Visiting Speaker Seminars | Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics

2023-2024

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
9/05	Dr. Nimrat Chatterjee, Asst. Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont Cancer Center	Translesion synthesis: beyond DNA damage tolerance	Noon	Low Learning Center & WebEx	Dr. Dmitry Korzhnev
9/19	Dr. Brad Nolen, Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, University of Oregon	Structural and biochemical insights into activation of Arp2/3 complex by WASP family protein	Noon	ARB Small Conference Room & WebEx	Dr. Steven Chou
10/03	Dr. R. Andrew Byrd, Senior Investigator at the Center for Cancer Research, NIH	Surface Dancing: Arf1-ASAP1 peripheral membrane complexes at the surface – challenges for integrated structural biology	Noon	Low Learning Center & WebEx	Dr. Dmitry Korzhnev
10/17	Dr. Hesper Rego, Asst. Professor, School of Medicine, Yale University	Mycobacterial metabolism at the single-cell level	Noon	Keller Auditorium & WebEx Only	Dr. Wendy Mok
10/31	Dr. Dmitri Ivanov, Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, UT Health San Antonio, TX	Recognition and Restriction of Retroviruses by the TRIM5α Restriction Factor	Noon	Low Learning Center & WebEx	Daniel Fairchild
11/14	Dr. Paul Babitzke, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of the Center for RNA Molecular Biology at Pennsylvania State University	Regulation of gene expression via RNA polymerase pausing and termination	Noon	Keller Auditorium & WebEx	Michael Guertin
11/28			Noon	Low Learning Center
12/12	Dr. Benjamin Turk- Associate Professor of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Yale University	Dissecting MAP Kinase Interaction Networks	Noon	Low Learning Center	Wolfgang Peti
12/26			Noon	Low Learning Center & WebEx
1/09				Low Learning Center and WebEx
1/23	Dr. Zachary Nagel, Associate Professor of Genomics and Cancer Biology Environmental Health, Harvard University	Functional assays for DNA damage tolerance and repair reveal molecular mechanisms of therapy resistance in cancer	Noon	Low Learning Center & WebEx	Dmitry Korzhnev
2/06	Dr. Robert Burgess, Professor, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME	Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies for tRNA Synthetase-Associated Peripheral Neuropathies	Noon	Low Learning Center	Oscar Vargas-Rodriguez
2/20			Noon	Keller Auditorium
3/05	Dr. Barbara Kazmierczak, Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Microbial Pathogenesis; Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation MD/PhD Program Director, Yale University	Intrinsic antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Noon	Low Learning Center and WebEx	Wendy Mok
3/19			Noon	Keller Auditorium and WebEx
4/02			Noon	Low Learning Center and WebEx
4/16	Dr. Hashim M Al-Hashimi, Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Bringing the structures of nucleic acid alive using NMR: The ensemble revolution in structural biology	Noon	Keller Auditorium	Jeff Hoch
4/30	Prof. Stephen Blacklow, MD, PhD – Harvard Medical School	A Journey from Membrane to Nucleus: Notch Signaling from the Outside-In	Noon	Low Learning Center and WebEx	Wolfgang Peti
5/14	Dr. Benoit (Ben) Boivin, Associate Professor of Nanobioscience, Director of the Redox Biology and Signal Transduction Laboratory, Suny Polytechnic Institute	The unexpected complexity of the redox regulation of phosphatases	Noon	Low Learning Center and WebEx	Wolfgang Peti
5/28	Dr. Kai (Jack) Zhang – Asst. Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University	Cryo-EM Reveals the Mechanochemical Cycle of Reactive Full-length Human Dynein-1	Noon	Low Learning Center and WebEx	Stephen King
6/11	Dr. Aaron Mendez – Asst. Professor, Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University	The Multifunctionality of Viruses: Impacts on Host Gene Expression and Replication	Noon	Low Learning Center and WebEx	Sandra Weller