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) | |
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 – Dane Geddes-Buehre (Korzhnev 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 – Daniel Fairchild (Bezsonova/Weller 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.