MCB Seminars-School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminars

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

Time: 12:00 pm 4/2/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Diptatanu Das (Kalsotra Lab) - "Dysregulated RNA splicing impairs protein localization and function in alcohol-associated human liver disease."

Time: 4:00 pm 4/2/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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'Fola Adesanya (Kalsotra Lab) - “Elucidating the Molecular Basis for Cardiac Mitochondrial and Bioenergetics Defects in Type I Myotonic Dystrophy (DM1)”

Time: 4:00 pm 4/2/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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MIP Seminar: Dr. Bo Wang, University of Illinois, "Discovery of Novel Regulators of Lipid Metabolism: Insights from Human Genetics to Mouse Models"

Time: 11:00 am 4/3/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Stephen Kissler, University of Colorado - Boulder - "Measuring, modeling, and interpreting the kinetics of respiratory viruses"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/3/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lars Dietrich (Columbia University) - "Bacterial biofilms, pigments and javelins"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/4/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/8/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Cell and Developmental Biology Departmental Seminar: Dr. Shannon Lauberth

Time: 12:00 pm 4/9/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Hina Zhou (van der Donk) -"Investigation into the biological function of LanC-Like (LanCL) proteins"

Time: 4:00 pm 4/9/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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Final Defense: Iris Lyu (Stadtmueller Lab) - ""Structural Investigation of Teleost Immunoglobulin M Tetramer Assembly and Engineering of Chimeric Antibodies Consisting of Teleost Motif"

Time: 9:30 am 4/10/2025
Location: 419 RAL (Rose Room)

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Final Defense: Huaxun Fan (K. Zhang Lab) - "Development and application of novel technology to unravel neuronal systems: from optogenetics, neural interfaces to spatial transcriptomics"

Time: 10:00 am 4/10/2025
Location: 433 RAL

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MIP Seminar: Dr. Elizabeth McCullagh, Oklahoma State University "The Role of Early Brain Processing on the Auditory System of a Mouse Model of Autism"

Time: 11:00 am 4/10/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

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Final Defense: Shweta Shree (Sligar Lab) - "Molecular Mechanisms of KRas4b Signaling”.

Time: 1:00 pm 4/10/2025
Location: 419 RAL (Rose Room)

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Monica Cartelle Gestal, Louisiana State University: "The hidden role of eosinophils during Bordetella spp. infections"

Time: 4:00 pm 4/10/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Final Defense: Yiquan Wang (Wu Lab) - "Integrative Approaches to Decipher Influenza Virus Evolution, Antibody Responses, and AI-driven Specificity Prediction"

Time: 9:30 am 4/11/2025
Location: 419 RAL (Rose Room)

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

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/15/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/16/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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Che Yang (Belmont Lab): "Dynamics of a type of gene expression hot zone relative to nuclear speckles"

Time: 4:00 pm 4/16/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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MIP Seminar: Dr. Darrin Brager, Ph.D., University of Nevada Las Vegas, "Investigating altered neuronal excitability in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome"

Time: 11:00 am 4/17/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Assistant Professor, Dept. of life Sciences

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Final Defense: Jessica Palalay (Sanfilippo Lab)-"“Shear force impacts type IV pilus and flagellar dynamics during Pseudomonas aeruginosa surface adhesion”

Time: 1:00 pm 4/17/2025
Location: 419 RAL (Rose Room)

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Daniel Buckley, Cornell University: "The turbulent earth, a story of life, death, and bacterial ecology"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/17/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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8th Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium

Time: 11:30 am 4/18/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Biochemistry Graduate Award Symposium poster

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

Time: 12:00 pm 4/21/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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

Time: 12:30 pm 4/21/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/22/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Xinyi Dai (Shapiro Lab) - "How FDA-approved Drug, Aprepitant, Induces Immunogenic Death of Cancer Cells"

Time: 4:00 pm 4/23/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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MIP Seminar: Dr. Daniel Polley, Harvard University, "Inhibitory decline in recurrent neural networks: behavioral effects, clinical consequences, and potential therapies"

Time: 11:00 am 4/24/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

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Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Wayne M. Yokoyama (Washington University Medical Center), “Challenging the Current Paradigms to Explain Autoimmunity: The HLA-B27 Story.”

Time: 4:00 pm 4/24/2025
Location: Medical Sciences Bldg 274

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Picture of Dr. Wayne Yokoyama. He has silver-frame glasses, short grey hair, and is wearing a dark suit with white, collared shirt and pattern tie.

Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University: "Shaping the Future Shapers"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/24/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, DSc (Hon) (University of California San Fransisco), "Remarkable progress in treating KRAS cancers"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/25/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar of Special Interest Guest Speaker: Dr. Noriko Saitoh

Time: 3:00 pm 4/25/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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

Time: 12:00 pm 4/28/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/29/2025
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/30/2025
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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Janhavi Borkar (Nair Lab) - "Mechanism of ATP-dependent phosphonate ester formation"

Time: 4:00 pm 4/30/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "TBA"

Time: 4:00 pm 4/30/2025
Location: 116 RAL

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