Basic Science Seminar -- KC Huang

Date: 
November 20, 2018
Time: 
12:10pm-1:10pm
Place: 
GH AUD 106

We invite you to attend the next Basic Science Seminar and join Tetrad students as the hosts in welcoming our guest speaker, Dr. KC Huang, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Microbiology & Immunology, and Biochemistry at Stanford University on Tuesday, November 20, 12:10-1:10pm in GH AUD 106 for his talk titled: “Model systems for microbial ecology” 

The KC Huang Lab employs diverse interdisciplinary methods of inquiry to understand the relationships among cell shape detection, determination, and maintenance in bacteria. Cell shape plays a critical role in regulating many physiological functions, yet little is known about how the wide variety of cell shapes are determined and maintained. Inside the cell, many proteins organize and segregate, but how they detect and respond to the cellular morphology to end up at the right place at the right time is also largely mysterious. The group uses a combination of analytical, computational, and experimental approaches to probe physical mechanisms of shape-related self-organization in protein networks, membranes, and the cell wall. Current topics of interest are (i) cell-wall biosynthesis, (ii) the regulation and mechanics of cell division, (iii) membrane organization, and (iv) membrane-mediated protein interactions. Ultimately, the manipulation of cell shape may provide a direct tool for engineering complex cellular behaviors.

To learn more, visit his lab. 

We very much encourage attendance but in the event you cannot make it in person, you can either log into MyAccess to get into the class capture link-  (https://tinyurl.com/2018FallBSS) or if at Parnassus, HSW 7th fl. conference room where the class capture will be shown live.

You can now tweet us questions @Ucsf_Biochem where we will read them in real time after the seminar.