Population dynamics and universal statistics of tumor-inhabiting bacteria
Andrew Mugler (Pitt)
Environments such as the ocean, the soil, and the human body support tremendous microbial diversity. Uncovering the mechanisms by which a...
Saturday Morning Physics | Organic Optical Materials: From Solar Cells to Light-Emitting Diodes
Theodore Goodson III, The Richard Bernstein Collegiate Professor of Chemistry (U-M Chemistry)
Versatile organic optical materials are widely used, for example, in OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) TVs. These materials, which convert...
The Radical Lives of Anaerobes and How to Fight Them
Brandon Greene (UCSB)
Pathogenic bacteria that infect the gastrointestinal and respiratory tract form biofilms that are largely anaerobic, modulating their...
Mapping the inner world of cells
Bo Huang (University of California San Francisco)
Cellular processes are orchestrated by many biomolecules in a spatially and temporally coordinated manner within a tiny volume. To uncover...
Saturday Morning Physics | VanLoo Family SMP: Graduate Student Research Presentations
Otávio Alves and Emilie LaVoie-Ingrahm (U-M Physics)
Graduate student talks about the latest research from:...
From Helicases to CRISPR: How RNA Stability and Specificity Shape Biology
Rick Russell (UT Austin)
The fundamental properties of the RNA double helix—high structural stability and strict base-pairing specificity—have profoundly...
A cross-century pursuit of propagating waves of cell death
Sheng-hong Chen (Academia Sinica)
Large-scale cell death is commonly observed during organismal development and in human pathologies. These cell death events extend over...
Professors Zhan Chen, Anna Kirkland, and Anne McNeil, Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture
This event will take place both in person and virtually....
