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

Speaker: Yi Liao (PI: JJ Emerson) Title: 3D genome organization and its potential roles in the evolution of genome structure and function in Drosophila