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Spring 2024

Date

Time

Speaker & Host

Title

Format

Jan 5

11:00 a.m.

 

 

Jan 12

11:00 a.m.

 

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.

 

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.

UBQLN Phase Transitions in Protein Quality Control and Neurodegenerative Diseases

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

 

Examining the protein scaffold XRCC1 in Base Excision Repair
on Duplex and Nucleosomal DNA

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, Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Missouri State University, invited by Dr. Bret D. Freudenthal.

Damage Perturbs DNA Backbone Energetics: A Role in Repair Enzyme Recognition?

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.

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

Bringing Cryo-Electron Microscopy to KUMC

In-Person

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.

Distinguishing Amyloid Variations with Innovative Biosensor Cells

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

Fall 2024

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 2023

Date

Time

Speaker & Host

Title

Format

January 20

11:00 am

Dr. Tonya Zeczycki, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eastern Carolina University, invited by Dr. Aron Fenton

Bringing order to the chaos: understanding the roles intrinsic disorder, redox, and allostery have in regulating transglutaminase 2

Hybrid

January 27

12 noon

J. Brad Pesavento
Cryo-EM Seminar Series

Cryo-EM

1001-1003 Beller

February 3

11:00 am

Dr. Meridith Hartley, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Kansas, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan

“Lipid

dynamics during CNS myelin damage and repair”

Hybrid

February 10

11:00 am

Dr. Ann L. Wozniak, Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Motility, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Jeroen Roelofs. 

"Stress Granules and Cellular Trafficking"

Hybrid

February 17

11:00 am

February 24

11:00 am

Gabriel C. Lander, Scripps Research Institute

"Do we still need crystallography? A case study in targeted protein degradation."

Cryo-EM Seminar Series

1001-1003 Beller

March 3

11:00 am

Dr. Clarissa Durie, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri invited by Dr. Aron Fenton

"Structure & Function of the Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm Type IV Secretion System"

Cryo-EM Seminar Series

1001-1003 Beller

March 10

11:00 am

No seminar due to Spring Break

March 13

11:00 am

Michael S. Chapman, University of Missouri

AAV cell entry by cryo-Electron Microscopy

Cryo-EM Seminar Series

1001-1003 Beller

March 17

11:00 am

No seminar due to Spring Break

March 24

11:00 am

No seminar due to Spring Break

March 28

11:00 am

Yong Yu, St. John's University

Contributions of Cryo-EM in understanding structure and function of polycystin ion channels

Cryo-EM Seminar Series

1001-1003 Beller

March 31

11:00 am

Lauryn Werner, M.D./Ph.D. student thesis defense

Progesterone Promotes Immunomodulation and Impacts Tumor Growth in the Murine Mammary Gland

Hybrid

April 7

11:00 am

No Seminar - Student Research Forum

April 14

11:00 am

Kaitlin Dehart, Biochemistry graduate student

Hybrid

April 21

11:00 am

Taylor Strope, Biochemistry graduate student

Hybrid

April 24

TBD

April 28

11:00 am

Kaspar P. Locher, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics

High-resolution structure determination of membrane proteins using single-particle cryo-EM
Cryo-EM Seminar Series

1001-1003 Beller

May 5

11:00 am

Dr. Lezi E, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin invited by Dr. Hao Zhu

Hybrid

Fall 2023

Date

Time

Speaker & Host

Title

Format

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 

In-Person, Wahl Hall West 1006

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.

 

 

