Biology 97 Lecture Series
Themes in Biology: Genes, Development, Behavior, Evolution: Diverse paths to understanding organisms
2:00 pm (most) Fridays, Science Center Lecture Hall 101
All are welcome
Sept 14
Sean McBride ’96
Associate Professor, Rowan University
“Enhancing memory in monogenetic disorders associated
with intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders”
Sept 21
Assistant Professor, Univ of Wisconsin
"Building a neuron with motors and microtubules”
Sept 28
Assistant Professor, UCLA
“Using fruit flies to investigate how brains sleep”
Oct 5
Associate Professor, University of Michigan
“Sperm competition in orbweaving spiders: male scramblers and thieves”
Oct 26
Neuroscience Researcher, Peabody Essex Museum
"Characterization of dopamine-responsive serotonergic neurons underlying aggression modulation"
Nov 2
Associate Professor, Bowdoin College
“Injury-induced Compensatory Plasticity: Form, Function, and Transcriptomics”
Nov 9
Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
“Of Chance and Necessity in Fungal-Algal Mutualisms”
Nov 16
Matt Goldstein ’04
MD, PhD, Neon Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
“Tumultuous Adolescence: Immunotherapy Comes of Age”
Nov 30
Arpiar Saunders ’06
Post-Doc, Harvard Medical School
“High-throughput inference of brain composition and connectivity using single-cell genomics”
