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 [add to calendar] | 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 [add to calendar] | 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 [add to calendar] | 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 [add to calendar] | 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 [add to calendar] | 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 [add to calendar] | 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 [add to calendar] | 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 [add to calendar] | Colorado State University | Susannah Tringe, EGSB |
| Apr 27, 11AM (PST) | Thomas Bell | Cancelled | Imperial College London | Trent Northen, EGSB |
| May 4, 4PM (PST), via Zoom | Maria Harrison | Development and Function of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis [add to calendar] | Cornell University | Henrik Scheller, EGSB |
| May 11, 4PM (PST), via Zoom | Joshua Dunn | Biology by Design [add to calendar] | Ginkgo Bioworks | Hector Garcia Martin, BSE |
| May 18, 10AM (PST), via Zoom | Marie-Catherine Vozenin | From Irradiation at Ultra-high Dose Rate to FLASH Radiotherapy: Experimental, Conceptual, and Clinical Challenges [add to calendar] | 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), via Zoom | Michael Brockhurst | The Ecology and Evolution of Pangenomes [add to calendar] | University of Manchester | Vivek Mutalik, EGSB |
| Jun 15, 4PM (PST), via Zoom | Markus Covert | Simultaneous Cross-Evaluation of Heterogeneous E. Coli Datasets via Mechanistic Simulation [add to calendar] | Stanford University | Hector Garcia Martin, BSE |
| Jun 22, 11AM (PST), via Zoom | Alexander Sommer | Cancelled | Technical University of Denmark | Deepti Tanjore, BSE |
| Jun 29, 4PM (PST), via Zoom | Michael Wall | Protein Simulations and Diffraction Data for Biosciences [add to calendar] | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Paul Adams, MBIB |
