Seminars 2018-2019
BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT SEMINAR - VIVIANA CRISTIGLIO
Viviana Cristiglio from the Institut Laue-Langevin/Grenoble is presenting at our weekly Biology seminar series, hosted by Biology Professor Dan Kirschner.
August 29
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Biology Seminar: Gene-Wei Li
Gene-Wei Li of MIT will be the guest speaker for a Biology Department seminar, hosted by Professor Michelle Meyer.
September 05
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, Room 310
Biology Seminar - Elizabeth Engle, M.D.
Selective vulnerability in cranial nerve development, Elizabeth Engle, M.D.
September 12
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Biology Department Seminar - Simon Dove, Ph.D.
Tales of Two Regulators in an Opportunisitic Pathogen
October 03
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Higgins Hall, Room 310
Biology Department Seminar - John Wallingford, Ph.D.
From Cilia to Ciliopathy: The Developmental Biology of a Human Genetic Disease
October 10
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, Room 310
Biology Department Seminar - Lori Wallrath, Ph.D.
Cross-talk between the nucleus and cytoplasm in rare types of muscular dystrophy
October 17
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Higgins Hall, Room 355
Biology Alumni Seminar - Alexander Lorestani '09
On October 18th, the biology department will be hosting its first alumni seminar at 3:30 pm in Devlin 008. The seminar speaker will be Alexander Lorestani '09. Alex is the CEO of Geltor Inc. based out of San Leandro, CA. Geltor's primary focus is on the production of vegan gelatin. Alex's seminar will focus on his time here at Boston College and how it helped prepare him for his current role of leading a company that is solving a current economic and environmental need through biology. We hope to see you all there!
October 18
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Devlin Hall, Room 008
Biology Department Seminar - Christos Chinopoulos, MD, PhD
Bioenergetic bail-in mechanisms of mitochondria in cancer
October 24
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Higgins Hall, Room 310
Biology Department Seminar - Michael Travisano - BioTechnology Institute - University of Minnesota
Experimental Evolution of Multicellularity
November 14
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Higgins Hall, Room 310
Biology Department Seminar - Shannon Fisher - Boston University School of Medicine
Morphogenesis of the skull in normal and mutant zebrafish
November 28
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Higgins Hall, Room 310
Biology Department Spring Seminar Series Kassandra Ori-McKenney, Ph.D.
Competition and Cooperation Between Microtubule-Associated Proteins Directs Motor Transport
March 27
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Biology Department Spring Seminar Series --------Peter Bradley, Ph.D., UCLA
Unraveling the Composition and Function of the Toxoplasma gondii Inner Membrane Complex
April 17
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Biology Department Seminar Series
Laura Buttitta, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
University of Michigan
Unveiling Metamorphosis: Examining the Coordination of Cell Cycle and Chromatin Changes in the Developing Drosophila Wing
May 01
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 355