Speaker:
Title:
Developing Bioremediation Strategies Using Yeast
Abstract:
Our consumption of raw materials and energy use will continue
to generate waste that outpaces our ability to manage and remediate it.
Specifically, heavy metal waste is a primary cause of environmental damage
and public health concerns. My talk will highlight the limitations in current
remediation methods and argue for the use of biologically engineered
strategies as a more cost-effective and efficient process to handle waste. My
strategy is simple, to engineer the common baker’s yeast to be an agent for
heavy metal waste cleanup.
Speaker:
Title:
Spatial Multi-Omics in Entire Animals of C. elegans
Abstract:
Integration of multiple omics allows systematic mining of
correlations between different domains of biology, often revealing meaningful
insights in biological systems. However, existing methods for omics
acquisition are often mutually incompatible, which limits the range of omics
that can be simultaneously interrogated. In this talk, I will introduce an
expansion-microscopy-based toolbox to acquire several spatially-attributed
omics, including connectome, transcriptome and dynome, within entire
organisms of the nematode model C. elegans.