The weekly John Lawrence Seminars in Biosciences take place on Tuesdays, from 4 to 5 PM in several Berkeley Lab locations, depending on the seminar topic; exceptions to day and time may occur. The lectures are supported by an endowment created by generous gifts from patients and family of John H. Lawrence, M.D., D.Sc., F.A.C.P, the Father of Nuclear Medicine (pictured in 1955) and brother of Nobel Laureate Ernest O. Lawrence. Learn more about John H. Lawrence.
The series is currently not open to the public but offered to Biosciences researchers, their Lab colleagues, and guests. Our speakers represent a broad range of biosciences research areas and are nominated and hosted by researchers of the three divisions and user facility in the Biosciences Area. Please contact our seminar coordinator for further details and confirmation, as needed.
Archive of John Lawrence Seminars
Spring 2021 Seminars
| Date & Location | Speaker | Seminar Title |
Affiliation | Host & Division |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 4PM (PST) | Tanya Paull | DNA End Processing During Double-Strand Break Repair | University of Texas at Austin | Priscilla Cooper, BSE |
| Mar 9, 4PM (PST) | Katie Pollard | Tracking Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Microbiomes with Genetic Variants | UC San Francisco | Ben Brown, EGSB |
| Mar 16, 4PM (PST) | Zakee Sabree | Modeling How Gut Microbes are Integral to Normal Host Growth and Development | Ohio State University | Susannah Tringe, EGSB |
| Mar 23, 4PM (PST) | Christine Kirmaier | Switching Sides: Re-Engineering Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Centers | Washington University St. Louis | Jan Kern, MBIB |
| Mar 30, 11AM (PST) | Joanne Chory | Fighting Climate Change with Plants: It takes a Global Village to Solve a Global Problem | Salk Institute | Ben Cole, EGSB |
| Apr 6, 11AM (PST) | Marnix Medema | Computational Omics of Plant and Microbial Biosynthetic Diversity: From Natural Product Discovery to Microbiome Ecology | University of Wageningen | Nigel Mouncey, EGSB |
| Apr 13, 11AM (PST) | Richard Neutze | Time-resolved Diffraction Experiments at an X-ray Free Electron Laser Reveal Ultrafast Structural Changes Within a Photosynthetic Reaction Center | University of Gothenburg | Junko Yano, MBIB |
| Apr 20, 4PM (PST) | Jan Leach | Interactions in the Phytobiome: Understanding the System to Manage Plant Health | Colorado State University | Susannah Tringe, EGSB |
| Apr 27, 11AM (PST) | Thomas Bell | Cancelled | Imperial College London | Trent Northen, EGSB |
| May 4, 4PM (PST) | Maria Harrison | Development and Function of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis | Cornell University | Henrik Scheller, EGSB |
| May 11, 4PM (PST) | Joshua Dunn | Biology by Design [watch recording] | Ginkgo Bioworks | Hector Garcia Martin, BSE |
| May 18, 10AM (PST) | Marie-Catherine Vozenin | From Irradiation at Ultra-high Dose Rate to FLASH Radiotherapy: Experimental, Conceptual, and Clinical Challenges | University of Lausanne | Eleanor Blakely, BSE |
| May 25, 4PM (PST) | Michael Fischbach | Cancelled | Stanford University | Dylan Chivian, EGSB |
| Jun 1, 4PM (PST) | Liz Kellogg | Cancelled | Cornell University | Greg Hura, MBIB |
| Jun 8, 11AM (PST) | Michael Brockhurst | The Ecology and Evolution of Pangenomes [watch recording] | University of Manchester | Vivek Mutalik, EGSB |
| Jun 15, 4PM (PST) | Markus Covert | Simultaneous Cross-Evaluation of Heterogeneous E. Coli Datasets via Mechanistic Simulation | Stanford University | Hector Garcia Martin, BSE |
| Jun 22, 11AM (PST) | Alexander Sommer | Cancelled | Technical University of Denmark | Deepti Tanjore, BSE |
| Jun 29, 4PM (PST) | Michael Wall | Protein Simulations and Diffraction Data for Biosciences | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Paul Adams, MBIB |
