MBTP/CSB Calendar 2023-2024
Archived Calendar: MBTP/CSB Seminar Series 2023-2024
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 5, 2023 | Walter Chazin, PhD Biochemistry and Chemistry | "A cancer biologist walked into a structural biology lab ..." |
| September 19, 2023 | Eli McDonald Meiler and Plate Labs | "Cystic Fibrosis: from Structural Biology to Personalized Medicine" |
| September 26, 2023 RCR Special Session | Tina Iverson, PhD Pharmacology | "When your friend or peer is in distress: An overview of resources" |
| October 3, 2023 | QJ Zhou, PhD Cell and Developmental Biology | "Toward Understanding Irregular Macromolecule Assembly at Molecular Resolution" |
| October 17, 2023 | Wook Shin Yang Lab | "From Chaos to Order: Deep Learning Models that Generate Entropy" |
| October 24, 2023 Special Seminar | CSB Green Team | "Greening the Lab" |
| October 31, 2023 RCR Special Session | Gregor Neuert, PhD Molecular Physiology and Biophysics | "Data Mastery for AI in Biology: Acquisition, Storage, and Analysis" |
| November 7, 2023 | Chuck Sanders, PhD Biochemistry | "How Peripheral Myelin Protein 22 (PMP22) Causes Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease" |
| November 28, 2023 *Note date change | Walter Chazin, PhD Director, Molecular Biophysics Training Program | "An open Q&A and Discussion of the MBTP" |
| December 5, 2023 | Hassane Mchaourab, PhD Molecular Physiology and Biophysics | "Conformational Dynamics of Membrane Proteins. cryoEM, Spectroscopy and AlphaFold2" |
| December 12, 2023 *Note date change | Kathryn Brewer Sanders Lab | "Using CETSA to Assess The Role of KCNQ1 Destabilization in Long QT Syndrome" |
| January 9, 2024 *Note date change | Allison Walker, PhD Chemistry and Biological Sciences | "Machine learning strategies for natural product discovery and biosynthesis" |
| January 23, 2024 Karpay Award Presentation | Eli McDonald, Meiler and Plate Labs Karpay Award Presentation | "CFTR Folding: Started from the Translocon Now We Here" |
| January 30, 2024 RCR Special Session | Jessica Taylor Brown Lab Breann Brown, PhD Biochemistry | "Our Obligation to Society as Scientists, If We Have One" |
| February 6, 2024 | Lauren Buchanan, PhD Chemistry | "Investigating Peptide Structure and Polymorphism with 2D IR Spectroscopy" |
| February 20, 2024 | Gustavo Araiza Meiler and Bachmann Labs | "Epitope-focusing and viral escape prediction for the design and selection of robust influenza antibodies" |
| March 5, 2024 | Ben Spiller, PhD Pharmacology | "Structure and Function of Allergy Causing IgE Epitopes from Peanut Allergic Patients" |
| March 19, 2024 | Dalton Boutwell Buchanan and Walker Labs | "Elucidating the Aggregation Kinetics of α-synuclein with Machine Learning Assisted 2D IR Spectroscopy" |
| March 26, 2024 Special Seminar | Michael Wedemeyer, PhD UT Health Science Center at San Antonio Hosted by the Meiler Lab | "Unveiling Novel Interactions between the Kappa Opioid Receptor and 14-3-3γ" |
| April 2, 2024 | Doug Kojetin, PhD Biochemistry | "Really Awesome Science!" |
| April 16, 2024 | Anna Cassidy Zanic Lab | "Investigating the Role of the GTP-Cap in the Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics in Mammalian Cells" |
| April 30, 2024 RCR Special Session | Beth Lawrence, PhD Zanic Lab Marija Zanic, PhD Cell and Developmental Biology | "Lab Dynamics" |
| May 14, 2024 *Note date change | Borden Lacy, PhD Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology | "Understanding the role of toxins in Clostridioides difficile pathogenesis" |
| May 28, 2024 RCR Special Session | Tim Cover, MD Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology | "Scientific publishing: impact, economics, and the peer-review process" |
| June 4, 2024 | Matthew Lang, PhD Molecular Physiology and Biophysics | "Single molecule and single cell experiments with piconewton forces reveal the very best “digital” αβTCR-pMHC pairings" |
| June 18, 2024 | Christine Ancajas Walker Lab | "Machine Learning-Guided Discovery of Bioactive Natural Products" |
| June 25, 2024 | Jordan Stacy Iverson Lab | "Linking GPCR C-tail Phosphorylation Motifs to Biased Arrestin Functions" |
| July 2, 2024 | Nancy Carrasco, MD Molecular Physiology and Biophysics | "The tale of the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS): From cloning to structure" |
| July 16, 2024 | Cameron Cohen Jackson Lab | "Characterizing tepsin-LC3B binding and its role in ATG9A trafficking and autophagy" |
| July 30, 2024 RCR Special Session | Will Wan, PhD Biochemistry | "Peer Review: Why We Do It and Should We Bother" |
| August 6, 2024 | Marija Zanic, PhD Cell and Developmental Biology | "Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of microtubule dynamics" |
| August 20, 2024 | Oliver Chalkley, Zhou Lab | "Developing a Novel Genetically Encodable in Situ Cryo-ET Tag" |
| August 27, 2024 RCR Special Session | Ivelin Georgiev, PhD Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology | "Patenting your work: the what’s, the how’s, and the why’s" |
| September 3, 2024 | Martin Egli, PhD Biochemistry | "Structural Models of QTY Code Designed Water-Soluble Membrane Proteins" |
| September 17, 2024 | Clinton Holt Georgiev Lab | "Predicting Same Site Antibodies with Contrastive Learning" |