Cognitive Science Program

Dr. Binyam Mogessie, 

Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Yale

Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow

Host: Barbara Mellone

“Emerging mechanisms of chromosome segregation in mammalian eggs”

Summary: Meiotic chromosome segregation generates fertilizable eggs from immature oocytes.

In this talk, I will discuss our recent advances in understanding new cytoskeletal processes that safeguard chromosome segregation in mammalian eggs.

About Dr. Mogessie: Binyam Mogessie is an Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at Yale University. Originally from Ethiopia, Binyam received his BSc in biochemistry and cell biology in 2007 from Jacobs University Bremen in Germany and his PhD in Cell Biology in 2011 from the University of London. Binyam carried out his postdoc research at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge, UK and the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Germany where he discovered a function of the actin cytoskeleton in preventing aneuploidy in mammalian eggs. In 2018, Binyam established his independent research laboratory dedicated to mechanistic studies of female meiosis and reproductive longevity. Binyam recently moved his lab to Yale University where he is a Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale fellow and HFSP Young Investigator.

Link to publications: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36662854/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35112707/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28839045/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29153837/

Mogessie website: https://eggsnchromosomes.com/

SHaW is hosting Pet Therapy every Tuesday from 5pm - 7pm at the Cordial Storrs House.
Stop by for some pet therapy love!

We’ve also partnered with the The Benton to host Pet Therapy every first Thursday of the month!
Join us in The Benton from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Please note that Pet Therapy is provided on a volunteer basis. We cannot guarantee that dogs will be present the entire time.

STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM

**Virtual only**

Sangwon Hyun, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

University of California, Santa Cruz

Learning the Ocean’s Microbial Ecology using Statistical Mixture Models

Although microscopic, phytoplankton in the ocean are extremely important to all of life and are together responsible for as much photosynthesis as all plants on land combined. Oceanographers now routinely collect single cell data in real-time while onboard a moving ship, which yields high-resolution information about the distribution of phytoplankton across thousands of kilometers. I present new statistical methods designed to estimate time-varying phytoplankton sub-populations from flow cytometry data while simultaneously identifying the specific environmental drivers. We apply this model to data from numerous oceanographic ships deployed in the North Pacific ocean and learn new insights about the relationship between marine microbial populations and environmental factors.

Bio Sangwon Hyun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests include oceanographic data analysis, epidemiological modeling/forecasting, changepoint detection, and selective inference. More generally, he develops statistical tools for large complex data in real-world scientific applications. Before his current position, Hyun was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Jacob Bien. He received his PhD in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was advised by Max G’Sell and Ryan Tibshirani.

DATE: Wednesday, 10/4/23

TIME: 4:00 PM-5:00 PM, EDT

WebEX-https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=mcf2a20148856ec5a8b450a532b1277bc

A celebration of Millikan’s groundbreaking contributions to philosophy and the 40th anniversary of her seminal book Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories (LTOBC) bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines - philosophy, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and biology - to engage both critically and creatively with Millikan’s work. Registration form is here: https://ecomresearchgroup.com/millikanfest/