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Please join us for the Mikashi Award Impact Presentations, presented by the Catherine and Don Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society. We will hear final presentations from Mikashi awardees Dr. Brian Cunningham and Dr. Paul Hergenrother, who will share how Mikashi Award funding supported their work on cancer research.
Rats and humans alike readily navigate to destinations we have previously visited. This seminar will discuss how representations of those places are stored in the hippocampal formation and then utilized to guide future behavior by transforming that information through cortico-striatal pathways.
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).
Xuemin (Sam) Wang, PhD University of Missouri, St. Louis, Desmond Lee Professor of Biology; Member, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St Louis
A better understanding of genetic epilepsy mechanisms is needed to develop precision therapies for patients. To shed light on these mechanisms, we are combining mouse and human pluripotent stem cell models. I will discuss our work modeling genetic epilepsies (SCN8A, PCDH19 and MECP2) using human pluripotent stem cell-derived 2-D neuronal and brain organoid cultures.
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).
ART OF SCIENCE 11: ELEMENTAL The IGB’s Art of Science program is a celebration of the common ground between science and art. The works in this installation were created by pairing IGB scientists and their research images with current IGB artist Julia Pollack. Opening April 30th at University of Illinois Arboretum.
Chambana Science Cafe Presents “Seeing Cancer in a New Light” Rohit Bhargava, PhD Director, Cancer Center at Illinois
Learn about IGB research, hear about current issues in the life sciences, and network with other students at the annual Fellows Symposium. This full-day event, sponsored by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, is also your chance to share your research at the popular Poster Session.
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link)
IGB DEI Seminar Series Joey Ramp CEO of Empower Ability Consulting Neuroscience Research Affiliate, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Barriers to Inclusion: Service Dog Handlers in Science Laboratories"
