Department of Biology

Hynek Wichterle, Professor in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University, will give a talk titled "Neuronal Time-Turner: Mechanisms Controlling Maturation and Rejuvenation of Spinal Motor Neurons." Bob Johnston will host.

Rebecca Lamason, Associate Professor in the Biology Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give a talk titled "Microbial manipulation of host membranes." Damian Ekiert will host.

Patrick McGrath, Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will give a talk titled "Large inversions in Lake Malawi cichlids are associated with habitat preference, lineage, and sex determination." Erik Andersen will host.

David Stern, Senior Group Leader at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus, will give a talk titled "How aphids remote-control plants: Bicycle proteins as gall effector molecules." Erik Andersen will host.

James (Zhe) Liu, Group Leader at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus, will give a talk. Haiqing Zhao will host.

Carolyn Elya, Assistant Professor of Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology at Harvard University, will give a talk. Damian Ekiert will host.

David Booth, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, will give a talk. Gira Bhabha and Alice Herneisen will host.

Robert J. Hogg, Senior Investigator at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institute of Health, will give a talk. Tatjana Trcek will host.