Seminars

Seminars of Academic Year 2022-2023

Title: Looking under the hood of cells: from single molecule dynamics to whole cell organelle reconstructions

Speaker: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D.

Senior Group Leader
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Janelia Research Campus 

Host: Anne Kenworthy, Ph.D.


Date: Monday, January 9, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Title: Membrane Ruffling is the Viscosity Sensor that Facilitates the Counterintuitive Acceleration of Migrating Cells in Highly Viscous Fluids

Speaker: Yun Chen, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Center for Cell Dynamics

Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT)

Johns Hopkins University

Host: Seham Ebrahim, Ph.D.


Date: Monday, February 27, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Title: The Hierarchical Organization in Immune-Pathogen Interactions

Speaker: Yan Yu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Chemistry Department
Indiana University

Host: Anne Kenworthy, Ph.D.


Date: Monday, April 10, 2023
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Title: Structural basis for glycosphingolipid sorting and sensing of microbial danger

Wayne Lencer, MD

Longwood Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Division Chief Gastroenterology, Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital

Host: Anne Kenworthy, Ph.D. and James Casanova, Ph.D.


Date: Monday, May 8, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Title: Computational design of membrane receptors: from protein motions to CAR T cell therapies

Speaker: Patrick Barth, Ph.D.

Associate Professor at EPFL, Adjunct Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Host: Anne Kenworthy, Ph.D.


Date: Thursday, May 18, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Title: Aberrant Glycosylation Regulates Glycocalyx Architecture and Viscoelasticity in Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Cells

Speaker: Alexander X. Cartagena-Rivera, Ph.D.

Earl Stadtman Investigator

NIH Distinguished Scholar

Chief, Section on Mechanobiology

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health

Host: Seham Ebrahim, Ph.D.


Date: Monday, May 22, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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Title: Live Cell Imaging of Early Metabolic Changes in FUS ALS Motoneurons

Speaker: Vitaly Zimyanin, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, Redemann Lab, Center for Membrane & Cell Physiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Host: Lukas Tamm, Ph.D.


Dates: Friday, June 2, 2023 - Friday, June 2, 2023
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Snyder 314
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