Michael A. Lynes Laboratory

MCB Research Seminar

Boyang Li, Nelson Lab
"Metagene: from single cell RNA sequencing to gene functions."

Josh Calabrese, White Lab
“Repurposing Anti-fungals as Broad Spectrum Anti-virals Against Picornaviridae”

Use this link to reach blackboard collaborate for the seminar.

https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/01d892acd5f44f089b5b6b44295fb854

The session will start on Friday at 12:20 - Presenters, participants can dial in 30 minutes beforehand to check connections

The audience can also dial in to listen as follows:
+1-571-392-7650 PIN: 341 071 9619

MCB Tuesday Seminar Series: Dr. Anne E. Carpenter
Please join us for the Molecular and Cell Biology Tuesday Seminar Series 4/7: Dr. Anne. E. Carpenter, Ph.D. Senior Director, Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, 4/7/2020, BPB 131, Refreshments 3:15, Seminar 3:30
Hosted by GO:MCB
“Accelerating Drug Discovery Through the Power of Microscopy Images”
Summary: Quantifying images is critical to advancing drug discovery and basic biological research, so our team works with scientists worldwide to extract metrics from cell images, particularly in high-throughput screening experiments testing drugs in disease model systems.
We also go beyond measuring individual cell phenotypes through image-based profiling: by comparing similarities across thousands of extracted morphological features, we can identify how diseases, drugs, and genes affect cells, and potentially identify novel therapeutics.

Dr. Carpenter is an Institute Scientist and Merkin Institute Fellow at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Her research group develops algorithms and data analysis methods for large-scale experiments involving images. The team’s open-source CellProfiler software is used by thousands of biologists worldwide (http://www.cellprofiler.org). Carpenter is a pioneer in image-based profiling, the extraction of rich, unbiased information from images for a number of important applications in drug discovery and functional genomics.
Carpenter focused on high-throughput image analysis during her postdoctoral fellowship at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and MIT’s CSAIL (Computer Sciences/Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). Her PhD is in cell biology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Carpenter has been named an NSF CAREER awardee, an NIH MIRA awardee, a Massachusetts Academy of Sciences fellow (its youngest at the time), and a Genome Technology “Rising Young Investigator”.

To learn more about Dr. Carpenter's research, visit https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5386591/

and her website at https://personal.broadinstitute.org/anne/index.html

This talk has been canceled and will be rescheduled for Fall 2020 semester if possible.

The promise of model clades in evolutionary research: new perspectives on leaf form evolution from continued study of Viburnum