MCB Seminars-School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminars

Monday, February 27, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Sulagna Das, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Tongyu "Anna" Zhang/Kieffer Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

- 10:00 am
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Charles Bou-Nader (Visiting Fellow, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), “RNA structure recognition at the virus-host interface”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- B102 CLSL
Department of Biochemistry Annual Graduate Student Awards Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
CDB Stem Cells & Regenerative Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Haiting Ma, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Cell-environment interactions during tissue maturation and disease
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Matt Sinclair (Tajkhorshid lab) - "Combining simulation with experiment to probe role of point mutants in glycogen storage disease"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 2, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Aijun Wang, UC Davis, "Engineering stem cells and extracellular components to promote tissue regeneration and restore function"

Professor, Dept. Biomedical Engineering
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Peggy Cotter, University of North Carolina -- "Bordetella filamentous hemagglutinin: a phagocyte-specific toxin delivery system?"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 3, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Chang Cui (Harvard University), "Charge Transport and Conformational Gating in Metalloenzymes"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 6, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
CDB Stem Cells & Regenerative Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Tianchi Xin, Yale University, School of Medicine

Understanding the mechanisms of tissue regeneration and oncogenesis by imaging live mice
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Room 314A RAL
FINAL DEFENSE: Kevin Gill (Procko lab) - "A study of viral entry proteins and receptors using deep mutagenesis".
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Saurja DasGupta (Harvard Medical School), "RNA: Catalyzing Life’s Origins"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Kehl-Fie Lab and Megan Ringling/Blanke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
CDB Stem Cells & Regenerative Biology Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Erin Jimenez, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH

Regulatory logic of hair cell regeneration
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Arthur Zou (Leckband lab) - Analysis of E-cadherin interaction with EGFR in mechanotransduction
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
JUnyao Zhu (Shapiro lab) - FGD3, a Likely Mediator of Anticancer Drug Induced Necrotic Cell Death
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 9, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Angie Salles, University of Illinois Chicago, "Bats, Brains and Behavior"

Assistant Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Yonatan Grad, Harvard University -- "From molecular mechanisms to policy: antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae""
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 10, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
CANCELLED - Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Neha Garg (Georgia Tech), "Mapping microbial responses to biological and chemical environments using omics"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 13, 2023

- All Day
No CDB Seminar - Spring Break
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 20, 2023

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: "Investigating the Role of Nuclear Myosins" Audrey Peng / Freeman Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: "Muscle cell derived Ccl8 is a negative regulator of muscle regeneration" Allison Boss-Kennedy / Chen Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Michael R. Lawson (Stanford University School of Medicine) “Defining the Pathways of Eukaryotic Translational Quality Control”
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Tori Boyle/Hatoum-Aslan Lab and Mireille Farjo/Brooke Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Chi Zhang (Fratti lab) - "The Role of Phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate (PI(3,5)P2) on the Homeostasis of Ion Transport on Yeast Vacuoles".
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Rachel Martini (van der Donk lab) - "Characterization of Novel Glycocins and Glycosyltransferases”
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 23, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Lori Zeltser, Columbia University, "Developing mouse models to study emotional eating and anxiety"

Associate Professor, Dept. Pathology and Cell Biology
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 24, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Keith T. Wilson (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), “New Molecular Insights into Mechanisms of Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Cancer Development”
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, March 27, 2023

- 10:00 am
- B126 CLSL
FINAL DEFENSE: Qi Zou (Cronan lab) - "Regulation of Fatty Acid Synthesis in Enterococcus faecalis"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Adam Norris, Southern Methodist University
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Student Seminar: Angelica Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: "Contributions of microtubules in regulating membrane reservoir dynamics during embryonic morphogenesis" Shrunali Amin / Sokac Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Student Seminar: "The Role of Hsp90 in Tail-Anchored Protein Membrane Biogenesis" Anna Mankovich / Freeman Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Jorge Calderin (Fratti lab) - The Uniqueness of Soluble Yeast SNARE protein Vam7
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Room 116 RAL
Nick Baker (Kalsotra lab) - Temporally controlled expression of ESRP2 in single cells coordinates the metabolic and proliferative activities of regenerating livers
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, March 30, 2023

- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Martin Myers, University of Michigan "Control of food intake and body weight by leptin and the hindbrain"

Professor, Dept. Internal Medicine and Molecular & Integrative Physiology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Susan Lovett, Brandeis University -- "A genetic approach to replication fork repair in E. coli""
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, March 31, 2023

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Grant Jensen (Brigham Young University), "Electron Cryotomography of Cells: Progress and Potential"
- Seminar/Symposium