Spring 2022

Date Time Speaker & Host Title
January 21 11:00 am Dr. Mark P. Farrell, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas, invited by Dr. Chad Slawson Tackling the elephant in the immunotherapy room
January 28 11:00 am Dr. Stefan Bossmann, Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse The Evolution of Nanobiosensors for Protease Detection: Liquid Biopsies for Early Cancer Detection
February 4 11:00 am Dr. Irina Tikhanovich, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. Gender-specific role of lysine demethylases in alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD)
February 11 11:00 am
February 18 11:00 am Dr. Zach Morris, Associate Professor, Dept. of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, invited by Lauryn Werner. Immunomodulating the tumor microenvironment using targeted radionuclide therapies to enhance response to immunotherapies
February 25 11:00 am
March 4 11:00 am
March 11 11:00 am No Seminar - Spring Break
March 18 11:00 am Dr. Shizhen Jeff Wang, Assistant Professor, UMKC School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, invited by Dr. Lejla Zubcevic Ligand and voltage gating of a human proton channel hHv1
March 25 11:00 am Dr. Nir Ben-Tal, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, invited by Dr. Alexey Ladokhin. Protein archeology: How proteins emerged and evolve?
April 1 11:00 am
April 8 11:00 am No Seminar - Student Research Forum
April 15 11:00 am Ibtihal Alghusen, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student Regulation of mitophagy and mitochondrial stress response by O‐GlcNAc in Alzheimer's disease
April 22 11:00 am Thesis Defense - Nicole Hoitsma Characterizing AP-Endonuclease 1 (APE1) Cleavage of Diverse Biological Substrates
April 29 11:00 am Shwetha Sreenivasan, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student
May 5 11:00 am
May 6 11:00 am Dr. Emma Morrison, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, invited by Dr. Bret Freudenthal Deciphering the dynamic language of histones
May 13 11:00 am Sophiya John Ephrame, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student
May 20 11:00 am Appolinaire Olou, Sr. Research Associate, KUMC Cancer Biology, invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse Investigating mechanisms of cellular stressors and their implication for pancreatic cancer progression

Fall 2022

Date

Time

Speaker & Host

Title

Format

August 26

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Randal Halfmann, Associate Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Protein self-assembly governs cell fate

Hybrid

September 2

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Ren Dobson, School of Biological Sciences

University of Canterbury, New Zealand invited by Dr. Aron Fenton

TRAPped in an elevator: amino-sugar uptake and utilisation by bacteria

Zoom

September 9

11:00 a.m.

Dr. P. Hemachandra Reddy, Professor and Vice Chair Research of Basic and Translational Sciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, invited by Dr. Heather Wilkins. 

Oxidative Stress and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease: Focus on Mitophagy Enhancers 

Zoom

September 16

No Seminar

September 23

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Stephen D. Fried, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse

A Proteome-wide Map of Chaperone-Assisted Protein Refolding in the Cellular Milieu

Hybrid

September 30

11:00 a.m.

October 7

11:00 a.m.

October 14

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Jared May, Assistant Professor, Division of Biological and Biomedical Systems, UMKC-School of Science and Engineering, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan

Regulation of virus-host interactions by biomolecular condensates

Hybrid

October 21

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Ross Marklein, Assistant Professor, School of Chemical, Materials, and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Georgia, invited by Dr. Heather Wilkins

Development of
advanced manufacturing approaches to understand and control mesenchymal stromal
cell functional heterogeneity.

Zoom

October 28

11:00 a.m.

November 4

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Wagner Dias, Visiting Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, invited by Dr. Chad Slawson Is O-GlcNAcylation important for tumor biology? Hybrid

November 11

11:00 a.m.

HUB-seminar

November 18

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Andrea Mattevi, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universita Di Pavia, Italy, invited by Dr. Aron Fenton

Structure and function of NADPH oxidases, the professional ROS generators

Zoom

November 25

Thanksgiving - No seminar

December 2

December 9

11:00 a.m.

Dr. Anthony Fehr, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan

ADP-ribosylation and its Impact on Coronavirus Infection

Hybrid

Spring 2021

Date Time Speaker & Host Title
January 22  11:00 am

Lance A. Johnson, Ph.D
University of Kentucky
(hosted by Dr. Heather Wilkins)

January 29  11:00 am
February 5  11:00 am
February 12  11:00 am Olivia Veatch, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Joseph Fontes)
February 19  11:00 am
February 26  11:00 am
March 5  11:00 am
March 12  11:00 am No Seminar - Spring Break
March 19  11:00 am Benjamin Ryan
BMB Graduate Student
March 26  11:00 am Erin Young, Ph.D.
Anesthesiology
(hosted by Dr. Lejla Zubcevic)
April 2  11:00 am
April 9  11:00 am No Seminar - Student Research Forum
April 16  11:00 am Kyle Baumbauer, Ph.D
Anatomy and Cell Biology
(hosted by Dr. Lejla Zubcevic)
April 23  11:00 am Griffin Welfer
BMB Graduate Student
April 30  11:00 am Lauryn Werner
BMB Graduate Student
May 7  11:00 am Mandeep Kaur
BMB Graduate Student

