Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, May 28, 2021 Emily Balskus, Ph.D. Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University Deciphering the Human Microbiota with Chemistry Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Silpe, Justin E.; Balskus, Emily P. (2021). Deciphering Human Microbiota-Host Chemical Interactions. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE. 7 (1): 20-29 Carlson, [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, May 14, 2021 Robert Weinberg, Ph.D. Director and Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology Malignant Progression of Carcinoma Cells Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Lambert, Arthur W.; Weinberg, Robert A. (2021). Linking EMT programmes to normal and neoplastic epithelial stem [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, May 7, 2021 Hannah Valantine, M.D. Professor of Medicine Stanford University Achieving Inclusive Excellence in Biomedical Research: Applying Genomics to Unravel Health Disparities in Organ Transplantation Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Agbor-Enoh, Sean; Shah, Palak; Tunc, Ilker; et al. (2021). Cell-Free DNA to Detect Heart Allograft [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, April 30, 2021 Michael Elowitz, Ph.D. Professor of Biology and Bioengineering California Institute of Technology Multicellular Circuit Design: Natural and Synthetic Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Ma Y, Budde MW, Mayalu MN, et al. (2020). Synthetic mammalian signaling circuits for robust cell population control. BioRXiv [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, April 23, 2021 Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D. Judah Folkman Professor and Founding Director Department of Vascular Biology and Bioengineering Harvard University Human Organ Chips: From Experimental Models to Clinical Mimicry Recommended Readings: Science News Donald Ingber. Human Organs-on-Chips as replacements for animal testing. March [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, April 16, 2021 Ramanujan Hegde, M.D., Ph.D. Programme Leader and Head Department of Cell Biology MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Mechanisms of Multi-Pass Membrane Protein Biogenesis Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Chitwood, Patrick J.; Hegde, Ramanujan S. (2020). An intramembrane chaperone complex facilitates membrane protein [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, March 19, 2021 Tadatsugu Taniguchi, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus Department of Immulnology University of Tokyo A story of the Type I IFN system; La storia mia è breve… Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Negishi, Hideo; Endo, Nobuyasu; Nakajima, Yuki; et al. (2019). Identification of U11snRNA as [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, March 12, 2021 M. Celeste Simon, Ph.D. Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh Professor Department of Cell and Developmental Biology University of Pennsylvania Stressful Microenvironments and Tumor Progression Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Li, Fuming; Huangyang, Peiwei; Burrows, Michelle; et al. (2020). FBP1 loss disrupts liver metabolism [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, March 5, 2021 Rosemary Gillespie, Ph.D. Professor and Schlinger Chair in Systematic Entomology Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California Adaptive Radiation on Oceanic Islands: Isolation and Connection, Repeatability and Serendipity Recommended Readings: Science News Brett Israel. How brightly colored spiders [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Public) Friday, February 26, 2021 Amy Shyer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Head Laboratory of Morphogenesis The Rockefeller University Morphogenesis: Poetry in Motion Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Shyer, Amy E.; Rodrigues, Alan R.; Schroeder, Grant G.; et al. (2017). Emergent cellular self-organization and mechanosensation initiate follicle pattern in the [...]
