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. Note that departmental seminars during Spring 2019 semester will start at 2:10 pm. in Animal Science / Molecular Biology Room 103.

 
Molecular Biology Spring 2019 SEMINARS

Date
Speaker & Affiliation
Seminar Title
Host
2/1/2019
Dr. Alberto Bosque
Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine
George Washington University
Novel strategies to target the HIV latent reservoir
Alan Stenquist/Dan Levy
2/8/2019
Dr. William Schafer
Neuroscience
University of Cambridge
Nematode neuromodulatory networks
Peter Thorsness
2/15/2019
Dr. John Magnani
GlycoMimetics, Inc.

Novel Glycomimetic Drugs in Clinical Trials for Inflammatory Disease and Cancer
Donald Jarvis
2/22/2019
Dr. Joshua Chappie
Department of Molecular Medicine
Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
Structural characterization of nucleotide-powered molecular machines involved in bacterial and viral defense
Grant Bowman
3/1/2019
Dr. Gunther Hollopeter
Department of Molecular Medicine
Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
Allosteric regulation of the AP2 clathrin adaptor complex
David Fay
3/8/2019
Dr. Thomas Wood
Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology Endowed Chair
Pennsylvania State University
Phage Mediate Bacterial Self Recognition
Chris Vassallo
3/15/2019
Dr. Anthony Garza
Department of Biology
Syracuse University
The Formation and Inhibition of Bacterial Biofilms
Daniel Wall
3/29/2019
Dr. Paul DeAngelis
Department of Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Glycosaminoglycan Engineering; designing natural sugar-based therapeutics & drug delivery systems
Donald Jarvis
4/5/2019
Dr. Greg Odorizzi
Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology (MCDB)
University of Colorado Boulder
Cellular osmotic regulation by PtdIns(3,5)P2 at the lysosome
David Fay
4/12/2019
Dr. Mark Lang
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Humoral immunity and recurrent C. difficile infection
Jason Gigley
4/19/2019
Dr. Emmanuel Tzanakakis
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineer
Tufts University
Engineering Cellular Therapies for Diabetes
Mark Gomelsky
4/26/2019
Dr. Radhika Subramanian
Department of Molecular Biology
Harvard Medical School
Cellular LEGO: Building micron-scale cellular structures from protein building blocks
Jay Gatlin
5/3/2019
Dr. Meera Sundaram
Department of Genetics
School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Getting in shape with the apical extracellular matrix
David Fay
5/10/2019
Dr. Ann Miller
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
University of Michigan
Sticky situations: how epithelial cells maintain and remodel their cell-cell junctions during cell shape changes
Daniel Levy