Seminars

Date: 9/1/2023
Speaker: Drs. Grant Bowman & Jay Gatlin
Institution: Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming
Title: Introduction to MOLB Seminar

 

Date: 9/8/2023
Speaker: Dr. Karen Visick
Institution: Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago
Title: Control over biofilm formation and host colonization by Vibrio fischeri
Host: Mark Gomelsky

 

Date: 9/15/2023
Speaker: Dr. Xin Li
Institution: Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title: Decoding the molecular clock controlling neural diversity generation in the visual center of Drosophila
Host: Todd Schoborg

 

Date: 9/22/2023
Speaker: Dr. Constance Jeffery
Institution: Biological Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Cancer Center
Title: The Multiple Lives of Moonlighting Proteins
Host: Eunsook Park

 

Date: 9/29/2023
Speaker: Dr. Naomi Courtemanche
Institution: Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota
Title: Actin filament assembly mediated by formins: All roads lead to the barbed end
Host: David Fay

 

Date: 10/6/2023
Speaker: Dr. Tim Whitehead
Institution: Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Title: Rapid biosensor development from repurposed plant hormone receptors
Host: Grant Bowman

 

Date: 10/13/2023
Speaker: Dr. Keith Derbyshire
Institution: Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Albany
Title: Who’s who in the mycobacterial dating game
Host: Dan Wall

 

Date: 10/20/2023
Speaker: Dr. Michelle Ozbun
Institution: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico
Title: Jackalopes, Toads, Warts, & Cancers: The Study of How Papilloma Viruses Cause Disease Reveals an Achilles’ Heel Ripe for Anti-Viral Therapies
Host: Don Jarvis

 

Date: 10/27/2023
Speaker: Dr. Steve Andrews
Institution: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Title: Reverse engineering cell biology: insights into cell design through modeling
Host: Grant Bowman

 

Date: 11/3/2023
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Dickinson
Institution: Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Cell Polarity: From Molecules to Embryos
Host: David Fay

 

Date: 11/10/2023
Speaker: Dr. Darcy McRose
Institution: Climate, Environment & Life Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Putting Microbial Small Molecules in Context: Insights from Considerations of the Soil Environment
Host: Sheila Walsh, Wall Lab

 
Date: 11/17/2023
Speaker: Dr. John Murray
Institution: Genetics, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Single cell analysis of embryonic regulatory dynamics
Host: Owen Funk, Levy Lab

 

Date: 12/1/2023
Speaker: Dr. Mariano Garcia-Blanco
Institution: Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia
Title: The love-hate relationship between host proteins and viral RNAs
Host: Don Jarvis

 

Date: 12/8/2023
Speaker: Dr. Robert Halfmann
Institution: Stowers Institute
Title: Living to die: Protein Supersaturation Trades Longevity for Immunity
Host: Thomas Boothby

 

Date: 1/20/2023
Speaker: Dr. Dan Levy
Institution: Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming
Title: Introduction to MOLB Seminar

 

Date: 1/27/2023
Speaker: Dr. Don Jarvis
Institution: Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming
Title: Resolution and Risk Assessment of a Persistent Viral Contaminant in the Baculovirus-Insect Cell System

 

Date: 2/3/2023
Speaker: Guest speaker from the National Renewable Energy Lab
Title: TBD
Host: Grant Bowman

 

Date: 2/10/2023
Speaker: Dr. Rebekah Kading
Institution: Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University
Title: Inside the bat cave: investigating the ecology and spillover potential of emerging viruses in Uganda
Host: Don Jarvis

 

Date: 2/24/2023
Speaker: Dr. Joseph Lau
Institution: Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Title: Sialic Acid Glycans in Normal and Malignant Cell-Niche Interactions
Host: Don Jarvis

 

Date: 3/3/2023
Speaker: Dr. Christian Mosimann
Institution: Developmental Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Title: Stripes to blood flow: lateral thinking in cardiovascular development and disease
Host: David Fay

 

Date: 3/10/2023
Speaker: Dr. Tania Reis
Institution: Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Title: From genes to neurons: how flies get fat
Host: Todd Schoborg

 

Date: 3/24/2023

Speaker: Dr. Jordan Ward
Institution: Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, UC Santa Cruz
Title: Developmentally programmed apical extracellular matrix remodeling
Host: David Fay

 

Date: 3/31/2023
Speaker: Dr. C. Andrew Frank
Institution: Anatomy and Cell Biology, Molecular Medicine, University of Iowa
Title: How a synapse sustains a stable level of function across time
Host: David Fay

 

Date: 4/7/2023
Speaker: Dr. Charles Asbury
Institution: Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington
Title: New biophysical strategies for uncovering how chromosomes are segregated during mitosis
Host: Jay Gatlin

 

Date: 4/14/2023
Speaker: Dr. Maitreyi Das
Institution: Biology Department, Boston College
Title: Design principles of cell polarization
Host: Eunsook Park

 

Date: 4/21/2023
Speaker: Dr. Penelope Higgs
Institution: Biological Sciences, Wayne State University
Title: Cell fate segregation in the specialized biofilm of Myxococcus xanthus
Host: Dan Wall

 

Date: 4/28/2023
Speaker: Dr. Cammie Lesser
Institution: Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Title: Bacterial delivery systems from agents of pathogenesis to vectors for novel therapeutics
Host: Mark Gomelsky

 

Date: 5/5/2023
Speaker: Dr. Raymond Hulse
Institution: HHMI – Janelia Research Campus
Title: We Can Work It Out: A Magical Mystery Tour of Proximity Labeling
Host: Thomas Boothby

Date: 8/26/2022
Speaker: Dr. Don Jarvis
Institution: Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming
Title: Introduction to MOLB Seminar
Host: Don Jarvis

 