Fall 2021

Date Time Speaker Title
August 27 11:00 a.m. Dr. Michael Washburn, Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Aron Fenton  Integrated Structural Modeling of Chromatin Remodeling Complexes and Networks.
Sept 3 11:00 a.m. Dr. David M. Smith, Associate Professor West Virginia University, invited by Dr. Jeroen Roelofs Impairment of protein degradation by pathological oligomers associated with neurodegenerative disease.
Sept 10 11:00 a.m. Dr. Daniel Bauer, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, invited by Dr. Ken Peterson Genome editing to understand and treat blood disorders.
Sept 17 11:00 a.m.
Sept 24 11:00 a.m. Dr. Kristy A. Brown,  Associate Professor, Biochemistry in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan  Hungry for a cure: Unacylated ghrelin inhibits the 3D growth of breast cancer cells.
Oct 1 11:00 a.m.
Oct 8 11:00 a.m. Dr. Charles Sanders, Professor Vanderbilt University, Editor of Biochemistry, invited by Dr. Alexey Ladokhin Ion Channel Super-Trafficking as A Disease Mechanism
Oct 15 11:00 a.m. Dr. Long Zheng, Professor and Russell J. Eilers, MD Endowed Chair and Clinical Service Chief, Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Antonio Artigues ADAMTS and human diseases
Oct 22 11:00 a.m. Dr. Konstantine Halkidis, Assistant Professor, The Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, Internal Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Aron Fenton The antibody-mediated pathophysiology of immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Oct 29 11:00 a.m. Dr. Peng Mao, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Molecular Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences, invited by Dr. Bret Freudenthal BER in Chromatin: Genome-wide Mapping of Alkylation Damage and Repair
Nov 5 11:00 a.m.
Nov 12 11:00 a.m. HUB- seminar
Nov 19 11:00 a.m. Dr. Mihaela Sardiu, Ph.D. Associate Professor at KUMC, Department of Biostatistics & Data Science invited by Dr. Alexey Ladokhin. Looking at the Proteins from the "Top"
Nov 26 Thanksgiving-no seminar No seminar
Dec 3 11:00 a.m. Thesis Defense-Pierce O'Neil
presented via Blackboard
Membrane-induced refolding of tetanus neurotoxin translocation domain
Dec 10 11:00 a.m.

Spring 2020

Date Time Speaker & Host Title

January 24

 11:00 am

Alexandria Cockrell, Graduate Student
University of Kansas Medical Center

 "Exploring ribosomal DNA dynamics in fission yeast"

January 31

 11:00 am

Lynne Dieckman, Ph.D.
Creighton University
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

  "Structure and Function of Proteins that Regulate Replication-Coupled Nucleosome Assembly"

February 7

 11:00 am

Michael VanSaun, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Christy Hagan)

 "Understanding mechanisms of obesity associated with pancreatic cancer progression"

February 11
(Tuesday)

 12 noon

Malachi Griffith, Ph.D.
Washington University School of Medicine
(co-hosted with Cancer Center)

 "Immunogenomics approaches for development of cancer immunotherapies"

February 21

 11:00 am

Mark Hedglin, Ph.D.
Penn State University
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal) 

 "Mechanistic Insights into Human DNA Damage Tolerance from Fluorescence-based Studies"

February 28

 11:00 am

Aaron R. Robert, Ph.D.
West Virginia University
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)

 "Mechanisms of Group II intron Splicing and Retrotransposition"

March 6

 11:00 am

March 13

 11:00 am

No Seminar - Spring Break  

Fall 2020

Fall 2020 seminars will be presented virtually

Date Time Speaker & Host Title
October 23  11:00 am

Laurie Sanders, Ph.D.
Duke University School of Medicine
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)      

"Genome integrity in Parkinson's disease: From biomarker to mechanism"
October 30  11:00 am
November 6  11:00 am Martin McCullagh, Ph.D.
Oklahoma State University
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)
"ATP Hydrolysis and Allostery in the Dengue Virus NS3"
November 13  11:00 am

CANCELED

 
November 20  11:00 am Benjamin Weaver, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. James Calvet)
"LIFE or DEATH....Caspases, it's in the way you use them"
November 27  11:00 am  No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday
December 4  11:00 am Lauren Porter, Ph.D.
NIH/NLM/NCBI
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)
"Surveying the sequence landscape of fold-switching proteins"
December 11  11:00 am Levi Wood, Ph.D.
Georgia Tech
(hosted by Dr. Heather Wilkins)
" Systems Analysis of Neural Immune Signaling in Neurodegenerative Diseases"

