2024-2025 Discussion Group Schedule
September 27, 2024
Karthik Srinivasan (Graduate Student, Dixit Lab, Biomedical Engineering): Exploring low dimensionality in microbiomes using the consumer resource model.
Yongxu Zhang (Graduate Student, Saxena Lab, Biomedical Engineering): Inference of Neural Dynamics Using Switching Recurrent Neural Networks.
October 25, 2024
Zhuoyi Liu (Graduate Student, O’Hern Lab, MEMS): Identifying the minimal sets of distance restraints for FRET-assisted protein structural modeling.
Asmita Jha (Graduate Student, Bewersdorf and LusKing Labs, Cell Biology): FLASH-PAINT Chromatin Labeling: Simultaneous locus and protein labeling.
November 22, 2024
Avinash Kumar (Postdoc, Zhang Lab, Cell Biology): SNARE assembly and disassembly on membranes
Garrett Sager (Graduate Student, Clark Lab, MCDB): Lawful scaling of mitochondria in a connectome
December 13, 2024
Kunyun Wang (Postgraduate Associate, Liang Lab, Neuroscience): Coordination of Local and Global Responses in Individual Mouse Thalamic Local Interneurons
Zachary Sun (Graduate Student, Murrell Lab, Physics): Active Mechanics of the Cytoskeleton
January 31, 2025
Brooke Emison (Graduate Student, Dixit Lab, BME): “Detangling Mechanisms of Information Loss in Gene Regulatory Networks During Aging”
Matthew Leighton (Postdoc, Lynn Lab, Physics): Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Free Energy Transduction by Molecular Machines
February 28, 2025
Farah Abdul-Tahman (Postdoc, Dal Bello Lab, EEB): Copy Number Variants Facilitate Rapid Switching Between Ecological Strategies
Hattie Chung (Post-graduate associate, Chung Lab, Cardiovascular Medicine and MCDB): Uncovering Spatial Metabolic Niches
March 28, 2025
Christopher King (Graduate student, Breaker Lab, MB&B): A Probabilistic Folding Algorithm for DNA Triplexes
Kristin Meyer (Assistant Professor, MCDB): Decoding Transcription Factor Dynamics Through Transcriptional Co-condensates
April 25, 2025
Pranav Kantroo (Graduate Student, Machta Lab, CBB): Parkour in Protein Morphospace
Andrew Goetz (Graduate Student, Dixit Lab, BME): Non-equilibrium strategies for tuneable ligand specificity in signaling networks”
May 16, 2025
2nd Year PEB Student Flash Talks