Cytoskeletal innovations for sticking around
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
3:30 – 4:30 pm
BPB 131
The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology welcomes Alex Paredez, Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle, as part of the MCB Seminar Series, hosted by Dr. Aoife Heaslip.
Alex Paredez is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle. His laboratory studies the parasite Giardia which stands out as one of the most evolutionary divergent eukaryotes (from animals) that can be manipulated in the laboratory. His laboratory studies Giardia’s divergent actin cytoskeleton and differentiation into infectious cysts. The unifying goal of this work is to uncover constraining principles of biology as well as differences from host biology that can be leveraged for therapeutic development.
Giardia is a eukaryote that lacks myosin and all conventional actin binding proteins. I will discuss cell division and formation of a lamellipodia like membrane protrusion used for parasite attachment.
To learn more about Dr. Paradez, http://paredezlab.biology.washington.edu/
If you require accommodation for this event please contact the MCB Department in Advance: 860-486-4329
For more information, contact: Ciara Hanlon, MCB at ciara.hanlon@uconn.edu
For more information, contact: Ciara Hanlon at ciara.hanlon@uconn.edu