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  • Archaea

    Haloferax volcanii motility mutants stab-inoculated on a 0.3% agar motility plate. The “halos” and “rings” likely reflect the motility of this archaeon following gradients of attractant or repellent chemicals. 

  • Bacterial Respiratory Complex

    Structural model of a bacterial respiratory complex III: remember that when you respire, your complex III perspires to produce your body's energy.

  • Telomeres

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

  • Escherichia coli

    Escherichia coli cells with fluorescently labeled chromosomal loci. 

  • Sea Anemone

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Retroelements are conserved features of Drosophila centromeres

Amanda Larracuente Ph.D., University of Rochester
- | Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building

Centromeres are among the most rapidly evolving regions of genomes, despite their conserved and essential role in chromosome segregation. Rapidly evolving centromeres can drive karyotype evolution and speciation.…



First-year Student Presentation Extravaganza

First-year Graduate Students
- | Tedori Auditorium | Levin Buidling

Join the graduate students in Tedori Auditorium for a series of rapid-fire presentations. The first year cohort will be presenting on the research they have completed during their first round of lab rotations


A New Dimension of Immune Checkpoints Interactions

Enfu Hui, Ph.D., University of California San Diego
- | Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building

T cell mediated tumor destruction is restricted by trans-interactions between immune checkpoint receptors and their ligands. Checkpoint inhibitors have demonstrated impressive clinical activities against some human…