September 4, 2015 · 2 min read

Biotechnology, life sciences seminar series begins Sept. 9

The 2015 Biotechnology and Life Sciences Seminar Series will begin Sept. 9 and will continue every Wednesday through Dec. 2 in the Beadle Center, Room E103. The receptions will be held at 3:30 p.m., and the seminars will begin at 4 p.m.

All seminars are free and open to the public.

The first seminar in the series, “Rotavirus cell entry: Not so simple after all,” will be presented by Carlos Arias, from the Instituto de Biotecnología at the National University of Mexico.

His seminar will be hosted by Rodrigo Franco, from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

The rest of the seminar series will take place as follows:

Sept. 16 – Klaus Früh, from Oregon Health and Science University, will present “The unique biology, immunology and efficacy of cytomegalovirus-vectored vaccines against chronic and recurring infectious diseases.”
Sept. 23 – Richard Vierstra, from the University of Wisconsin, will present “Autophagy, the master of selective recycling.”
Sept. 30 – John Hogenesch, from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, will present “A circadian gene atlas in mammals: Implications for biology and medicine.”
Oct. 7 – Philip Bates, from the University of Southern Mississippi, will present “Deciphering bottlenecks within designer oilseed engineering: What controls fatty acid flux?.”
Oct. 14 – Joshua Weitz, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, will present “Theoretical principles of virus-microbe dynamics.”
Oct. 21 – Mark Cigan, from DuPont Pioneer, will present “Revolutionizing classical breeding in agriculture through genome editing.”
Oct. 28 – Dan Nettleton, from Iowa State University, will present a seminar that will be announced at a later date.
Nov. 4 – Tong-Ming Fu, from Merck Research Laboratories, will present “A conditionally replication defective human cytomegalovirus for prevention of congenital infection and disease.”
Nov. 11 – Eric Wommack, from the University of Delaware, will present “Uncovering the biology of unknown viruses through metagenomics and nucleotide metabolism genes.”
Nov. 18 – Sixue Chen, from the University of Florida, will present “Metabolomics of hormone and CO2 responses in stomatal guard cells.”
Nov. 25 – There will be no speaker on this day.
Dec. 2 – Oliver Rando, from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, will present “Mechanical disassembly and reassembly of reproduction in mammals.”