Seminars

• Winter 2021

  Join the seminars on our live stream!

  Date	Time	Host	Speaker	Institution	Title
  1/25	12:30p-Zoom	Donna Kashian	Dr. Kishore Gopalakrishnan	Wayne State University	Microplastic movement in the environment: Can algae play a role?
  2/1	12:30p-Zoom	Victoria Meller	Dr. Harmit Malik	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Rules of engagement: molecular arm races between host and viral genomes
  2/8	12:30p-Zoom	Marianna Sadagurski	Dr. Deborah A Cory-Slechta	University of Rochester	TBD
  2/15	12:30p-Zoom
  2/22	12:30p-Zoom	Lori Pile	Dr. Charlie Fehl	Wayne State University	TBD
  3/1	12:30p-Zoom	BSGSA (Imad)	Dr. Shaun Cowley	University of Leicester	Understanding the role of HDAC1/2 complexes in development and disease
  3/8	12:30p-Zoom	Donna Kashian	Dr. Reagan Errera	NOAA/GLERL	Harmful algal bloom ecology from the coastal ocean to the Great Lakes
  3/22	12:30p-Zoom	Hanna Hariri	Dr. Ming Li	University of Michigan	TBD
  3/29	12:30p-Zoom	Joy Alcedo	Dr. Scott Alper	University of Colorado	TBD
  4/5	12:30p-Zoom	Victoria Meller	Dr. Barbara Mellone	University of Connecticut	TBD
  4/12	12:30p-Zoom	Glen Hood	Dr. Amy Iler	Chicago Botanical Garden	The ecological consequences of earlier life cycle events in response to climate change
  4/19	12:30p-Zoom	Jared Schrader	Dr. Paola Mera	UIUC	TBD
  4/26	12:30p-Zoom	Hanaa Hariri	Dr. Mike Henne	UT Southwestern Medical Center	TBD

   

• Fall 2020

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  Date	Time	Host	Speaker	Institution	Title
  9/14	12:30p-Zoom	Penelope Higgs	Dr. Josh Shrout	University of Notre Dame	The complexity of behavior exhibited by bacteria moving from here to there
  9/21	12:30p-Zoom				TBD
  9/28	12:30p-Zoom	Lori Pile	Dr. Sophia Lunt	Michigan State University	Deciphering metabolic reprogramming in cancer
  10/5	12:30p-Zoom	Donna Kashian	Dr. Mike Fracker	University of Michigan	Antipredator defenses in tadpoles: physiology to phenotype to performance
  10/12	12:30p-Zoom	Jared Schrader	Dr. Sangjin Kim	UIUC	Probing birth and death of mRNAs in bacteria using single-molecule microscopy
  10/19	12:30p-Zoom	BSGSA (Bianca Pereira)	Dr. Victor Ambros	University of Massachusetts	Genetic control of developmental timing in C. elegans
  10/26	12:30p-Zoom	Victoria Meller	Dr. Athar Ansari	Wayne State University	Transcription this way --> Gene looping confers promotes directionality
  11/2	12:30p-Zoom	Penelope Higgs	Dr. Sara Blumer-Schuette	Oakland University	The competition of carbon heats up: the genus Caldicellulosiruptor employs multiple strategies to adhere to plant polysaccharides
  11/9	12:30p-Zoom	Joy Alcedo	Dr. Arjumand Ghazi	Pitt	Fat, fertility, and immunity in an aging worm
  11/16	12:30p-Zoom	Justin Kenney	Dr. Karl Clark	Mayo Clinic	Genome engineering application for behavioral genetics and beyond
  11/23	12:30p-Zoom				TBD
  11/30	12:30p-Zoom	Tom Dowling (Corush)	Dr. Luke Harmon	Univeristy of Idaho	TBD
  12/7	12:30p-Zoom	P.C Lee	Dr. Mona Wu-Orr	Armherst College	TBD
  12/14	12:30p-Zoom				TBD

   

• Winter 2020

  Date	Time	Host	Speaker	Institution	Title
  1/6	12:30p- BSB 1167	Ed Golenberg	Dr. Karen Hicks	Kenyon College	Dissecting the genetic basis of seasonal reproductive development in the moss Physcomitrella patens
  1/13	12:30p- BSB 1167	Miriam Greenberg	Dr. Hanaa Hariri	UT Southwestern	The emerging roles of organelle contact sites in metabolic homeostasis
  1/29	12:30p- BSB 1167	Victoria Meller	Dr. Amit Joshi	University of North Carolina	Lipid droplet and peroxisome biogenesis at specialized ER subdomains
  2/3	12:30p- BSB 1167
  2/10	12:30p- BSB 1167	Victoria Meller	Dr. Amy Rumora	University of Michigan	Saturated and monounsaturated fatty acides differentially regulate nerve function in murine models of prediabetes
  2/12	12:30p- BSB 1178	Lori Pile	Dr. Laura Musselman	Binghamton University	Using Drosphila to probe the effects of dietary excess
  2/17	12:30p- BSB 1167	BSGSA	Dr. Philip Sharp	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Dynamic condensates formed by phase transition in regulation of transcription
  2/24	12:30p- BSB 1167	Weilong Hao	Dr. Jian-Ping Xu	McMaster University	TBD
  3/2	12:30p- BSB 1167	Jared Schrader	Dr. Steph Weber	McGill University	TBD
  3/16	12:30p- BSB 1167	Markus Friedrich	Dr. Kate Feller	University of Minnesota	TBD
  323	12:30p- BSB 1167	Marianna Sadagurski	Dr. Diane Fingar	University of Michigan	TBD
  3/30	12:30p- BSB 1167	Justin Kenney	Dr. Karl Clark	Mayo Clinic	TBD
  4/6	12:30p- BSB 1167	Joy Alcedo	Dr. Arjumand Ghazi	University of Pittsburgh	TBD
  4/13	12:30p- BSB 1167	PC Lee	Dr. Arne Rietsch	Case Western Reserve University	TBD
  4/20	12:30p- BSB 1167	Lori Pile	Sophia Hunt	Michigan State University	TBD

