Upcoming Events for Division of Biology and Biological Engineering

Tuesday, May 13, 2025
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Biology Seminar - Daniel Voytas Chen 100 From Lab to Field: The Promise of Plant Gene Editing at Scale Daniel Voytas, Professor/Director, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota,

Thursday, May 15, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) "Deciphering Microbiome-Mediated Regulation of Neurometabolism and Social Behaviors" Daniel Dumitrescu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mazmanian Group,
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Chen Social Chen Sunken Zen Garden

Tuesday, May 20, 2025
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	NB-CNS Seminar - Holly Ingraham Chen 100 Elucidating Circuits in the Brain and Gut that Drive Female Physiology Holly Ingraham, Professor, Cellular Molecular Pharmacology, University of California - San Francisco,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Chen 130 Structural and mechanistic studies of membrane protein biogenesis and quality control at the endoplasmic reticulum Vy Nguyen, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, May 21, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The Biochemical and Structural Basis of Get3d's Role in Photosynthesis Alexandra Barlow, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,

Thursday, May 22, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Biology Seminar - Joe Thornton Chen 130 On the Origins of Hemoglobin: Ancient Proteins at the Evolutionary Edge of Complexity Joe Thornton, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago,

Thursday, May 29, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) TBA Shiyu Xia, Postdoctoral Fellow, Elowitz Group,

Friday, May 30, 2025
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Chen 130 Building closed-loop frameworks for AI-guided protein design Alec Lourenço, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,

Monday, June 2, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	PhD Thesis Defense Broad 100 Mechanisms of Pharmacological and Cellular Regulators of Mitophagy William Rosencrans, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,

Tuesday, June 3, 2025
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Biology Seminar - Gabe Kwong Chen 100 TBD Gabe Kwong, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech School of Engineering and Emory School of Medicine,

Wednesday, June 4, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Informal Seminar - Hirotaka Toh & Kotaro Tomuro Broad 200 Local translation atlas revealed by APEX-Ribo-Seq/Anatomy of footprint extension in ribosome profiling reveals a conformational landscape of ribosomes in bacteria Hirotaka Toh, RIKEN Special Postdoctoral Researcher, Iwasaki RNA Systems, Kotaro Tomuro, RIKEN Junior Research Associate, Iwasaki RNA Systems,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biology Seminar - Marcel van den Brink Beckman Institute Auditorium Microbiome and thymic regeneration in cancer immunotherapy Marcel van den Brink, President, President, City of Hope Los Angeles and National Medical Center,

Friday, June 13, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs June 2025 Meeting

Friday, July 11, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs July 2025 Meeting

Friday, August 8, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs August 2025 Meeting

Friday, September 12, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs September 2025 Meeting

Friday, October 10, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs October 2025 Meeting

Friday, November 14, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs November 2025 Meeting

Tuesday, November 18, 2025
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Caltech Bioscience Industry Day 2025 Chen Breezeway

Friday, December 12, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs December 2025 Meeting