Date
Thursdays 4 PM Basic Science Auditorium | Speaker | Title & Host |
September 5, 2019 | Wei Li. Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine | "Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer Driver Genes"
Eric Wagner |
September 12, 2019 | Eliseo Eugenin. Ph.D., UTMB | "Role of cell to cell communication in NeuroHIV and Cancer" Mark White |
September 19, 2019 | Kristian Andersen, PhD, The Scripps Research Institute | “Outsmarting Outbreaks – Using Genomics to Track Viruses”
Andrew Routh |
September 26, 2019 | Tomas Cihlar, Ph.D., Gilead Sciences | “Discovery and Development of Remdesivir, a Broad-spectrum Small Molecule Antiviral” Pei-yong Shi |
FRIDAY
October 4, 2019 | Guey-Shin Wang, PH.D., Institute of Biomedical Science, Taipei, Taiwan | “RNA toxicity induces post-translational dysregulation in myotonic dystrophy” Muge Martinez |
October 10, 2019 | Dean Scholl, Ph.D., AvidBiotics | “Engineered phage tail-like bacteriocins for human therapeutics” Petr Leiman |
October 17, 2019 RESCHEDULED | Gideon Dreyfuss, Ph.D.HHMI, U. Penn | Eric Wagner |
October 24, 2019 | Michael Bressan, Ph.D., UNC | Muge Martinez |
October 31, 2019 | | |
November 7, 2019 | John Pascal, Ph.D., U. de Montreal | “Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase enzymes: structure, regulation, and inhibition” Whitney Yin & Zoe Hoffpauir |
November 14, 2019 | Andrew Routh, Ph.D., UTMB | “Defective RNA virus genomes: passive interference or programmed enhancement?”
Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
November 21, 2019 | Eric Wagner, Ph.D., UTMB | "Negative Regulation of Paused RNA Polymerase II: The value of a pair of scissors" Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
November 28, 2019 | Thanksgiving – No seminar | |
December 5, 2019 | Lilei Zhang, M.D,Ph.D., Baylor College of | “Circadian regulation of cardiac remodeling”
Yumei Ye |
December 9/10, 2019 December 12, 2019 | Rich Roberts, Ph.D., New England Biolabs Adrian R. Krainer, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | “Bacterial Methylomes”
Mariano Garcia-Blanco Pioneering Biological Discovery Seminar |
December 19, 2019 | | |
SPRING | | |
January 9, 2020 | Ken Dill, Ph.D., Stony brook | Monte Pettitt |
January 16, 2020 | Kay Choi, Ph.D., UTMB | "How do flaviviruses find their own RNA genome for viral replication?"
Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
January 23, 2020 | Manny Ares, Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz | “Mechanisms that influence splicing decisions”
Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
January 30, 2020 | Jeffrey Chang, Ph.D., UT Health Science Center Houston
| "Genomic dissection of metastatic breast cancer tumors"
Pei-yong Shi |
February 6, 2020 | | |
February 13, 2020 | Sandra Schmid, Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center | “Dynamin function: Looking under and away from the lamp-post”
Michael Sheetz |
February 20, 2020 | Nicholas S. Heaton, Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center
| "Tissue Specific Interferon Regulation and Effects on Influenza Virus Pathogenesis" Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
February 27, 2020 | Lynn Zechiedrich, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine | “Using supercoiling, sequence, and curvature to create nanoparticle DNAs for gene therapy”
Monte Pettitt |
March 2, 2020
3:00 PM
MONDAY - Faculty Candidate | Jiajie Diao, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati | "Studying SNARE - mediated membrane fusion at the single vesicle level"
Linda Kenney |
March 5, 2020 | Walter J Chazin, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University | “The core scaffolding of nucleotide excision repair machinery: From molecular mechanism to personalized medicine”
Junji Iwahara |
March 12, 2020 | Margo Brinton, Ph.D., Georgia State University | "Both cellular and flaviviral specific factors determine the mode of induction and characteristics of stress granules"
Pei-yong Shi |
March 19, 2020 | Paul de Figueiredo, Ph.D., Texas A&M | "Mechanisms controlling Brucella intracellular parasitism"
Bill Russell |
TUESDAY March 24, 2020 | Christine Mayr, M.D, Ph.D., Sloan Kettering Institute
| Eric Wagner
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April 2, 2020 | | |
April 9, 2020 | | |
April 16, 2020 | | |
April 23, 2020 | | |
April 30, 2020 | | |
July 2, 2020 | Ridvan Nepravishta, Ph.D. UTMB | “Numerous reconciliations before divorce: The dynamic interactions of transcription factors with DNA”
Junji Iwahara |
September 10, 2020 | Bryan Sutton, Ph.D. UT Health Science Center Houston | Mark White |
| September 24, 2020 | Frank Conlon, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Michelle Ward |
October 8, 2020 | Joshua Wythe, Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine | Muge Martinez |
October 22, 2020 | | |
November 5, 2020 | | |
November 19, 2020 | Weidong Wang, Ph.D., National Institute on Aging, NIH | Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
December 3, 2020 | Mehmet Sen, Ph.D. University of Houston | Mark White |
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