TheBAWM

 

Bi-monthly meeting of New England C. elegans workers.

Pizza and four research talks of about 20-25 minutes, with breaks for conversation.

 We meet at 6:00 PM  in Room 68-181
First floor of the MIT Biology building.

BAWM food and drink is enabled by financial support from….. 

New England Biolabs

 Integrated DNA Technologies

BioExpress 

Genesee

Kramer Scientific 

MBF Bioscience

 September 26, 2018

 Name Talk Title
 Abdullah Yonar
(Ramanathan Lab - Harvard)		  "A compressed sensing
framework for efficient dissection of neural circuits"

 Frank Slack
(Slack Lab - Harvard)

  “MicroRNAs and aging
in C. elegans”
 Christopher Hammell
(Hammell Lab - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)		  “(Almost) lost in translation—Conserved mechanisms of protein translational amplification and its
roles in antagonizing microRNA-mediated gene regulation in development”
   

 November 28, 2018
 Name  Talk Title
 Hanchen Li
(Aroian Lab - UMMS)		  "Engineering Bacteria
to Kill Parasitic Nematode Infections"
 Susan Mango
(Mango Lab - Harvard)		  "The Mango Lab/A closer look"
Jaeseok Park
(Kim, D. Lab - MIT)		  

"cGMP-Dependent Chemosensory Signal Transduction Pathways in the Detection of Bacterial Metabolites
by C. elegans"
  
Nicholas Peterson
(Pukkila-Worley Lab - UMMS)		  "Nuclear hormone receptor-mediated innate immune activation in C. elegans”

January 30, 2019

Name Talk Title
 Vivek Dwivedi
(Horvitz Lab - MIT)		  “Cell-cycle state drives caspase-independent apoptotic cell extrusion in C. elegans"
 Ashish Maurya
(Sengupta Lab - Brandeis)		    “Two conserved kinases controlling sensory cilia
structure and length"
 Amaranath Govindan
(Ruvkun Lab - Harvard)		  “E. coli Siderophore Enterobactin Modulates Mitochondrial Function"

 Io Long Chan
(Rando Lab - UMMS)

  "Investigating parent-of-origin effects on gene expression in C. elegans”

March 27, 2019
Name Talk Title
 Amy Walker
(Waker Lab - UMMS)		  
 Kirk Burkhart
(Horvitz Lab - MIT)		  
 Kurt Warnhoff
(Ruvkun Lab - Harvard)		  
 Micah Belew
(Byrne Lab - UMass)		  

May 29, 2019
Name Talk Title
 Sylvia Fischer
(Ruvkun Lab - Harvard)		  
 Shaul Yogev
(Yogev Lab - Yale)		  

 Chun Li
(Slack Lab - Harvard)

  
   

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