Fall Quarter

"Microglia and Neural-immune Signaling Within Brain Circuits" Dorothy Schafer, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Neurobiology University of Massachusetts Medical School

"miRNAs and Alternative Polyadenylation" Marco Mangone, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Biodesign Institute Arizona State University

"A reciprocal cell-matrix exchange regulates the emergence of ordered structure in the skin" Amy Shyer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Morphogenesis The Rockefeller University

"Using cerebral organoids to discover human-specific mechanisms of brain development" Jurgen A. Knoblich, Ph.D. Scientific Director Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna

“Principles of cell polarization: a journey through growth and cytokinesis” Maitreyi Das, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology University of Tennessee, Knoxville