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Events

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)

University of Rochester Genetics Day 2027

Harmit Malik, Ph.D. - Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor and Associate Director, Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Dr. Harmit Malik studies genetic conflict, the competition between genes and proteins with opposing functions that drives evolutionary change. His research could have implications for a range of diseases, from HIV to cancer. As part of this work, his team developed an approach for identifying genes that divide one species from another, which could help solve the riddle of how new species evolve. Dr. Malik also studies the evolutionary processes that drive our body’s interactions with viruses, including contemporary scourges like HIV as well as ancient viruses whose fossils litter our genome. With Hutch colleagues, he has characterized the rapidly evolving interface between proteins on human cells and viruses that make us sick. This work has highlighted surprising deviations from “textbook” models of these interactions, and it is revealing gene variants that could influence our susceptibility to infection. — https://www.fredhutch.org/en/people/m/harmit-malik.html

 Apr 12, 2027 @ 9:00 a.m.
 Kornberg Medical Research Building | Class of '62 Aud. and Flaum Atrium

Host: University Committee for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Department of Biology (SAS), the Department of Biomedical Genetics (SMD), and the Fred Sherman Endowed Lectureship