MCB Seminars-School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminars

Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Career Development / Dr. Bing Yang / Purdue University

Time: 12:00 pm 4/1/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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Wenkan Liu (Wu Lab) - 'HAAbGAT: A Graphic Attention neural network model for HA-Antibody Epitope Prediction and Screening'

Time: 4:00 pm 4/1/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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Hossein Omidi Ardali (Tajkhorshid Lab) - "Cholesterol Enhances Peripheral Binding of the FERM Domain to Membrane"

Time: 4:30 pm 4/1/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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MIP Seminar: Dr. Jimmy Dooley, Purdue University "From brainstem to cortex: REM sleep and the developmental hand-off of motor control. "

Time: 11:00 am 4/2/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Lanying Zeng, Texas A & M University -- "Single-cell Studies of Phage Penetration and Implications for Antimicrobial Strategies"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/2/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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POSTPONED Dr. Susan Hafenstein (University of Minnesota) - "Structural Studies of virus and host interactions"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/3/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Cell and Developmental Biology Journal Club

Time: 12:00 pm 4/6/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Yumi Iwadate/Slauch Lab and Thomas Cowell/Whitaker Lab

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/7/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Brooke Bouwens (Hergenrother Lab)- ""Investigating the Role of TRPM4 in ErSO-TFPy Mediated Cell Death".

Time: 4:00 pm 4/8/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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Amna Mehfooz (K. Zhang Lab) - "Necroptosis Beyond One Cell: A mechanistic study of Intercellular Propagation"

Time: 4:30 pm 4/8/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Alison Kell, University of New Mexico -- "Understanding hantavirus pathogenesis through innate immune activation"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/9/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Final Defense: Rebecca Schneider (Stadtmueller Lab): "Structural Characterization of Avian Polymeric Antibodies: Insights into Evolutionary Divergence and Function"

Time: 10:00 am 4/10/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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Microbiology Postdoc Seminar: Caroline Oldstone-Jackson/Heath Lab and Changyi Zhang/Whitaker Lab

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/14/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Cell and Developmental Biology Journal Club

Time: 12:00 pm 4/15/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Hao Fan (Y. Zhang Lab) - "From Cold Shock to Ribosome Heterogeneity : How Bacteria Reshape The Translational Landscape Under Stress"

Time: 4:00 pm 4/15/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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Minsoo Kim (Stadtmueller Lab) - "Functional and structural characterization of engineered Secretory Immunoglobulin A (SIgA) against C. difficile"

Time: 4:30 pm 4/15/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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Final Defense: Alex Shuppara (Sanfilippo Lab) - “Flow boosts antimicrobial effectiveness and patterns bacterial population gradients”

Time: 10:00 am 4/16/2026
Location: 313 Mumford Hall

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MIP Seminar: Dr. Ajay Jain, SSM Health, "Rewiring the Gut in Short Bowel Syndrome"

Time: 11:00 am 4/16/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Adam Deutschbauer, University of California - Berkeley -- "Characterizing microbes at scale with high-throughput genetics"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/16/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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9th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium

Time: 12:00 pm 4/17/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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

Time: 12:00 pm 4/20/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Final Defense: Che Yang (Belmont Lab) - "TBA"

Time: 2:00 pm 4/21/2026
Location: 313 Mumford Hall

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Final Defense: Anu Sharma (Sanfilippo Lab) - "Combined effects of flow and hydrogen peroxide on bacteria."

Time: 10:00 am 4/22/2026
Location: 419 RAL (Rose Room)

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Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Anne Carpenter / Broad Institute

Time: 12:00 pm 4/22/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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Piyush Sharma (Sanfilippo Lab) - "Shear force counterintuitively enhances surface colonization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa"

Time: 4:00 pm 4/22/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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Pelham Kogut (van der Donk Lab) - "Kinetic investigation into potential LanCL interacting molecules"

Time: 4:30 pm 4/22/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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MIP Seminar: Dr. Avtar Roopra, University Wisconsin-Madison, "Targeting neuroinflammation for disease modification in epilepsy: A data science approach"

Time: 11:00 am 4/23/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Mauricio Pontes, Penn State University -- "Control of bacterial envelope homeostasis and virulence gene expression"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/23/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Joe Sanfilippo (UIUC) - "Bacterial stress responses and surface adhesion in shear flow"

Time: 12:00 pm 4/24/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) Departmental Seminars: Dr. Gene Yeo / UC San Diego

Time: 12:00 pm 4/29/2026
Location: Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

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Zixiao Li (K. Zhang Lab) - “Resolving protein oligomerization state in living cells using quantitative imaging technique”

Time: 4:00 pm 4/29/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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Katrine Dailey (Wu Lab) - "Vulnerability in the breadth evolution of an influenza broadly neutralizing antibody"

Time: 4:30 pm 4/29/2026
Location: 116 RAL

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MIP Seminar: Dr. Mitchell Roitman, University Illinois Chicago, "The mesolimbic dopamine system in the affect-to-action-arc."

Time: 11:00 am 4/30/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

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Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Courtney Ellison, University of Georgia -- "Form and function: The role of type IV pili in DNA uptake"

Time: 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 4/30/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

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