John Lawrence Seminars
The lectures are supported by an endowment created by generous gifts from patients and family of John H. Lawrence, the “Father of Nuclear Medicine” (pictured in 1955) and brother of Nobel Laureate and Berkeley Lab founder Ernest O. Lawrence. Speakers represent a broad range of bioscience research and are nominated and hosted by Area scientists.
Archive of John Lawrence Seminars.
Seminar coordinator: Matisse Roach
| Logistics | Talk Title | Speaker | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 8, 4 PM [add to calendar] | Topics in Biological Engineering | Christopher Voigt, MIT | Héctor García Martín, BSE |
| October 15, 4 PM [add to calendar] | Managing Nitrogen for Food, Environment, and Climate | Baojing Gu, Zhejiang University | Yang Ha, MBIB |
| October 29, 2:30 PM [add to calendar] | How to Study Abundant ‘Microbial Dark Matter’: the Fervidibacter Sacchari Example | Brian Hedlund, University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Tanja Woyke, JGI |
| December 3, 4 PM [add to calendar] | Biophysics Inverted: From Function to Structure | Abhishek Singharoy, Arizona State University | Asmit Bhowmick, MBIB |
| December 17, 4 PM POSTPONED | Cultivating More than Crops in the “Salad Bowl of the World”: Addressing Emerging Plant Health Issues and Training the Next Generation of Scientists | Jose Pablo Dundore-Arias, California State University, Monterey Bay | Chris Mungall, EGSB |
| January 14, 4 PM [add to calendar] | New Opportunities to Study Protein Structure and Dynamics | Aina Cohen, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | Susan Tsutakawa, MBIB |
| January 28, 4 PM [add to calendar] | Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology fora Sustainable Future | Hal Alper, University of Texas at Austin | Nathan Hillson, BSE |
Biosciences Understanding Science Seminars (BUSS)
Scientific breakthroughs can’t happen without both scientists and those in STEM supporting roles. Learning about the science we in the Biosciences Area all help to advance—as well as its societal impacts—can be energizing and fulfilling and lead to greater investment and satisfaction in the work that we do. In this quarterly series, Area researchers talk about their professional journeys and current scientific topics of interest in general terms.
Seminar coordinator: Nikki Humphreys
| Logistics | Speaker |
|---|---|
| March 30, 1:15 PM [add to calendar] | Paul Adams, Associate Laboratory Director for Biosciences |
| June 2, 1:15 PM, B91-310 + virtual [add to calendar] | Kjiersten Fagnan, Chief Informatics Officer, Joint Genome Institute |
| August 31, 3:40 PM, Residence Inn by Marriott Berkeley + virtual | Jay Keasling, Chief Executive Officer, Joint BioEnergy Institute |
| September 25 | Lauren Lui, Research Scientist, Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division |
Scientists on Health Seminars
This is a seminar series for everyone! The invited speakers are scientists who study various facets of health; they will talk about the most interesting aspects of their field and their research in a way that is accessible to non-scientists. Talks will be 25–30 minutes long to allow more time for questions. The seminars will be held in person and livestreamed online.
Seminar coordinator: Suzanne Baker
| Logistics | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| October 10, 2023 12 PM, B91-310 + virtual [add to calendar] | Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Brain Health [watch video] | Suzanne Baker, MBIB |
| November 28, 2023 12 PM, B91-310 + virtual [add to calendar] | The FLASH Effect: A New Radiation Therapy for Cancer | Corie Ralston, Molecular Foundry |
| January 31, 2024 12 PM, B91-310 + virtual [add to calendar] | Thirdhand Smoke [watch video] | Antoine Snijders, BSE |
| April 17, 2024 12 PM, B91-424 + virtual [add to calendar] | Radioimmunotherapy: Engineering the Precise Delivery of Radioactive Toxicity to Disease Sites [watch video] | Rebecca Abergel, Chemical Sciences |
| May 20, 2024 12 PM, B91-424 + virtual [add to calendar] | Huntington’s: The Complexity of Trying to Understand an Already Defined Genetic Disease [watch video] | Aris Polyzos, MBIB |
| October 23, 2024 12 PM, B91-424 + virtual [add to calendar] | Agnostic Diagnostics—How Can We Prepare for Something That We Do Not Know About or Doesn’t yet Exist? [watch video] | Harshini Mukundan, ONHS |
| November 19, 2024 12 PM, virtual only [add to calendar] | Traumatic Brain Injury [watch video] | Kristofer Bouchard, Computing Sciences/BSE |