Spring 2019

Date Time Speaker & Host Title

January 11

 11:00 am

Joshua Bembenek, Ph.D.
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

"Investigating mechanisms of cytokinesis during embryo development"

January 18

 11:00 am

No Seminar

 

January 25

 11:00 am

Rebecca Wates, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

"Mitotic Kinesins as Therapeutic Targets in Cancer"

February 1

 11:00 am

Changwei Liu, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Denver
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

 "Investigating functions of deubiquitinases USP9X and USP35"

February 8

 11:00 am

Heng Du, Ph.D.
University of Texas - Dallas
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

"Molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease: Mitochondrial biochemistry, Ghrelin receptor and Microglia-neuron crosstalk"

February 15

11:00 am

Blake Mertz, Ph.D.
West Virginia University
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

"Biophysics at the cellular interface: using simulations to understand an atypical membrane-active peptide"

February 22

11:00 am

Jeroen Roelofs, Ph.D.
Kansas State University
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

"The Life Cycle of a Proteasome; from assembly to degradation"

March 1

11:00 am

Erika R. Geisbrecht, Ph.D.
Kansas State University
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)

  "Metabolic defects promote pathogenesis in a muscular dystrophy model"

March 8

11:00 am

Nicole Ellis
Graduate Student, Freudenthal Lab
Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

"Dissecting the Numerous Functions of
AP-Endonuclease 1, a Biomolecular Swiss Army Knife"

March 15

11:00 am

No Seminar - Spring Break

 

March 26
TUESDAY

10:00 am
NOTE TIME

Lejla Zubcevic, Ph.D.
Duke University School of Medicine
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

 "Mechanisms of TRPV ion channel gating"

March 29

11:00 am

Alan Tomkinson, Ph.D.
University of New Mexico
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

 "Insights into DNA ligase functions from small molecule inhibitors"

April 5

11:00 am

Max Fairlamb
Graduate Student, Freudenthal Lab
Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

 "Investigations into the Step-toStep Coordination
of Base Excision Repair"

April 12

11:00 am

TBD

 

April 19

11:00 am

Minae Mure, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Christy Hagan)

"Post-translational modifications of lysyl oxidase-like 2 and their effects on catalytic activity"

April 26 11:00 am Anthony W. G. Burgett, Ph.D.
University of Oklahoma
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)
  "Novel Anti-Viral and Precision Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Development Through Targeting the Oxysterol-binding Proteins (OSBP/ORPs)"
April 30*
(no seminar
May 3rd)
12:00 noon
Wahl Hall West
Auditorium
Michael Overholtzer, Ph.D.
Sloan Kettering Institute
co-sponsored with Cancer Center
(Biochemistry host Dr. Chad Slawson)
"Cell Death in Development and Disease"

Fall 2019

Date Time Speaker & Host Title

September 20

 11:00 am

Heather Wilkins, Ph.D
University of Kansas Medical Center

 "Amyloid beta and bioenergetics"

September 27*

  9:00 am
Wahl West

Erica Golemis, Ph.D.
Fox Chase Cancer Center
(hosted by Kidney Institute)

 "How studying PKD can provide insight into cancer biology"

October 4

 11:00 am

Jeremy Schmit, Ph.D.
Kansas State University
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

 "Biomolecule phase transitions: Universal behavior or specific functions"

October 11

 11:00 am

S. Patricia Becerra, Ph.D.
NIH Intramural Research Program
(hosted by Dr. Antonio Artigues)

 "A study of the biochemistry of proteins and its impact on medicine: PEDF and retina pathology"

October 25

 11:00 am

Kurt Piepenbrink, Ph.D.
University of Nebraska
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)
 "Molecular Mechanisms of Motlility and Adhesion of Acinetobacter baumannii"
November 1

 11:00 am

Erik D. Holmstrom, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Christy Hagan)
"Disordered RNA-folding chaperones promote nucleic acid conformational transitions via local charge screening"
November 22

 11:00 am

Brian Geisbrecht, Ph.D.
Kansas State University
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

"Evasion of the Complement/Neutrophil Axis by Staphylococcus aureus: A Biochemical Perspective"
December 13

