Departmental Seminars


The Molecular Biology Department’s seminar program is one of the very best on campus. We make a strong effort to bring in visiting scientists who can provide a entertaining, enlightening, and current research report on an important area of molecular biology. Shown below is a listing of the current semester’s seminar speakers.


Seminars start at 2:10 pm and are held in the Berry Center Auditorium - Room 138.

 
Molecular Biology Spring 2024 Seminars

Date

 

Speaker & Affiliation

 

Title

 

Host

1/19/24

 

Dr. Jay Gatlin & Dr. Grant Bowman

Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming

 

Introduction to MOLB Seminar

 

N/A

1/26/24

 

Dr. Matt  Shoulders
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Collagen Proteostasis in Health and Disease   

Don Jarvis

2/2/24

 

Dr. Lydia Heasley

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

  Exploring the complex and dynamic landscape of the eukaryotic genome.  

Jay Gatlin

2/9/24

 

Dr. Chris  Waters

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University

  Cyclic di-nucleotides: From cholera to cancer  

Mark Gomelsky

2/16/24

 

Dr. Liam  Holt

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University

  TBD  

Thomas Boothby

2/23/24

 

Dr. Nicole Koropatkin

Departments of Biological Chemistry + Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan

  Crowdsourcing for carbs: A molecular view of bacterial starch digestion in the human gut  

Don Jarvis

3/1/24

 

Dr. Evan Lind

Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health & Science University

  Targeting the Immune Microenvironment in Acute Myeloid Leukemia  

Jason Gigley

3/8/24

 

Dr. Jacqueline Abranches

DN-Oral Biology, University of Florida

 

The Multifaceted Nature of Streptococcus mutans Collagen Binding Protein Cnm

 

Dan Wall

3/15/24

 

No Seminar

       

3/22/24

 

Dr. Saumya Saurabh

Department of Chemistry, New York University

 

TBD

 

Grant Bowman

3/29/24

 

Dr. Steve Caplan

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center

 

TBD

 

David Fay

4/5/24

 

Dr. Lauren Porter

National Library of Medicine + National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health

 

Exploring unknown regions of protein fold space

 

Sil Sanchez-Martinez, Boothby Lab

4/12/24

 

Dr. Federica Brandizzi

Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University

 

Eliminating stress from plant biosynthetic organelles for a healthy and sustainable future

 

Eunsook Park

4/19/24

 

No Seminar

       

4/26/24

 

Dr. Sarah Siegrist

Department of Biology, University of Virginia

 

TBD

 

Todd Schoborg

5/3/24

 

Dr. Ute Romling

Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute

 

TBD

 

Aili Wang, Gomelsky Lab

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 






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