Dr. Wu-Min Deng,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
Tulane University,
New Orleans, LA

Talk Title: "Tumor initiation and progression in a Drosophila model"

Host: Dr. Jianjun Sun

This talk has been canceled and will be rescheduled for Fall 2020 semester if possible.

The evolution and development of leaves

Jonathan Hill, M.S., Principal Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim

Seminar attendance is limited to MCB PSM, PM, and Ph.D. students

MCB Research Seminar

Boyang Li, Nelson Lab
"Metagene: from single cell RNA sequencing to gene functions."

Josh Calabrese, White Lab
“Repurposing Anti-fungals as Broad Spectrum Anti-virals Against Picornaviridae”

Use this link to reach blackboard collaborate for the seminar.

https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/01d892acd5f44f089b5b6b44295fb854

The session will start on Friday at 12:20 - Presenters, participants can dial in 30 minutes beforehand to check connections

The audience can also dial in to listen as follows:
+1-571-392-7650 PIN: 341 071 9619

MCB Tuesday Seminar Series: Dr. Anne E. Carpenter
Please join us for the Molecular and Cell Biology Tuesday Seminar Series 4/7: Dr. Anne. E. Carpenter, Ph.D. Senior Director, Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, 4/7/2020, BPB 131, Refreshments 3:15, Seminar 3:30
Hosted by GO:MCB
“Accelerating Drug Discovery Through the Power of Microscopy Images”
Summary: Quantifying images is critical to advancing drug discovery and basic biological research, so our team works with scientists worldwide to extract metrics from cell images, particularly in high-throughput screening experiments testing drugs in disease model systems.
We also go beyond measuring individual cell phenotypes through image-based profiling: by comparing similarities across thousands of extracted morphological features, we can identify how diseases, drugs, and genes affect cells, and potentially identify novel therapeutics.

Dr. Carpenter is an Institute Scientist and Merkin Institute Fellow at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Her research group develops algorithms and data analysis methods for large-scale experiments involving images. The team’s open-source CellProfiler software is used by thousands of biologists worldwide (http://www.cellprofiler.org). Carpenter is a pioneer in image-based profiling, the extraction of rich, unbiased information from images for a number of important applications in drug discovery and functional genomics.
Carpenter focused on high-throughput image analysis during her postdoctoral fellowship at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and MIT’s CSAIL (Computer Sciences/Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). Her PhD is in cell biology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Carpenter has been named an NSF CAREER awardee, an NIH MIRA awardee, a Massachusetts Academy of Sciences fellow (its youngest at the time), and a Genome Technology “Rising Young Investigator”.

To learn more about Dr. Carpenter's research, visit https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5386591/

and her website at https://personal.broadinstitute.org/anne/index.html

Yen Lemire, M.S., Research Sales Representative, Thermofisher
Seminar attendance is limited to MCB PSM, PM, and Ph.D. students

MCB Seminar Series:

Dr. Mark Silby, Associate Professor, Biology, UMass Dartmouth

Hosted by Nichole Broderick

We would like to invite you, your students, postdocs and staff to our 6th Annual Distinguished Microbiologist Seminar and Microbiome Symposium. The goal of this event is to bring the microbiologists from UConn departments and campuses together to interact. Please bring a poster to share your work! There will be coffee and cookies before the talks and as usual a reception afterwards that is sponsored by Eppendorf, New England Biolab, Shoreline Biome, Illumina, an award from the Provost, the MCB department and the PSM in Microbial Systems Analysis. Our sponsors have tables with displays.

Please RSVP so that we can order the right amount of food and drinks and indicate on the form if your lab will be bringing a poster (it can be from a previous event).
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uconns-6th-annual-distinguished-microbiologist-lecture-and-microbiome-symposium-tickets-95309536389.

Schedule:

2:00 pm: Registration with coffee and poster setup

2:45 pm: Dr. Jeff Blanchard, University of Massachusetts Amherst: “Revealing the Genomic and Morphological Diversity of Giant Viruses at Harvard Forest”

3:15 pm: Dr. Dong-Hun Lee, Pathobiology, UConn: "Evolution and global spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses"

3:30 pm : Dr. Katherine Lemon, Baylor College of Medicine, "Picking sides: cooperation and competition in human nasal microbiota"

4:00 pm: Break

4:15 pm: Dr. Nancy Moran, Univerity of Texas at Austin: "Understanding and manipulating coevolved microbiomes in social bees"

5:15 pm: Reception with poster presentations

Microbiome Symposium, Nancy Moran, Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin; Katherine Lemon, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine; and Jeff Blanchard, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Seminar attendance is limited to MCB PSM, PM, and Ph.D. students

MCB Research Seminar

Matthew Kearney, M.O'Neill Lab

"Parent-of-Origin Specific Epigenomic Profile of the Mouse X Chromosome"

Use this link to reach blackboard collaborate for the seminar.

https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/01d892acd5f44f089b5b6b44295fb854

PLEASE MUTE your computer unless you are asking a question.

The session will start on Friday at 12:20 - Presenters, participants can dial in 30 minutes beforehand to check connections

The audience can also dial in to listen as follows:
+1-571-392-7650 PIN: 341 071 9619

CANCELLED: MCB Research Seminar:
Dr. Michael Reese, UT Southwestern
Hosted by Aoife Heaslip

This talk has been canceled and will be rescheduled for Fall 2020 semester if possible.

Global change and western butterflies

Steve Giles, Ph.D., Owner and Founder, Big Rose Web Design
Seminar attendance is limited to MCB PSM, PM, and Ph.D. students

MCB Research Seminar

Didem Ozcan, Giardina Lab

MCB Seminar Series

Dr. Harry Higgs, Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Dartmouth

“Multiple modes of interaction between mitochondria and the actin cytoskeleton”
Summary: Mitochondria are dynamic organelles, dividing and re-fusing as part of homeostatic mechanisms such as mitophagy to maintain a healthy mitochondrial pool. We find that actin polymerization plays at least two distinct roles in mitochondrial dynamics, one in response to elevated cytosolic calcium, and the other in response to mitochondrial depolarization.
View abstract at https://mcb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2341/2020/02/2019-JCS-TS-depol-actin-clouds.pdf
Dr. Higgs website at http://dms.dartmouth.edu/higgs/