2022-2023 Student Organizers
Lauren Harkins (Saltzman Lab, BME)
Jake Sumner (O’Hern Lab, CBB)
Discussion Group Schedule
Friday, September 23rd, 2022
- Ed Stites PhD - “Mutants, Loners, and Bad Influences”
- Binyam Mogessie PhD - “Cytoskeletal ensembles in oocyte meiosis and female reproductive aging”
Friday, October 28th, 2022
- Shan Xu PhD - “Enhanced FIB-SEM: A discovery platform to visualize biology across scales”
- Alex Grigas - “Polymer collapse and jamming applied to protein cores”
Friday, November 18th, 2022
- Arlind Kacirani - “Dimensionality reduction of cataract associated gammaD-crystallin conformational dynamics
- Zachary Sun - “Self-organized criticality in the cell cytoskeleton”
Friday, January 27th, 2023
- Joseph Shomar - “Distance estimation in walking drosophila”
- Cristina Rodríguez PhD - “Next-generation optical microscopy methods for deep tissue in vivo imaging of the nervous system”
Friday, February 24th, 2023
- Xiaoyi Ouyang - “Mean-field model of branching morphogenesis of dendrites in fly sensory neurons”
- Yuan Ren PhD - “A 5-in-1 in vivo mechanical force transducer”
Friday, March 24th, 2023
- Joey Erwin - “OmcB is a widespread porin-cytochrome complex required for kick-starting growth and nanowire production of electric bacteria”
Friday, April 28th, 2023
- John Tsang PhD - “Systems immunology of immune set points”
- Yimin Luo PhD - “Substrate anisotropy, crowding, and division drives new collective behaviors in monolayers”
- Allison Didychuk PhD - “Unwrapping the herpesvirus genome packaging machinery”
- Liz Li - “Investigate how long noncoding RNAs establish epigenetic memory”
Friday, May 26th, 2023