Tue, Jun 25
|Winthrop JCR
PRISE Distinguished Speaker Series, Karine Gibbs
This week’s Distinguished Speaker for PRISE is Karine Gibbs, associate professor of molecular and cellular biology. Winthrop JCR!
Time & Location
Jun 25, 2019, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Winthrop JCR, 32 Mill St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
About the event
Professor Gibbs’s lab strives to harness P. mirabilis’s relative genetic simplicity and tractability to discern the molecular mechanisms underlying its self/non-self-recognition process. Their research leverages the bacterium’s sophisticated synthesis of sensing, signaling, and motility to advance understanding of the basic phenomena that give rise to social behaviors, such as cell-cell communication, cooperative migration, competition, and pathogenesis. Professor Gibbs’s research broadly addresses how cells define themselves, communicate their self-identity, and respond to others.