2025-2026

Seminars will be on TUESDAYS AT NOON, IN-PERSON AND VIA WEBEX

Event Link: https://uconnhealth.webex.com/uconnhealth/j.php?MTID=m28b132d5474ef646adbd92f651594f4f

 

Date	Presenter	Title	Time	Location	Host
9/09	Dr. Smita Gopinath, Assistant Professor, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard Medical School	Vaginal microbiome and antiviral immunity	Noon	Low Learning Center & WebEx	Wendy Mok/Sandy Weller
9/23			Noon	Low Learning & WebEx
10/07	Nicholas Ashton, Instructor in Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins at replication forks	Noon	ARB Large Conference Room (EG013) & WebEx	Irina Bezsonova
10/17	Dr. Michael Sattler – Professor Biomolecular NMR-Spectroscopy TUM School of Natural Sciences Director, Bavarian NMR Center Technical University of Munich, Germany Institute of Structural Biology, Head of Department, Molecular Targets and Therapeutics Center, Helmholtz Munich, Germany	NMR in integrative structural biology – from dynamic protein-RNA interactions to novel therapeutics	Noon	Onyiuke and WebEx	Bernd Simon
10/21	Shiaulou Yuan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Center Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School	Grow with the flow! Mechanosensing and signaling by cilia in left-right axis patterning	Noon	ARB Large Conference Room (EG013) & WebEx	Steve King
11/04	Dr. Charles E. Bell- Professor, Ohio State University College of Medicine	Mechanism of DNA Repair by Single Strand Annealing from Cryo-EM Structures of a RAD52 Homolog from Yeast Mitochondria	Noon	Low Learning Center and WebEx	Sandra Weller
11/18				Onyiuke and WebEx
12/02	Dr. Sasan Jalili – Assistant Professor The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine	Engineering tools to interrogate the host immunity, microbiome and their interactions		ARB Large Conference Room (EG013) and WebEx	Wendy Mok & Oscar Vargas
12/16	Dr. Oriana S Fisher, Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry	The structural basis for copper recognition and regulation in Gram positive bacteria	Noon	ARB Large Conference Room (EG013)  and WebEx	Irina Bezsonova
12/30			Noon	ARB Large Conference Room (EG013) and WebEx
1/13	Dale Kreitler – AMX Beamline Scientist, Structural Biology Program, National Synchrotron Light Source II	Accelerating drug discovery with synchrotrons: the x-ray crystallographic fragment screening facility at NSLS-II	Noon	Low Learning Center and WebEx	Dane Geddes-Buehre
1/27	Huan-Xiang Zhou, Professor and LAS Endowed Chair in the Natural Sciences, UIC Chemistry University of Illinois Chicago	Atomistic view of biomolecular condensates	Noon	Low Learning Center and WebEx	Joanna Paulino
2/10	Venkata P. Dandey, Ph.D. – Director/Associate Professor, Cryo-EM Facility, Center for Open Research Resources & Equipment (COR²E)	Advancing Cryo-EM Sample Preparation Through High-Precision Robotic	Noon	Low Learning Center and WebEx	Irina Bezsonova
2/24	Dr. Sarah Rowe-Conlon, Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill	Understanding the hidden drivers of antibiotic treatment failure – CANCELLED/Rescheduled	Noon	ARB Large Conference Room and WebEx	Wendy Mok
2/27	Michael Nilges, Professor, Vice President for Technology, Institut Pasteur, Paris	Endopilus Assembly in the Type II Secretion System: Lessons from AlphaFold	Noon	E-2036 Conference Room & WebEx	Simon Bernd
3/10	Dr. Yong-qing Li-Professor of Physics, East Carolina University	Modeling bacterial spore germination – heterogeneity, commitment, memory, and CaDPA release	Noon	Low Learning Center & WebEx	Peter Setlow
3/17	Dr. Sergey Melnikov, Principal Investigator and University Fellow at Biosciences Institute Newcastle University, UK.	Hibernation of biological molecules		Low Learning Center & WebEx	Oscar Vargas
3/24	Oliver Clarke, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics (in Anesthesiology and the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research)	Structures of ankyrin and stomatin complexes: Two mechanisms of membrane protein organization in the red blood cell	Noon	Low Learning Center & WebEx	Rebecca Page
4/07	Dr. Shuo Han – Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, Duke University	Deciphering the language of gut bacteria in host longevity	Noon	Low Learning Center  and  WebEx	Wendy Mok
4/21	Dr. Sarah Rowe-Conlon, Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill	Understanding the hidden drivers of antibiotic treatment failure	Noon	ARB Large Conference Room and WebEx	Wendy Mok
5/05	Dr. Ane Landajuela Larma – Associate Research Scientist, Yale School of Medicine	Membrane Fission Across Domains of Life: Insights from bacterial sporulation and FisB	Noon	Low Learning Center and WebEx	Peter Setlow
5/19	Qian Chen, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, MS601 University of Toledo	Regulation of cell division by the mechanosensitive polycystin channels	Noon	ARB Large Conference Room and WebEx	Steven Chou
6/02	Srujana Samitha Yadavalli, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Institute for Infectious & Inflammatory Diseases (i3D)		Noon	Low Learning Center and WebEx	Oscar Vargas
6/16	Caroline Laplante, Ph.D., Associate Professor Goodnight Early Career Innovator CFEP Quantitative and Computational Developmental Biology Cluster Co-leader Comparative Molecular Medicine Training Program MPI Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine North Carolina State University		Noon	ARB Large Conference Room and WebEx	Steven Chou