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Oct 15 2026

2026 Comer Undergraduate Seminar - “Central Mechanisms of Nausea and Emesis” by Tito Borner (University of Southern California)

Thursday, 12:30 pm–1:45 pm
ARC 241
Oct 20 2026

E&E Seminar: Dave Tank (Michigan Sate University)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Oct 21 2026

MCDB Seminar: "Rethinking the cellular response to heat shock" by Allan Drummond (University of Chicago)

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
MBRB 1152
Nov 3 2026

E&E Seminar: "Peaks, forests, and unusual algorithms for phylogenetics" by Emma Goldberg (Los Alamos National Labs)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Nov 4 2026

MCDB Seminar: "How the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio regulates zygotic genome activation and cell cycle slowing at the mid-blastula transition" by Amanda Amodeo (Dartmouth)

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
MBRB 1152
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