Old School Skills: Erica Mattingly
When University of Kentucky student Erica Mattingly enrolled in one of Andrew M. Byrd’s linguistics courses, she had no idea she would be rewriting history — or at least re-speaking it.
UK Researcher Uses New Technology to Preserve Ancient Artifact
This July, a University of Kentucky professor is headed back to Lichfield Cathedral in England to continue a labor of love: digitizing the nearly 1,300-year-old St. Chad Gospels.
Making Waves in the Milky Way with Susan Gardner
From childhood, Susan Gardner has had an interest in how the world works, developing a sense of curiosity that would later fuel her work and inspire her research. Recently, Gardner, a professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, played an important role in a study that was responsible for the discovery of a wave in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Biology Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Laura Kubatko
Ohio State University
http://www.stat.osu.edu/~lkubatko/
Host: Dr. Catherine Linnen
Sponsored by Department of Biology Ribble Endowment
*Refreshments served at 3:45
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116 T.H. Morgan Bldg.
Biology Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Dan Simberloff
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/peopletwo/daniel-simberloff
Host: Luc Dunoyer
Sponsored by Department of Biology Ribble Endowment
*Refreshments served at 3:45
Date:
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Location:
116 T.H. Morgan Bldg.
Biology Seminar “GREAT APE SLEEP, SLEEPING PLATFORMS AND THE EVOLUTION OF HOMININ COGNITION”
Speaker: Dr. David Samson
Duke University
Host: Dr. Bruce O'Hara
Sponsored by Department of Biology Ribble Endowment
*Refreshments served at 3:20
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Location:
116 T.H. Morgan Bldg.
6th Annual Thomas Hunt Morgan Lecture
Helen Blau, PhD
Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Professor
Director, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology
Helen Blau’s research is focused on the regulation of cell fate. In the 1980s her lab challenged and changed the dogma that the mammalian differentiated state was"terminal", i.e., fixed and irreversible. The Blau lab fused cells of two different species in different ratios to form stable non-dividing syncytia (heterokaryons). These experiments demonstrated that by altering the balance of cytoplasmic proteins, programs of gene expression could be changed. For example, the genes characteristic of a muscle cell could be activated in a human liver cell. This body of work was remarkable, as it showed that genes silenced in the course of differentiation and development in humans,could be readily reawakened and expressed. Moreover, these major changes in gene expression occurred in the absence of cell division and DNA replication. These findings surprised the scientific community by showing that in mammals the typically stable state of a differentiated cell (liver does not normally beget muscle) is governed by mechanisms that are continuously active and governed by the balance of proteins present in the cytoplasm at any given time. These discoveries extended the findings and fundamental principles of gene regulation described for the Operon in prokaryotes by Jacob and Monod to higher eukaryotes. Moreover, they now provide the foundation for the diverse approaches to nuclear reprogramming that are the crux of the burgeoning field of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine.
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116 T.H. Morgan Bldg.
Authors Joy Castro and Leslie Jamison to Appear at Women Writers Event
Celebrated authors Joy Castro and Leslie Jamison will make their first appearance together at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference for a reading, conversation and a book signing.