NEWS
Dr. Jaap de Roode is one of the leaders of the research initiative “From Molecular Pathogenesis to Global Pandemics.” Emory has provided $5 million for this initiative as a result of a Task Force on the Future of Basic Sciences Research formed to identify priorities for investment through 2025. Read more.
Dr. Ilya Nemenman and collaborators used modern machine learning to build mechanistic, interpretable models capable of predicting behavior of a roundworm C. elegans with high accuracy. Read more.
Dr. Pat Marsteller has been recognized by the Center for Women at Emory and the Emory Alumni Association by an Award for Mentorship!
Dr. Anita Corbett was recognized with an award in January for her outstanding mentoring by Nature magazine. We congratulate Anita on this outstanding achievement!
Baohua Zhou, a graduate student in the Nemenman lab, and collaborators in the Nemenman and the Sober labs propose and experimentally validate a new theory of sensorimotor learning, which is able to explain why learning certain motor skills is hard, while the others are easy.
EVENTS
Spring 2019 Biology Seminar Series
The seminars & Science Cafe talks have changed to be on Thursdays every week in Rm. 1052 of O. Wayne Rollins Research Center at 12 p.m. (unless otherwise noted).
Science Cafe talks are to have informal discussions on science- and education-related topics over a light snack.
Thur., January 17
Science Cafe led by Anita Corbett
Discussion topic: A Discussion of Implicit Bias
Thur., January 24
Ming-fai Fong, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT
Title: Experience-dependent plasticity in disability, recovery, and discovery
*Biology faculty search candidate
Host: Astrid Prinz
Thur., January 31
Malavika Murugan, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University
Title: Investigating social spaces: Role of the prefrontal cortex in mediating social behaviors
*Biology faculty search candidate
Host: Sam Sober
Thur., February 7
Science Cafe led by Gregg Orloff
Discussion topic: Immunotherapies for Cancer
Thur., February 14
Michele Insanally, Departments of Otolaryngology, Neuroscience and Physiology, New York University School of Medicine
Title: The significance of nominally non-responsive activity in auditory perception and behavior
*Biology faculty search candidate
Host: Dieter Jaeger
Thur., February 21
Astrid Prinz lab, Emory Biology
Title: Of flies, mice, and machines - the Prinz lab explores new territory
Thur., February 28
Stephen Town, Ear Institute in the Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London
Title: Alexa Shrugged: How abstraction makes the brain more than just a microphone
*Biology faculty search candidate
Host: Sam Sober
Thur., March 7
Gray Crouse, Emory Biology
Title: Understanding Mutation
*Seminar honoring Dr. Crouse's retirement
Thur., March 14
NO SEMINAR- Spring Break
Thur., March 21
Nancy Manley, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia
Title: The Rise and Fall of the thymic microenvironment – from embryos to aging to rejuvenation
Host: Andreas Fritz
Thur., March 28
Mike Perry, University of California, San Diego
Title: Color vision in butterflies and flies: stochastic patterning and sensory receptor diversity
Host: Jaap de Roode
Thur., April 4
NO SEMINAR- Biology external review meetings
Thur., April 11
Eugene Koonin, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH
Title: Theory of prokaryotic genome evolution: adaptation overcoming streamlining
Host: Daniel Weissman
Thur., April 18
Charlie Baer, Department of Biology, University of Florida
Title: Mutation as a lens on natural selection in C. elegans
Host: Levi Morran
2019 Distinguished Rhodes Lectureship
April 25 & 26
Jo Handelsman, Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thur. April 25
Biology Undergraduate Research Poster Session
2:00- 2:50, 3:00- 3:50 in School of Medicine lobby
Biology Undergraduate Research Symposium Keynote by Dr. Handelsman
4:00 p.m. in School of Medicine, Room 120
Title: Microbiology from the University to the White House
Fri,, April 26
Rhodes Lecture by Dr. Handelsman
10:30 a.m. in Whitehead Auditorium
Title: Understanding Microbiomes: Dissecting the Functions of Microbial Communities
Thur., May 2
Andrea Duina, Department of Biology, Hendrix College
Title: Breaking chromatin to understand it: a genetic approach in yeast provides new insights into the transcription process
Host: Anita Corbett
