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+### Next pombeTalks: Wednesday October 16th
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+The next [pombeTalks](https://evonuclab.org/pombetalks) will take
+place on Wednesday, October 16th, at
+[08:00](https://everytimezone.com/s/4009cf69)
+San Francisco / 11:00 New York / 16:00 London / 17:00 Paris /
+20:30 Delhi / 23:00 Beijing / 00:00 Tokyo
+
+The speaker is:
+
+  - **Pritha Chowdhury** \
+  Qian Chen’s lab, University of Toledo, USA \
+  "A mechanosensitive ion channel Pkd2 modulates the assembly of
+  myosin II and actin in the fission yeast cytokinetic contractile
+  ring"
+
+See [pombelist](https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-pombelist)
+for the meeting details and Zoom passcode