August 25

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Kristy A. Brown, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Metabolism and Cancer, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, KUMC; Co-Program Leader, Cancer Prevention and Control, University of Kansas Cancer Center, invited by Dr. Bret Freudenthal.

Obesity and Breast Cancer: Hungry for a Cure

Hybrid

Sept 1

11:00 a.m.

Sept 8

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Malay Busu, Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.

Reading the book of life: the language of proteins

Hybrid 

Sept 15

11:00 a.m.

 Reserved

Sept 22

11:00 a.m.

Sept 29

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Vassilios Beglopoulos, Lecturer in Neuroscience
School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Lancaster UK. His seminar invited by Heather Wilkins.

Regulation of tau phosphorylation by the Alzheimer’s disease-implicated transcription factor REST in the adult mouse brain

Zoom

Oct 6

11:00 a.m.

Dr. L. Caetano M. Antunes, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.

Modulation of enteric pathogen virulence by microbiome derived-small molecules

In-Person

Oct 13

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Priyanka Verma, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Oncology Division, Molecular Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis invited by Dr. Bret Freudenthal.

Uncovering the tricks to treat BRCA-mutant cancers with PARP inhibitors

In-Person

Oct 20

11:00 a.m.

Oct 27

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Ryan Barnes, Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology, University of Kansas/Medical Center, invited by Dr. Bret Freudenthal.

Oxidative and Replicative Stress at Telomeres and Beyond

In-Person

Nov 3

11:00 a.m.

Nov 10

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Tamir Gonen, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Physiology and HHMI Investigator, University of California Los Angeles

Quo Vadis MicroED

In-Person

Nov 17

2:00 p.m.

Benjamin Ryan, Ph.D. Candidate, Dissertation Defense

DNA Polymerase β: Mechanisms of Nucleotide Insertion During DNA Repair 

Nov 24

Thanksgiving-no seminar

No seminar

Dec 1

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Rosana Barreto Rocha Ferreira, Assistant Professor, Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.

Searching for bioactive compounds produced by skin commensals

In-Person

Dec 8

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Mark Ranek, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions invited by Dr. Heather Wilkins.  

Chipping
away at Cardiac Amyloidosis.

In-Person

Dec 15

11:00 a.m.

Jan 5

11:00 a.m.

Jan 12

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Paula Bos, Assistant Professor and Cancer Biology Program Co-Leader at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer Center (MCC) invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.

In-Person

Jan 19

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Robert Tarran, Chief, new Division of Genetic, Environmental and Inhalational Disease in the Department of Internal Medicine invited by Dr. Chad Slawson. 

In-person

Jan 26

11:00 a.m.

Feb 2

11:00 a.m.

Dr. David Ingham,Cryo-EM Specialist, Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Bret Freudenthal. 

In-Person

Feb 9

11:00 a.m.

Feb 16

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Carlos Castañeda, Associate Professor
Biology and Chemistry Departments, Program in Neuroscience, Syracuse University, invited by Dr. Jeroen Roelofs.  

In-Person

Feb 23

11:00 a.m.

March 1

11:00 a.m.

Spencer Thompson, M.D./Ph.D. Student in the Freudenthal Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center invited by Dr. Christy Hagan

In-Person

March 8

11:00 a.m.

No seminar due to Spring Break

March 15

11:00 a.m.

No seminar due to Spring Break

March 22

11:00 a.m.

No seminar due to Spring Break

March 29

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Gary Meints (he/him/his), Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Missouri State University, invited by Dr. Bret D. Freudenthal.

In-Person

April 5

No seminar

April 12

Student Research Forum

April 19

11:00 a.m.

April 26

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Julie Ostrander, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.

In-Person

May 3

11:00 a.m.

May 10

11:00 a.m.

Alexandra Berkowicz, Graduate Student, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.

In-Person

May 17

11:00 a.m.

May 24

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Merlin Nithya Gnanapragasam Assistant Professor, Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease (GRHD), Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Cleveland State University, invited by Dr. Kenneth Peterson.

In-Person