Eleanor Fapohunda Colloquium Series

Dr. Bjarne Bartlett, “Toxins, Teas, and Technology: Building Data Bridges Across Biology”.

From cone snail venoms to kombucha SCOBYs, biology offers an array of natural chemistries. This talk explores how computational biology and data science illuminates hidden worlds of toxins and microbial communities. Venom peptides inspire new therapeutics, kombucha cultures transform dairy waste into sustainable beverages, and genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics data harnessed makes sense of this. “Building data bridges” across disciplines, explains evolution’s molecular innovations and reimagine their potential for medicine, food science, and beyond.

The School of Arts & Sciences Colloquium Series was established in 2004 by the late Dr. Eleanor Fapohunda, Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, to enable faculty to share their scholarly pursuits with presentations that are accessible, engaging, and interesting to faculty, staff, and students representing the wide range of academic backgrounds of our School.

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