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May - Andrea Watson, Albert Feghaly

Event Details

Date/Time:

Wednesday, May 19th, 2021 16h30

Location:

Location: Online (Jitsi / YouTube Live)

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Speaker: Andrea Watson

Affiliation: University of Chicago, Meren Lab

Talk Title: Determinants of microbial colonization and resilience in the human gut

Biography

Andrea is a microbiologist who studies the ecology and evolution of complex microbial communities using ‘omics strategies, with a focus on the human gut microbiome. She received a B.Sc. in microbiology and biochemistry from the University of Toronto and is currently a 5th year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago in the Meren Lab. Her dissertation work leverages genome-resolved metagenomics, ecological theory and publicly available data to identify determinants of microbial colonization and resilience in the human gut.

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Speaker: Albert Feghaly

Talk Title: Reducing chaos: Conserved mRNA patterns allow variant-agnostic vaccine target predictions

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