Fall 2023 Seminar Series Each quarter the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology hosts a weekly seminar. The purpose of these seminars is to enable experts from around the country to share their newest discoveries and ideas with our students and faculty. Seminars are held on Thursdays at 11:00 a.m., in Natural Sciences II room...
Fall 2023 Seminar Series Each quarter the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology hosts a weekly seminar. The purpose of these seminars is to enable experts from around the country to share their newest discoveries and ideas with our students and faculty. Seminars are held on Thursdays at 11:00 a.m., in Natural Sciences II room...
Fall 2023 Seminar Series Each quarter the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology hosts a weekly seminar. The purpose of these seminars is to enable experts from around the country to share their newest discoveries and ideas with our students and faculty. Seminars are held on Thursdays at 11:00 a.m., in Natural Sciences II room...
Fall 2023 Seminar Series Each quarter the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology hosts a weekly seminar. The purpose of these seminars is to enable experts from around the country to share their newest discoveries and ideas with our students and faculty. Seminars are held on Thursdays at 11:00 a.m., in Natural Sciences II room...
“Tissue-level probing of intracellular liquid-liquid phase separation dynamics” Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) of biopolymers recently emerged as a ubiquitous driving force for intracellular self-assembly. The resulting LLPS dynamics appear to orchestrate wide-ranging cellular mechanisms, from genome organization to cell division. Despite remarkable progress, studying and engineering intracellular LLPS remains challenging. In this talk, I will...
“PP2A as a regulator of pancreatic cancer cellular and metabolic plasticity” Dr. Brittany Allen-Petersen Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Purdue University Pancreatic cancer is predicted to become the 2nd leading cause of cancer deaths by 2030. KRAS is the most frequently mutated gene in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) patients (~90%) and has been shown to...
"Expansion microscopy-based spatial biology technologies for biomedical research” Dr. Rui Gao, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences & Chemistry University of Illinois Chicago Abstract: Understanding the molecular profile and function of a complex biological system requires investigation of its molecular composition and dynamics at high spatiotemporal resolution. Conventional imaging methods, however, suffer from trade-offs between factors...
Dr. Jill Wildonger, Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of California San Diego “Building functional neurons with motors and microtubules” Abstract: We perceive the world around us through our sensory neurons. The sensory capacity of a neuron depends on the elaboration of its dendritic arbor and the localization of sensory ion...
"Determining the nature of interactions and biomolecular condensates in microbes" Abstract: Single-molecule microscopy accesses nanometer-scale information with a benchtop microscope, providing a platform to super-resolve fluorescence emission, position, and dynamics, even in living cells. The Biteen Lab is developing new single-molecule methods to answer fundamental, unanswered questions in microbiology with applications including elucidating cell regulation...