February 8

Rotation Reports:     i. Yiben Wang, ii. Mackenzie Lauro

February 15

Rotation Reports:  i. Morgan Urello, ii. Devin Hudson,  iii. Karl Frank

February 22: 

Advanced Student Presentations: I. Stephanie Scott ii. Abby Grabitz

February 29

Jia Song, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

    Select miRNAs are essential for sea urchin early embryogenesis.

March 7

        Professor Nicola Phol, Iowa State University

        TBA

March 14

        Professor Ben Cravatt, Scripps Research Institute

        TBA

March 21

        Student Presentations:  i. Morgan Urello ii. Jennifer Codding

April 4:

    Advanced Student Presentatons: i. Eric Levenson, ii Ben Israel

April 11

Jennifer Palenchar, Associate Professor, Villanova University (UD/CBI alum!)

An Unusual Beta-Hydroxybutyrate Dehydrogenase from Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite responsible for African Sleeping Sickness.

April 18: 

Professor Brian Bahnson, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

April 25: 

Spring RCR Workshop:  “The Lab”  (Facilitator: Catherine Grimes)

April 28th Saturday Special Event:

2012 Chemistry-Biology Interface Symposium at UPENN

May 2

    Wenshe Liu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Texas A&M University

Pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase: a mediocre enzyme or a gift from the nature

May 9

Student Presentations:  i. Morgan Urello, ii. Natalee Smith

“The opportunity to meet with visiting scientist also helped me to understand the options available as I was contemplating my future career.” 

--Juliana Gill-Kretsinger, Senior Research Scientist, Eli Lilly.