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…..
BioExpress
September 26, 2018
Name | Talk Title |
Abdullah Yonar (Ramanathan Lab - Harvard) |
"A compressed sensing framework for efficient dissection of neural circuits" |
Frank Slack |
“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 |
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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 |
Nicholas Peterson (Pukkila-Worley Lab - UMMS) |
"Nuclear hormone receptor-mediated innate immune activation in C. elegans” |
January 30, 2019
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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 |
"Investigating parent-of-origin effects on gene expression in C. elegans” |
March 27, 2019 |
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Name | Talk Title |
Amy Walker (Waker Lab - UMMS) |
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Kirk Burkhart (Horvitz Lab - MIT) |
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Kurt Warnhoff (Ruvkun Lab - Harvard) |
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Micah Belew (Byrne Lab - UMass) |
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May 29, 2019 |
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Name | Talk Title |
Sylvia Fischer (Ruvkun Lab - Harvard) |
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Shaul Yogev (Yogev Lab - Yale) |
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Chun Li |
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