December 2017 December 14—Citizen science in our backyard! Jessica Joyner, a postdoc in the Muth lab, is coordinating a project looking at Brooklyn’s waterways. You can read more about her research here. November 2017 November 30—Mara Schvarzstein and her lab were recently profiled by the Graduate Center Faculty Spotlight, which highlights outstanding faculty at the City University of New York. Congratulations, Mara! October 2017 October 26—Charlene Forest will present a special seminar as part of the Biology Seminar Series (113 Ingersoll Hall Extension, 12:30–1:30 p.m), honoring her close to 40 years of education, research, and service at Brooklyn College, in a talk entitled, “The discovery of the first gamete fusion protein and my very tiny role in understanding fertilization.” The lecture will be followed by a reception. October 16—Nicolas Biais kicks off BC Communication’s new “Faculty Experts” series with a discussion of cryo-electron microscopy, a milestone discovery for which Dubochet, Frank and Henderson won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Check it out! September 2017 September 19—Schreibman Lecture in Integrative Biology (113 Ingersoll Hall Extension, 12:30–1:30 p.m). Scott Edwards, Agassiz Professor of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and member of the National Academy of Sciences, will discuss “Genomic drivers of evolutionary change: Micro- and macro-evolutionary examples across the avian tree of life.” The lecture will be followed by a reception. Congratulations to Peter Lipke, who was awarded the William A. Hinton Research Training Award by the American Society of Microbiology in honor of his decades of service in fostering the research training of underrepresented minorities in microbiology. Professor Lipke will receive the award during the ASM annual meeting in in Atlanta next summer. August 2017 BIOL 4024W/7180G Cancer Biology (fall 2017): Ever wonder why cancer is so hard to treat? Learn the basics of the variety of ways that cancer cells establish and spread in the human body, and how novel approaches to treatment are improving health outcomes. This fall semester course (Fridays, 9:30 a.m.–12:40 p.m.) is open to both undergraduates and graduate students, and is offered by Anjana Saxena.
