Event Details:
This special seminar series on aging brings together researchers from various disciplines to explore aging-related topics. Each seminar will last one hour, featuring a 50-minute talk followed by a 10-minute Q&A. Designed for faculty, researchers, and students, these sessions aim to foster learning and lively discussions.
There will be three total seminars in the 2024–25 series. To support our researchers' participation in this open science ‘lab-meeting style’ exchange of ideas, these seminars are not streamed/recorded and are only open to members of the Stanford community.
Coleen Murphy, Faculty, Director, LSI Genomics, Princeton University
Two kinds of memory : Long-term synaptic and transgenerational epigenetic memory
Through her genetics/genomics work in C. elegans, Murphy has made discoveries in the fields of longevity, reproductive aging, cognitive aging, and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. Her contributions include pioneering new assays for memory and reproductive decline, and new technologies for tissue-specific and single-nucleus transcriptomics. Her work identified mechanisms for reversing cognitive decline in both worms and mice, and revealed widely-conserved pathways for slowing oocyte decline. She also made the startling discovery that worms can pass on learned avoidance of bacterial pathogens to their offspring for four generations via a paradigm-shifting mechanism based on interkingdom RNA signaling and beneficial functions for a cryptic transposon.
