Professor Rachel Dutton received her B.S. in Molecular Biology from UC San Diego, and completed her undergraduate thesis with Kit Pogliano on Bacillus subtilis sporulation. She completed her PhD with Jon Beckwith at Harvard Medical School, where she studied the diversity of disulfide bond formation in bacterial species, and identified a new pathway for disulfide bond formation which uses a homolog of the blood coagulation pathway in humans. Rachel eceived the ASM's Raymond Sarber Award for my thesis research. She then took a position as a Bauer Fellow at Harvard University, where she...Read more
Lawrence is an Assistant Professor in Duke University’s Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Department of Medicine, and Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. From the fall of 2010 until 2013, he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University’s Society of Fellows. There, he worked with Peter Turnbaugh on the human microbiome.
He received his PhD in Computational & Systems Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010 (where he trained with Eric Alm), and he completed his undergraduate studies in Biomedical Engineering from...Read more
Dr. M. Carolina Florian holds a PhD from the University of Milano (Italy). She pursued postdoctoral training at the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Ulm University (Germany) from 2009 to 2015. In 2016, she was awarded an Emmy Noether Grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) dedicated to outstanding early-career researchers. This grant supported the establishment of her independent research team on Epigenetics of Stem Cell Aging. In 2018, she was appointed as group leader at CMRB (Spain).
Her research in the past 5 years strongly challenged the concept that aging is an...Read more
Fortran and Python are programming languages with substantially different histories, design principles, and target applications. Yet, they are often found (and used) together in the toolbox of a scientific software developer. In this talk, a high-level overview of these two languages and their...Read more
Marta Shahbazi will start as a junior group leader at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in February 2020, focusing on how epithelial tissue shape regulates stem cell identity during development and regeneration. Marta did her PhD at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) under the supervision of Mirna Perez-Moreno, working on the basic mechanisms that preserve the shape and integrity of epidermal stem cells. For her post-doctoral training she joined the laboratory of Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz at the University of Cambridge to study the morphogenesis of the embryo at the...Read more
Eri Hashino, Ph.D. is the Ruth C. Holton Professor and the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine. She also serves as the Founding Director of the 3D Stem Cell Biology Research Group. Dr. Hashino’s laboratory recently established a novel 3D stem cell culture system to recapitulate embryonic inner ear development in vitro from human pluripotent stem cells. Using this model system along with genome editing technology and single-cell genomics, she and her colleagues are studying how...Read more
I have the expertise, leadership, training and motivation necessary to successfully carry out the proposed research project. I have a broad background in physics, chemistry, molecular and cell biology. As a postdoctoral fellow and then a staff scientist in Japan (1994-2002), I expressed the first GFP and BFP variants and later DsRed in mammalian cells and transgenic Drosophila flies. As an assistant professor in Colorado (2002-2005), I developed a 3-chromophore Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) in mammalian cells, engineered photoactivatable PAmRFP1, and co-developed PSCFP...Read more