Date: 9/2/2022
Speaker: Dr. Dan Bergstralh
Institution: Department of Biology, University of Rochester
Title: Depth not Breadth: How do epithelial cells organize in Z
Host: Todd Schoborg

 

Date: 9/9/2022
Speaker: Dr. Hong-Gu Kang
Institution: Department of Biology, Texas State University
Title: A nuclear tRNA-derived fragment triggers immunity in Arabidopsis
Host: Eunsook Park

 

Date: 9/16/2022
Speaker: Dr. Katherine Fantauzzo
Institution: School of Dental Medicine, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
Title: Introducing biological specificity downstream of PDGFR signaling
Host: David Fay

 

Date: 9/23/2022
Speaker: Dr. Deepti Tanjore
Institution: Process Engineering & Analytics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: Microbial Heterogeneity in bioreactors: impact on scale-up of synthetic biology based technologies (Via Zoom only)
Host: Grant Bowman

 

Date: 9/30/2022
Speaker: Dr. Matt Welch
Institution: Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Manipulation of host cell structures by microbial pathogens
Host: Don Jarvis

 

Date: 10/7/2022
Speaker: Dr. Matt Wargo
Institution: Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Larner College of Medicine
Title: Discovering host detection systems in Pseudomonas to understand pathogenesis… and because it’s fun
Host: Jason Gigley

Date: 10/21/2022
Speaker: Dr. Brian Russo
Institution: Department of Immunology & Microbiology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
Title: Catenins are required for Shigella flexneri intercellular spread
Host: Mark Gomelsky

 

Date: 10/28/2022
Speaker: Dr. Niels Ringstad
Institution: Department of Cell Biology, NYU Langone Health
Title: Developmental mechanisms that endow specialized sensory neurons with their unique physiology
Host: David Fay

 

Date: 11/4/2022
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Hermann
Institution: Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Title: RNA as a Drug Target and Material
Host: Dan Wall

 

Date: 11/11/2022
Speaker: Dr. Christine Szymanski
Institution: Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia
Title: Ganglioside antibodies, mother’s milk and glycoconjugate vaccines – how are we going to prevent Campylobacter-induced disease
Host: Don Jarvis

 

Date: 11/18/2022
Speaker: Dr. Jerry Nick
Institution: Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, National Jewish Health Denver
Title: Host and pathogen response to bacteriophage engineered against Mycobacterium abscessus lung infection
Host: Don Jarvis

Date: 12/2/2022
Speaker: Dr. Naomi Courtemanche
Institution: Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota
Title: Actin filament assembly mediated by formins: All roads lead to the barbed end
Host: David Fay

 

Date: 12/9/2022
Speaker: Dr. Sonali Chaturvedi
Institution: Gladstone Center for Cell Circuitry / Institute of Virology at UCSF
Title: Designing antivirals with a high barrier to the evolution of resistance
Host: Don Jarvis

 

1/21/2022
Speaker: Dr. Dan Levy
Affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology; University of Wyoming
Title: Introduction to MOLB Seminar
Host: Dan Levy

1/28/2022
Speaker: Dr. Jun (Kelly) Liu
Affiliation: Cornell University
Title: A tale of small and long worms: bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling in C. elegans
Note: This seminar will be held via Zoom only
Host: David Fay

2/4/2022
Speaker: Dr. Arash Komeili
Affiliation: UC Berkeley
Title: Discovery of novel organelles mediating iron homeostasis in bacteria and archaea
Note: This seminar will be held via Zoom only
Host: Grant Bowman

2/11/2022
Speaker: Dr. Karla Neugebauer
Affiliation: Yale University
Title: Pre-mRNA processing as a regulator of gene output and biomolecular condensation
Note: This seminar will be held via Zoom only
Host: Thomas Boothby

2/25/2022
Speaker: Dr. Breck Duerkop
Affiliation: University of Colorado
Title: Enterococcal phage-host interactions and mechanisms of resistance
Host: Grant Bowman

3/4/2022
Speaker: Dr. Richard Roller
Affiliation: University of Iowa
Title: Herpesvirus egress from the nucleus: a convoluted membrane story
Host: Donald Jarvis

3/11/2022
Speaker: Dr. Rob Woods
Affiliation: University of Georgia
Title: The role of spike protein glycosylation in modulating SARS-CoV-2 antigenicity and adhesion
Note: This seminar will be held via Zoom only
Host: Donald Jarvis

3/25/2022
Speaker: Dr. Todd Blankenship
Affiliation: University of Denver
Title: Why We Are Long: The Biology of Cell and Tissue Shape in Epithelial Sheets
Host: Todd Schoborg

4/1/2022
Speaker: Dr. Marc-Jan Gubbels
Affiliation: Boston College
Title: Fussing about fission: untangling apicomplexan cell division plasticity
Note: This seminar will be held via Zoom only
Host: Stephen Denton

4/8/2022
Speaker: Dr. Jamey Marth
Affiliation: Sanford Burnham Prebys
Title: Protein Glycosylation in the Origins and Progression of Inflammatory Diseases
Note: This seminar will be held via Zoom only
Host: Donald Jarvis

4/15/2022
Speaker: Dr. Richard Steet
Affiliation: Greenwood Genetic Center
Title: Pushing the Nuclear Envelope: Impact of Lamin B1 Variants in Patients
Host: Donald Jarvis

4/22/2022
Speaker: Dr. Martin Wühr
Affiliation: Princeton University
Title: Proteomic Clues to Cell Organization
Host: Jay Gatlin

4/29/2022
Speaker: Dr. José-Antonio Daròs
Affiliation: IBMCP (CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València)
Title: Biotechnological assemblies derived from plant viruses
Host: Eunsook Park

5/6/2022
Speaker: Dr. Fred Chang
Affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
Title: Life in a crow