BioLunch will run this year from May 14th until August 13th, with a seminar every Wednesday!
| Date | Presenter's Name | Position | Presenter PI/Lab | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14-May | Grace Waterman | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Hong Wang | Visualization of MPH1- and Top3-Rmi-mediated Holliday junction dissolution in homologous recombination repair by atomic force microscopy |
| Shah Ishmam Mohtashim | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | RINQ: Quantum Engine for Protein Network Centrality | ||
| 21-May | Perry Beamer | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Zixuan Cang | Persistent-Homology Based Analysis of Tissue Domains |
| Dr Chaitawat Sirisereewan | Post Doc | Crisci Elisa /Crisci Lab | PreProPRRSV | |
| 28-May | Open | |||
| Open | ||||
| 4-Jun | Chris Givens | Senior Scientist, United Therapeutics | TBD | |
| 11-Jun | Alyssa Wenzel | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Kevin Flores | Topologically-based parameter inference for agent-based model selection from spatiotemporal cellular data |
| Abigail Williams | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Elisa Crisci/ Crisci lab | In vitro analysis of Selenium-tested porcine alveolar macrophages upon PRRSV infection | |
| 18-Jun | Ourania Raftopoulou | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Barrangou | CRISPR Editing of Bifidobacterium lactis |
| Kalani Gast | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Barrangou | Phage-host interactions in Bifidobacterium pseudolongum | |
| 25-Jun | Arpan Tapdiya | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Dr. Carol Hall | Design of Peptides as Affinity Ligands for Early Detection of Cancer Biomarkers |
| Blake Horotn | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Colleen Doherty | Disruption of Arabidopsis Circadian Rhythms Under Simulated Microgravity | |
| 2-Jul | Crystal Collazo | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Biointerface and NCVViral | Multivariant Optimization of AAV2,5,8, and 9 Harvest from triple transfection of HEK293 suspension cells Using Sodium Deoxycholate, Deviron C16, and Deviron 13-S9. |
| Haoyu Wang | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Hall | Computational Design of Self-Assembling Peptides to Enable ssNMR Characterization of Amyloid Structures | |
| 9-Jul | Alexia Cash | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Dr. Sano | Patterned Pulses for Optimized In Vivo CRISPR/Cas Delivery |
| Hector Apodaca | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Jason Haugh | Dissecting Haptotaxis: How ECM Gradients Regulate Adhesion Signaling and Cytoskeletal Dynamics | |
| 16-Jul | William Smith | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Menegatti | Purification of AcMNPV Baculovirus & Herpes Simplex Virus 1 |
| Caitlin Kestell | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Dr. Ralph Dewey | Mitochondrial Genome Editing for Crop Improvement | |
| 23-Jul | Kin Gomez | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | San Miguel | Cytoskeleton restructuring mediated by HIF-1 allows for dendrite recovery from hypoxic insult |
| Open | ||||
| 30-Jul | Olivia Mathieson | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Kleiner Lab | TENTATIVE: Investigation of an insect host and its reproductive symbiont reveals sex-specific expression responses to symbiont association |
| Aditi Dey Poonam | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Qingshan Wei | Programmed Mismatch (PM)-Integrated Digital CRISPR-Cas12a Assay for Sensitive Canine BRAF Mutation Detection | |
| 6-Aug | Britney | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Dr. Jane Hoppin | Characterizing the lipidome of older women exposed to PFAS |
| Carolyn Farling | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Glazer | Targeting CYP1B1: A case study on selective inhibitors | |
| 13-Aug | Owen Hughes | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Gavin Williams | Alkyl-diversification of natural products via prenyltransferase synthetic biology |
| Cassidy Oliverio | Grad Student/Ph.D Candidate | Gavin Williams | Directed evolution of terpene biosynthesis via genetically-encoded biosensors | |