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2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Schedule
All seminars will be held at noon at the Gordon Center for Integrative Science W301.
| Date | Speaker | Institution |
| 10/5/21 | David Pincus | UChicago |
| 10/19/21 | Yi Liao [Rust Lab postdoc] | UChicago |
| 10/26/21 | Bozhi Tian (chalk talk) | UChicago |
| 11/2/21 | Seppe Kuehn | UChicago |
| 11/16/21 | Tong Wu [He Lab postdoc] | UChicago |
| 11/23/21 | Thanksgiving break | UChicago |
| 11/30/21 | Yamuna Krishnan | UChicago |
| 12/7/21 | Grier prize finalists presentation | |
| 1/11/22 | Kevin Welsher | Duke Univ |
| 1/25/22 | Alexandra Zidovska | NYU [Virtual Presentation] |
| 2/1/22 | Sri Iyer-Biswas | Purdue Univ |
| 3/8/22 | Shankar Mukherji | Wash Univ St. Louis |
| 3/15/22 | Rae Anderson | USD |
| 3/22/22 | Edouard Hannezo | IST Austria |
| 3/24/22 | Mikhail Shapiro | Cal Tech |
| 3/29/22 | Lisa Jones | Univ Maryland |
| 4/5/22 | Ahmad Khalil | Boston Univ |
| 4/19/22 | Mike Levin | Tufts Univ [Virtual Presentation] |
| 4/26/22 | Tom Kirchhausen | Harvard Univ |
| 5/3/22 | Jin Zhang | UCSD |
| 5/17/22 | Eduardo Perozo (chalk talk) | UChicago |
| 5/24/22 | Suri Vaikuntanathan | UChicago |
Tuesday October 19, 2021
“Timer & Ruler: Uncovering Hidden Functions of Biological Oscillators In Bacteria”
Yi Liao (Postdoctoral Scholar Rust Lab)
Self-sustained oscillations are ubiquitous in biology and are manifested in a wide range of physiological processes such as neuron firing, heart beats and cell cycle progression. Compared to eukaryotes, the physiological roles of oscillatory behaviors are less explored in bacteria. In this seminar, I will present my work on elucidating the functions of two biological oscillators found in bacteria, the circadian clock and the Min system. Subjecting cells to environmental stress revealed striking physiological consequences enabled by these oscillators, and the findings from both studies resonate with the general idea that oscillatory systems were evolved to cope with fluctuations in the external environment.
12:00–1:00 p.m.
Gordon Center for Integrative Science,
Room W301 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
“Spatiotemporal dynamics of the heat shock response“
David Pincus PhD, University of Chicago
To maintain homeostasis amidst environmental perturbations, organisms have evolved adaptive pathways at multiple scales that sense and respond to physical and chemical changes. The heat shock response (HSR), a transcriptional program that dynamically regulates expression of molecular chaperones according to cellular demands, is among the most fundamental and highly conserved of these pathways. Despite its eponymous association with heat, elevated temperature is neither necessary nor sufficient to activate the HSR. Rather, unassembled protein complexes and bimolecular condensates activate the HSR by spatially sequestering molecular chaperones. In this seminar, I will present our recent advances in elucidating the cascade of events that initiate the HSR in budding yeast with special emphasis on the spatiotemporal dynamics of the ligands, chaperones and transcription factors that orchestrate the response.
12:00–1:00 p.m.
Gordon Center for Integrative Science,
Room W301 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL
Save the Date: 2021 Seitz Lecture
Wendell Lim will be the 2021 Frederick Seitz Lecture speaker, visiting on April 15, 2022. Prof. Lim is the Chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco. He is the Director of the UCSF Center for Synthetic Immunology (NIH IOTN-i3 Center).