Basic Science Seminar ~ Sabine Petry

  • Place:GH AUD 106
  • Time:12:10am-1:10pm
  • Date:
We invite you to attend the first Basic Science Seminar of 2020 and join host, Dyche Mullins in welcoming our guest speaker, Dr. Sabine Petry, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University on Tuesday, January 7, 12:10-1:10pm in GH AUD 106 for her talk titled: “How to make microtubules and build the mitotic spindle” 
 
The mission of the Petry lab is to understand how cells obtain their shape, position organelles, move materials, and segregate chromosomes during cell division. Each of those functions relies on a specific architecture of the microtubule cytoskeleton. For instance, long and stable microtubules are required in an axon, whereas short and dynamic microtubules are arranged in a spindle to segregate chromosomes. How is this specific microtubule architecture established at the molecular level? They tackle this question using biophysical methods and X-ray crystallography in order to study the mechanism by which microtubules are organized at a structural level. In addition they combine biochemical, advanced light microscopy, and cell biological methods to examine the dynamic assembly of the microtubule cytoskeleton in its biological context.

Please visit the lab to learn more.

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/2020WINBSS) or if at Parnassus, HSW 7th fl. conference room where the class capture will be shown live.

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