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Department Seminars

If you would like to speak with any of these people during their visit, or need additional information, please contact Stephanie Scoville.

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“Metabolic Plasticity as a Driver of Development and Disease” - DBB Seminar

Matthew Sieber, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

 Sep 16, 2026 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Gaëlle Talross

“Mechanisms of Transcription and Replication Through Chromatin” - DBB Seminar

Lucas Farnung, PhD - HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar; Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

 Sep 23, 2026 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Clara Kielkopf

“Control of mRNA Translation by RNA Sequences and Structures” - DBB Seminar

Joel McManus, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh, PA

 Sep 30, 2026 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko (co-sponsored by the Protein Synthesis Cluster and the RNA Structure & Function Cluster)

“Correction of Disease - Causing Splicing Mutations Using Engineered U1 snRNA” - DBB Seminar

Hua Lou, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

 Oct 07, 2026 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Yi-Tao Yu and Dr. Peng Yao (co-sponsored by the RNA Structure & Function Cluster)

“Mechanism and Manipulation of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 Allostery” - DBB Seminar

Kaavya Krishna Kumar, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

 Oct 14, 2026 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Mitch O’Connell

“Optimizing Protein Synthesis with tRNA Modifications” - DBB Seminar

Ute Kothe, PhD - Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

 Oct 21, 2026 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Yi-Tao Yu (co-sponsored by the Protein Synthesis Cluster and the RNA Structure & Function Cluster)

“Metalloproteins in Action: Coupling Diffraction and Spectroscopy for Structural Studies” - DBB Seminar

Sarah E. J. Bowman, PhD - Associate Professor and Director of the National Crystallization Center, Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

 Oct 28, 2026 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | k307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Joseph Wedekind

“Simulating Large-Scale Conformational Dynamics in Biological Assemblies” - DBB Seminar

Paul Whitford, PhD - Professor, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

 Nov 04, 2026 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko (co-sponsored by the Bioinformatics Cluster and the Protein Synthesis Cluster)

“Biochemical Ecology in Host/Microbiome Interactions” - DBB Seminar

Michael Neugent, PhD - Assistant Professor, Departments of Urology and of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

 Nov 11, 2026 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Josh Munger

“The Early Finish: How Premature Transcription Termination Fine-Tunes Gene Expression” - DBB Seminar

Isaac Fianu, PhD - Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Caltech, Pasadena, CA

 Nov 18, 2026 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | k307 (3-6408)

Host: Grad student MarieClaire Haseley and Dr. Eric Wagner (co-sponsored by Graduates Working in Science (GWIS)