November 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Global analyses of the dynamics of mammalian microRNA metabolism
Elena Kingston, PhD Candidate, Bartel Lab, Department of Biology, MIT and Whitehead Institute
GeneWalk identifies relevant gene functions for a biological context using network representation learning
Robert Ietswaart, Postdoctoral Fellow, Churchman Lab, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medican School
October 2019
Harvard Medical School
Energized Transcription Elongation: Structural and Functional Characterization of Allosterically Activated Mammalian RNA PolII
Seychelle Vos, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, MIT
Engineered Ribosomes for Novel Antibiotics Discovery
Ahmed Badran, Broad Fellow, The Broad Institute
How Distinct Lineages Give Rise to the Same Cell Type
Karolina Mizeracka, Postdoctoral Fellow, Heiman Lab, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medican School and Boston Children's Hospital
May 2019
Harvard Medical School
Characterizing transcriptional regulators at enhancers and SNPs
Trevor Siggers, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Boston University
Evolutionary arms races impact human pluripotent stem cells
Jason Fernandes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Haussler Lab, Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Reconstructing the developmental biology of cellular structure and function
Yiqun Wang, PhD Candidate, Schier Lab, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
April 2019
Harvard University
In one ear and out of the pressure relief valve
Ian Swinburne, Postdoctoral Fellow, Megason Lab, HMS Systems Biology Department
Single-cell level differences in antibiotic tolerance and resistance
Mary Dunlop, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
High throughput analysis of lncRNA core promoters
Kaia Mattioli, PhD Candidate, Rinn and Slack Labs, Harvard University
March 2019
Boston University
miR-144/451 Cluster: the Trojan Horse of Hematopoietic microRNAs
Daniel Cifuentes, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine
Mass-spectrometry of single mammalian cells quantifies proteome heterogeneity during cell differentiation
Nikolai Slavov, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Northeastern University
Adding compaction and phase separation activity to Cbx7 impacts ES cell differentiation
Elizabeth Jaensch, PhD Candidate, Kingston Lab, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
February 2019
Harvard Medical School
Factors that control transcriptional accuracy and chromatin integrity
Fred Winston, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
The surprising dynamics of latent HIV infection: barrier or pathway to a cure?
Alison Hill, Research Fellow, Harvard University
Uncoupling causation and correlation in p53-mediated transcriptional regulation
Tim Read, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bulyk Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital