MCB Seminars-School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminars

Monday, August 31, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shuting Liu / Belmont Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Wednesday, September 2, 2026

• Jessica Derham - (Kalsotra Lab) - "Dynamic Expression of a Splicing Factor Promotes Cell Migration and Proliferation Following Drug-Induced, Acute Liver Injury".

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

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• Abigail Spaulding (Shapiro Lab) - "Chemotherapy-induced cell stress facilitates NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity of breast cancer cells”

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

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Thursday, September 3, 2026

• MIP Seminar: Dr. Evangelos Kiskinis, Northwestern University "Using iPSC technologies to technologies to model developmental epilepsy and ALS"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

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• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Thomas Niehaus, University of Minnesota -- "Identification of breakdown pathways for the universal damaged metabolite S-(2-succino) cysteine"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Friday, September 4, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Chang Cui (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Mechanism, Structure and Inhibitor Design of Human Ribonucleotide Reductase"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shrunali Amin / Sokac Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, September 10, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Houra Merrikh, Vanderbilt University -- "Regulation of replication restart after conflicts with transcription"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Friday, September 11, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Cheng-Ming Chiang (UT Southwestern Medical Center) - "Phospho-BRD4 IDR-Targeting Compounds as Antiviral and Anticancer Agents"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Monday, September 14, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Minxue Liu / KV Prasanth Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Thursday, September 17, 2026

• MIP Seminar Student Seminar: Zihan Chu (Climer Lab) "Hippocampal Representational Drift in Memory Processing" & Hannah Eichenberger (M. Gillette Lab) "Modulation of Tight Junction Proteins and Neuroinflammation at the Blood-Brain Interface Under Environmental Circadian Disruption"

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Nidia Sequeira Trovao, Pathobiology/University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign -- "The Genetic Traceability of Viral Pathogens Across the One Health Spectrum"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Friday, September 18, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Hong Jin (Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "Translation beyond Initiation, Elongation and Termination"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

• Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, September 24, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Michael Gray, University of Alabama -- "How oral streptococci respond to the antimicrobial oxidants found in saliva"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Friday, September 25, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. C. Shan Xu (Yale) - "Enhanced FIB-SEM: A High-Resolution 3D Imaging Platform for Biology"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Monday, September 28, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Anna Mankovich / Freeman Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 2, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Yan Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - "TBA"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 5, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Andrew Riley / Brieher Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Neethu Babu / Freeman Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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• Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Roger Adams Laboratory

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Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Karine Gibbs, University of California - Berkeley -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 12, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Zhengmin Cong / KV Prasanth Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Purnam Ghosh / Belmont Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, October 16, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Sam Sternberg (Columbia University) - "RNA-guided and RNA-templated antiviral immunity"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, October 19, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Humayra Oishi / S. Prasanth Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• Madhusree Seal (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 22, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Shady Amin, New York University Abu Dhabi -- "Steroid hormones produced by coral-associated bacteria modulate the coral immune response during thermal stress"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Monday, October 26, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Tejus Sreelal / Li Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Snigdha Mathure / Smith-Bolton Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 29, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Zoi Rapti, Mathematics/University of Illinois Urbana-Illinois -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Friday, October 30, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Tom Cooper (Baylor College of Medicine) - "Mechanistic insights of RNA toxicity and disrupted RNA processing from modeling Myotonic Dystrophy in mice"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 2, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Ran Yang / Brieher Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• Subhashis Natua (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Seung Jun Lee (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Andrew Dillin (University of California Berkeley ) - "TBA"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  180 Bevier Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Virginia Armbrust, University of Washington -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 6, 2026

• Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Navdeep Chandel (Northwestern University) - " Mitochondrial signaling in physiology and disease"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

• Ashley Holahan (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 12, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Benjamin Good, Stanford University -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Friday, November 13, 2026

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lucas Meirelles (Harvard/Mass General) - "Dynamic Host-Pathogen Co-Adaptation in Chronic Airway Infections”

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 16, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Afifa Iqbal / Sokac Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Saireet Misra / Belmont Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

• Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Yujia Ji (Stadtmueller) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, November 19, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Mohammed Kaplan, University of Chicago -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Monday, November 30, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Oraya Zinder / S. Prasanth Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shreyasi Neogi / Belmont Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

• Evan Hebner (Leckband) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 RAL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Christina Li (K. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, December 9, 2026

• Terry Gao (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Amna Mehfooz (K. Zhang Lab) - "TBA"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, December 14, 2026

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Reean Abdullah / Chen Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, February 1, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Luyan (Lorraine) Bai / Li Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, February 8, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Ansumita Biswas / Freeman Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, February 15, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Zheng (William) Fang / Zhao Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, February 22, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Shengyi Fei / Zhao Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, March 1, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Diptika Raut / Li Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, March 8, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Katie Whalen / Freeman Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, March 22, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Divisha Biswas / Sokac

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, March 29, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Connor Powers / Smith-Bolton Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, April 12, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Cecilia Sun / Ceman Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, April 19, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Youyang Wang / S. Prasanth Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, April 26, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Jacob Yan / KV Prasanth Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, May 3, 2027

• Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Yiran Zhang / Li Lab

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium