School of Molecular & Cellular Biology Calendar of Events

Monday, January 20, 2025

• • All Day

  Martin Luther King Jr. Day

  • Other

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

  • Other
• 

  • 1:30 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  MIP Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Michael Schappe, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School "Physiology under pressure: Cells and circuits of organ protection"

  Department of Cell Biology

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Nick Baker (Kalsotra Lab): "The divison of labor between metabolic and proliferative hepatocytes during liver regeneration"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, January 23, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 am
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  MIP Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Nannan Lu, Ph.D., Stanford University, "Decoding Peripheral-Brain Communication: The Role of Blood Plasma Proteins in Microglial Function"

  Instructor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Adult Neurology

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, January 27, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Ruiying Cheng/Van Bortle Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:30 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Snigdha Mathure/Van Bortle Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Reconstructing Extended Genetic Genealogies: Applications of the Bonsai Tree Algorithm in Genomic Data Analysis

  LaKisha David, PhD Department of Anthropology; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Reconstructing Extended Genetic Genealogies: Applications of the Bonsai Tree Algorithm in Genomic Data Analysis"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 3, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Zhengmin Cong/K. Prasanth Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, February 6, 2025

• 

  • 11:00 am
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

  MIP Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Kuei-Pin Huang, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 10, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

  Harnessing macrophages in advanced breast cancer to combat drug-resistance

  Jennifer Guerriero, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Breast Cancer Program, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center; Harvard Immunology, Harvard Medical School "Harnessing macrophages in advanced breast cancer to combat drug-resistance"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: New Student Presentations

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Guest Speaker: Dr. Emily Hodges, Vanderbilt University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Hina Zhou (van der Donk) -"TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Sounak Saha (Jin Lab): "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 17, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  CBI-TG Seminar: TBA -- Trainee Host: Vanessa Jones/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • B102 CLSL

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Alex Horswill, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • Beckman Institute 1005

  "From Bird Brains to Science Diplomacy, and Back," by Timothy DeVoogd, Professor, Dept. of Psychology & Field of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

• • 4:00
  • 116 RAL

  Evan Hebner (Leckband/Brieher lab) - "The Impact of E-cadherin in the Organization of Multicellular Spheroids."

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Westcott Fellow: Rebecca Tang (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 24, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Faizan Rashid/Sokac Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • Beckman Institute 1005

  "Homeobox genes and neuronal identity specification," by Oliver Hobert, Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Morgan Letzkus/Mera Lab and Elizabeth Thayer/Brooke Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Alex Shuppara (Sanfilippo Lab): "Shear flow patterns Antimicrobial gradients across bacterial populatoins"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Anu Sharma (Sanfilippo Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 28, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Matt Parsek (University of Washington) - "Secondary messenger signaling at surfaces by Pseudomonas aeruginosa"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 3, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Amie Boal, Penn State University, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Suvanthee Gunasekera/Martinez Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • Beckman Institute 1005

  "Neurogenomic mechanisms of psychiatric and substance use disorders," by Seth A. Ament, PhD, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Guest Seminar: Dr. Sua Myong, Harvard University/Ceman Host

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Ashley Holahan (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Emma Thames (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 10, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Sierra Bedwell/Heath-Whitaker Labs and Michael Bochert/Golding Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Dabich Fellow: Jessica Derham (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Qianjin Jiang (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 13, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Dante Ricci, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 15, 2025

• • 1:00 pm

  Spring Vacation Begins

  • Other

Monday, March 24, 2025

• • 7:00 am

  Instruction resumes

  • Other
• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Sihang Zhou/VanBortle Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • Beckman Institute 1005

  "Gene x Environment Interactions in Neurological Diseases," by Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, School of Public Health

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Anubhav Basu/Vanderpool Lab and Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Guest Seminar: Dr. Brian Plosky/ARC Institute/S. Prasanth

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Akshita Gopal (Wu Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Yujia Ji (Stadtmueller Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 27, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lyle Simmons, University of Michigan: " Genome instability caused by persistent RNA-DNA hybrid formation"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 31, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Pallob Barai/Chen Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Frank Schroeder, Cornell University

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • Beckman Institute 1005

  "Hippocampal engrams regulating fear memory," by Steve Maren, Director, Beckman Institute; Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Steven Eichinger/Brooke Lab and Junya Li/Martinez Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Guest Seminar: Dr. Vishnu Krishnamurthy/UIUC

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephen Kissler, University of Colorado - Boulder - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 4, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lars Dietrich:Columbia University - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Rudolph Jaenisch

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Guest Seminar: Dr. Rudolph Jaenisch/Whitehead Institute, MIT/Haiting Ma

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab and Hellan Lee/Vanderpool Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • Beckman Institute 1005

  "Neurovascular Interactions: Mechanisms, Imaging and Therapeutics," by Katerina Akassoglou, Phd, Professor, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, Senior investigator, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Director, Center for Neurovascular Brain Immunology at Gladstone Institutes/ UCSF

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Guest Seminar: Dr. Shannon Lauberth/Northwestern University/Van Bortle

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Monica Cartelle Gestal, Louisiana State University: "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 14, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: Wei-Chun Kao/M. Boppart Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Brooke (Burris) Ebner/Slauch Lab and Jiayue Yang/Whitaker Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

• • 8:30 am
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Guest Seminar: Dr. Elizabeth Gavis/Princeton University/Xin Li

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Musarrat Jabeen (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 17, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Daniel Buckley, Cornell University: "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Janine Mauzeroll, McGill University, "Implantable and Portable D-Amino Acid Biosensors"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • 2:00 pm
  • RAL 116

  Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Seminar: Hal Alper, University of Texas at Austin

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Hunter Cobbley/Vanderpool Lab and Abigail Finn/Whitaker Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Elizabeth Gavis

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Terry Gao (Huang Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 24, 2025

• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • Medical Sciences Bldg 274

  Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. James P. Allison (MD Anderson Cancer Center), "Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy: Distinct Biologies of CTLA-4 and PD-1 Blockade"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University: "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 25, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Frank McCormick (University of California San Fransico), "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student Seminar: Aniritha Ramalingam Balasubramanian/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Yishue Jiang/Sirk Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

  Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Craig Alexander Mackinnon

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Guest Seminar: Dr. Craig Alexander Mackinnon/University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine/S. Prasanth

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Janhavi Borkar (Nair Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Klas Udekwu, University of Idaho -- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, May 2, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  Biochemistry Seminar:Dr. Jennifer Richer - University of Colrado Anschutz Medical Campus: "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, May 5, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Elizabeth Rowland/Brooke Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

• • All Day

  Instruction Ends

  • Other
• • 12:00 pm
  • Charles G. Miller Auditorium

  Cell and Developmental Biology Guest Seminar: Dr. Saurabh Anand/Agilent Technologies/S. Prasanth

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Graeme Lindsey (Mehta Lab) - "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
  • 116 RAL

  Weber Fellow: Owen Ouyang (Wu Lab)- "TBA"

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• • All Day

  Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  • Other

Friday, May 9, 2025

• • All Day

  Final Exams Begin

  • Other

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

• • 4:00 pm   5:00 pm
  • Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Sergei Korshunov/Imlay Lab and Sanjay Rohaun/Imlay Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, May 17, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Commencement

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 19, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  • Other

Monday, May 26, 2025

• • All Day

  Memorial Day Holiday

  • Other

Monday, June 16, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  • Other

Thursday, June 19, 2025

• • All Day

  Juneteenth

  • Ceremony/Service

Friday, July 4, 2025

• • All Day

  Independence Day

  • Other