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"