Invitation from Biology
The Biology seminar speaker on Monday 2/20 is Lexy Von Dietzmann, a new C. elegans biologist at the University of Minnesota, and she’s very eager to meet some Carleton students and faculty with similar interests. She’s just setting up her lab and interested in potential technicians, post-bacc students, and future graduate students, too. Her work spans biology, biophysics, and biochemistry, and is really pretty amazing:
“As a chemical physicist turned cell biologist, Dr. Lexy von Diezmann is fascinated by how cells generate order from the random behavior of individual molecules. In her research, she develops high-resolution microscope methods that reveal the dynamics and self-organization of the proteins responsible for choreographing subcellular activities. She will discuss her work studying how asymmetrically dividing bacteria tell their ends apart, how homologous chromosomes “choose” where to recombine during meiosis in C. elegans, and her vision of research as an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota.”
Here are some opportunities to connect with Lexy. Our amazing students are a big part of why speakers come to visit Carleton, and it’s a great way for you to make some professional connections and share awesome science stories.
- 12:30 in LDC: Biosphere lunch
- 3:30 in Olin 141: Lexy’s talk, Watching cellular organization emerge one molecule at a time
- By appointment: Please feel free to sign up if you want to connect with Lexy one on one—she’s happy to talk about her trajectory in science, her new lab, graduate school in general, her specific research interests. Fill out the survey to get on the schedule.
Lexy is interested in meeting with students in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, given the overlap of her work with those areas. And she’s just setting up her lab at the University of Minnesota, she’d like to reach a wide range of students who might be interested as potential technicians, post-bacc students, and future graduate students. Here’s a little more about her:
“As a chemical physicist turned cell biologist, Dr. Lexy von Diezmann is fascinated by how cells generate order from the random behavior of individual molecules. In her research, she develops high-resolution microscope methods that reveal the dynamics and self-organization of the proteins responsible for choreographing subcellular activities. She will discuss her work studying how asymmetrically dividing bacteria tell their ends apart, how homologous chromosomes “choose” where to recombine during meiosis in C. elegans, and her vision of research as an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota.”