Seminars

2022 Seminar Series

• Jan. 27, 2022 ~ Human FSH Receptors and the First Rule of Real Estate: Location, Location, Location

  Brian Cohen, Senior Lecturer
  Department of Biological Sciences
  Co-director, Biochemistry Program
  Union College

  Date/Time: Jan. 27, 2022 at 12:50 pm
  Location: Olin 115 & Zoom

• Feb. 3, 2022 ~ Fate and Form - Key regulators of intestinal function in health and disease

  Kaelyn Sumigray, Assistant Professor

  Department of Genetics

  Yale School of Medicine

  Fate and Form - Key regulators of intestinal function in health and disease

  Feb. 3, 2022 at 12:50 PM

  Zoom

  The Sumigray lab studies how stem cell niche architecture affects stem cell behavior and tissue function. In particular, we study the formation of the intestinal stem cell niche, the crypt, using genetic mouse models and 3D organoid systems to interrogate mechanisms driving cell shape changes and its impact on tissue patterning.

• Feb. 10, 2022 ~ Electroencephalography (EEG) and it’s role from Diagnosis to Treatment

  Dr. John Lansing, DO

  Neuroscience Department

  Albany Medical College

  Feb. 10, 2022 at 1:00 PM

  Olin 115 & Zoom

  Dr. John Lansing, an Assistant Professor in the department of Neurology at Albany Medical College, will give a talk on Electroencephalography (EEG) and it’s role from Diagnosis to Treatment. He will also discuss the basics of EEG as well as diagnostic testing, such as MEG and cortical stimulation, and treatments, including VNS, RNS and DBS.

• Feb. 17, 2022 ~Flight, Forelimbs and Froglegs

  John Young, Assistant Professor

  Biology Department

  Simmons University

  Flight, Forelimbs, and Froglegs

  Feb. 10, 2022 at 12:50 PM

  Zoom

  Have you ever wondered where your arms and legs come from? Or why some birds with wings can't fly? Our lab uses the frog Xenopus to answer questions about the development and evolution of vertebrates.

• March 10, 2022 ~ Prolactin in Fish

  Jason Breves, Associate Professor

  Chair of the Biology Department

  Skidmore College

  Prolactin in Fish

  March 10, 2022 at 12:50 PM

  Olin 115 & Zoom

• April 21, 2022 ~ Determining the role of intracellular calcium in regulating the fast amoeboid migration of confined melanoma cells

  Alexa Caruso, 19'

  Master's Candidate in the lab of Dr. Jeremy S. Logue

  Regenerative and Cancer Cell Biology (RCCB)

  Albany Medical College

  April 21, 2022 at 12:50 PM

  Olin 115

  Current Research

  Cell migration is an integral part of embryonic development, immune surveillance, and wound healing, whereas in cancer, the de-regulated migration of tumor cells promotes the metastatic colonization of vital organs. The Logue Lab is interested in understanding how cells migrate within tissues. Previously, we demonstrated that cancer cells respond to mechanical confinement by undergoing a phenotypic transition to fast amoeboid (leader bleb-based) migration (Logue, JS et al. (2015) eLife)

• April 28, 2022 ~ Sugary blood: Uncovering novel mechanisms regulating hematopoietic stem cell formation

  Dionna Kasper '08, Assistant Professor

  Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College
  Department of Molecular & Systems Biology

  April 28, 2022 at 12:50 PM

  Olin 115

  Refreshments will be served

• May 5, 2022 ~ Characterization of drug loaded microparticles as a treatment for pancreatic cancer

  Stan Soroka '16

  MD/PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Laura Martello-Rooney

  SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

  May 5, 2022 at 12:50PM

  Zoom

• May 19, 2022 ~ Homing behavior in territorial reptiles and vernal pool-breeding amphibians

  Dr. David Steinberg, Lecturer

  Biological Sciences

  University of New Hampshire

  College of Life Sciences and Agriculture

  May 19, 2022 at 12:50 pm

  KARP 005

• May 26, 2022 ~ Regulation of Antibody Responses by the Immune System

  Dr. Peter T. Sage, '04 PhD,

  Assistant Professor of Medicine

  Harvard Medical School

  Associate Immunologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

  May 26, 2022 at 12:50 PM

  Olin 115

• June 1, 2022 ~ Dr. Robert S. Langer, MIT

  Dr. Robert S. Langer, Institute Professor

  MIT Department of Chemical Engineering

  June 1, 2022 at 12:50 PM