2018 Student Seminar Series

Spring Semester

Location: Seminars are held in Hammer Building / Room 303

February 16-NO SEMINAR--Recruitment Day


February 23-Laura Crowley
Neuroendocrine Cells and the Prostate Epithelial Stem Cell Niche

March 2-Tarun Nambiar
"Orfeome Screen Identifies Rad18 as an Enhancer of CRISPR-Mediated Homology-Directed Repair"
Ciccia Lab

March 9- Sam Galindo
"Interaction Between Sensory Neurons Determine Modality-Specific Wiring of Somatosensory Circuitry"
Grueber Lab

March 23- Meghan Pantalia
"Investigating the role of glial endocytosis in Drosophila learning and memory"
Shirasu-Hiza Lab

March 30- Marina Ermakova
"The Role of MID1IP1 in Microtuble Stability"
Goff Lab

April 6-Daniel Krizay
"MEA and the in vitro characterization of the brain and disease"
Goldstein Lab

April 13-Maria Stupnikov-Kselman
"Notch ligands and the pulmonary neuroepithelial body microenvironment"
Wellington Cardoso Lab

April 20-Sophia Hirsch
"FLIRTing for spatiotemporal control of temperature sensitive protein function"
Julie Canman Lab

April 27-Stephanie Erjavec
"The Role of Autophagic Protein, STX17, in Melanogenesis and Alopecia Areata"
Angela Christiano Lab


Fall Semester

October 6- Virginia Aimiuwu

"Modeling gene-specific therapy of DNM1 epileptic encephalopathy"

Frankel Lab

November 2- Sarah Joseph

"SMARCAD1 promotes DNA degradation in BRCA1- and BRCA2-deficient cells"

Ciccia Lab

November 9- Ryan Loker

"Regulatory mechanisms of the Hox protein Ultrabithorax"

Mann Lab

November 16- Albana Kodra

"Characterization and visualization of the multi chromosomalEnhancer hub"

Lomvardas Lab

November 30- Sam Hayward

"Genetic Interactions within the Human DNA Damage Response Network"

Ciccia Lab

December 7- Dan Cole

"Investigating Enhancer binding events in the control of Motor neuron differentiation"

Wichterle Lab

December 14- Sophia Hirsch

"The central spindle is not essential for life"

Canman Lab