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Formal Seminars

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.

Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease 1 (APE1) Mechanisms during DNA Replication

 

In-Person

February 28

11:00 a.m.

 

March 7

11:00 a.m.

 

March 14 

No Seminar - Spring Break

 

March 21

No Seminar - Spring Break

 

March 28

No Seminar - Spring Break

 

April 4

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.

Why do proteasome shuttle factors have cochaperone-like domains?

In-Person

April 11

11:00 a.m.

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

Safeguarding Human Chromosome Ends: Homologs RPA and
CST’s Distinct Roles in Telomere Maintenance

In-Person

April 18

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Kalyani Pyaram, Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.

Role Of Nrf2 Beyond Antioxidation In T-cell Immunity and ways to target it

In-Person

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.

Unraveling TECPR1 Dependent Autophagy Initiation

In-Person

May 2

11:00 a.m.

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

Novel Biosensor Constructs for Quantitative Detection of Amyloid Fibrils

In-Person

May 9

11:00 a.m.

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

γ-Secretase and the Search for Pathogenic Triggers of Alzheimer’s Disease

In-Person

Fall 2025

Speakers and Titles to be announced. 

Date

Time

Speaker & Host

Title

Format

September 5

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Ben Woolbright, Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.

In-Person

September 12

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Shijiao Huang, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, invited by Dr. Jeroen Roelofs. 

In-Person

September 19

11:00 a.m. Dr. Stephanie Gates, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, invited by Dr. Jeroen Roelofs. In-Person

September 26

11:00 a.m. Dr. Vivekanand Yadav, Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Kansas Cancer Center; Department of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Research Institute; invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. In-Person
October 3 11:00 a.m.

Dr. Katherine A. Waugh, Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center; invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.

In-Person

October 10

11:00 a.m. Dr. Jen Davis, Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.  In-Person

October 17

11:00 a.m. Dr. Jonathan Soboloff, Professor and Associate Director, Division of Genetic, Environmental and Inhalational Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. In-Person

October 24

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Hongbing Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan.

In-Person

October 31

November 7

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Coleen T. Murphy, Director of Simons Foundation's SCPAB; Director of the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for Aging Research at Princeton University; and Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University; invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse. 

In-Person

November 14

November 21

December 5

December 12

Past Formal Seminars

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