Biology 97 Lecture Series

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SPRING 2023
BIOL 097 – THEMES IN BIOLOGY 
SEMINAR SERIES

SINGER 033, ALL ARE WELCOME

 

Feb 3, 2023  

SPEAKER 1: JIM SHORTER

Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
“Countering deleterious phase transitions in neurodegenerative disease”

Feb 17, 2023  

Speaker 2: Ricardo Mallarino

Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University
“The developmental basis of biological diversity: patterning mechanisms in mammalian skin”

Mar 3, 2023  

Speaker 3: HELENA HOGBERG

Acting Deputy Director of the National Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM), NIEHS
“3D Brain Sphere Models to Study Developmental Neurotoxicity”

Mar 24, 2023

SPEAKER 4: CESAR DE LA FUENTE

Presidential Assistant Professor, Depts. of Psychiatry and Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, Depts. of Bioengineering & Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
“Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Antibiotic Discovery”

Apr 7, 2023  

SPEAKER 5: LUANA MAROJA

Professor of Biology, Chair of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Program
"Hybridizing crickets: is there gene flow beyond the hybrid zone?"

Apr 21, 2023  

SPEAKER 6: PAULA DUARTE-GUTERMAN

Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience
"Investigating how parental experience and hormones modulate neuroplasticity across the lifespan"

 

 

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