2018 Student Seminar Series

Spring Semester

Location: Seminars are held in Hammer Building / Room 303

February 16-NO SEMINAR--Recruitment Day

February 23 - Laura Crowley             

"Neuroendocrine Cells and the Prostate Epithelial Stem Cell Niche"

March 2 - Tarun Nambiar            

"Orfeome Screen Identifies Rad18 as an Enhancer of CRISPR-Mediated Homology-Directed Repair"

Ciccia Lab

March 9 - Sam Galindo

"Interaction Between Sensory Neurons Determine Modality-Specific Wiring of Somatosensory Circuitry"

Grueber Lab

March 23 - Meghan Pantalia

"Investigating the role of glial endocytosis in Drosophila learning and memory"

Shirasu-Hiza Lab

March 30 - Marina Ermakova

"The Role of MID1IP1 in Microtuble Stability"

Goff Lab

April 6 - Daniel Krizay

"MEA and the in vitro characterization of the brain and disease"

Goldstein Lab

April 13 - Maria Stupnikov-Kselman

"Notch ligands and the pulmonary neuroepithelial body microenvironment"

Wellington Cardoso Lab

April 20 - Sophia Hirsch

"FLIRTing for spatiotemporal control of temperature sensitive protein function"

Canman Lab

April 27 - Stephanie Erjavec

"The Role of Autophagic Protein, STX17, in Melanogenesis and Alopecia Areata"

Christiano Lab

Fall Semester

October 6 - Virginia Aimiuwu

"Modeling gene-specific therapy of DNM1 epileptic encephalopathy"

Frankel Lab

November 2 - Sarah Joseph

"SMARCAD1 promotes DNA degradation in BRCA1- and BRCA2-deficient cells"

Ciccia Lab

November 9 - Ryan Loker

"Regulatory mechanisms of the Hox protein Ultrabithorax"

Mann Lab

November 16 - Albana Kodra

"Characterization and visualization of the multi chromosomalEnhancer hub"

Lomvardas Lab

November 30 - Sam Hayward

"Genetic Interactions within the Human DNA Damage Response Network"

Ciccia Lab

December 7- Dan Cole

"Investigating Enhancer binding events in the control of Motor neuron differentiation"

Wichterle Lab

December 14 - Sophia Hirsch

"The central spindle is not essential for life"

Canman Lab