Upcoming Events

All are invited to attend the Dissertation Defense:

Women’s Experiences of Disability and Community-based Rehabilitation in Sri Lanka

Presented by Carmen Britton, M.S.

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Advising Team: Major Advisor- Laura Mauldin, Ph.D.; Associate Advisor- Edna Brown, Ph.D.; Associate Advisor- Kathryn Libal, Ph.D.

Women's Experiences of Disability and Community-based Rehabilitation in Sri Lanka

Human Development and Family Sciences

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This History Department Wednesday Workshop features Professor Jonathan Michaels, Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Connecticut.

Professor Michaels' lecture is titled “The Liberal Dilemma: The Pragmatic Tradition in the Age of McCarthyism”.

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Chemistry Colloquium "Integrating Graduate Student Leadership Into Academic Research Safety: Introducing the Research Safety Student Initiative at Northwestern"

Micahel Blayney, Northwestern University
Host: Jessica Martin, Joint Safety Team

Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm. All are welcome.

Dr. Wu-Min Deng,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
Tulane University,
New Orleans, LA

Talk Title: "Tumor initiation and progression in a Drosophila model"

Host: Dr. Jianjun Sun

Title: "You can't just buy the birth that you want": Human and consumer rights discourse in the Indian birth community given by Sara Ailshire Ph.D. Candidate, University of Connecticut

Chemistry Colloquium "Tailoring Enzyme Responsive Nanomaterials for Controlled Degradation and Cargo Release in Biological Systems"

Josh Santiana, Rouge Group, University of Connecticut

Refreshments will be served at 3:15pm. All are welcome.

This talk has been canceled and will be rescheduled for Fall 2020 semester if possible.

The evolution and development of leaves

Join us for an open classroom discussion of "Shattered: the Asian American Comics Anthology"

Sponsored by the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute

Colloquium with Dr. Salil Benegal, DePauw University

Sponsored by the Political Economy Workshop and the Department of Political Science

Title: The Prize and Price of New Contexts: Data collecting to overcome research bias in I-O.
This presentation discusses research based on data collected in non-industrialized countries, in non-profit and in non-office environments. It highlights the intrinsic problems of such data collection efforts and the occasional rewards that should make it worthwhile.
"Alex de Voogt is an Associate Professor at Drew University. He is a former curator of African Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Alex does research mainly in Organizational Psychology, Archaeology and Linguistics" (https://www.drew.edu/business-economics-department/about-us/business-faculty/)

Narrating Complexity in Latin America: Jorge Volpi, Roberto Bolaño, Valeria Luiselli, and Daniel Alarcón

Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages
Spanish Studies

This Dissertation Defense will be held remotely via Zoom,
Meeting ID 244 313 666
https://zoom.us/j/244313666

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Asian American Activism event featuring Douglas Ishii, Assistant Professor of English at Emerson College

Please join us for the opening reception for the art exhibition, “Memento: Textile and Paper Works by Jeanne Ciravolo” at the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, UCONN Avery Point: April 3, 5:00-7:00pm.

“Memento: Textile and Paper Works by Jeanne Ciravolo”
Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, Branford House 2nd floor
1084 Shennecosset Road, Groton, CT 06340
On view April 3, 2020--May 17, 2020, Thursday-Sunday, 12:00-4:00pm
Free and open to the public.
Opening reception: April 3, 5:00-7:00pm
Artist’s talk, “Visualizing Female Narratives” and evening exhibition viewing: April 22, 6:00-7:30pm

Teacher-as-Writer Workshops are monthly gatherings for Teacher Consultants and other Connecticut teachers who wish to share and receive feedback on their writing. We also hold writing retreats in the fall and the spring.

