Tuesday, April 21
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Cells may be tiny, but inside each one is a bustling chocolate factory that keeps our bodies running. Only the “chocolates” here are proteins — molecules that come in many flavors, shapes, and sizes and perform a wide variety of jobs in our cells.
Yale Science in the News returns with a fascinating discussion with Yale graduate students Nghia Le, Sue Moon and Deepanshi as they explore the cellular machinery behind the body’s assembly line, and how recipe books called DNA are carefully copied and used to give cells the instructions to make these essential proteins.
Yale Science in the News is a student-driven initiative where Yale graduate students and postdoctoral researchers present complex and exciting science topics to the general public.
About Our Presenters
Nghia Le is a second year PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering program at Yale, with a background in biophysics. He studies how individual neurons connect to each other to compute and support the brain’s functions. To achieve this, he works on imaging techniques and image analysis to map the brain’s connectivity.
Sue Moon is a first year PhD student in the Cell Biology department at Yale. Her research focuses on how lipids are transported and how they determine organelle identity. She uses microscopy imaging techniques, as well as genetic and biochemical assays, to study novel lipid trafficking pathways.
Deepanshi is a fourth year PhD Candidate in the Chemistry Department at Yale. She studies the role of dynamics in cancer associated mutants of DNA polymerase beta using NMR. Her findings help us understand the mechanisms of these proteins at molecular level.
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