 11:00 am

John Thyfault, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)
"Pharmacotherapy and exercise interactions and implications for metabolic health"

Spring 2018

Date Time Speaker & Host Title

 Jan. 19

 11:00 am

Jeffrey Thompson, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Ken Peterson)

  "Assessing equivalent and inverse change in genomic data from multiple experiments: a new approach to functional analysis"

 Jan 26

 11:00 am

Benjamin Corb, Director of Public Affairs
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
(hosted by Dr. Gerald Carlson)

 "Science Policy: Perspective from the Front Lines"

 Feb 16

11:00 am

Mallory Smith
Graduate Student, Freudenthal Lab
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, KUMC

  "Molecular Insight into How Guanine Base Damage is Handled by DNA Polymerase beta "

 Feb 23

11:00 am

Peter Harris, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic
(hosted by Dr. James Calvet)

"The importance of posttranslational processing of polycystin-1 and fibrocystin to localization and function"

 Mar 2

11:00 am

A. J. Mellott, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Orchestrating the Extracellular Environment to Induce Stem Cell Differentiation and Tissue Repair"

 Mar 9

11:00 am

Matthew Schaich
Graduate Student, Freudenthal Lab
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, KUMC

"Telomerase - an untapped cancer target"

 Mar 16

11:00 am

John A. Hanover, Ph.D.
NIH Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
(Hosted by Drs. Peterson and Slawson)

  "A Little Sugar Goes a Long Way:
O-GlcNAc and Disease"

 Mar 23

11:00 am

 No Seminar - Spring Break

 

 Mar 30

11:00 am

Phillip E. Klebba, Ph.D.
Kansas State University
(hosted by Dr. Gerald Carlson)

"Antibiotic discovery by fluorescence spectroscopic analyses of membrane transport in CRE/ESKAPE bacterial pathogens"

 Apr 6

11:00 am

David Wilson, Ph.D.
NIH, NIA
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

"Repair Mechanisms for Endogenous DNA Damage"

 Apr 13

11:00 am

E. Matthew Morris, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Joe Fontes)

"Is Reduced Liver Energy Metabolism Making Us Obese"

 Apr 20

11:00 am

Roberta Leonardi, Ph.D.
West Virginia University
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)

" Regulation of coenzyme A and metabolic flexibility"

 Apr 27

11:00 am

David Johnson, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

" The Computational Chemical Biology Core: Computational approaches for screening and design of small-molecule inhibitors"

 May 4

 11:00 am

Matthew Parker
Graduate Student, Peterson Lab
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, KUMC

"Fine Tuning Hemoglobin Switching: Mechanisms at the Molecular Level"

 May 10*
Lied Auditorium

 12:00 Noon

Gerald A. Dienel, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Univ of Arkansas
(hosted by Dr. Gerald Carlson)

 "Aerobic glycolysis during brain activation"

 May 11

 11:00 am

Michael Marvin, Ph.D.
Rockhurst University
(hosted by Dr. James Calvet)

 "SR Protein Kinase Phosphorylation & Splicing of Suboptimal Introns in Fission Yeast"

 May 18

 11:00 am

Steven D. Hartson, Ph.D.
Oklahoma State University
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)

 "Proteomic Profiling of Anti-cancer Drug Mechanisms"

Fall 2018

Date Time Speaker & Host Title

September 7

 11:00 am

Ming Xu, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut Center on Aging
(hosted by Dr. Hao Zhu)

  "Targeting cellular senescence to alleviate
age-related diseases"

September 14

 11:00 am

Catherine Musselman, Ph.D.
University of Iowa
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

  "The effect of nucleosome conformation on reader domain binding"

September 21

 11:00 am

Stephen D. O'Connor, Ph.D.
ImpeD x Diagnostics
(hosted by Dr. Christy Hagan)

  "Entrepreneurship in the Biomedical Field"

September 28

 11:00 am

Kristi Neufeld, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Swint-Kruse)

  "Structure function study of colon tumor suppressor APC"

October 5

11:00 am

Shizhen 'Jeff' Wang, Ph.D
University of Missouri - Kansas City
(hosted by Dr. Christy Hagan)

 "Ion Selectivity and Pore Gating: Insights from a Potassium Channel in Motion"

October 12

11:00 am

No Seminar - Faculty Research Day

 