In this dissertation I explore the convergence of epistemologies of healing between traditional Amazonian medicine and biomedical-oriented therapies, particularly from psy-disciplines. Based on 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, I focus in on the practice of vegetalista shamanism, which opens up a space of intensified intercultural and notably asymmetrical exchanges of knowledge. I bring attention to the ethical, sensory, and therapeutic ruptures and continuities that inform ritual healing in the Amazon and beyond. The Amazon region of Peru is increasingly a site where people seek vegetalista shamans for mental health care, emotional wellness, and spiritual development. Vegetalista shamanism is a rapidly expanding and changing practice of traditional Amazonian medicine, in which the psychoactive tea called ayahuasca has taken a central role. Local shamans, neo-shamans, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists are among the multiple kinds of practitioners who advocate the therapeutic potential of ayahuasca for mental and physical wellness. Heightened academic, medical, and legal attention to uses of ayahuasca have recently spilled into mainstream media sources, spurring even greater interest in ayahuasca as a novel, exoticized medicine and spiritual guide. The growth of foreign interest in alternative health care in the Amazon manifests as an expanding transnational movement of plant medicines, shamanic practitioners, and ayahuasca-related therapies. Along with this movement of plants and people there are notable transformations in the way ayahuasca shamanism is practiced and who are its practitioners. Key components of local and global transformations include the proliferation of ayahuasca retreat centers, the development of ayahuasca-related psychotherapies, and the kinds of practitioners who have a stake in ayahuasca-related healing.

Ayahuasca Therapies: The Making and Remaking of Traditional Healing in Global Context

Colloquium: Darian Spearman (UConn PhD). Sponsored by the Political Theory Workshop.

Do you want to speak with people in Hebrew? After this six-session crash course in Hebrew conversation, you’ll be able to make small talk, ask directions, order things in a restaurant, go shopping, and even talk a little about current events—all in Hebrew. The course focuses on functional spoken Hebrew you can use right away in daily interactions. There will be a few short easy readings, role play, listening practice, and in-class conversations. If you want to practice and learn some spoken Hebrew, join us on six Monday evenings this spring. Lehitraot—see you soon!!

This spring, at UConn Stamford, Dr. Liora Brosh will teach a "crash course" in conversational Modern Hebrew. Professor Brosh, a native speaker, holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Hebrew University, Israel.

This free, non-credit course is open to all faculty, staff, students, and members of the external community. Please share this information with anyone you think might wish to join us. There is no need to register in advance and no texts are required for purchase. No prior knowledge of the language is expected.

Besides the inherent value of learning foreign languages in our global world, Modern Hebrew is of interest beyond Judaica. It is relevant for those studying the Middle East as well as individuals working in business and STEM, given Israeli prominence in those fields.

All sessions will be held in Room 313, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. We will meet on Mondays from 6:30-8:00 p.m.: February 10, February 24, March 9, March 23, April 6, April 20. In the case of weather cancellations, we will reschedule any missed class(es).

Join us!

Come learn more about the MPA/MPP Fast Track program and how it fits with the POLS major!

MCB Tuesday Seminar Series: Dr. Anne E. Carpenter
Please join us for the Molecular and Cell Biology Tuesday Seminar Series 4/7: Dr. Anne. E. Carpenter, Ph.D. Senior Director, Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, 4/7/2020, BPB 131, Refreshments 3:15, Seminar 3:30
Hosted by GO:MCB
“Accelerating Drug Discovery Through the Power of Microscopy Images”
Summary: Quantifying images is critical to advancing drug discovery and basic biological research, so our team works with scientists worldwide to extract metrics from cell images, particularly in high-throughput screening experiments testing drugs in disease model systems.
We also go beyond measuring individual cell phenotypes through image-based profiling: by comparing similarities across thousands of extracted morphological features, we can identify how diseases, drugs, and genes affect cells, and potentially identify novel therapeutics.

