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	Interdisciplinary approaches to reveal malaria parasite vulnerabilities	Noon	Keller Auditorium & WebEx	Wendy Mok
3/04	Dr. Karen Allen – Chair, Department of Chemistry; Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University	Beyond the Active Site: Structure Guided Insight into Function, Mechanism and Evolution in Bacterial Glycoconjugate Biosynthesis	Noon	Low Learning Center & WebEx	Jeff Hoch
3/18	Dr. Dale Andrew Ramsden – Professor, University of North Carolina School of Medicine	Repair of chromosome breaks	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	Role of Serine/threonine kinase signaling in beta-lactam resistance of Staphylococcus aureus	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	The conformational landscape of protein kinases in physiology and disease	Noon	Low Learning Center and WebEx	Wolfgang Peti
5/27			Noon	Low Learning Center and WebEx
6/10			Noon