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 27, 2017
| Name | Talk Title |
| Amy Walker (Amy Walker Lab - UMMS) |
"Methylation and Stress-Induced Gene Expression” |
| Charles Nelson (Victor Ambros Lab - UMMS) |
“Post-transcriptional Regulation of the microRNA Let-7 in C. elegans” |
| Albrecht Lab Members (TBA) (Dirk Albrecht Lab - WPI) |
"Improved Microscopy of Living C. elegans" |
| Greg Dokshin (Craig Mello Lab - UMMS) |
"Hydrogel Encapsulation for Long-Term Imaging of Living Organisms" |
November 29, 2017
| Name | Talk Title |
| Yue Zhang (William Mair Lab-Harvard) |
“Cell non-autonomous modulation of longevity by the TORC1 pathway" |
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Zoë Hilbert |
"Neuroendocrine regulation of decision-making behavior in C. elegans males" |
| Beste Mutlu (Susan Mango Lab - Harvard) |
"Chromatin organization during embryogenesis” |
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Naina Kurup |
"Cytoskeletal regulation of synapse formation" |
January 24, 2018
| Name |
Talk Title |
| Mansi Srivastava (Mansi Srivastava Lab-Harvard) |
"Every worm has its day: a new acoel model system reveals GRNs for regeneration" |
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Youjun Wu |
"Single-particle dynamics underlying germplasm segregation in the C. elegans zygote" |
| Alison Wirshing (Cram Lab - Northeastern) |
"A screen of all actin binding proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans reveals spectrin as a key regulator of contraction and actin network organization in the spermatheca" |
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Dennis Kim |
"Regulation of development and physiology by neuronal eIF2a phosphorylation" |
March 28, 2018
| Name | Talk Title |
| Ross Lagoy (Dirk Albrecht Lab - WPI) |
""New automated screening technologies identify acute and chronic modulators of neural activity in C. elegans" |
| Ahilya Sawh (Susan Mango Lab - Havard) |
"Dynamic organization of chromosomes during development by multiplexed FISH" |
| Steve Sando (Bob Horvitz Lab - MIT) |
"Spitting and gulping: opposing behaviors driven by a single pharyngeal neuron" |
| Charlotte Kelley (Erin Cram Lab- Northeastern) |
"The myosin light chain kinase, MLCK-1, relocalizes during C. elegans ovulation to promote actomyosin bundle assembly and drive contraction” |
May 23, 2018
| Name | Talk Title |
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Xintao Fan |
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| Eric Luth (Peter Juo Lab - Tufts) |
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| Akiko Doi (Bob Horvitz Lab - MIT) |
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| Simon Wang (Eric Greer Lab - Harvard) |
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