Dr. Carpenter is an Institute Scientist and Merkin Institute Fellow at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Her research group develops algorithms and data analysis methods for large-scale experiments involving images. The team’s open-source CellProfiler software is used by thousands of biologists worldwide (http://www.cellprofiler.org). Carpenter is a pioneer in image-based profiling, the extraction of rich, unbiased information from images for a number of important applications in drug discovery and functional genomics.
Carpenter focused on high-throughput image analysis during her postdoctoral fellowship at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and MIT’s CSAIL (Computer Sciences/Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). Her PhD is in cell biology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Carpenter has been named an NSF CAREER awardee, an NIH MIRA awardee, a Massachusetts Academy of Sciences fellow (its youngest at the time), and a Genome Technology “Rising Young Investigator”.

To learn more about Dr. Carpenter's research, visit https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5386591/

and her website at https://personal.broadinstitute.org/anne/index.html

AsACC opens April's Asian American Heritage Observance with well known baker JASMINE CHO.

Jasmine M. Cho is the Founder of Yummyholic, an online bakery specializing in adorably delicious small treats, but she considers herself a baker turned artist turned cookie activist. In 2016, she began to create portrait cookies as a way of uncovering and sharing the hidden histories of underrepresented and marginalized communities. Her cookie activism has since been featured internationally on various media outlets that include NPR, HuffPost, CBS This Morning, and The Korea Daily. Jasmine also had the opportunity to give a TEDx talk on her work which immediately went viral and has since reached over 47K views.

Jasmine expanded her edible artwork to traditional fine art while pursuing art therapy studies in college. In 2019, she wrote, illustrated, and published the children’s book Role Models Who Look Like Me: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Made History. She is also a contributing artist for an aluminum and glass panel mural that surrounds the top floor of the University Commons Building on Carlow University’s campus in Pittsburgh, PA.

While managing the stressors of owning a small business, Jasmine became more aware of the therapeutic impacts of baking. Believing that mental health services should be as diverse as the communities they serve, she is now exploring the frontiers of research-based bake therapy with hopes to make the kitchen a more accessible and empowering space for creativity and healing for all people.

Jasmine has received numerous accolades including CREATOR of the Year by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, the Small Business Community Champion Award by Citizens Bank, and was also awarded a Mayor’s Proclamation declaring Jan. 28th, 2020 as “Jasmine Cho Day” in the City of Pittsburgh. She is also a Food Network Champion, taking the win on Season 3, Episode 8 of the show, Christmas Cookie Challenge.

Jasmine was born in Los Angeles, California to parents who immigrated from South Korea. Her lived experience as someone who identifies as an Asian American woman has been uniquely shaped by her time living throughout the country from New Mexico to Hawaii before settling in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In addition to her passions in baking and social justice, Jasmine holds a 3rd Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and loves to indulge in martial arts films and Korean variety shows.

This event is sponsored by the Asian American Cultural Center, Dining Services, and the Resident Hall Association and is free and open to the public.

All are invited to attend the Master's Thesis Defense

New Childhood Chronic Illness: PANS/PANDAS and the Impact on Family Functioning

Presented by Jamie L. Dolce

To attend defense remotely….

Wednesday, Apr 8, 2020 11:30 am | 1 hour 30 minutes | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Advising Team: Major Advisor- Maria LaRusso, Ed.D.; Associate Advisor- Caitlin Lombardi, Ph.D.; Associate Advisor- Laura Mauldin, Ph.D.

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Chemistry Colloquium "TBA"

Michael Wasielewski, Northwestern University
Host: Tomo Mani

Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm. All are welcome.

Final Meeting of a 4 Part Book Discussion Series

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. Participants will discuss the ideas presented in the book, reflect on how white people can build capacity on race, and begin to develop skills engage more constructively in the on-going work towards racial justice.

Free copies of the book will be available for the first 20 registrants for this 4 part series.

Registration can be found at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WhiteFragilitySeries

Feel free to bring your lunch!

Chemistry Colloquium "Design Synthesis and Characterization of Core-Polyethylene-glycol-Lipid Shell Nanoparticles (CPLS NPs) for Cellular Entry and Cargo Delivery"

David Loe, Rouge Group, University of Connecticut

Refreshments will be served at 3:15pm. All are welcome.

