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), via Zoom | Tanya Paull | DNA End Processing During Double-Strand Break Repair [Abstract] | University of Texas at Austin | Priscilla Cooper, BSE |
| Mar 9, 4PM (PST), via Zoom | Katie Pollard | Tracking Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Microbiomes with Genetic Variants [Abstract] | UC San Francisco | Ben Brown, EGSB |
| Mar 16, 4PM (PST), via Zoom | Zakee Sabree | Modeling How Gut Microbes are Integral to Normal Host Growth and Development [Abstract] | Ohio State University | Susannah Tringe, EGSB |
| Mar 23, 4PM (PST), via Zoom | Christine Kirmaier | Switching Sides: Re-Engineering Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Centers [Abstract] | Washington University St. Louis | Jan Kern, MBIB |
| Mar 30, 11AM (PST), via Zoom | Joanne Chory | Fighting Climate Change with Plants: It takes a Global Village to Solve a Global Problem [Abstract] | Salk Institute | Ben Cole, EGSB |
| Apr 6, 11AM (PST), via Zoom | Marnix Medema | Computational Omics of Plant and Microbial Biosynthetic Diversity: From Natural Product Discovery to Microbiome Ecology [Abstract] | University of Wageningen | Nigel Mouncey, EGSB |
| Apr 13, 11AM (PST), via Zoom | Richard Neutze | Time-resolved Diffraction Experiments at an X-ray Free Electron Laser Reveal Ultrafast Structural Changes Within a Photosynthetic Reaction Center [Abstract] | University of Gothenburg | Junko Yano, MBIB |
| Apr 20, 4PM (PST), via Zoom | Jan Leach | Interactions in the Phytobiome: Understanding the System to Manage Plant Health [Abstract] | Colorado State University | Susannah Tringe, EGSB |
| Apr 27, 11AM (PST), via Zoom | Thomas Bell | Cancelled | Imperial College London | Trent Northen, EGSB |
| May 4, 4PM (PST), via Zoom | Maria Harrison | TBD | Cornell University | Henrik Scheller, EGSB |
| May 11, 4PM (PST), via Zoom | Joshua Dunn | Biology by Design [Abstract] | Ginkgo Bioworks | Hector Garcia Martin, BSE |
| May 18, 10AM (PST), via Zoom | Marie-Catherine Vozenin | TBD | University of Lausanne | Eleanor Blakely, BSE |
| May 25, 4PM (PST), via Zoom | Michael Fischbach | TBD | Stanford University | Dylan Chivian, EGSB |
| Jun 1, 4PM (PST), via Zoom | Liz Kellogg | TBD | Cornell University | Greg Hura, MBIB |
| Jun 8, 11AM (PST), via Zoom | Michael Brockhurst | TBD | University of Manchester | Vivek Mutalik, EGSB |
| Jun 15, 4PM (PST), via Zoom | Markus Covert | TBD | Stanford University | Hector Garcia Martin, BSE |
| Jun 22, 11AM (PST), via Zoom | Alexander Sommer | TBD | Technical University of Denmark | Deepti Tanjore, BSE |
