Visiting Speaker Seminars Series

2024-2025

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
9/03 Noon

 

Low Learning Center & WebEx

 

 

 

9/17 Dr. James Moseley, Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine How cells control their size Noon Kelly Auditorium & WebEx Steven Chou
10/01

 

 

 

 

Dr. Dylan Murray, Asst. Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology/Structural Biology, Biochemistry & Biophysics, UCONN Storrs

 

 

Low complexity protein domain assembly in RNA granules and intermediate filaments

 

 

Noon

 

 

 

 

 

Low Learning Center & WebEx

 

 

 

 Dmitry Korzhnev

 

 

 

10/15

 

Dr. Jinwei Zhang, Senior Investigator, Structural Biology of Noncoding RNAs and Ribonucleoproteins        Section, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIH/NIDDK Recognition and mimicry of the tRNA fold in long noncoding RNAs

 

 

Noon

 

Keller Auditorium & WebEx

 

Oscar Vargas-Rodrigues

 

10/29 Dr. Sarvenaz Sarabipour,  Asst Professor, Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling Department of Cell Biology University of Connecticut School of Medicine Mechanistic models of membrane protein trafficking dynamics and regulation Noon

 

Low Learning Center & WebEx

 

Steve King

 

11/12 Dr. Anna Cliffe – Associate Professor – Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia Regulation of Herpes Simplex Virus latency by neuronal stress responses and innate immune signaling Noon

 

Low Learning Center & WebEx

 

 

Michael Guertin/Sandy Weller

 

 

11/26 Dr. Choukri Ben Mamoun, Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine Therapeutic Strategies Shaped by the Evolution of Intraerythrocytic Parasites Noon Low Learning Center & WebEx  

Jeff Hoch

12/10 Dr. Gary Joseph Pielak – Kenan Distinguished Professor Department of Chemistry, Integrated Program for Biological & Genome Sciences Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Macromolecular Crowding In Vitro and In Cells Noon Low Learning Center & WebEx  Dane Geddes-Buehre
12/24 Noon Low Learning Center &  WebEx
1/07 Low Learning Center & WebEx
1/21 Dr. Bakar Hassan, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH Designing Next Generation Rpn13-Targeting Small Molecules with Nanomolar Efficacy Noon Keller Auditorium & WebEx  Irina Bezsonova
2/04 Dr. Alexandre Bisson – Asst. Professor, Biology, Brandeis University Life by a Thousand Cuts: Archaea as a Model for (Physics-Evo-Devo) Mechanosensing Noon Low Learning Center & WebEx Joana Paulino
2/18 Dr. Emily Derbyshire – Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University TBD Noon Keller Auditorium & WebEx Wendy Mok
3/04 Dr. Karen Allen – Chair, Department of Chemistry; Professor, Biological Chemistry; Professor, Materials Science and Engineering TBD Noon Low Learning Center & WebEx Jeff Hoch
3/18 Dr. Dale Andrew Ramsden – Professor, University of North Carolina School of Medicine

TBD Noon Keller Auditorium  & WebEx Dmitry Korzhnev

 

4/01 Noon Low Learning Center & WebEx
4/15 Noon Keller Auditorium and WebEx
4/29 Dr. Som Chatterjee – Asst. Professor, School of Dentistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland TBD Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx Nisha Mahey
5/13 Dr. Charalampos Babis Kalodimos -Chair, Department of Structural BiologyJoseph Simone Endowed Chair in Discovery Research, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital TBD Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx Wolfgang Peti
5/27 Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx
6/10 Noon