CWP Leadership Council meets to discuss upcoming events and address housekeeping concerns.

The Aetna Celebration of Creative Nonfiction with Stephen Kuusisto. April 9th at the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center. 6:00 pm reading. Readings are free and open to the public.

Stephen Kuusisto directs The Burton Blatt Institute’s Interdisciplinary Programs in disability studies at Syracuse University where he holds a University Professorship. He is the author of the memoirs Planet of the Blind (1997), which was a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year,” Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening (2006), Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey (2018), and of the poetry collections Only Bread, Only Light (2000) and Letters to Borges (2013). A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a Fulbright Scholar, he has taught at the University of Iowa, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, and The Ohio State University. His daily blog “Planet of the Blind” is read globally by people interested in disability and contemporary culture.

Victoria Almodovar virtual MA defense with Samuel Martinez & Anne Gebelein.

"Be Wholly Out of Body": Astonishment in Late Medieval English Literature

** CANCELED (COVID-19) **

Join us for a talk by Tyler Markkanen in the Logic Colloquium.

Tyler Markkanen (Springfield College)

Details t.b.a.

https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/

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Come, listen, and talk with fellow graduate students of the History Graduate Student Association (HiGSA) about: Conferences

Topics will include presenting techniques, writing and editing conference papers, attending conferences, and past 5102 experiences - plus, free dinner!

** Please RSVP to David Evans, david.l.evans@uconn.edu **

MCB Seminar Series:

Dr. Mark Silby, Associate Professor, Biology, UMass Dartmouth

Hosted by Nichole Broderick

Colloquium: Dr. David Patrick Houghton (Naval War College)

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Chemistry Colloquium "Making, Breaking, and Elucidating Uranium-Nitrogen Multiple Bonds"

Suzanne Bart, Purdue University
Host: Gaël Ung

Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm. All are welcome.

An evening of empowerment and healing for survivors of sexual violence. Join in our solidarity march and speak-out, followed by a late night coffee house.

Title: Statelessness in the United States: A Multi-Sited or Site-less Ethnography given by Ashley Walters Ph.D. Candidate. University of Connecticut

Sponsored by the CLAS Dean's Office, Publishing NOW is a series of talks and conversations with editors from across the field of publishing. Learn how to pitch your ideas, get your book or article out, publicize yourself and your work, and adjust to the changing landscape of publishing.

"Richard H. Fortinsky is Professor of Medicine at the Center on Aging and Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center School of Medicine, where he holds the Health Net, Inc. Endowed Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology. Dr. Fortinsky conducts clinical, behavioral science, and health services research with the major goal of improving health status and health care delivery systems for older adults and their families. His major areas of investigation are: physician and family care for persons with dementia living at home; health-related outcomes and resource use among older adults receiving home health care; evidence-based community interventions to help prevent falls in the older population; and transportation alternatives for older adults who have stopped or curtailed driving. Dr. Fortinsky received a 2006-2007 Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award to lecture and conduct research at the School of Health Studies, University of Bradford, England, on comparisons between the United States and the United Kingdom in the response of primary care practitioners to persons and families affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia. Dr. Fortinsky received his doctoral degree in Sociology in 1984 from Brown University, specializing in medical sociology and gerontology." (https://chip.uconn.edu/person/richard-fortinsky-phd/)

** Canceled (COVID-19) **

Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by Florian Steinberger (Birkbeck College, University of London).

All welcome.

https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/

UConn Mathematics Distinguished Lecture

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This orientation is the kickoff event for the Spring 2020 CLAS Case Competition! At this event, all participating student teams will receive their case, designed by representatives from a corporate sponsor, and have an opportunity to ask any initial questions they have.

TBA

Physics Colloquium (Profs. Jason Hancock and Diego Valente)

Studio physics intro and discussion

After a morning Encounters program & lunch discussing The Census (10 am-12 pm, with lunch provided 12-1 pm), join us for a free training on how to moderate and facilitate an Encounters program.

