Dr. Nick Pyenson,
Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and studies the paleobiology of marine mammals
“Whales: Past, present and future”
Hosted by: Drs. Janet Mann and Peter Marra
Special Seminar on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion discussion.
Presenter(s): DEI committee
Dr. Kumaran Ramamurthi,
Senior Investigator and Deputy Chief at Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH
“Protein localization during cell division and morphogenesis in B. subtilis”
Hosted by: Dr. Daniel Isaac and Dr. Shaun Brinsmade
Dr. Raychelle Burks,
Associate Professor of analytical chemistry
The American University
“Illicit indications: colorimetric and fluorometric visualizations for forensic science”.
Hosted by: Dr. Heidi Elmendorf
Dr. Kristin Branson, Janelia Senior Group Leader Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute “Analyzing animal behavior using machine vision and learning”
Hosted by: Dr. Isaac Cervantes Sandoval
Dr. Elodie Ghedin, Parasitologist and Virologist as well as a professor
The New York University Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. “Parasitology and Genomics”
Hosted by: Dr. Steven Singer
Dr. Jimmy Saw, Assistant professor
George Washington University
“Microbial diversity, ecology, and evolution”
Hosted by: Dr. Martha Weiss
Dr. Yoshiro Aso, Group leader
HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus
“Learning and Memory”
Hosted by: Dr. Isaac
Dr. Lynnae Quick, Planetary geophysicist and Ocean Worlds Planetary Scientist.
NASA
“Missions to worlds capable of supporting life”
Hosted by: Grad students
Dr. Doug Blackiston, Senior Scientist, Primary Investigator
Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University
“Xenobots: computer-designed organisms”Hosted by: Dr. Martha Weiss
Video available through request
Dr. Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez, Assistant Professor
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California (Berkeley Research)
“Thriving with lanthanides: New life metals in Methylotrophy.”
Hosted by: Dr. Shaun Brinsmade
Dr. Sentis Arnaud, Researcher. French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), Aix-en-Provence, France.
“Symptoms, acclimation, and adaptation to thermal stress: implication for species and their interactions”
Hosted by: Dr. Gina Wimp
Dr. Elizabeth Lauren Johnson, Assistant Professor
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University
“Infant diets as precise modulators of the gut microbiome”
Hosted by: Dr. Mark Rose
Dr. Scott Waddell, Professor of neurobiology and Wellcome trust principal research fellow
Neuroscience, University of Oxford
“Conflict or Complement: parallel memories control behaviour in Drosophila”
Hosted by: Dr. Isaac Cervantes Sandoval
Dr. Esther Braselmann, Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department, Georgetown University
“Illuminating RNA Dynamics in Live Mammalian Cells with the Riboglow Platform”
Hosted by: Heidi Elmendorf
Dr. Valentina Fossati, Senior Research Investigator
New York stem cell foundation (NYSCF), University of Bologna
“IPSC-based Models of Glia Cells for Studying CNS Diseases: Present and Future Perspectives.”
Hosted by: Jingwen Hu (BOGS)
Dr. Lucia Carol Strader, Associate Professor of Biology
BIOLOGY, Duke University
“Transcription Factor Condensation Attenates Activity and Rewires Gene Expression”
Hosted by: Dr. Elena Silva
Watch Lucia Presentation
Dr. Louie H. Yang, Associate Professor of Biology
Department of Entomology and Nematology Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis
“Periodical cicadas as resource pulses linking above ground and below ground communities: A 17-year retrospective.”
Hosted by: Dr. Martha Weiss
Dr. Greg A Breed, Assistant Professor
Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
“Considering animal life histories under global change.”
Hosted by: Dr. Leslie Ries
