Category: Events

I recently went to the Psychology day event and was really taken by the key note speaker and her research. The key note speaker specialization is in women’s health, specifically reproductive and perinatal psychology. Her researcher focused on the PPTSD caused after and before birth specifically to Black Women. Black Women are especially overlooked and…

I attended the Mega Jewish Unity Event held by Chabad at the Seeger’s Union event space. It advertised a massive challah bake, mitzvot for Israel, student speakers, refreshments, and music. After learning about this through the Rabbi’s wife Rivka, I felt so ecstatic to participate in this event and be with many of my fellow…

The biology seminar I attended on November 6 was titled the Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity and Neuronal Excitability. The lecture focused on the Par1 and Par1b proteins.  The first lesson I learned in the seminar was that Par stands for partitioning-defective proteins. There is much more I took away.   Par1 is involved in cell polarity,…