Seminars 2019-2020
Fussing about Fission: Untangling Apicomplexan Cell Division
August 27
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
MJ Gubbels, PhD
Department of Biology
Boston College
Broad Autoreactivity of T Cells Directly From Islets of Donors with Type 1 Diabetes
September 03
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Sally Kent, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Climate Change and Health: What Everyone Needs to Know
September 10
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Aaron Bernstein, M.D., M.P.H.
Boston Children's Hospital
Illuminating the "Dark Matter" of the Bioactive Microbiota Metabolome
September 17
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Noah Palm, Ph.D.
Human and Translational Immunology Program at the Yale University School of Medicine
Toxoplasma gondii: Life of Checks and Balances
September 24
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Elena S. Suvorova, Ph.D.
Morsani College of Medicine
University of South Florida
Probing Molecular Mechanisms of RNA-Chaperone Proteins with a Bacterial Three-Hybrid Assay
October 01
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Katie Berry, Ph.D.
Mount Holyoke College
Next Generation Drug Discovery and Design From Venoms – The Case Study of Venom Insulins
October 08
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Helena Safavi, Ph.D.
University of Utah
Mechanisms and Functions of Myonuclear Movement
October 22
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Eric Folker, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Boston College
Innate Immunity to HIV-1 and Other Retroviruses
October 29
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Jeremy Luban, M.D.
David J Freelander Chair in AIDS Research
Program in Molecular Medicine and Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Univeristy of Massachusetts Medical School
Making a New Limb Out of Old Cells: Exploring the Role of Cell Plasticity During Pattern Formation in the Axolotl Limb Regenerate
November 05
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Catherine McCusker, Ph.D.
Developmental Biology
Molecular Mechanisms of Regeneration
University of Massachusetts Boston
Targeting a Metabolic Vulnerability in Parasites with Novel Macrocyclic Peptides
November 12
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
James Inglese, P.D.
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
National institutes of Health
Evolutionary Selection and Constraint on Human Knee Chondrocyte Regulation Impacts Osteoarthritis Risk
November 19
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Terence Capellini, Ph.D.
Human Evolutional Biology
Harvard University
Regulation of Proportional Growth in Zebrafish by Potassium Ion Transport
January 14
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Boston College Biology Department
Spring Seminar Series
Wouldn't Hurt a Fly: Novel Pain Drug Targets from Drosophila
January 21
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Boston College Biology Department
Spring Seminar Series
Unravelling the Mysteries of Fuchs Dystrophy: The Path of Clinician Scientist
January 28
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Ula Jurkunas, M.D.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Harvard Medical School
Structure to Function Analysis of the Drosophila Insulin-like Receptor in Aging
February 18
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Marc Tatar, Ph.D.
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Brown University
Force Awakens Autoimmune T Cells
February 25
3:00 PM
Higgins Hall, 310
Boston College Department of Biology - Spring Seminar Series
Brian D. Evavold, Ph.D.
Division of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Utah School of Medicine