"How to make microtubules and build the cytoskeleton" Sabine Petry, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Molecular Biology Princeton University Abstract: How does a cell construct its microtubule cytoskeleton? According to Feynman’s principle “what I cannot create, I do not understand”, my lab pursues this question by building the chromosome segregation machinery from scratch. I will first tell […]

"Fluid forces -  phase separation in, on, and around the genome" Clifford Brangwynne, Ph.D. Director, Princeton Bioengineering Initiative June K. Wu ’92 Professor in Engineering Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Princeton University   Please email mbiasst@lifesci.ucla.edu to request Zoom link.

"A detailed look at tail-anchored membrane protein targeting - from opisthokonts to protists to plants” Bil Clemons, Ph.D. Professor, Biochemistry California Institute of Technology   Please email mbiasst@lifesci.ucla.edu to request Zoom link.

"Mapping Mitochondrial Metabolism in Liver and its Importance in NAFLD" Shawn Burgess, Ph.D. Professor, Human Nutrition, Pharmacology The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center   Please email mbiasst@lifesci.ucla.edu to request Zoom link.

“Mapping the human intestines throughout life: one cell at a time” Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci FRS Head of Cellular Genetics Wellcome Sanger Institute   Please email mbiasst@lifesci.ucla.edu to request Zoom link.

"Dark Matter of the Human Genome: Small Open Reading Frames" Sarah Slavoff, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Yale University

"New insights into aneuploidy in mammalian embryos" Melina Schuh, Ph.D. Director, Department of Meiosis Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Abstract: The Schuh lab studies meiosis in mammalian oocytes. In her presentation, Melina will summarize her lab’s recent research on the spindle in mammalian oocytes. Her lab found that human oocyte spindles are surprisingly unstable, […]