The Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series was established to highlight the work of our outstanding postdoctoral members, providing a platform for those members who will soon be going on the job market. Speaker selection will represent the breadth of diversity in the Society, including gender, race, ethnicity, type of institution, geographic location, and research organism.
Day and Time
Second Friday of the month at 3:00 pm ET. Next seminar is February 11, 2022.
Format
The one-hour virtual seminars feature two postdoc speakers giving 20-minute talks followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. All seminars will be recorded and available for a limited time. Recordings will be posted the Monday following the seminar (except for holidays). Miss a talk from the 2020-2021 season? Check out our Past SDB Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminars.
Latest Seminar
Registration
The SDB Postdoctoral Seminar Series is free and open to anyone
interested in developmental biology and supporting the great work our
postdocs are doing.
View the January 14 Seminar Recording: https://youtu.be/h6YLoHj0efE
2021-2022 Speaker Schedule (Download)
| Date | Speaker | Title | View/Register |
| September 10 | Heather Bruce | The Daphnia carapace and the origin of novel structures | View Recording |
| Eyal Karzbrun | Self-organized morphogenesis of a human neural tube in vitro by geometric constraints | ||
| October 8 | Chi-Chung Wu | Modulation of mammalian cardiomyocyte cytokinesis by extracellular matrix proteins | View Recording |
| Isabel Espinosa Medina | Temporal encoding and manipulation of vertebrate cell histories with a new CRISPR/Cas9 system | ||
| November 12 | Maria Sallee | PAR polarity proteins buffer against epithelial assaults to create a continuous and functional intestinal lumen | View Recording |
| M. Fethullah Simsek | Sequential segmentation in an embryo: Morphogen gradients and molecular oscillators | ||
| December 10 | Miguel Salinas-Saavedra | Mechanisms of cellular reprogramming in cnidarian whole body regeneration | View Recording |
| Sudha Rajderkar | Topologically associating domain boundaries are required for normal genome function | ||
| January 14 | Jennifer McKey | Integration of mouse ovary morphogenesis with developmental dynamics of the oviduct, ovarian ligaments, and rete ovarii | View Recording |
| Frank Macabenta | BMP-gated cell cycle progression drives anoikis during FGF-dependent collective migration | ||
| February 11 | Joey Ghersi | miR-128 limits the transdifferentiation potential of the endothelium to blood stem cells | |
| Elle Roberson | Cyclical Hedgehog signaling regulates iterative remodeling of the mouse uterus | ||
| March 11 | Alice Accorsi | Pomacea canaliculata: a new research organism to study complex camera-type eye regeneration | |
| Jiakun Chen | Investigation of astrocyte morphogenesis and function in vivo | ||
| April 8 | Joshua Abrams | A polarity pathway for exocyst-dependent intracellular tube extension | |
| Katharine Criswell | Hox gene expression predicts tetrapod-like axial regionalization in the skate, Leucoraja erinacea | ||
| May 13 | Margherita Perillo | Mechanisms of tube elongation and germ cell migration during development of the sea star embryo | |
| Hector Sanchez-Iranzo | Strength of interactions in the Notch gene regulatory network determines patterning and fate in the notochord |