About this Event
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🧠 Lecture: "The Strange Biology of Shape-Shifting Proteins"
🎤 Speaker: Hannah Blume
Step inside the microscopic world where the contents of a cell behave more like a vinaigrette than a rigid machine. Join neuroscientist Hannah Blume as she explores “biomolecular condensates” — mysterious, liquid-y cellular compartments that form because molecules attract or repel one another like oil and vinegar. First seen under microscopes in the 1800s, these strange droplets were largely ignored for over a century, until new tools revealed that they depend on highly unusual, flexible “intrinsically disordered proteins” that break many of biology’s classic rules.
Hannah will explain how these shape-shifting proteins organize life inside cells, why mutations in them can contribute to devastating diseases like ALS, and how this rapidly growing field is reshaping what biologists thought they knew about cellular structure.
A 6th-year PhD student in Harvard’s Program in Neuroscience, Hannah blends deep scientific insight with an accessible, playful style informed by her background in Neuroscience and Gender Studies—and her love of salsa dancing and Dungeons & Dragons.
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Agenda
6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.
6:55 PM – Host introduction
7:00 PM – Lecture begins
7:45 PM – Audience Q&A
8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
8:30 PM – Wrap up.
Event venue & nearby stays
Back Bay, Back Bay, Boston, United States
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