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:

• Michael White, Senior Editor of Nature, “Demystifying Nature.”
• Zoom: Register to attend: https://bit.ly/33HS6E5

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

• Corrie Detweiler, Ph.D., MCDB/CU Boulder, "TBD.”
• Zoom: (please contact MCDB-Info for Zoom information)

4:00pm – MCDB MMB:

• Flash Talks: 1^st year graduate students x2
• Zoom: (please contact MCDB-Info for Zoom information)

EBIO Club Student Spring Research Symposium:

• Zoom: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/94042755516 Passcode: biology
• Please contact claire.gould@colorado.edu with any questions.

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