Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, October 8, 2021 Philip Benfey, Ph.D. Paul Kramer Distinguished Professor of Biology Duke University Underground Signals Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Shahan, R.; Nolan, Trevor M.; Benfey, Philip N. (2021). Single-cell analysis of cell identity in the Arabidopsis root apical meristem: insights and opportunities. JOURNAL OF [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, October 1, 2021 Naomi E. Pierce, Ph.D. Sidney A. and John H. Hessel Professor of Biology Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University On wings and wavelengths (or, Why do moths fly into candle flames?) Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Liénard, M.A.; Bernard, G.D.; [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, September 24, 2021 Sarah Tishkoff, Ph.D. David and Lyn Silfen University Professor Department of Genetics and Biology University of Pennsylvania Genomic Evolution and Adaptation in Africa: Implications for Health and Disease Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles McHenry, ML.; Bartlett, J.; Igo, RP.; et al. (2020). Interaction [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, September 17, 2021 Kevan Shokat, Ph.D. Professor Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco Discovering and Deploying Chemical Strategies to Drug KRAS: The Formerly Undruggable Oncogene Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Nnadi, Chimno I.; Jenkins, Meredith L.; Gentile, Daniel [...]
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 [...]
