JOSEPH LIAO, DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY
Attend Dr. Liao's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Jeff Tza-Huei Wang's seminar, "Discerning Rare Disease Biomarkers by Micro- and Nanotechnologies", to be held Thursday, March 10th.
JOIN US FOR OUR INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVES SEED GRANTS PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM!
A symposium in the Clark Auditorium of presentations by Seed Grant awardees describing their research will be followed by a reception in Nexus Café. All are welcome.
The main focus of the Cai group is single cell systems biology. They use super-resolution and live cell microscopy to study gene regulatory networks in cells and organisms.
Over the past decade, Dr. Schaffer's group initially developed and has been implementing directed vector evolution as a high throughput approach to engineer adeno-associated virus (AAV) variants with novel properties, including enhanced biodistribution and spread, targeted delivery to specific cells such as stem cells or their neighbors, and gene editing within a cell. This talk will discuss directed evolution of novel and biomedically relevant AAV variants, as well as the application of gene delivery technologies to investigate cells and stem cells in the nervous system.
MICHAEL LIN, DEPARTMENTS OF NEUROBIOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
Attend Dr. Lin's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. David Schaffer's seminar, "Novel Technologies to Investigate the Neural Stem Cell Niche", to be held Thursday, February 11th.
ARJUN RAJ, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
The Raj lab is interested in building a quantitative understanding of cellular function. They like to develop new tools for quantifying biological processes based on imaging and sequencing and then use those techniques to help us answer questions in molecular and cellular biology.
How did chemistry give rise to life? The Chen lab studies principles of emergence and evolution of biomolecules by combining experiments and modeling.
NIKTA FAKHRI, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Nikta Fakhri has pioneered the use and development of fluorescent single-walled carbon nanotubes as probes in soft matter and biophysics.
KANG SHEN, DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY
The connectivity of a neuron (its unique constellation of synaptic inputs and outputs) is essential for its function. Neuronal connections are made with exquisite accuracy between specific types of neurons. How each neuron finds its synaptic partners has been a central question in developmental neurobiology.
KANG SHEN, DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY
Attend Dr. Shen's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about his seminar, "Mechanisms of Neuronal Morphogenesis - how does a neuron take its shape?", to be held Thursday, January 14th.
