Dr. Rena Jones Seminar Title: "Environmental Exposures and Cancer Risk: Insights from Epidemiology" Bio: Rena Jones is a Senior Investigator in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, where her intramural research program focuses on understanding how environmental exposures, especially air and water pollutants, contribute to cancer risk. She […]
Dr. Marc Russel Birtwistle Seminar Title: Mechanistic Pharmacodynamic Modeling of Single Mammalian Cells Bio: Marc Birtwistle received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech (2003). For his PhD training in Chemical Engineering (2008), he worked at the University of Delaware with Tunde Ogunnaike and was co-advised by Boris Kholodenko, then at Thomas Jefferson […]
Dr. James Lewis Seminar Title: "Hard sweeps, soft sweeps, and supergenes underlie post-glacial climate adaptation in a boreal moth species" Bio: Dr. James Lewis is an assistant professor in Genetics and Biochemistry at Clemson University. His research aims to understand the genetic mechanisms, evolutionary processes, and ecological pressures that underlie adaptation in natural populations. The […]
Dr. Robin Buell Seminar Title: "Multi-omics reveals cell type specificity of natural product biosynthesis" Bio: C. Robin Buell is the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Chair in Crop Genomics and Professor of Crop and Soil Sciences at the University of Georgia. She currently serves as Director of The Plant Center, where she leads interdisciplinary efforts […]
Dr. Lauren Speare Seminar Title: "How to train your predator: harnessing microbial predators for antibiotic-independent coral disease therapy" Bio: Dr. Lauren Speare is an Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech. Her research explores the mechanisms and ecology of intermicrobial and microbe-host interactions and the consequences of these interactions for ecosystem […]
Dr. Joseph Heitman Seminar Title: "Epimutations evoke transient antimicrobial resistance" Bio: Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD is James B. Duke Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University. He serves as co-director with Leah Cowen for the CIFAR program Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities. His research studies model and pathogenic fungi addressing fundamental […]
Dr. Kozubowski earned his Bachelors and then Masters degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Medical University of Warsaw in Poland. He completed his Doctorate under the mentorship of Kelly Tatchell at Louisiana State University Medical Center, studying mechanisms of cell division and morphogenesis (more specifically the biology of septin proteins and related cell signaling involving […]
Dr. Lukasz Kozubowski Seminar Title: Interplay between cell division and stress response in Cryptococcus neoformans Bio: Dr. Lukasz earned his Bachelors and then Masters degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Medical University of Warsaw in Poland. He completed his Doctorate under the mentorship of Kelly Tatchell at Louisiana State University Medical Center, studying mechanisms of […]
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