Department of Molecular Biology

College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources

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.

PLEASE NOTE: Spring Semester seminars will start at 2:10 pm. and are held in Animal Science / Molecular Biology Room 103.

 
Molecular Biology Spring 2020 Seminars

Date		Speaker & Affiliation		Title		Host
1/31/2020		Tracey Lamb Microbiology and Immunology; University of Utah		Mechanisms of blood brain barrier breakdown in cerebral malaria		Jason Gigley
2/7/2020		Stephen Waggoner Department of Pediatrics; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center		Re-making a murderer: non-canonical contributions of natural killer cells to disease		Jason Gigley
2/14/2020		Michael Shelley Flatiron Institute; Simons Foundation		Modeling and simulating active mechanics in the cell		Jay Gatlin
2/21/2020		Joseph Dillard Medical Microbiology & Immunology; University of Wisconsin, Madison		Peptidoglycan fragment production by the pathogenic Neisseria		Don Jarvis
2/28/2020		Shahar Sukenik Chemistry & Chemical Biology Program; University of California, Merced		Tuning protein function by changing solution conditions		Thomas Boothby
3/6/2020		Ryan Baugh Biology; Duke University		Potentially adaptive examples of nongenetic inheritance in C. elegans		Thomas Boothby
3/13/2020		Mark Peifer Department of Biology; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill		Building the animal body: the miracle of morphogenesis		Todd Schoborg
3/27/2020		Tessa Burch-Smith Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology; University of Tennessee, Knoxville		Revealing the importance of intracellular signaling in intercellular communication in plants		Eunsook Park
4/3/2020		Gale Wichman Amyris, Inc.		Industrializing synthetic biology for natural products: What it takes to go from bench scale strain engineering to 200,000 L manufacturing		Grant Bowman
4/10/2020		Katherine Fantauzzo Department of Craniofacial Biology; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus		Two sides of the same face: PDGF receptors in the neural crest		David Fay
4/17/2020		Linda Barlow Cell and Developmental Biology; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus		Regenerating the sense of taste		David Fay
4/24/2020		Maria Sandkvist Microbiology and Immunolgy; University of Michigan		Vibrio cholerae and the complexity of extracellular protein secretion		Dan Wall
5/1/2020		Andrea Wills Department of Genetics; University of Washington		Remodeling chromatin and transcription during vertebrate regeneration		Dan Levy
5/8/2020		Hamed Jafar-Nejad Department of Molecular & Human Genetics; Baylor College of Medicine		Regulation of animal development by deglycosylation		Don Jarvis