October 19

11:00 am

Laird Forrest, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

"Development of localized cancer therapeutics"

October 26

11:00 am

Mary Markiewicz, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Christy Hagan)

 "The multifaceted roles of NKG2D in autoimmune diabetes and cancer"

November 2

11:00 am

Blake Peterson, Ph.D.
University of Kansas-Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

 "Chemical Tools for Studies of Biological Systems"

November 9

11:00 am

 Jodi Nunnari, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)

 "Mitochondrial Behavior"

November 16

11:00 am

Ewud Agborbesong, Graduate Student
University of Kansas Medical Center

 "Molecular insight into epigenetic regulation of cytokinesis and ciliogensis in ADPKD"

November 23

11:00 am

 No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday

 

 November 30

11:00 am

C. Michael Crowder
University of Washington School of Medicine
(hosted by Drs. Fontes and Swerdlow)

 "Hypoxic Injury is a Protein Synthesis and Folding Problem

SPECIAL SEMINAR:  June 23rd, 11 am, Lied Auditorium
Miguel Machuqueiro, PhD,  Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
"Molecular Modeling pH effects in proteins: membrane interactions and drug binding"

SPRING 2017

Date Time Speaker & Host Title

January 20

11:00 am

Saurav Misra, Ph.D.
Kansas State University
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

"All that and a Bag of CHIPs - structure-function studies of cytoplasmic protein quality control"

January 27

11:00 am

Jay F. Storz, Ph.D.
University of Nebraska
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

"Causes of parallel molecular adptation: insights from vertebrate hemoglobin"

February 10

11:00 am

Steven Roberts, Ph.D.
Washington State University
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

"Landscape of APOBEC-induced mutation in Cancer"

February 24

11:00 am

Mario Rivera, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

"Bacterioferritin: Structure, dynamics and protein-protein interactions at play in iron storage and mobilization"

March 3

11:00 am

Kausik Si, Ph.D.
Stowers Institute
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"What memories are made of"

March 10

11:00 am

John J. Correia, Ph.D.
University of Mississippi Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)

"Biothermodynamics of Elastin-Like-Polypetides: the influence of drug labeling"

March 17

11:00 am

Joseph Fontes, Ph.D.
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
University of Kansas Medical Center

"Modulation of the unfolded protein response by gap junctional coupling: hormetic mechanisms of neuronal death and survival"

March 24

11:00 am

No Seminar - Spring Break

 

March 31

11:00 am

Brian C. Freeman, Ph.D.
Univesity of Illinois Cancer Center
(hostedy by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Molecular chaperones regulate the chromatin landscape.  Is it time to move?"

April 7

11:00 am

No Seminar - Student Research Forum

 

April 14

11:00 am

Alexandra Machen, Graduate Student
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
University of Kansas Medical Center

"Anthrax Toxin: the Unfolding Story of Structure and Function"

April 21

11:00 am

Luanne Peters, Ph.D.
The Jackson Laboratory
(hosted by Dr. Ken Peterson) 

"Requirement for RASA3 in HSPC Differentiation: Studies in scat and Rasa3 cKO Models"

 April 28

11:00 am

Danny R. Welch, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Chad Slawson)

"The forgotten genome: Surprising roles of mitochondriain cancer metastasis"

 May 5

11:00 am

Shawn Burgess, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)

"Fire and Ice: Mitochondrial Metabolism as a Mediator of Fatty Liver Disease"

 May 12

11:00 am

John Thyfault, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Exercise, Aerobic Capacity, and impact on mitochondrial function in the liver"

 May 19

 11:00 am

Sarah Bondos, Ph.D.
Texas A&M University
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

 "Multiple structure-intrinsic disorder interactions regulate and coordinate Hox protein function"

Fall 2017

Date Time Speaker & Host Title

Sept 1

11:00 am

Pierce O'Neil
Graduate Student, Fisher Lab
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, KUMC

"Tetanus Neurotoxin: Unfolding the Refolding and Translocation Mechanism"

Sept 8

11:00 am

Michael S. Wolfe, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Gamma-Secretase and the Mechanism of Alzheimer's Disease"

Sept 15

11:00 am

Robert A. Harris, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
Visiting Professor

"Role of the PDK isoenzymes in glucose homeostasis, hepatic steatosis, and adipose tissue inflammation"

