Flavia Fontanesi, assistant scientist in the Department of Neurology at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Insights into the Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain: From Cytochrome c Oxidase Assembly to Respirasome Biogenesis” on Friday, July 20 at 12:15 p.m. in the Gautier Building, Room 118. For more information, please contact Sylka M. Pérez at 305-243-6265 or [email protected].

Diana Azzam will present a Ph.D. dissertation seminar titled “Evidence for a Hierarchy within Breast Cancer Stem Cells: Relevance to Metastasis and Therapy” on Thursday, June 28 at 10:30 a.m. in the Gautier Building, Room 118. For more information, please contact Carolina Urroz at 305-243-6261 or [email protected].

Jeffim Kuznetsov, graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “AMPK and AKT Differentially Regulate the UPR in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Therapeutic Implications” on Wednesday, June 6 at 12 p.m. in the Gautier Building, Room 118. For more information, please contact Carolina Urroz at 305-243-6261 or [email protected].

Richard Rotundo, professor of cell biology, physiology, and biophysics and member of the Neuroscience Program at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Translational and Post-Translational Regulation of Acetylcholinesterase: Implications for Protein Folding Disorders” on Friday, June 8 at 12 p.m. in the Gautier Building, Room 118. The speaker is a candidate for a secondary faculty position in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. For more information, contact Sylka M. Pérez at 305-243-6265 or [email protected].

Fangfang Lai, a graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, will present “An Investigation of Nanos1 Function during Primordial Germ Cell Development in Xenopus laevis” on Thursday, May 24 at 12 p.m. in the Gautier Building, Room 118. For more information, contact Carolina Urroz at 305-243-6261 or [email protected].