johns Hopkins University
Host: Barry Trimmer