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  • Consequences of HD-ZIPIII dysregulation

    How do organisms create such complex and beautiful shapes? And how do they do it so reproducibly? Plants are an excellent system to study these questions. For instance, the HD-ZIPIII family of transcription factors are >700 million years old and regulate nearly all aspects of plant development. Consequences of HD-ZIPIII dysregulation on plant morphology are severe (pictured here). Understanding how HD-ZIPIII proteins work is a central theme of the lab.

  • ERK1/2 signaling pathway

     ERK1/2 signaling pathway regulates exocytosis and tumor invasion through phosphorylation of the exocyst complex. 

  • Courtship in Drosophila

    Various courtship songs produced by Drosophila species

  • Telomeres

    Giant ‘polytene’ chromosomes (white) from a fruit fly with a fluorescent probe (red) that hybridizes to a telomere-restricted DNA repeat.

  • Drosophila

    Drosophila are small flies, typically pale yellow to reddish brown to black, with red eyes. Many species, including the noted Hawaiian picture-wings, have distinct black patterns on the wings. The plumose (feathery) arista, bristling of the head and thorax, and wing venation are characters used to diagnose the family.

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Individual-level differences in asymptomatic and symptomatic transmission shape population-level dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks

Jeremy D Harris (Georgia Tech)
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Speaker: Jeremy D Harris (Georgia Tech)

 

Time: February 1st at 4 pm (EST)

 

Title: Individual-level differences in asymptomatic and…



Mapping the neural dynamics of social dominance and defeat

Annegret L. Falkner
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Social experiences can have lasting changes on behavior and affective state.  In particular, repeated wins and losses during fighting can facilitate and suppress the likelihood of future aggressive behavior, leading…