An Inaugural Lecture for the Cottrill-Rolfes Chair in Catholic Studies, College of Arts and Sciences. Reception to follow.
By Elizabeth Chapin
The University of Kentucky is hosting its fifth annual Substance Use Research Event (SURE) April 24 in the UK Gatton Student Center. This free event showcases translational research conducted at UK focusing on substance use and substance use disorder.
Cannabis research is a focus of this year’s event, which will include an update on the new UK Cannabis Center, a breakout session on emerging cannabis research, and a keynote from a national cannabis expert.
Research Support Provided by the Office of the Vice President for Research
Among the support programs offered by the Vice President for Research are the following:
All A&S undergraduate and graduate Students of Color in Mathematics and Science (SCiMS) are invited for an evening of fellowship, food, and fun!
Questions? Please contact Billie Haley.
Prof. Catherine Wanner (Penn State University) has conducted 30 years of ethnographic research in Ukraine. She is the author or editor of seven books, including her most recent monograph, Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine (Cornell University Press, 2022), and the forthcoming edited volume, Dispossession: Imperial Legacies and the Russo-Ukrainian War (Routledge, 2023). Her research has focused primarily on the politics of religion in Ukraine and increasingly on human rights and conflict mediation within the context of war. She is the convenor of the Working Group on Lived Religion in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. In 2020 she was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Prize from the Association for the Study of Eastern Christianity.
Sponsored by World Religions, History, Anthropology, Sociology, MCL, and the Lewis Honors College, and with special thanks for the support of the Gaines Center for the Humanities.
The Clark Lecture, sponsored by the Gaines Center for the Humanities, for 2023 will be given by Prof. Deborah Deliyannis (Indiana University, Bloomington). Prof. Deliyannis draws upon archaeology and architectural history in her studies of the way history was written in the Early Middle Ages. She is the author of several monographs, including Ravenna in Late Antiquity, which treats the history of the city and monuments of Ravenna from the fifth to the ninth centuries (2010). Her most recent book, Fifty Early Medieval Things, was co-written with Paolo Squatriti and Hendrik Dey, and was published in 2019. Her current book project considers the role of bishops as church-builders, from late antiquity through the Carolingian period. She is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.
Dr. Francois Spitz | Spitz LabBio:
PhD from Université Paris 6 (France)
Group Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (2006-2015) (Heidelberg, Germany)
Head of Research Unit at the Institut Pasteur (2015-2019) (Paris, France)
Professor, The University of Chicago (2019-.)
Abstract:
The mechanisms that regulate the efficiency and specificity of interactions between distant genes and cis-regulatory elements such as enhancers play a central role in shaping the specific regulatory programs that control cell fate and identity. In particular, the (epi)genetic elements that organize the 3D folding of the genome in specific loops and domains have emerged as key determinants of this process. I will discuss our current views on how 3D genome architecture is organized, how it influences gene regulatory interactions and illustrate how alterations of the mechanisms and elements that organize genomes in 3D could contribute to genomic disorders and genome evolution.
This weekend celebration is a collaboration with the Office of Institutional Diversity, the College of Arts & Sciences/Commonwealth Institute on Black Studies (CIBS), the UK Alumni Association, and the UK Office of Philanthropy. We are looking forward to welcoming alumni back to campus for a fun-filled weekend.
