Meet Our Speakers

We were fortunate to have Dr. Chook from UTSW visit us. Kerry Larkin sat down with Dr. Chook to discuss her scientific journey.

Avinash Kumar discusses science and life with our invited speaker Dr. Shixin Liu.

Dr. Schuman talks about why she is inspired by neuroscience and the obstacles that she encountered along her impressive career.

Dr. Brian Chait, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor, at Rockefeller University, will be visiting Yale to give a talk entitled “On Methods for Probing the Protein Interactions” on May 9, 2023. His lab focuses on developing tools, centering around mass spectrometry approaches to study the structure and function of biomolecular assemblies. Caroline Brown had the pleasure of chatting with him prior to his visit to Yale to find out about his personal and scientific journey.

Dr. Gillian Griffiths visited the department a few weeks ago. She sat down with Meg Tian to talk about her lab, her research and her advice for trainees.

Jan Parolek, a postdoc in the Burd lab, had the pleasure of meeting with Dr. Tafesse before his visit to our department.

We're fortunate to have Heidi McBride visit the department. She was interviewed by Amanda Bentley-DeSousa.

We sat down with Dr. Lippincott-Schwartz before her seminar to hear about her career, interests, and best advice for early career scientists.

We sat down with Professor Yixian Zheng to hear about her research and mentoring experiences.