George Sun (BELCHER LAB)

Developing Bioremediation Strategies Using Yeast

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.

Jay Yu (BOYDEN LAB)

Spatial Multi-Omics in Entire Animals of C. elegans

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.