Biochemistry Department Seminars

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Final Defense: Hina Zhou (van der Donk Lab) - "Beyond the Peptide: Physiological Function of LanC-like Proteins and Noncanonical Substrate Scope of Peptide Aminoacyl-tRNA Ligases"

Time

10:00 am

Location

393 Bevier Hall
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 29, 2026

Final Defense - Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "Deep Mutational Scanning Reveals Patterns in Broadly Neutralizing Influenza and Betacoronavirus Antibodies"

Time

2:00 pm

Location

124 Burrill Hall
- Seminar/Symposium

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

Thursday, November 5, 2026

Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Andrew Dillin (University of California Berkeley ) - "Neuronal control of mitochondrial form and function: mitokines"

Time

3:30 pm

Location

180 Bevier Hall
- 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

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

Thursday, December 10, 2026

Final Defense: Jorge Calderin (Fratti Lab) - "The Detection of Vacuolar Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PI(3,4,5)P3), and its Control on SNARE-Mediated Membrane Fusion Through Binding Vam7 and Impacting the Assembly of Critical Membrane Microdomains."

Time

1:00 pm

Location

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium