Weekly News & Events - April 19, 2021

12:40pm – Analytical & Environmental Chemistry Division and Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar:

Hongyu Guo, Jimenez Group, "Submicron Particle Composition and Acidity in Fire Plumes during FIREX-AQ aircraft study."
Demetrios Pagonis, Jimenez Group, "Emissions, Partitioning, and Aging of Biomass Burning Organic Aerosol at FIREX-AQ."
Zoom: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/576316856

4:30pm – Biophysics Supergroup:

Kate DaPron, Sousa Lab/BCHM, “Protein mechanical stability as a determinant for secretion.”
Erin Richards, Palmer Lab/BCHM, "Optimizing and Characterizing Riboglow for Single-Molecule Detection."
Zoom: Email at 4:00 pm on Monday with the Zoom invitation

2:00pm – BioFUNtiers Virtual CollaBEERation:

June Gruber Ph.D., PSYC/NRSC/CU Boulder, “Student Emotional Well-being and Happiness During and Beyond COVID-19.”
Kristen Bjorkman Ph.D., BioFrontiers/CU Boulder, “COVID-19 Spread: Lessons Learned.”
Kate Bublar, Larremore Lab/CU Boulder, “What is the best way to prioritize vaccines by age and serostatus?”
Zoom: (please contact MCDB-Info for Zoom information)

3:00pm – RNA Club:

Richard Davis, CU Anschutz, "Argonautes, small RNAs, and Programmed DNA Elimination: A Journey and Saga.”
Raeann Goering, CU Anschutz, "Mechanisms of RNA localization that transcend cell morphology."
Alicia Cutler, CU Boulder, "There and back again a stem cell self-renewal tale."
Zoom: (please contact MCDB-Info for Zoom information)

9:00am – Jon Markert Final Defense:

Dissertation Title: "Biochemically and Structurally Characterizing the ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodeler SMARCAD1."
Zoom: (please contact MCDB-Info for Zoom information)

1:00pm – EM Users Meeting:

Dr. Halil Aydin, "Regulated mitochondrial morphology and function."
Dr. Vingnesh Kasinath, "Overcoming bottlenecks in cryo-EM for structural studies of chromatin modifier PRC2."
"Boulder EM Users Group" calendar has been generated to help keep track of meeting dates and the zoom link
Please add it to your own calendars with the following link: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=Y19lbWR2NnE5OGp2MWxkMDF0MG02Z3BkajZrOEBncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t

3:30pm – Biophysics Seminar:

Alex Dunn Ph.D., Stanford University, “Tissue Construction, from Molecules Up.”
Zoom: (please contact MCDB-Info for Zoom information)

3:30pm – Environmental Studies Webinar:

6:00pm – MCDB CURE Symposium:

Recordings of students’ poster presentations will be available starting at 6PM on the CURE symposium website https://curesymposium.org/
Live research presentations from each course will start at 7PM.
You can register for the live talks at: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vcemgrTksHNFgR_YnKkRUhfWLYMbQGOwF

4:00pm – MCDB Seminar

4:00pm – MCDB MMB:

EBIO Club Student Spring Research Symposium:

April 19^th-23^rd: BSI Scholars Research Symposium:

This virtual symposium will feature current BSI Scholars’ posters (asynchronous) and presentations (live).
In addition, BSI will host guest panels throughout the week that include current undergraduate researchers (BSI Scholar Ambassadors), CU alumni, and graduate students (STEM Routes).
Welcoming keynote provided by Dr. Lee Niswander (MCDB Chair and Faculty).
Students will be eligible for random drawings of E-gift certificates ($50-$100) for attending events.
Please visit the BSI Website: https://www.colorado.edu/bsi/undergraduates/paid-opportunities/bsi-scholars/bsi-scholar-research-symposium for a full schedule of events, descriptions and symposium link.

May 17^th-18^th: Science Speak-Easy team and Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Workshop:

“Accessibility in STEM and Science Communication,” a virtual science communication workshop
Explore and practice the various ways in which we can make our research more accessible
Adapting presentations and data visualizations for various disabilities
Ensuring that more accessible language is used when speaking with different audiences
Fostering genuine Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) within our STEM spaces
Complete list of speakers and workshop leaders will be released soon
Event is open to any early-career researchers who are interested, including undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and early research professionals
Register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXJeMW6RC7coOt8goABXIrTDkaMes6IXEsHImHZOwanBNxpw/viewform

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