Speaker: Christopher Miles, NYU Title: Modeling & data science of stochastic organization in the mitotic spindle For cells to divide, they must undergo mitosis: the process of spatially organizing their copied DNA (chromosomes) to precise locations in the cell. This procedure is carried out by stochastic components that manage to accomplish the task with astonishing…

Speaker: Dr. Zheng Shi (Rutgers University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology) Host: Dr. Medha Pathak

Speaker: Irene Chiolo, USC Department of Biological Sciences Title: “Highways for Repair: Nuclear Actin Filaments and Myosins Drive Relocalization and Repair of Heterochromatic DNA Breaks” Zoom Link: https://uci.zoom.us/j/92890139888?pwd=WGxOM1hqbmhoVDcxS3hGQWljR0w0Zz09

Speaker: Alexandria Volkening, Northwestern Univiersity Title: Modeling and analysis of zebrafish-skin patterns Many natural and social phenomena involve individual agents coming together to create group dynamics, whether they are cells in a skin pattern, voters in an election, or pedestrians in a crowded room. Here I will focus on the example of pattern formation in…

Speaker: William Gilpin, Harvard Quantitative Biology Initiative Title: Chaos and emergent computation in biological dynamics Experimental measurements of biological systems often have a limited number of independent channels, hindering the construction of interpretable models of living processes. Dynamical systems theory provides a rich set of tools for inferring underlying mathematical structure from partial observations, yet translating…

Speaker: Travis Wiles, UC Irvine- Molecular Bio & Biochemistry Title: Exploring the Form & Function of the Intestinal Ecosystem Zoom Link: https://uci.zoom.us/j/93834212862?pwd=Mms4cFlURmNtRk1xWHhwMzNPOCtvZz09

Speaker: Yuheng Huang (PI: Grace Lee) Title: Host chromatin environment shapes the evolutionary dynamics of transposons

Speaker: Rob Linger (PI: Tony Long) Title: The contributions of standing variation and recombination to long-term evolution of budding yeast

Speaker: Aimee Edinger, UC Irvine -Developmental and Cell Biology Title: “Leveraging Sphingolipids to Fight Cancer, Obesity . . . and COVID?!” Zoom Link: https://uci.zoom.us/j/94647549518?pwd=c3hPZHY3RDhCVlNFUWZGMG9NcFhwZz09

Speaker: Lee Bardwell, UC Irvine-Developmental and Cell Biology Title: Cell Signaling: Crosstalk, Scaffolds and Multisite Phosphorylation Zoom Link: https://uci.zoom.us/j/91513046557?pwd=a0VVaGRSNG40S3VSaWpRS0FhTUQ4dz09