Journal Club/Work-In-Progress

2024 – 2025

Mondays at Noon, In-Person and via Webex

Link: https://uconnhealth.webex.com/uconnhealth/j.php?MTID=m28b132d5474ef646adbd92f651594f4

MBB Conference Room E2036

 

Date Presenter Title
8/26 Graduate Student Meeting
9/2 Labor Day
9/9 JC – Rouyu Yang (Oh Lab) An early-life microbiota metabolite protects against obesity by regulating intestinal lipid metabolism
9/16 JC – Caroline Guild (Heinen Lab) Mismatch repair protein MLH1 suppresses replicative stress in BRCA2-deficient breast tumors
9/23 JC – Jonathan Batchelder (Mok Lab) Staphylococcus aureus adapts to exploit collagen-derived proline during chronic infection
9/30 JC – Rachel Godek (Page Lab) Maf1 phosphorylation is regulated through the action of
prefoldin-like Bud27 on PP4 phosphatase in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
10/7 JC – Dillon Vannest (Caimano Lab) Structural insights into the mechanism of protein transport by the Type 9 Secretion System translocon
10/8#  JC/WIP – Bernd Simon And what about NMR
10/14 Indigenous People’s Day
10/21 JC – Bethlehem Abebe (Chou Lab) Molecular architecture of the Gαi-bound TRPC5 ion channel
10/22# WIP – Dr. Nisha Mahey (Mok Lab post-doc) Timing matters: recA facilitates DNA damage repair in S. aureus persisters following fluoroquinolone treatment – rescheduled – Info to follow
10/28 JC – Tvesha Parikh (Page Lab) Structure of Calcineurin bound to PI4KA reveals dual interface in both PI4KA and FAM126A
11/4 JC – Alex Radecki (Vargas-Rodriguez Lab) Prophage terminase with tRNase activity sensitives Salmonella enterica to oxidative stress
11/5#  WIP- Mian Horvath (Oh Lab) Microbiome Modulation of Respiratory Epithelial Innate Immunity
11/11 JC – Daniel Fairchild (Bezsonova/Weller Lab) TRIM28-mediated nucleocapsid protein SUMOylation enhances SARS-CoV-2 virulence
11/18 JC – Dane Geddes -Buehre (Korzhnev Lab) Catalytic and noncatalytic functions of DNA polymerase κ in Translesion DNA synthesis
11/25 Thanksgiving Recess
12/2 JC – Wen Liu (Chou Lab) Structural basis of μ-opioid receptor targeting by a nanobody antagonist
12/9* JC – Darien Craft (Schuyler/Gryk Lab)
12/16* WIP – Elizabeth Szabo (Heinen Lab)
12/23 – 30 Winter Break
1/6 MBB Prelim Prep
1/13 WIP – Emilie Korchak (Bezsonova Lab)
1/20 Martin Luther King’s Day
1/27 WIP – Wen Liu (Chou Lab)
2/3 WIP – Daniel Fairchild (Bezsonova/Weller Lab)
2/10 WIP – Dillon Vannest (Caimano Lab)
2/11# WIP – Ruoyu Yang (Oh Lab)
2/17 President’s Day
2/24 WIP – Bethlehem Abebe (Chou Lab)
3/3 WIP – Tvesha Parikh (Page Lab)
3/10 Spring Recess
3/17 WIP – Caroline Guild (Heinen Lab)
3/24 WIP – Dane Geddes-Buehre (Korzhnev Lab)
3/25 WIP – Andre Glassman (Radolf/Caimano Lab)
3/31 WIP – Alex Radecki (Vargas-Rodriguez Lab)
4/7 WIP – Angie Power (Mok Lab)
4/14 WIP – Jonathan Batchelder (Mok Lab)
4/21 WIP – Rachel Godek (Page Lab)
4/28 WIP – Travis LaGree (Mok Lab)
5/5 WIP – Patricia Hare (Mok Lab)
5/12* WIP – Mian Horvath (Oh Lab)

* These dates are outside of the academic calendar.