Hunter College of the City University of New York
Department of Biological Sciences
Spring 2016 Inga Richter Seminar Series
Refreshments will be served at 11:45AM
All seminars are held on Mondays in Room HN-926C (69th Street bet. Park & Lexington) at 12:00 pm
In memory of former graduate student Inga R. Richter. Inga was dedicated to her students
and profession. She believed that her teaching responsibilities did not end in the classroom;
they ended when her students understood.
Feb 1
Feb 8
Feb 22
Feb 29
Mar 7
Mar 14
Mar 21
Mar 28
Apr 4
Apr 11
Apr 18
May 2
May 9
May 16
Dr. Lisa Dailey
Host: Jayne Raper
NYU School of Medicine
FIREWACH: A Functional approach for elucidating transcriptional regulatory elements
within mammalian genomes
Dr. Mark Emerson
Host: Ben Ortiz
CUNY City College
Illuminating the developmental origins of neuronal diversity through cis-regulatory analysis
Dr. Tai-De Li
Host: Carmen Melendez-Vasquez
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
Force feedback controls motor activity and mechanical properties of self-assembling
branched actin networks
Dr. Gabriela Chiosis
Host: Maria Figueiredo-Pereira
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Targeting the stress chaperome in disease diagnosis and treatment
Dr. Danae Schutz
Host: Jayne Raper
Rockefeller University
Epigenetic mechanisms that regulate lifecycle transitions in the African Trypanosome
Dr. Rosemary Bagot
Host: Allyson Friedman
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Glutamatergic Circuits In Stress Susceptibiility: Pathway Specificity And
Transcriptionalmechanisms
Dr. Jane Skok
Host: Hunter Biol. Graduate
NYU School of Medicine
Students Club
Gene interactions: a mechanism for regulating recombination and developmental
processes in lymphocytes
Dr. Jessica M. Rothman
Host: Shirley Raps
CUNY Hunter College
TBA
Dr. Mary Baylies
Host: Diana Bratu
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
TBA
Dr. Jayeeta Basu
Host: Katya Likhtik
NYU Neuroscience Institute
TBA
Dr. Georgia Hodes
Host: Allyson Friedman
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Depression and immune response
Dr. Julia Cooper
Host: Diego Loayza
Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute
Centromeres impersonating telomeres, and other forms of deception at the chromosome
end
Dr. Rony Paz
Host: Katya Likhtik
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Generalization and Extinction of aversive learning: neural mechanisms and
psychopathology
Dr. Diana K. Morales
Host: Jayne Raper
Weill Cornell Medicine
Invasion is sweet: New Metabolic Pathways Controlling Enterococcal Pathogenesis