Encounters is a structured model that allows participants to come face-to-face and converse about the issues that matter in their community. Encounters dives deeply into these subjects through facilitated, small-group dialogues followed by a 'question and answer'-style conversation with content-area specialists. Readings are provided beforehand to better encourage informed and informal dialogue.

RSVP to jeagosto@hplct.org

Do you want to speak with people in Hebrew? After this six-session crash course in Hebrew conversation, you’ll be able to make small talk, ask directions, order things in a restaurant, go shopping, and even talk a little about current events—all in Hebrew. The course focuses on functional spoken Hebrew you can use right away in daily interactions. There will be a few short easy readings, role play, listening practice, and in-class conversations. If you want to practice and learn some spoken Hebrew, join us on six Monday evenings this spring. Lehitraot—see you soon!!

This spring, at UConn Stamford, Dr. Liora Brosh will teach a "crash course" in conversational Modern Hebrew. Professor Brosh, a native speaker, holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Hebrew University, Israel.

This free, non-credit course is open to all faculty, staff, students, and members of the external community. Please share this information with anyone you think might wish to join us. There is no need to register in advance and no texts are required for purchase. No prior knowledge of the language is expected.

Besides the inherent value of learning foreign languages in our global world, Modern Hebrew is of interest beyond Judaica. It is relevant for those studying the Middle East as well as individuals working in business and STEM, given Israeli prominence in those fields.

All sessions will be held in Room 313, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. We will meet on Mondays from 6:30-8:00 p.m.: February 10, February 24, March 9, March 23, April 6, April 20. In the case of weather cancellations, we will reschedule any missed class(es).

Join us!

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Chemistry Colloquium "From Impurity to Functionality — Doping in Semiconductor Nanocrystals"

Weiwei Zheng, Syracuse University
Host: Jie He

Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm. All are welcome.

Virtual MA defense with Michele Back, Daisy Reyes, and Jason Irizarry.

Please join us for an artist's talk by Jeanne Ciravolo entitled,"Visualizing Female Narratives." Exhibition viewing of "Memento: Textile and Paper Works by Jeanne Ciravolo" to follow. April 22, 6:00-7:30pm.

“Memento: Textile and Paper Works by Jeanne Ciravolo”
Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, Branford House 2nd floor
1084 Shennecosset Road, Groton, CT 06340
On view April 3, 2020--May 17, 2020, Thursday-Sunday, 12:00-4:00pm
Free and open to the public.
Opening reception: April 3, 5:00-7:00pm
Artist’s talk by Jeanne Ciravolo, “Visualizing Female Narratives” and evening exhibition viewing: April 22, 6:00-7:30pm

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Chemistry Colloquium "Potential Safety Threats in an Academic Scientific Setting"

Daniel Coleman, FBI
Host: Jing Zhao, Safety Committee

Refreshments will be served at 3:15pm. All are welcome.

This talk has been canceled and will be rescheduled for Fall 2020 semester if possible.

Global change and western butterflies

THE 2020 JEWISH PLAYWRITING CONTEST: ROLLING, ROLLING, ROLLING!!

The Jewish Plays Project puts bold, progressive Jewish conversations on world stages. The JPP’s innovative and competitive development vehicle invests emerging artists in their Jewish identity; engages Jewish communities in the vetting, selecting and championing of new voices; and secures mainstream production opportunities for the best new plays.

Deadlines and Dates 2020:
Plays Read and Evaluations Submitted: Monday, February 24, 2020
Selection Meeting: Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 7 pm
Hartford Jewish Playwriting Contest at Charter Oak Cultural Center: Thursday, April 23, 2020, 7 pm

Mark your calendars now!