Sept 22

11:00 am

Julie Christianson, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Christy Hagan)

"The painful consequences of stress"

Sept 29

11:00 am

David Andrews, Ph.D.
University of Toronto
(hosted by Dr. Alexey Ladokhin)

"Bcl-2 proteins regulate cell death at on and in membranes"

Oct 6

11:00 am

Scott Lovell, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"A Protein Structure Medley: From Functional Studies to Inhibitor Development"

Oct 13

11:00 am

Wonpil Im, Ph.D.
LeHigh University
(co-hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher and Dr. Alexey Ladokhin)

"Bacterial Outer Membranes and Interactions with Membrane Proteins"

Oct 20

11:00 am

Byron Caughey, Ph.D.
NIH/NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Prions, Amyloids and the transmissibility of protein misfolding diseases"

Oct 27

11:00 am

Amy Whitaker, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
Freudenthal Lab

"APE1 Cleavage Mechanisms during DNA Repair"

Nov 3

11:00 am

Olof Lagerlof, Ph.D.
Karlinska Institutet, Sweden
(hosted by Dr. Chad Slawson)

"O-GlcNAc: a new mechanism for how the brain controls food intake"

Nov 10

11:00 am

Thomas A. Kunkel, Ph.D.
National Institute of Environmental Health Services

"Recent studies of nuclear DNA replication fidelity in budding yeast"

Nov 17

11:00 am

Irfan Saadi, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Genetic Dissection of SPECC1L Function in Craniofacial Morphogenesis"

Nov 24

11:00 am

No Seminar -Thanksgiving Holiday

 

Dec 1

11:00 am

Carla Koehler, Ph.D.
University of California - Los Angeles
(hosted by Drs. Zhu and Swerdlow)

"Pathways of RNA and protein import into mitochondria"

Dec 8

11:00 am

Joann Sweasy, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

"Base Excision Repair and Lupus"

Dec 15

11:00 am

Blaine Mooers, Ph.D.
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)

"Structural studies of RNA editing in trypanosomes"

Spring 2016

Date Time Speaker & Host Title

Jan 22

11:00 am

Emad Tajkhorshid, Ph.D.
University of Illinois
(hosted by Dr. Alexey Ladohin)

"Visualizing Fuctional Motions of Biological Membranes and Membrane Proteins at Full Atomic Resolution Using Advanced Simulation Technologies

Jan 29

11:00 am

Qi Chen, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Christie Hagan)

"Vitamin C in cancer treatment: An unpaved journey"

Feb 5

11:00 am

Josephine Chandler, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Making friends to make war: bacterial quorum sensing, cooperation and interspecies competition"

Feb 12

11:00 am

Miles Pufall, Ph.D.
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
(hosted by Dr. Christy Hagan)

"The androgen and glucocorticoid receptors use the same interface to bind functionally distinct DNA sequences"

Feb 19

11:00 am

Maria Kalamvoki, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

"Extracellular vesicles during Herpes Simplex Virus Infection"

Feb 26

11:00 am

Rick T. Dobrowsky, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Modulating the Chaperone to Treat Peripheral Neuropathies"

Mar 4

11:00 am

Patricia L. Opresko, Ph.D.
Uiversity of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

"The impact of oxidative DNA damage on telomere maintenance and telomerase activity"

Mar 11

11:00 am

Sufi Thomas, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Christy Hagan)

"Targeting Tumor-stroma metabolic symbiosis for cancer therapy"

Mar 25

11:00 am

William E. Royer, Ph.D
University of Massachusetts Medical School
(hosted by Dr. Hao Zhu)

"regulation of Biological Activity through Protein Assembly: Conventional and Time-resolved Crystallographic Analyses of Cooperative Invertebrate Hemoglobins"

Apr 8

11:00 am

Katie Mitchell-Koch, Ph.D.
Wichita State University
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

"What can we learn about biomolecules with a little computational sleuthing?"

