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 Fall 2023 Seminars

Date

Speaker & Affiliation

Title

Host

9/1/2023

Drs. Grant Bowman & Jay Gatlin

Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming

Introduction to MOLB Seminar

 

9/8/2023

Dr. Karen Visick

Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago

Control over biofilm formation and host colonization by Vibrio fischeri

Mark Gomelsky

9/15/2023

Dr. Xin Li

Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Decoding the molecular clock controlling neural diversity generation in the visual center of Drosophila

Todd Schoborg

9/22/2023

Dr. Constance Jeffery

Biological Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Cancer Center

The Multiple Lives of Moonlighting Proteins

Eunsook Park

9/29/2023

Dr. Naomi Courtemanche

Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota

Actin filament assembly mediated by formins: All roads lead to the barbed end

David Fay

10/6/2023

Dr. Tim Whitehead

Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder

Rapid biosensor development from repurposed plant hormone receptors

Grant Bowman

10/13/2023

Dr. Keith Derbyshire

Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Albany

Who’s who in the mycobacterial dating game

Dan Wall

10/20/2023

Dr. Michelle Ozbun

Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico

Jackalopes, Toads, Warts, & Cancers: The Study of How Papilloma Viruses Cause Disease Reveals an Achilles’ Heel Ripe for Anti-Viral Therapies

Don Jarvis

10/27/2023

Dr. Steve Andrews

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Reverse engineering cell biology: insights into cell design through modeling

Grant Bowman

11/3/2023

Dr. Daniel Dickinson

Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin

Cell Polarity: From Molecules to Embryos

David Fay

11/10/2023

Dr. Darcy McRose

Climate, Environment & Life Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Putting Microbial Small Molecules in Context: Insights from Considerations of the Soil Environment

Sheila Walsh, Wall Lab

11/17/2023

Dr. John Murray

Genetics, University of Pennsylvania

Single cell analysis of embryonic regulatory dynamics

Owen Funk, Levy Lab

11/24/2023

No Seminar

   

12/1/2023

Dr. Mariano Garcia-Blanco

Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia

The love-hate relationship between host proteins and viral RNAs

Don Jarvis

12/8/2023

Dr. Robert Halfmann

Stowers Institute

Living to die: Protein Supersaturation Trades Longevity for Immunity

Thomas Boothby