Career Development
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology & Music. While we won't be able to share pizza in person, all attendees will be entered into a raffle to win a $15 Target gift card.
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology & Music. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the UCSB Library.
While we won't be able to share pizza together in person, all attendees will be entered into a raffle to win one of ten $15 Target gift cards.
November 2021 Edition: Grey Matter & the Gulag
November 12, 12-1:15pm
Zoom*
*RSVP here to receive the Zoom link*
When it Comes to Grey Matter, Sex Matters: How Steroid Hormones Remodel the Hippocampus
Nora Wolcott
Graduate Student in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
The connections between neurons are in a constantly fluctuating state, driven by sex steroid hormones such as estradiol and progesterone. Here, we tracked synaptic motility in the hippocampus across the hormonal cycles of female mice. To accomplish this we employed a custom glass prism surgically implanted in the mouse hippocampus, and identified hormonal stages using a novel machine learning pipeline. In my talk, I will describe how these cutting-edge methodologies allow us to investigate how innate behaviors such as spatial navigation are shaped by steroid hormones.
Composing after Kolyma - Vsevolod Zaderatsky's Violin Concerto
Alexandra Birch
Graduate Student in Music
The history of the GULAG, the Soviet prison system, is an understudied genocide often lost in wider cold-war narratives and understanding of the Soviet state. Artists, musicians, and poets were famously interned in the system with dissidence and 'foreign elements' read into their creative output. I present one such composer, Ukrainian Vsevolod Zaderatsky and his experiences with arrest and detention in Kolyma in the Siberian far-East. Zaderatsky wrote his Concerto for Violin in the final year of his life, and after his 'rehabilitation' into Soviet society years after his time in the GULAG. Still, the legacy of the GULAG is evident in artistic production, like music. Through this case study, I address larger issues of working with recovered music from atrocity and aim to highlight important issues of individual and collective trauma.
This event will be moderated by Jane Faulkner, Research & Engagement Librarian at UCSB's Library.
Interested in being a presenter at an upcoming Lunch & Learn? Click here to find out more! If you have any questions about this event or Lunch & Learn in general, please email Chava Nerenberg.