The PMI invites distinguished scientists to give research lectures and to meet with interested Penn scientists. Our popular seminar series is attended by investigators from a broad constituency, and all members of the Penn Community are invited to attend. The 2018-19 PMI seminar series is chaired by E. Michael Ostap.
To inquire about inviting seminar speakers or meeting with visiting scientists, please contact Ms. Courtney Proctor .
September 2018
DATE
PLACE/TIME
EVENT DESCRIPTION
September 10
2018
CRB Austrian Aud
2:00 - 3:00
Peter Gunning, PhD - Head, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia. "Building anti-cancer therapy out of the basic science of the actin cytoskeleton"
September 17
2018
CRB Austrian Aud
2:00 - 3:00
Christopher M. Yengo, PhD - Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State College of Medicine."Structural Mechanisms of Allosteric Coupling in Myosin Motors"
October 2018
DATE
PLACE/TIME
EVENT DESCRIPTION
October 8
2018
CRB Austrian Aud
2:00 - 3:00
Jessica E. Wagenseil, PhD - Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. “Elastic fibers and arterial mechanics”
October 15
2018
CRB Austrian Aud
2:00 - 3:00
Stuart G. Campbell, PhD - Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Cellular and Molecular Physiology,Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. "Roles of Myofilament Proteins and Extracellular Matrix in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy"
October 22
2018
CRB Austrian Aud
2:00 - 3:00
October 29
2017
CRB Austrian Aud
2:00 - 3:00
Zev Bryant, PhD Associate Professor of Bioengineering & Structural Biology, Standord University "Engineering molecular motors"
November 2018
DATE
PLACE/TIME
EVENT DESCRIPTION
November 5
2018
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
Adam G. Hendricks, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, McGill University. "Traffic control in the cell: Tau and MAP7 direct transport by kinesin and dynein"
November 19
2018
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
Yi-Wei Chang, PhD - --> Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania. "Structural biology in vivo through electron cryo-tomography"
November 26
2018
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
Jennifer G. DeLuca, PhD - Monfort Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, College of Natural Sciences. "Making and breaking kinetochore-microtubule attachments in mitosis."
December 2018
DATE
PLACE/TIME
EVENT DESCRIPTION
December 3
2018
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
Gary J. Brouhard, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Quantitative Life Sciences, McGill University. “The Mechanistic Basis of Microtubule Growth”
December 5
2018
CRB Austrian Aud.
1:30 - 2:30
Thomas Arnesen, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Biomedicine & Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen. “Protein N-terminal acetylation machinery and impact: spotlight on actin”
January 2019
DATE
PLACE/TIME
EVENT DESCRIPTION
January 14
2019
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
Khalid Salaita, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Emory College of Arts and Sciences. "A measure of molecular muscle: Molecular force probes to study mechanobiology."
January 28
2019
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
Paul Samuel Maddox, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Epigenetic regulation of centromeres in early development: Fluorescence based technologies for long term, high spatio-temperal resolution."
February 2019
DATE
PLACE/TIME
EVENT DESCRIPTION
February 4
2019
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
Alexander E. Kelly, PhD - Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institure, Center for Cancer Research. “Chromosome Segregation: New Insights into Kinetochore Assembly and Regulation”
March 2019
DATE
PLACE/TIME
EVENT DESCRIPTION
March 11
2019
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
Stéphane Noselli, PhD - Director, Institut de Biologie Valrose, iBV, University Nice Sophia Antipolis. "The conserved Myosin1D controls multiscale chirality in Drosophila."
March 18
2019
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
March 25
2019
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
Kassandra Ori-McKenney, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, College of Biological Sciences. "Navigating the neuron: how microtubule-associated proteins direct motor transport."
April 2019
DATE
PLACE/TIME
EVENT DESCRIPTION
April 1
2019
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
Brenton D. Hoffman, PhD - Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University. "Assessing the Effects of Protein Load on Protein Function”
April 29
2019
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
Andrea Musacchio, PhD - Director, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund. "Eukaryotic cell division: a dissection”
May 2019
DATE
PLACE/TIME
EVENT DESCRIPTION
May 6
2019
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
Coming Soon!
May 13
2019
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
Coming Soon!
June 2019
DATE
PLACE/TIME
EVENT DESCRIPTION
June 3
2019
CRB Austrian Aud.
2:00 - 3:00
Andrew Goryachev - Professor of Computational Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh. "How to build a procentriole"
July 2019
August 2019