   

• Fall 2019

  Date	Time	Host	Speaker	Institution	Title
  9/9	12:30p- BSB 1167	Marianna Sadagurski	Dr. Sang Won Park	Harvard University	The role of BRD7 in glucose metabolism
  9/16	12:30p- BSB 1167	Jared Schrader	Dr. Anthony Vecchiarelli	University of Michigan- Ann Arbor	How do cyanobacteria spatially organize arguably the most important organelle on earth?
  9/30	12:30p- BSB 1167	Victoria Meller	Dr. Jared Schrader	Wayne State University	Bacterial RNP Bodies Organize mRNA Decay
  10/7	12:30p- BSB 1167	Chuanzhu Fan	Dr. Tim Karr	Arizona State	What mighty contest aries from trivial proteomics
  10/14	12:30p- BSB 1167	Victoria Meller	Dr. Penelope Higgs	Wayne State University	Regulation of cell fate segregation in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus: a complex signal transduction and gene regulation network
  10/21	12:30p- BSB 1167	Jared Schrader	Dr. Jason Peters	University of Wisconsin	CRISPR-based Functional Genomics in Bacteria
  10/28	12:30p- BSB 1167	Marianna Sadagurski	Dr. Sabrina Diano	Yale University	Mitochondria and nutrient sensing in the brain
  11/4
  11/11	12:30p- BSB 1167	Tim Dowling	Dr. Corey Anderson	Valdosta State University	New insight into gopher tortoise burrow ecology and seed dispersal based on point-process modeling
  11/18
  11/25	12:30p- BSB 1167	Haidong Gu	Dr. Maria Kalamvoki	University of Kansas Medical Center	Biogenesis and functions of extracellular vesicles released during HSV-1 infection
  12/2
  12/9	12:30p- BSB 1167	BSGSA	Dr. Mackenzie Mathis	Harvard University	Deep learning in the lab; how AI is enabling new insights into animal behavior

   

• Winter 2019

  Date	Host	Speaker	Institution	Title
  1/7	Haidong Gu	Dr. Yuan He	Wayne State University Department of Biochemistry, Immunology and Micorbiology	The inflammasomes: Role in diseases and mechanism of action
  1/14	Donna Kashian	Dr. Vijay Kannappan	Georgia Pacific
  1/16	Victoria Meller	Ben Koestler	University of Texas	Formate: Intracellular signal that promotes Shigella Pathogenesis
  1/28	Markus Friedrich	Dr. Peter Hoffmann	Wayne State University
  2/4	Justin Kenney	Dr. Thomas Mueller	Kansas State University	The Homologs of Isocortes & Amygdala in Zebrafish- An Intergrative Evolutionary Developmental Perspective on Brain Function
  2/6	Victoria Meller	Dr. Ken Matreyek	University of Washington	Massively Parallel Assays for Protein Function in Disease
  2/11	Jill Steiner	Dr. Alan Wilson	Auburn University	Consequences of nutrient enrichment and herbivore adaptation for phytoplankton in lakes
  2/13	Victoria Meller	Dr. Eillen Tecle	University of California, San Diego	Investigating the regulation of the Intracellular Pathogen Response: A novel epithelial immune reaction.
  2/18	Lori Pile	Dr. Jason Tennessen	Indiana University	Studies of Cancer Metabolism using Drosophila as a Model System
  2/20	Victoria Meller	Dr. Pei Chung Lee	NIH	Hijacking the host Hippo pathway by a chimeric effector kinase of Legionella pneumophila
  2/25	BSGSA	Dr. Yusuf A Hannun	Stonybrook	Neutral sphingomyelinases, mechanisms and regulation
  3/4	Victoria Meller	Dr. Robert Blumenthal	University of Toledo	Global Regulation in Bacteria-Learning from Lrp
  3/18	Jared Schrader	Dr. Seth Childers	University of Pittsburgh	Compositional regulation of biomolecular condensates enables cell polarity in a bacterium
  3/25	Haidong Gu	Dr. Zhilong Yang	Kansas State University	Selective protein synthesis during poxvirus-induced host shutoff
  4/1	Aleksandar Popadić	Dr. Ehab Abouheif	McGill University	What soldier and super soldier ants teach us about development and evolution
  4/8	Penelope Higgs	Dr. Jonathan Dworkin	Columbia University	A mechanism for quiescence in bacteria and yeast
  4/15	Thomas Dowling	Dr. Brian Verrelli	VCU	Evolutionary genomic applications to biomedicine and biodiversity
  4/22	Markus Friedrich	Dr. Elke Buschbeck	University of Cincinnati