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Formal Seminars

Fall 2024

Speakers and Titles to be announced. 

Date

Time

Speaker & Host

Title

Format

August 23

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Ameya Mashruwala, Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.

Quorum-sensing regulated
spatio-temporal cell-death drives genetic diversity in Vibrio cholerae

In-Person

August 30

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Sam Myers, Assistant Professor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, invited by Dr. Chad Slawson.

On Death and Dying (without the O-GIcNAc Transferase)

In-Person

September 6

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Paula D. Bos, Associate Professor of Pathology, Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth School of Medicine, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. 

Mechanistic dissection of Treg cell contribution to breast cancer progression

In-Person

September 13

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Maria Mills, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Missouri, invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse.

Single molecular characterization of the activity of human XPD helicase

In-Person

September 20

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Siva Sankari, Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.

Host peptides control bacterial metabolism

In-Person

September 27

11:00 a.m.

Save for Faculty Recruitment

 

October 4

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Kamena Kostova, Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.

Physiological and pathological changes in the ribosome composition

In-Person

October 11

11:00 a.m.

Save for Faculty Recruitment

 

October 18

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Neset Ozel, Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.

From enhancers to circuits: Regulatory logic of neuronal diversity

In-Person

October 25

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Prakash Kharel, Instructor, Medicine Immunochemistry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Guanine Quadruplexes: From RNA Biology to Neuromuscular Disorders

In-Person

November 1

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Alexandria Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa, invited by Dr. Lejla Zubcevic.

The SARS-CoV-2 accessory protein Orf3a is not an ion channel, but does interact with trafficking proteins

In-Person

November 8

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Russell A. DeBose-Boyd, Professor, Beatrice and Miguel Elias Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science, Department of Molecular Genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center. 

My 25-year fascination with cholesterol

In-Person

November 15

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Kimberly Reynolds, Associate Professor, Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics/Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse.

 

In-Person

November 22

11:00 a.m.

Dr. George Makhatadze, Constellation Chair Professor in Biocomputation and Bioinformatics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, invited by Dr. Alexey Ladokhin.

Effects of High Hydrostatic Pressure on the Stability and Function of Biomacromolecules 

In-Person

November 29

Thanksgiving-no seminar

No seminar

 

December 6

11:00 a.m.

Save for Faculty Recruitment

 

December 11

11:00 a.m.

BMB Holiday Party

 

Spring 2025

Speakers and Titles to be announced. 

Date

Time

Speaker & Host

Title

Format

January 10

11:00 a.m.

January 17

No Seminar - Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend

 

January 24

11:00 a.m.

 

January 31

11:00 a.m.

 

February 7

11:00 a.m.

February 14

11:00 a.m.

 

February 21

11:00 a.m.

Peyton Oden, Ph.D. student in the Freudenthal Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan

 

February 28

11:00 a.m.

 

March 7

11:00 a.m.

Emily Daniel, Ph.D. student in the Roelofs Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan

 

March 14 

No Seminar - Spring Break

 

March 21

No Seminar - Spring Break

 

March 28

No Seminar - Spring Break

 

April 4

11:00 a.m.

 

April 11

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Ci Ji Lim, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, invited by Dr. Bret Freudenthal.

 

In-Person

April 18

11:00 a.m.

 

April 25

11:00 a.m.

 

May 2

11:00 a.m.

 

May 9

11:00 a.m.

Past Formal Seminars

KU School of Medicine

University of Kansas Medical Center
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
3901 Rainbow Boulevard
1080 HLSIC ,  Mailstop 3030
Kansas City, KS 66160-7421