2017-2018 Student Organizers:
Mary Lou Bailey (Mochrie lab, Applied Physics)
Bara Badwan (Clark lab, MCDB)
2017 Fall PEB discussion group schedule
September 22, 2017
Rong Fan (Fan lab): Single cell omics tools for immune oncology
Michael Mak (Mak lab): Cell matrix dynamics: Experiments and simulations
October 20, 2017
Nirag Kadakia (Emonet lab): Olfactory sensing in a vast odor space: adaptive mechanisms for robust combinatorial coding
Dick Kibbey (Kibbey lab): Measuring mitochondrial metabolism by modeling multiordinate mass-isotopomers: from rare disease to diabetes drug
November 17, 2017
Mahmut Demir (Emonet lab): How do insects navigate odor plumes?
Peter Williams (O’Hern lab): Computational models of the bacterial cytoplasm
2018 Spring PEB discussion group schedule
January 19, 2018
Daniel Seara (Murrell lab): Non-canonical actomyosin interactions drive stabilizing F-actin bending fluctuations
Simon Mochrie (Mochrie lab): Analysis of single particle tracks reveals the biochemistry of DNA binding proteins in living cells
February 16, 2018
Margarida Agrochao (Clark lab): Which neurons regulate walking speed in fruit flies?
Zachary Levine (Levine lab): Intrinsically disordered protein folding and the thermodyamics of amyloid diseases
March 16, 2018
Catherine Matulis (Clark lab): Distributed contrast adaptation in Drosophila visual circuits
Alvaro Sanchez (Sanchez lab): Emergent simplicity in microbial community assembly
April 20, 2018
Jack Treado (O’Hern lab): Proteins without a backbone: A new perspective on the structural properties of protein cores and cavities
Ben Machta (Machta lab): TBD
May 25, 2018
2nd year PEB students