Biochemistry Department Seminars

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Emily Scott (University of Michigan, Departments of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology), “Understanding steroidogenic cytochrome P450 enzymes for drug design"

12:00 pm 3/12/2021

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Christopher V. Rao (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), "Chemotaxis in Bacillus subtilis"

12:00 pm 3/19/2021

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Amanda Whipple (Harvard University, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology), “Regulation of gene expression in the brain by imprinted non-coding RNAs"

12:00 pm 3/26/2021

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Katrina Forest (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Bacteriology), “Chemical Biology of Freshwater Rhodopsin and a Novel Photoheterotrophy"

12:00 pm 4/9/2021

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Rudi Fasan (University of Rochester, Department of Chemistry) "Design and Evolution of Macrocyclic Organo-Peptide Hybrids for Selective Modulation of Protein-Protein Interactions"

12:00 pm 4/16/2021

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Kou-San Ju (The Ohio State University, Department of Microbiology), “Genomics-Accelerated Discovery and Biosynthesis of Phosphonic Acid Natural Products"

12:00 pm 4/23/2021

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Gavin Williams (North Carolina State University, Department of Chemistry), “Synthetic Biology Approach to New-to-Nature Secondary Metabolites"

12:00 pm 4/30/2021

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ines Chen, (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Department of Structural Biology), “The Editorial Process: Confessions of a Former Editor"

12:00 pm 5/7/2021

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Sujatha Jagannathan (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics), “When cell's garbage disposal fails: Compromised RNA quality control in the human muscle disease"

12:00 pm 9/17/2021

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Wilfried Weber (Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, BIOSS Centre for Biological Signaling Studies), “Molecular Optogenetics for the multi-level control of biological signaling processes"

12:00 pm 10/15/2021

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Josh Blodgett (Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Biology), “New lessons from old molecules: using macrolactam comparative-metabologenomics for antibiotic regulatory and discovery insights"

12:00 pm 10/22/2021

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Kenneth Matreyek (Case Western Reserve University, Department of Pathology), “Harnessing multiplex genetic assays for the quantitative understanding of protein sequence - function in mammalian cells"

12:00 pm 10/29/2021

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Wenjing Wang (University of Michigan, Department of Chemistry), “Designing molecular sensors and tools for studying brain signaling"

12:00 pm 11/12/2021

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Gaya K. Amarasinghe (Washington University in St. Louis), “Enter, hide, and detect: Molecular mechanisms at the host-viral interface"

12:00 pm 11/19/2021

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Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program and Dept. of Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Erin Adams (The University of Chicago) "TBA"

12:00 pm 12/3/2021

B102 CLSL - Chemical and Life Sciences Building, Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Beth Stadtmueller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “The Structures, Functions and Therapeutic Potential of Secretory Antibodies"

12:00 pm 12/10/2021

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Luiz Pedro Carvalho (The Francis Crick Institute), "Allosteric activation of metabolic pathways as an innovative antibiotic strategy"

12:00 pm 2/18/2022

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Yuanquan Song (University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), "Neuronal intrinsic reprogramming to promote neural repair"

12:00 pm 2/25/2022

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Hani Zaher (Washington University in St. Louis), "Ribosome collisions, quality control and stress response"

12:00 pm 3/4/2022

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Rudi Fasan (University of Rochester), "Engineered Metalloprotein Catalysts for Abiological Chemistry"

12:00 pm 3/11/2022

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. X. Charlie Dong (Indiana University), "Epigenetics and signal transduction in the liver pathophysiology"

12:00 pm 3/25/2022

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Cassandra Hayne (NIH/NIEHS) [F], "Biochemical breakthroughs in human tRNA splicing"

12:00 pm 3/29/2022

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5th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Symposium

11:00 am 4/1/2022

Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Baobin Li (UC Berkeley), "Mechanisms of pH sensory of the two-pore domain K+channel TASK2"

12:00 pm 4/5/2022

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Vinayak Agarwal (Georgia Tech), "Looking back and building forward: natural product biosynthesis"

12:00 pm 4/8/2022

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Prof. Ailong Ke (Cornell University), "From High-resolution Mechanisms to Genome Editing Applications for Type I CRISPR-Cas (CRISPR-Cas3)"

12:00 pm 4/15/2022

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Aleksandra Skrajna (UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy), "Universal Principles of Nucleosome Recognition"

12:00 pm 4/19/2022

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Joint Biochemistry/MIP Seminar: Prof. Robert V. (Rob) Stahelin (Purdue University), "Lipid-dependent assembly and budding of emerging pathogens"

12:00 pm 4/22/2022

B102 CLSL - Chemical and Life Sciences Building, Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Prof. Chu-Young Kim (The University of Texas at El Paso), "Using cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography in tandem to decipher enzyme mechanisms"

12:00 pm 4/29/2022

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. N. Cecilia Martinez-Gomez (UC Berkeley), "Unraveling Lanthanide Transport, Storage, and Usage in bacteria"

