AARON GITLER, DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS
Attend Dr. Gitler's pre-seminar presentation virtually via Zoom to learn more about Dr. Nancy Bonini's seminar, "Genetic Insight into Neurodegenerative Disease from Drosophila", to be held Thursday, April 9th.
JOSHUA RABINOWITZ, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
The Rabinowitz Lab aims to achieve a quantitative, comprehensive understanding of cellular metabolism. Their motivation for studying metabolism is two-fold. From a basic science perspective, the molecular connections involved in metabolism are the best understood of any major biochemical network. Accordingly, metabolism provides a unique opportunity for quantitative analysis. From a practical perspective, derangements of metabolism are a major cause of disease, and small molecules that inhibit metabolism are the basis of many important pharmaceuticals. Accordingly, systems-level analysis of metabolism is likely to yield discoveries of medical significance.
ALLON KLEIN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
The Klein Lab studies how cells make decisions during embryo development and tissue regeneration. They utilize the lung, the blood, and early vertebrate embryos as our model systems. To gain a quantitative understanding of cellular decisions, they develop experimental and statistical approaches to measure cellular and tissue phenotypes. They additionally use theoretical approaches to infer principles from quantitative phenotypes.
Stanford Bio-X is now accepting Letters of Intent for the 10th Round of the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program!
Letters of Intent must be received by March 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm PST.
HARRIS WANG, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
The Wang lab applies synthetic and systems biology approaches to design and build new microbes with novel capabilities, leveraging both engineering and evolutionary principles. They are interested in developing platform technologies and using them to answer fundamental biological questions. Their research interests include: genome engineering; human microbiome; synthetic ecosystems; evolution and epistasis; and new genetic codes.
The neuronal heterogeneity and complex connections of the brain reward system prevented a deeper understanding of the drug addiction mechanisms. The study Dr. Zhang will present provides a broadly applicable strategy for understanding the molecular, cellular and circuitry mechanism of drug addiction and other psychiatric diseases.
XIAOKE CHEN, DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
Attend Dr. Chen's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Yi Zhang's seminar, "Understanding drug addiction by classification and characterization of cell types of the brain reward system", to be held Thursday, March 5th.
SOPHIE HELAINE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Salmonella is the causative agent of various diseases, ranging from gastro-enteritis to typhoid fever. We have recently discovered that upon infection of host cells, there is a dramatic increase in the proportion of the Salmonella population that forms persisters. A family of genes, named Toxin/Antitoxin modules, is known to be involved in the formation of persisters in a non-pathogenic bacterial species, but almost nothing is known about these genes in pathogenic bacteria like Salmonella. The Helaine lab investigates their function, particularly in relation to persistence of Salmonellato antibiotics during infection. Understanding mechanisms of action of such genes could provide ways to prevent bacteria from becoming persisters, or force them out of that state so they become re-sensitised to antibiotics.
JOIN US FOR A STANFORD BIO-X POSTER SESSION!
The Stanford Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 17th annual competition for Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships and for the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Stanford ChEM-H Fellowships.
Complete applications must be received by February 24, 2020 at 5:00 pm PST.