Apr 15

11:00 am

Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

"Light chain amyloidosis: Biophysics in the test tube and in the cell"

Apr 22

11:00 am

Marie Spies, Ph.D.
University of Iowa
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

"Single-molecule studies of FeS DNA helicases: kinetics, confrmation dynamics and molecular mechanisms"

Apr 29

11:00 am

Ilya Vakser, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Alexey Ladokhin)

"Structural modeling of interactome"

May 13

11:00 am

Michael D. Brenowitz, Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)

"A new method of oxidative mapping of molecular interfaces"

Fall 2016

Date Time Speaker & Host Title

September 9

11:00 am

Christopher J. Roberts, Ph.D
University of Delaware
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Mechanisms and Molecular Driving Forces for Aggregation of Therapeutic Proteins"

September 23 

11:00 am

Todd Washington, Ph.D.
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

"PCNA tool belts and polymerase bridges form during translation synthesis"

October 7

11:00 am

Hiroshi Nishimune, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

" Dual-color STED microscopy reveals synaptic structures of adult and aged mice"

October 14

11:00 am

Mathias Lösche, Ph.D
Carnegie Mellon University
(hosted by Dr. Alexey Ladokhin)

" Regulation of the PTEN Tumor Suppressor: Insights from Scattering and MD studies"

October 21

11:00 am

Audrey Lamb, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)

"Pyochelin biosynthesis: the enzymes from A to G"

October 28

11:00 am

Christopher Stipp, Ph.D.

University of Iowa

(hosted by Dr. Chad Slawson)

"Alpha3 Beta1 Integrin is Abl to Help Hippo Inhibit Prostate Cancer Metastasis"

November 4

11:00 am

Grant Bullock, M.D., Ph.D.,
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Ken Peterson)

 "The Role of Iron and Mitochondrial Metabolism in Erythropoiesis"

Novermber 11

11:00 am
*note location:
Lied Auditorium

Susan S. Taylor, Ph.D.
University of California - San Diego
Keynote Speaker for 2016 HUB Forum November 12th

"PKA: Assembly and Localization of Dynamic Macromolecular Signaling Complexes"

November 18

11:00 am

Victor Vasquez Montes, Graduate Student
University of Kansas Medical Center

 "Lipid-Dependent Modulation of Protein-Membrane Interactions"

December 2

11:00 am

Sefika Ozkan, Ph.D.
University of Arizona
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

 "Allostery and Protein Dynamics in Evolution and Disease"

December 9

11:00 am

Ariel Bazzini, Ph.D.
Stowers Institute
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Found in Translation

December 16

11:00 am

Randal Halfmann, Ph.D.
Stowers Institute
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Quantitative Prion Biology"

Fall 2015

Date Time Speaker & Host Title

Sept 11

11:00 am

Bryan Krantz, Ph.D.
University of Maryland
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Peptide and Proton Driven Allosteric Clamps Catalyze Anthrax Toxin Translocation across Membranes"

Sept 18

11:00 am

Christian Ray, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

"Lineage space and the propensity of cells to undergo growth transtions"

Sept 25

11:00 am

TBA

TBA

Oct 2

11:00 am

CANCELED

Oct 9

11:00 am

TBA

TBA

Oct 16

11:00 am

Ryan S. Funk, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Identification of Biochemical Markers of Methotrexate Response in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis"

Oct 23

11:00 am

Prachee Avasthi, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Regulating the cell's antenna: novel trafficking and signaling mechanisms for ciliary assembly"

Oct 30

11:00 am

TBA
(Dr. Chen's seminar moved to Jan 29th)

  TBA

Nov 6

11:00 am

Matt Cuneo, Ph.D.
Oak Ridge National Labs
(hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal)

"A second allosteric switch in periplasmic binding protein mediated ABC transport"

Nov 13*

11:00 am

James A. Wells, Ph.D
University of California San Francisco
LOCATION CHANGE: Lied Auditorium
HUB Forum Featured Speaker

"Drug Discovery at Challenging Targets: Reaching for High Hanging Fruit"

Nov 20

11:00 am

Laurie Steiner, MD
University of Rochester School of Medicine
(hosted by Dr. Ken Peterson)

"The histone methyltransferase Setd8 is critical for erythroblast survival and maturation"

Nov 27

11:00 am

No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday

TBA

Dec 4

11:00 am

Jackie Thompson
Graduate Student - Biochemistry

"The One-of-a-Kind Interaction between Phosphorylase Kinase and Its Substrate Glycogen Phosphorylase"

Dec 11

11:00 am

Ee Tan
Graduate Student - Biochemistry

"The Sweet Side of Mitochondrial Regulation"

Dec 18

11:00 am

Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"The Three Tenors: Electrical, Chemical, and Mixed Synapses"

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