2021-2022 Biological Science Colloquium Series
Colloquia meet at 4:00 p.m. on Thursdays, via Zoom. Meeting links are distributed by department email list; FSU members, subscribe at Bio-Everyone list management; non-FSU members, BioNotes. To request an individual link without subscribing to a mailing list, contact that talks host.
Fall Series
- September 16 (4:00 p.m., TBD): Dr. Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, Department of Immunology, St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
CANCELLED
Host: Dr. Qian Yin - September 23 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Karen C. Cone, Biololgical Sciences Division, National Science Foundation
Funding opportunities and priorities at the National Science Foundation
Host: Dr. Karen McGinnis - September 30 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Job Dekker, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Chromosome folding throughout the cell cycle and across the tree of life
Host: Mahdi Khadem - October 14 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Kerry S. Bloom, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
The regulation of chromosome segregation through centromere DNA loops
Host: Dr. Hong-Guo Yu - October 21 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Mandip Sachdeva, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL
The role of cannabinoids in overcoming resistance in breast cancer
Host: Dr. Steven Lenhert - October 28 (4:00 p.m., TBD): Gregory Melikian, Ph.D., Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Viral fusion in a crosshair of host restriction factors
Host: Dr. Ashwanth Francis - November 11 (4:00 p.m., POSTPONED to 2022): Dr. Yi Zhang, Harvard Medical School and Boston Childrens Hospital, Boston MA
My journey in epigenetics
Host: Dr. Fanxiu Zhu - November 18 (4:00 p.m., TBD): Dr. Harilaos (Haris) Lessios, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panama
Evolution of gamete reproduction proteins in echinoderms
Host: Dr. Janie Wulff
Spring Series
- April 28 (4:00 p.m., TBD): Dr. Cary Moody, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Virus host-cell interactions that regulate the HPV life cycle
Host: Dr. Hengli Tang