Supported by an endowment created through generous gifts from patients and family of John H. Lawrence, the “Father of Nuclear Medicine” and brother of Berkeley Lab founder Ernest O. Lawrence. Speakers represent a broad range of bioscience research and are nominated and hosted by Area scientists.
LogisticsTalk TitleSpeakerHost
October 8, 4 PM [add to calendar]Topics in Biological EngineeringChristopher Voigt, MITHéctor García Martín, BSE
October 15, 4 PM [add to calendar]Managing Nitrogen for Food, Environment, and ClimateBaojing Gu, Zhejiang UniversityYang Ha, MBIB
October 29, 2:30 PM [add to calendar]How to Study Abundant ‘Microbial Dark Matter’: the Fervidibacter Sacchari ExampleBrian Hedlund, University of Nevada, Las VegasTanja Woyke, JGI
December 3, 4 PM [add to calendar]Biophysics Inverted: From Function to StructureAbhishek Singharoy, Arizona State UniversityAsmit 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 ScientistsJose Pablo Dundore-Arias, California State University, Monterey BayChris Mungall, EGSB
January 14, 4 PM [add to calendar]New Opportunities to Study Protein Structure and DynamicsAina Cohen, SLAC National Accelerator LaboratorySusan Tsutakawa, MBIB
January 28, 4 PM POSTPONEDMetabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology fora Sustainable Future
Hal Alper, University of Texas at Austin		Nathan Hillson, BSE
February 5, 4 PM [add to calendar]What Is ‘Relative Scarcity’ and How Might It Guide How We Treat Dormant Cancers?Cyrus Ghajar, Fred Hutchinson Cancer CenterJaime Inman, BSE
February 25, 4 PM [add to calendar]Membrane Inlet Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry: A Unique Tool for Studying Gas Conversion Reactions in Biological and Artificial SystemsJohannes Messinger, Uppsala UniversityJunko Yano, MBIB
March 4, 4 PM [add to calendar]Unveiling RNA Nanoparticle Dynamics: SAXS-driven Insights from the LIX 16ID Beamline at NSLS-IIJames Byrnes, Brookhaven National LaboratorySusan Tsutakawa, MBIB
March 11, 4 PM [add to calendar]Microbial Cell Systems for Sustainable LivingSteven Hallam, University of British ColumbiaSusannah Tringe, EGSB
March 18, 4 PM [add to calendar]Molecular Transformations in Non-enveloped Virus EntryStephen Harrison, Harvard Medical SchoolGokul Upadhyayula, MBIB
March 28, 1 PM [add to calendar]As Easy as Browsing a Webpage: Molecular Web Tools for Molecular Graphics and Modeling in Web-based Augmented and Virtual RealityLuciano Andres Abriata, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneGokul Upadhyayula, MBIB
April 8, 4 PM [add to calendar]
AI and LLMs for Accelerating Scientific Discovery: From PubMed to GeneAgentZhiyong Lu, National Institutes of HealthZhong Wang, EGSB
April 15, 2 PM [add to calendar]Reproducible, Trustworthy Research and Threats to the Biomedical LiteratureJohn Ioannidis, Stanford UniversityNikos Kyrpides, EGSB
April 29, 4 PM [add to calendar]Gene-edited Soil Microbes Can Partially Replace Nitrogen Fertilizer for Non-legumesKirsten Benjamin, Pivot BioDeepti Tanjore, BSE
May 20, 4 PM [add to calendar]Autonomous Chemical Research with Large Language ModelsGabe Gomes, Carnegie Mellon UniversityHéctor García Martín, BSE
June 10, 4 PM [add to calendar]Optogenetic Control of Gene Expression Dynamicsin Single CellsMary Dunlop, Boston UniversityJian-Hua Mao, BSE