12:00 pm 9/23/2022

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Anita Corbett (Emory University), "Links between the RNA Exosome Complex and Human Disease"

12:00 pm 10/7/2022

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Gottleib Lecture presented by the Biotechnology Center: Prof. David Craik, "The chemistry and biology of cyclotides – ultrastable peptides with applications in drug design and agriculture"

12:00 pm 10/28/2022

B102 CLSL - Chemical and Life Sciences Building, Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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CANCELLED - Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Leifu Chang (Purdue University), "Structure and mechanism of type V CRISPR-Cas12 effectors"

12:00 pm 11/11/2022

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Timothy A. Ryan (Weill Cornell Medicine), "The synaptic energy crisis & ways to confer synaptic resilience"

12:00 pm 11/18/2022

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar of Interest: Dr. Nicholas Wu (University of Illinois), "Influenza and SARS-CoV-2: from virus evolution to vaccine design"

12:00 pm 12/2/2022

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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18th Annual Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Symposium

2:00 - 5:00 pm 12/9/2022

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Jeongsik Yong (University of Minnesota Twin Cities), "To Continue or Not to Continue: Intron Polyadenylation in Cancer"

12:00 pm 1/27/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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MCB RNA Faculty Search Seminar: Dr. Keith Gagnon (SIU-C), “Making RNA-Guided Genomic Medicines Better with Biochemistry”

2:00 pm 2/9/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Joel McManus (Carnegie Mellon University), "Unraveling the functions of mRNA transcript leaders - from yeast, to mice, to humans"

12:00 pm 2/24/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

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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”

10:00 am 3/1/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Chang Cui (Harvard University), "Charge Transport and Conformational Gating in Metalloenzymes"

12:00 pm 3/3/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

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MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Saurja DasGupta (Harvard Medical School), "RNA: Catalyzing Life’s Origins"

2:00 pm 3/6/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

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CANCELLED - Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Neha Garg (Georgia Tech), "Mapping microbial responses to biological and chemical environments using omics"

12:00 pm 3/10/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

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MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Michael R. Lawson (Stanford University School of Medicine) “Defining the Pathways of Eukaryotic Translational Quality Control”

2:00 pm 3/20/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Keith T. Wilson (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), “New Molecular Insights into Mechanisms of Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Cancer Development”

12:00 pm 3/24/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

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MCB RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Michael R. Lawson (Stanford University School of Medicine) “Defining the Pathways of Eukaryotic Translational Quality Control”

2:00 pm 3/29/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Grant Jensen (Brigham Young University), "Electron Cryotomography of Cells: Progress and Potential"

12:00 pm 3/31/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

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Poster with photos of the two guest speakers

6th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Symposium

11:00 am 4/7/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ryohei Yasuda (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience), "Neuronal signal transduction in synaptic plasticity"

12:00 pm 4/14/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Fengyi Wan (Johns Hopkins University), "Transient bacterial infection and colonic tumorigenesis"

12:00 pm 4/21/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Neha Garg (Georgia Tech), "Mapping microbial responses to biological and chemical environments using omics"

4:00 pm 4/26/2023

116 RAL

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Christopher S. Hayes (UC Santa Barbara), Post-translational activation of a toxic antibacterial effector protein"

12:00 pm 4/28/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Samy Meroueh (Indiana University), "Small-Molecule inhibitors and degraders of the TEAD-YAP/TAZ transcription factor"

12:00 pm 5/5/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Yubin Zhou, Texas A&M University, "Optogenetic engineering of calcium channels and immune cells with tailored function"

12:00 pm 10/6/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry-IGB Seminar: Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Cambridge, UK, "Initiation of Translation by the Ribosome"

12:00 pm 10/9/2023

B102 CLSL (Charles Miller Auditorium)

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Lilly Lecture: Professor Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford, "Engineered Nanopores: from Gene Sequencing to Organ Repair"

5:00 pm 10/9/2023

116 RAL

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Ron Kopito, Stanford University, "Regulation of the ribosome-translocon interaction by the ubiquitin like protein UFM1”

12:00 pm 10/13/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Tan Chee Wah, National University of Singapore, "Serology in infectious disease investigation"

12:00 pm 10/27/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Vincent Lee (University of Maryland), "Pseudomonas aeruginosa nucleotide signaling, RNA degradation and device-associated infections"

12:00 pm 12/1/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. David Hershey (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Surface-adaptation in bacterial cells"

12:00 pm 1/19/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Diana Rose E. Ranoa (University of Illinois), "Harnessing the immune system for the treatment of solid tumors"

12:00 pm 2/16/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Beth Stadtmueller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), "Investigating and engineering the structures and functions of Secretory Antibodies"

12:00 pm 2/23/2024

B102 CLSL, Charles G. Miller Auditorium

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Nicholas Wu (University of Illinois), “Deciphering antibody sequences”

12:00 pm 3/1/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Jonathan Chekan (UNC-Greensboro), "Discovering New Enzyme Chemistry From Across The Tree of Life"