Be part of the international search for the best unpublished Jewish plays by attending "The Jewish Play Writing Contest: Hartford" on Thursday, April 23 at 7:00 pm at Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford. During this free program, you'll enjoy selections from this year's top three plays and use your cell phone to vote for the winner. This program is produced in collaboration with the UConn Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life.

COVID-19 related, Professor Meadows's talk will be rescheduled for the Fall.

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Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by Toby Meadows (UC Irvine), this years visitor in the UConn Logic Group – C-ALPHA faculty exchange.

https://logic.uconn.edu/affiliations/

Details t.b.a.

All welcome!

https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/

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Each year, a reading and writing contest known as Letters About Literature is held nation-wide for students in grades 4-12. The contest, previously sponsored by Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, is now hosted by individual states.

Students are asked to read a book, poem, or speech and write a letter to that author (living or dead) about how the text affected them personally. Letters are judged on the state level. Tens of thousands of students from across the country enter Letters About Literature each year.

The topic of this year’s conference will be Identity.

This notion has preoccupied philosophers from antiquity until today. This preoccupation has manifested itself in many ways, through problems that span across most areas of contemporary philosophy. Metaphysicians wonder about diachronic personal identity or composition as identity, philosophers of mind have in the past proposed the mind/brain identity theory, while philosophers of mathematics and logicians have been concerned with the logical relation of identity, or identity among different mathematical structures, or the metaphysical identity of numbers. Socially inclined philosophers have sought to account for minoritarian identities in philosophical discourse, and how self- and community-identity is affected or determined by factors such as gender and race. Philosophers of language have grappled with the identity of co-referring terms and the resulting Frege Puzzle, or vague identity.

The Philosophy Graduate Student Association of University of Connecticut at Storrs is very pleased to organize a conference in spring 2020 in order to discuss the many and often problematic faces of identity. We invite submissions on any of the philosophical areas mentioned, but also on topics that come from any other area as long as they are pertinent to the theme of identity, broadly construed.

We are very excited and honored to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Richard Kimberly Heck from Brown University. Prof. Heck will talk on issues of gender and sexuality.

For more information please visit https://philevents.org/event/show/79658.

The Aetna Celebration of Student Writing (ACSW) is an annual UConn event held by the Aetna Chair of Writing to showcase student writing work and writing-related research. Students present their writing work completed in writing-intensive UConn courses (First-Year Writing, “W” courses) and/or research on the subject of writing, rhetoric, or a related topic. Individual and group projects are accepted.

The submission deadline to present at the ACSW Poster Fair is April 1, 2020. Visit http://bit.ly/submit2acsw or http://writing.uconn.edu for more details.

The Aetna Celebration of Student Writing (ACSW) is an annual UConn event held by the Aetna Chair of Writing to showcase student writing work and writing-related research. Students present their writing work completed in writing-intensive UConn courses (First-Year Writing, “W” courses) and/or research on the subject of writing, rhetoric, or a related topic. Individual and group projects are accepted.

The submission deadline to present at the ACSW Poster Fair is April 1, 2020. Visit http://bit.ly/submit2acsw or http://writing.uconn.edu for more details.

MCB Seminar Series

Dr. Harry Higgs, Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Dartmouth

“Multiple modes of interaction between mitochondria and the actin cytoskeleton”
Summary: Mitochondria are dynamic organelles, dividing and re-fusing as part of homeostatic mechanisms such as mitophagy to maintain a healthy mitochondrial pool. We find that actin polymerization plays at least two distinct roles in mitochondrial dynamics, one in response to elevated cytosolic calcium, and the other in response to mitochondrial depolarization.
View abstract at https://mcb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2341/2020/02/2019-JCS-TS-depol-actin-clouds.pdf
Dr. Higgs website at http://dms.dartmouth.edu/higgs/

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Chemistry Colloquium "Lanthanide Complexes with Dual Activity and Unusual Coordination Chemistry"

Ana de Bettencourt-Dias, University of Nevada-Reno
Host: Gaël Ung

Refreshments will be served at 2:15pm. All are welcome.