Date/Title of TalkThursdays 4 PM
Basic Science Auditorium 2.212
| Speaker | Host |
September 1, 2022
"SARS-CoV-2 Immune Evasion and Countermeasure Development"
*HEC 3.206
| Dr. Hongjie Xia
University of Texas Medical Branch
| Pei-Yong Shi, PhD |
September 15, 2022
"Understanding organism-wide coordination of growth by using spatiotemporal control of ribosome synthesis"
| Dr. Elif Sarinay Cenik
University of Texas at Austin
| Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez, PhD
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September 16, 2022 *10:00am
"Single cell quantification of ribosome occupancy in early mouse development"
| Dr. Can Cenik
University of Texas at Austin | Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez, PhD
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September 22, 2022
"Nuclear organization by biomolecular condensates"
| Dr. Ben Sabari
University of Texas Southwestern
| Guy Nir, PhD
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September 29, 2022
"Force-regulated integrin spontaneous conformational changes"
| Dr. Yunfeng Chen
University of Texas Medical Branch | Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez, PhD
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October 6, 2022
*HEC 3.206 "Immunodominance and antigenic evolution - lessons learned from influenza and SARS-CoV-2"
| Dr. Seth Zost
Vanderbilt University
| Pei-Yong Shi, PhD
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October 27, 2022
"Structures and functions of non-nonribosomal peptide synthetases"
| Dr. Martin Schmeing
McGovern Medical School
| Whitney Yin, PhD
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October 31, 2022
"Mechano-Genomics: from Cell-State Transitions to Chromatin Biomarkers" | Dr. G.V. Shivashankar
ETH Zurich & Paul Scherrer Institute
| Mike Sheetz, PhD
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November 3, 2022 (Virtual Only)
"Balancing X-Chromosome Dosage in Hematopoietic Cells: Mechanistic Insights and Impact on Cancer"
| Dr. Eda Yildirim
Duke University
| Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez, PhD
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November 10, 2022
"Chromatin-scaffolded phase separation in the nucleus"
| Dr. Amy Strom
Princeton University
| Guy Nir, PhD
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November 17, 2022
"The cellular orchestra of stress, innate immune, and programmed cell death signaling in health and disease" | Dr. Parimal Samir
University of Texas Medical Branch | Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez, PhD
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December 1, 2022 *** CANCELLED
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January 5, 2023
"The Democratization of RNA Therapeutics: What it means for Infectious Diseases" | Dr. John Cooke
Houston Methodist | Pei-Yong Shi, PhD
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January 12, 2023
"C. elegans: platform for discovery about muscle assembly, maintenance, regulation & aging"
| Dr. Guy Benian
Emory University | Andres Oberhauser, PhD |
January 26, 2023 *12:00pm
"Optical structural cell biology - visualising protein assemblies in cells with super-resolution microscopy"
| Dr. Mike Heilemann
Goethe-University
| Linda Kenney, PhD
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January 26, 2023 *Virtual only
"Identifying common and rare regulatory variants in genetic disease"
| Dr. Stephen Montgomery
Stanford University | Michelle Ward, PhD
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February 2, 2023
"Mechanical basis of human disease"
| Dr. Shang Ma
University of Texas Southwestern | Yunfeng Chen PhD |
February 9, 2023
"Mechanisms affected by Phospholipase D1 in the progression of neurogenerative states"
| Dr. Balaji Krishnan
University of Texas Medical Branch | Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez, PhD |
February 23, 2023 *Virtual Only
"Inferring gene regulatory divergence between humans and Neanderthals" | Dr. Tony Capra
University of California San Francisco | Michelle Ward, PhD
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February 28, 2023
"How One Eukaryotic Cell Invades Another: Dissecting Invasion by Apicomplexa" | Dr. Li-av Segev Zarko
Stanford University | William Russell, PhD |
March 9, 2023
"Overcoming Undruggable Targets Using Small Molecule Microarrays" | Dr. Bocheng Wu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Pei-Yong Shi, PhD
Yunfeng Chen, PhD |
March 21, 2023
"Genetic approaches to the p53 paradox" | Dr. Annika Wylie
University of Texas Southwestern | Junji Iwahara, PhD |
March 23, 2023
“Structural insights into the dynamic assembly pathway and function of the spliceosome”
| Dr. Reinhard Lührmann
Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
| Mariano Garcia-Blanco PhD |
April 4, 2023
"Understanding metabolic disease through functional genomics" | Dr. Ewa Bielczyk-Maczyńska
Stanford University | Michelle Ward, PhD |
April 6, 2023
"Collective Bacterial Motion on a Surface: Unexpected Insights into Antimicrobial Resistance" | Dr. Rasika Harshey
University of Texas Austin | Linda Kenney, PhD |
April 11, 2023
"Investigating how homolog genome organization shapes gene regulatory programs" | Dr. Jumana AlHaj Abed
Harvard University | Linda Kenney, PhD |
April 13, 2023 *Virtual Only
"Single cell multi-omic approaches to cardiac development and disease" | Dr. Sean Wu
Stanford University | Michelle Ward, PhD |
April 20, 2023
"DNA methylation reprogramming in mammals" | Dr. Marisa Bartolomei
University of Pennsylvania | Linda Kenney, PhD |
April 25, 2023
"Molecular mechanism of sound amplification"
| Dr. Navid Bavi
University of Chicago | Petr Leiman, PhD |
April 27, 2023
"" | Dr. Xiaodong Cheng
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston | Mark White, PhD |
May 4, 2023
"Establishing advanced in vitro microphysiological
platforms to evaluate cell and extracellular matrix remodeling" | Dr. Lauren Richardson
University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston | Krishna Rajarathnam, PhD |
May 11, 2023
"" | Dr. Yan Xiang
University of Texas Health San Antonio | Xuping Xie, PhD |
May 18, 2023
"Mechanism of signal transduction across the bacterial cell envelope" | Dr. Anna Konovalova
University of Texas Health Medical Center Houston | Linda Kenney, PhD |