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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.

Mapping and modeling the "design specifications" of cellular systems

In-Person

November 18

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Ning Tsao, Instructor, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

 

How RNA damage impacts genome integrity

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.

Dr. Niladri Sinha, Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse.

Ribosomes function as critical sensors in cellular stress response

In-Person

December 13

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Matt Schaich, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh; invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse.

How do DNA repair proteins find their targets in a sea of undamaged DNA? Insights from single-molecule analysis.

In-Person

Spring 2025

Speakers and Titles to be announced. 

Date

Time

Speaker & Host

Title

Format

January 10

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Yick Hin Ling, Postdoctoral Fellow (Croucher Fellowship), Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University; invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse. 

Navigating the
Single-Molecule Landscape of Transcription
In-Person

January 17

No Seminar - Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend

 

January 24

11:00 a.m.

Save for Faculty Recruitment

 

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.

 

In-Person

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.

 

In-Person

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.

Dr. Adam Yokom, BioFLARE Faculty Coordinator, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia; invited by Dr. Jeroen Roelofs.

 

In-Person

May 2

11:00 a.m.

 

May 9

11:00 a.m.

Michael Scott Wolfe, Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas-Lawrence; invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse.

In-Person

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