May 1, 2009
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| Joanna Chiu |
DAVIS—Molecular biologist Joanna Chiu of Rutgers University,
Piscataway, N.J. will lecture on "Setting the Pace of the Circadian Oscillator in Fruit Flies by Posttranslational Modifications of Clock Proteins" on Thursday, May 7 in 122 Briggs Hall.
The lecture, open to all, is set for 12:10 to 1 p.m. with 30 minutes available for any extended discussion. Host is Sharon Lawler, UC Davis professor of entomology.
Joanna Chiu received her bachelor’s of arts degree (magna cum laude) from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, M.A., with double majors in biology and music. She then received her Ph.D. from the Department of Biology at New York University, N.Y. Her thesis centered around the phylogenetic and functional analysis of the glutamate receptor gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Currently, as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at Rutgers University, she is using a combination of molecular genetics, biochemical, and proteomic approaches to study the role of posttranslational modifications of clock proteins in circadian rhythms.
For more information, contact Peter Cranston, UC Davis professor of entomology, at (530) 754-5803 or e-mail him at pscranston@ucdavis.edu.
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--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894
