Visiting Speaker Seminars Series

2026-2027

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
9/08 Kohta Saito MD, MPH, Asst. Professor of Medicine, Associate Program Director, Infectious                  Diseases Fellowship Program, Charles R. Steinberg, M.D. Clinical Scholar in     Infectious Disease, Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education Deconvoluting Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Noon

 

 Low Learning Center & WebEx

 

 Wendy Mok

 
9/22 Noon Low Learning Center & WebEx
10/06 Nele Hollmann, Assistant Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology University of Georgia		 Decoding viral RNPs through integrative structural biology Low Learning Center & WebEx Bernd Simon
10/20 Juliana Reis Cortines,  Associate Professor, Department of Virology, Institute of Microbiology, Paulo de Paulo de Góes (IMPG), UFRJ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro One Virus, Many Scales: Exploring the Biology of Giant Viruses Noon ARB Large Conference Room and WebEx Joana Paulino
11/03

 

 John D. Helmann, Professor of Microbiology, Cornell University Synergy and antagonism in bacterial antibiotic resistance  Noon

 

 Low Learning Center & WebEx Melissa Caimano

 
11/17 James Bardwell, PH.D., Rowena G. Matthews Collegiate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
University of Michigan		 The roles of G4 quadruplexes in neurodegenerative diseases

 

 

 Noon ARB Large Conference Room (EG013) & WebEx  Irina Bezsonova
12/01 Vignesh Kasinath,  Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences University of Colorado,  Boulder Low Learning Center & WebEx
12/15 Onyiuke Room & WebEx
12/29 Noon Low Learning Center & WebEx
01/12 Noon Low Learning Center & WebEx
01/26 Katherine Henzler-Wildman, Professor of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin Noon Low Learning Center & WebEx Jeff Hoch
02/09 Justyna Sikorska, Merck (NJ) in NMR guided drug discovery Noon Low Learning Center & WebEx Bernd Simon
02/23

Yang Gao, Associate Professor of BioSciences CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research, Rice University

 Noon Low Learning Center & WebEx Dmitry Korzhnev
03/09 Jeffrey Tharp, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Pharmacology, Indiana University School of Medicine Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx  Oscar Vargas-Rodriguez
03/23 Hany Farid, Professor of Computer Science, Dartmouth College Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx Jeff Hoch
3/30 Sebastian Hiller, Professor for Structural Biology and Biophysics, the Biozentrum of the University of Basel  Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx  Wolfgang Peti
04/06 Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx
04/20  Emilia Galperin, Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx Irina Bezsonova
05/04 Andrew McShan, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Tech Center for Functional Lipids (C-FLip) Noon Wolfgang Peti
05/18  Haissi Cui, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Noon  Oscar Vargas
06/01 Noon
06/15 Noon