Biochemistry & Biophysics Smith College Seminars - Life Sciences Colloquium Series. October 22nd through December 10th.

OCTOBER 22nd - Professor Michele Markstein - University of Massachusetts Amherst; Biology Department.
Link to research: https://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/about/directories/faculty/michele-mar…
Seminar Title: "Vive la Resistance: Evidence that Multidrug Resistance is an Ancient Stem Cell Trait."
NOVEMBER 5th - Professor Katie Berry - Mount Holyoke College; Biochemistry.
Link to research: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/people/katie-berry
Seminar Title: "Probing Mechanisms of RNA Chaperones with a Bacterial Three-Hybrid Assay."
NOVEMBER 12th - Professor Roger Craig - University of Massachusetts Medical School
Link to research: https://www.umassmed.edu/craiglab/
Seminar Title: " Regulating Contraction Through Myosin Filaments: Insights from Cryo-EM."
NOVEMBER 19th - Professor Bruce Goode - Brandeis University; Biology Department
Link to research: http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/faculty/goode.html
Seminar Title: "Rise of the Actin Machines."
NOVEMBER 26th - Professor Benjamin Martin - Stony Brook University; Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.
Link to research: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/biochem/research/_faculty/martin/mar…
Seminar Title: "Differential regulation of progenitor cell division during zebrafish tail development."
DECEMBER 3rd - Dr. Samantha Torquato, '11 - Smith College; Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer.
Seminar Title: "Genetic Alterations as Predictors of Therapeutic Response in Patients with Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC)."
DECEMBER 10th - Professor Li-Jun Ma - University of Massachusetts Amherst; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Link to research: https://www.umass.edu/m2m/people/li-jun-ma
Seminar Title: "Understanding the Tug o'War Between a Fungal Pathogen and its Hosts."