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MBTP/CSB Calendar 2021-2022

Archived Calendar: MBTP/CSB Seminar Series 2021-2022

DateSpeakerTitle
September 7, 2021Ben Spiller, PhD
Pharmacology
"The Human IgE Response to Peanut Allergens: First Steps"
September 21, 2021Eli McDonald
Plate and Meiler Labs
"Molecular Chaperone Evaluation of CFTR Folding"
September 28, 2021
Postdoc Seminar
Pankaj Sharma, PhD
Iverson Lab
"Assembly of respiratory complex II"
October 5, 2021Allison Walker, PhD
Chemistry
"Predicting Natural Product Activities with Machine Learning"
October 19, 2021James Hayes
Burnette Lab
"A role for non-muscle alpha-actinins in cardiac myocyte sarcomerogenesis"
October 26, 2021
Postdoc Seminar
Rachana Tomar, PhD
Stone Lab
"Deciphering the mutagenic signature of aflatoxin B1 damage to the genome"
November 2, 2021Walter Chazin, PhD
Biochemistry and Chemistry
"What is integrative structural biology and how is it used for understanding dynamic protein machinery?"
November 16, 2021Natalie Wallace
Jackson Lab
"Characterizing an emerging role for tepsin in autophagy"
November 30, 2021
RCR Special Session
Borden Lacy, PhD
Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
"RCR in the Climate of Climate Change"
December 7, 2021Ray Blind, PhD
Biochemistry and Medicine
"New structural mechanisms of nuclear receptor regulation inform ligand design and discovery"
December 21, 2021Abigail Neininger
Burnette Lab
"A novel automated image analysis tool uncovers the role of myosin II-based contraction in cardiac myocyte sarcomere assembly"
January 11, 2022Yi Ren, PhD
Biochemistry
Mechanisms and Viral Inhibition of mRNA Nuclear Export
January 18, 2022
Karpay Award Presentation
Noah Bradley, Eichman Lab
"DNA Damage: If You Break It, You Fix It"

SEMINAR POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 8, 2022
January 25, 2022
RCR Special Session
Will Wan, PhD
Biochemistry
“Access and Transparency in Academic Publishing”
February 1, 2022Erkan Karakas, PhD
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
"Structural basis for activation and gating of IP3 receptors"
February 15, 2022Maddie Johnson
Lang Lab
"Single-Molecule Investigation of Cellulose Degradation by the Cellobiohydrolase TfCel6B"
March 1, 2022John Yang, PhD
Chemistry
"Computational Facilities for Automatic Enzyme Design"
March 8, 2022
Karpay Award Presentation
Noah Bradley, Eichman Lab"DNA Damage: If You Break It, You Fix It"

Rescheduled from January 18
March 15, 2022Clint Holt
Georgiev Lab
"Epitope-focused Vaccines Against Conserved Peptides in Influenza and Coronaviruses"
March 22, 2022
RCR Special Session
Chuck Sanders, PhD
Biochemistry
"What you should know about Intellectual Property"
March 29, 2022
Special Seminar
Kaitlyn Ledwich, PhD
Chemistry
Seminar postponed until fall semester
April 5, 2022Mike Stone, PhD
Chemistry
"Chemistry and Biology of N7-dG DNA Alkylation Products"
April 12, 2022
Special Seminar
Douglas Kojetin, PhD
Scripps Research
"Nuclear receptor function made crystal clear with NMR spectroscopy"
April 19, 2022Johnny Cordoba
Chazin Lab
"Understanding the Structural Gymnastics of Polymerase Alpha-Primase using Solution Studies and CryoEM"
April 26, 2022
RCR Special Session
Hassane Mchaourab, PhD
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
“Statistical significance: Dos and Don’ts”
May 3, 2022Brandt Eichman, PhD
Biological Sciences
"Structural and chemical biology of genome integrity"
May 4, 2022 - 12:15 pm
Special Seminar
Julian O. Streit
Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London
"Visualising co-translational protein folding on the ribosome through high-resolution structural snapshots"
May 17, 2022Shannon Smith
Meiler Lab
"Ultra-large virtual screen identifies new class of antagonists against protease activated receptor 4 (PAR4)"
May 24, 2022
RCR Special Session
QJ Zhou, PhD
Cell and Developmental Biology
and
Yi Ren, PhD
Biochemistry
“Understanding different cultures in the research laboratory”
May 31, 2022
Special Seminar
Sven Klumpe , PhD
Max Planck Institute
"Towards Structural Developmental Biology: Imaging Cells and Tissues at Molecular Resolution"
June 7, 2022Lauren Jackson, PhD
Biological Sciences
"Some assembly required: coat proteins in membrane trafficking & autophagy"
June 21, 2022Matt Rogers
Zanic Lab
"The Design and Fabrication of a Microfluidic Device for Studying Microtubules in vitro"
July 5, 2022Teru Nakagawa, PhD
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
"Structure and mechanism of AMPA receptor auxiliary subunit complexes"
July 19, 2022Velia Garcia
Chazin Lab
"Studying the calcium-induced tetramerization of CP and implications for inflammatory receptor activation"
July 26, 2022
RCR Special Session
Jens Meiler, PhD
Chemistry
"Successfully collaborating with other laboratories on campus, nationally, and internationally, do's and don'ts"
August 2, 2022Jens Meiler, PhD
Chemistry
"Going Deep - The Past, Presence, and Future of Neural Networks in Structural Biology"
August 16, 2022Kayla Hess
Buchanan Lab
"Exploring the impact of gold nanoparticles on amylin aggregation via 2D IR spectroscopy"