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:  Fall Semester seminars will start at 2:10 pm. and are held in the Berry Center Auditorium - Room 138.

Molecular Biology Fall 2019 SEMINARS

Date	Speaker & Affiliation	Title	Host
9/06/2019	Don Jarvis University of Wyoming	Introduction to MOLB Seminar	Don Jarvis
9/13/2019	Ute Hochgeschwender Central Michigan University	Bioluminescent Optogenetics – Molecular control with biological light	Mark Gomelsky
9/20/2019	Stefan Pukatzki University of Colorado School of Medicine	Driven to survive: resolving competition strategies of the cholera bacterium	Dan Wall
9/27/2019	Ken Prehoda University of Oregon	Dancing on the cortex: Par complex dynamics during neuroblast polarization	Todd Schoborg
10/4/2019	Robert Kotin University of Massachusetts Medical School	Orthologous dependoparovirus molecular fossils - a potential source of novel structural motifs and capsids for AAV gene therapy vectors	Don Jarvis
10/11/2019	Shirin Bahmanyar Molecular, Cellular and Development Biology; Yale University	Roles for the peripheral endoplasmic reticulum in membrane dynamics at the nuclear envelope	Daniel Levy
10/18/2019	Chris Lazarski Biotechnology; Children's National Medical Center	Improving T cell immunotherapies to treat patients with primary immunodeficiences and cancers	Grant Bowman
10/25/2019	David Dunigan Plant Pathology; University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Chloroviruses stink, but we love them to death	Don Jarvis
11/1/2019	Tajie Harris Neuroscience; University of Virginia	The danger of brain infections: Alarmins and the control of Toxoplasma gondii in the brain	Jason Gigley
11/8/2019	Alex Holehouse Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics; Washington University in St. Louis	A physical model for the phase separation of low-complexity domains	Thomas Boothby
11/22/2019	Jeffrey Cameron Biochemistry; University of Colorado Boulder	Carboxysome Life Cycle: Biogenesis and degradation of carbon-fixing protein organelles in Cyanobacteria at single(sub)-cell resolution	Grant Bowman
12/6/2019	Daniel Herbert Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; University of Massachusetts	The role of glycans in protein maturation and quality control in the early secretory pathway	Don Jarvis
12/13/2019	Carrie Adler Department of Molecular Medicine; Cornell University	Planarians, stem cells, and organ regeneration	David Fay