LIFE RCN Seminar Series Episode 3: Dr. James Sáenz and Dr. Srishti Kashyap

Time: August 5th, 8am PDT/11am EDT

Dr. James Sáenz is a microbiologist, synthetic biologist and Group Leader of the B CUBE Center for Molecular Bioengineering at Technical University Dresden. His lab uses minimized cellular systems and synthetic RNA-lipid systems to decipher the design principles of living membranes. These principles are key to understanding cellular organization and life's origins.

The title of Dr. Sáenz’s talk is “From genomically minimal cells to an RNA-lipid world”.

Dr. Srishti Kashyap is a geomicrobiologist, currently working as a Research Associate at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on how life thrives in active geological environments where waters and rocks react. She is passionate about questions addressing the physiology, ecology and geochemistry of microbe-mineral processes in anoxic extreme ecosystems, and developing and applying stable isotope probing, microscopy and spectroscopy methods to better understand in situ microbial activities, and inform life-detection strategies.

The title of Dr. Kashyap’s talk is “Quantifying activities and growth rates of microbes inhabiting subsurface serpentinites using Raman microspectroscopy".

The meeting room can be found here.