12:00 pm 3/8/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Yew Wen Shan - UIUC Alumnus - Associate Professor and Head of Department, Biochemistry Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore - " Reconstituting the complete biosynthesis of D-lysergic acid in yeast"

12:00 pm 3/15/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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7th Annual Biochemistry Graduate Student Award Symposium

11:30 am 4/5/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium (B102 CLSL)

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Biochemistry Seminar: Asst. Prof. Andrew R. Buller, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Adventures with Enzymes: tackling classical problems in enzyme evolution and organic synthesis"

12:00 pm 4/12/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Andrew Ward (Scripps Research), - "From structure to sequence: Antibody discovery and profiling using cryoEM"

12:00 pm 4/19/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Armita Nourmohammad (University of Washington) - "Learning the shape of immune and protein universe"

12:00 pm 4/26/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Roberto Zoncu (University of California - Berkeley) - "The Lysosome in Nutrient Sensing and Cellular Growth Control"

12:00 pm 5/3/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Final Defense: Yannan Tian (Huang Lab) - "Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms of Ribosome Rescue and Repair by Bacterial PrfH and RtcB2"

10:00 am 6/18/2024

419 RAL (Rose Room)

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Final Defense: Kritika Mehta (K. Zhang Lab) - "Decoding the intercellular communication mechanism of neuronal protein Arc"

2:00 pm 6/24/2024

419 RAL (Rose Room)

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Final Defense: T.J Oh (K. Zhang Lab) - "Optogenetic Control Of Necroptosis Pathway"

10:00 am 6/26/2024

419 RAL (Rose Room)

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Aaron Puri (University of Utah) - "Connecting genes to molecules in bacterial communities that sequester the greenhouse gas methane"

12:00 pm 9/6/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Taras Pogorelov (University of Illinois) - "Capturing biomolecular dynamics in the cell: making a match between simulations and experiments"

12:00 pm 9/13/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Joe Sanfilippo (University of Illinois) - "Bacterial stress responses and surface adhesion in shear flow"

12:00 pm 9/20/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Priyatansh Gurha (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) - "Epigenetic regulation of Cardiac myocyte maturation and heart failure."

12:00 pm 10/4/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Julia Qu (University of Southern California): "Lung Immunity, Inflammation and Cancer."

12:00 pm 10/11/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Biochemistry Seminar: Abhishek Shrivastava - Arizona State University: "The controllers of a molecular conveyor system that powers bacterial gliding motility"

12:00 pm 10/18/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lici Shurig Briccio (Abbott Diagnostics) "Inside Abbott: Overview of the Biologics Organization within the Diagnostic Division."

12:00 pm 10/25/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Yang Yang (University of California - Santa Barbara), "New Strategies for Stereoselective Radical Biocatalysis"

12:00 pm 11/1/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Jason McLellan - University of Texas - Austin: "Structure-based Vaccine Antigen Design"

12:00 pm 11/15/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory

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GennisFest Symposium

4:00 pm 11/18/2024

Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave, Urbana

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Yongsheng Shi (University of California-Irvine) - "The nuclear RNA degradation code"

12:00 pm 11/22/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Final Defense: Lawrence Wang (Shapiro Lab) - "Estrogen-Receptor-a-Positive Breast and Ovarian Cancer: THerapy and Meachanisms"

2:00 pm 12/5/2024

419 RAL (Rose Room)

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Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Kai Zhang (University of Illinois)- "Harnessing Light to Uncover Intracellular and Intercellular Communication in Learning, Memory, and Cell Death"

12:00 pm 12/6/2024

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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

12:00 pm 2/28/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Final Defense: Kaylee Kuzelka (Nair Lab) - "Structural Analysis Via X-Ray Crystallography of an Engineered Carbon Methlytransfersae, A Phytoxic Phosphonate and its Modifying Enzyme, and a Chimeric Tyrosinase"

9:00 am 3/13/2025

419 RAL (Rose Room)

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Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Ben Warlick -"What Happens Next?"

12:00 pm 3/14/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Final Defense: Gilberto Padron (Sanfilippo Lab) - "Shear flow modulates oxidative nutrient stress in Pseudomonas aeruginosa."

10:00 am 3/28/2025

419 RAL (Rose Room)

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

12:00 pm 4/4/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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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"

9:30 am 4/10/2025

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"

10:00 am 4/10/2025

433 RAL

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

1:00 pm 4/10/2025

419 RAL (Rose Room)

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

9:30 am 4/11/2025

419 RAL (Rose Room)

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

1:00 pm 4/17/2025

419 RAL (Rose Room)

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Biochemistry Graduate Award Symposium poster

8th Biochemistry Graduate Student Awards Symposium

11:30 am 4/18/2025

Charles G. 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.”

4:00 pm 4/24/2025

Medical Sciences Bldg 274

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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"

12:00 pm 4/25/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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Dr. Kevin Corbett (University of San Diego): "“Ubiquitination pathways in bacterial innate immunity”

12:00 pm 5/9/2025

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

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