Lauren Panzera will present her PhD thesis: Modulating Neurotransmission with Voltage-gated Potassium Channels.

Neuronal Activity, cFos Expression and the Search for the Engram. Michael Hoppa and Lauren Panzera will host Thomas Oertner PhD, University of Hamburg.

Disease, Climate Change and Coral Reefs. Kathy Cottingham & Celia Chen will host Richard Aronson PhD D'79, Florida Institute of Technology.

Fall term ends

Folding Tissues Across Length Scales: Cell-based Origami. Wei Chen & Bing He will host Adam Martin PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wei Chen will present his PhD thesis: From Force to Form: Interplay Between Tissue Mechanics and Intracellular Trafficking in Morphogenesis

Planarian Stem Cell Dynamics in Response to Injury and Stress. Michael Hoppa will host Carrie Adler PhD, Cornell University.

Melisa Fuentes will present her PhD thesis: Cell Polarity Determinant Dlg1 Regulates the Spatial Organization Contractile Behavior of Non-Muscle MyosinII During Tissue Morphogensis

An Evolutionary Pyrrhic Victory: Evolution of a Costly Immune Defense. Kathy Cottingham will host Daniel Bolnick PhD, University of Connecticut.

Fall term begins