Calendar
May 2025
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5/6
11:59pm
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Thursday, May 1st, 2025
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Anti-viral defense in bacteria: first responders, failsafes, and backup systems
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series: Nobel Laureate, Professor Eric Betzig
Exploring the Universe Inside Ourselves
Professor Eric Betzig,
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, the Eugene D. Commins Presidential Chair in Experimental Physics, a Senior Fellow at the Janelia Research Campus, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, Berkeley,
Monday, May 5th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Chetana Sachidanandan
Disease models in zebrafish reveal hidden neurocristopathies
Chetana Sachidananda,
Senior Scientist,
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Murali Dharan Bashyam
New revelations from an old disease: studying somatic DNA aberrations in a poorly understood Colorectal cancer subtype unravels neomorphic gain of function and a novel mode of gene activation
Murali Dharan Bashyam,
Staff Scientist,
Molecular Oncology,
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chen Institute Seminar: Nachum Ulanovsky
Neuroscience going wild: Neural coding in social groups of bats and in bats navigating outdoors on a remote oceanic island
Dr. Nachum Ulanovsky,
Professor of Brain Sciences and Head of the Center for Learning, Memory & Cognition,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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EVOxZANKOU Seminar
"Evolutionary entrenchment of a myrmecophilous lifestyle: the basis of obligate parasitism in rove beetles" and "Lineage tracing in the developing placenta through space and time"
Joani Viliunas,
Graduate Student,
BBE,
Caltech,
Martin Tran,
Graduate Student,
BBE,
Caltech,
Friday, May 9th, 2025
8:00am
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1:30pm
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Monday, May 12th, 2025
9:00am
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9:01am
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Topological organization of cell state manifolds across metazoans
Emanual Flores Bautista,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Daniel Voytas
From Lab to Field: The Promise of Plant Gene Editing at Scale
Daniel Voytas,
Professor/Director,
Genetics, Cell Biology and Development,
University of Minnesota,
Thursday, May 15th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Deciphering Microbiome-Mediated Regulation of Neurometabolism and Social Behaviors"
Daniel Dumitrescu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mazmanian Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Bozhi Tian
Physical Biology Strategies for Translational Bioelectrical Interfaces
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Friday, May 16th, 2025
8:00am
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Yong Zhang
Wearable/implantable devices for light-based therapy
Professor Yong Zhang,
Chair Professor & Head Department of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Global STEM Professor Fellow of SAEng, EASA, IEEE, AIMBE & RSC Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics),
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Holly Ingraham
Elucidating Circuits in the Brain and Gut that Drive Female Physiology
Holly Ingraham,
Professor,
Cellular Molecular Pharmacology,
University of California - San Francisco,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Structural and mechanistic studies of membrane protein biogenesis and quality control at the endoplasmic reticulum
Vy Nguyen,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
8:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
The Biochemical and Structural Basis of Get3d's Role in Photosynthesis
Alexandra Barlow,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
8:00am
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Biology Seminar - Joe Thornton
On the Origins of Hemoglobin: Ancient Proteins at the Evolutionary Edge of Complexity
Joe Thornton,
Professor,
Department of Ecology and Evolution,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Uncovering mechanisms of RNA transport
Vihandha Wickramasinghe,
Professor, Laboratory Head,
Genetics and Gene Regulation,
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,
Thursday, May 29th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Synthetic Protein Circuits: From Fundamentals to Therapeutics"
Shiyu Xia,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Elowitz Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The Importance of Physiological Temperature in Biomedical and Biophysical Research
Friday, May 30th, 2025
12:00am
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5/31
12:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Building closed-loop frameworks for AI-guided protein design
Alec Lourenço,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, May 31st, 2025
8:00am
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