2022-2023
Seminars will be virtual. Event Link: https://uconnhealth.webex.com/uconnhealth/j.php?MTID=m28b132d5474ef646adbd92f651594f4f
Date | Presenter | Title | Time | Location | Host |
8/30 | Dr. George Inglis & Dr. Zhijuan Qiu, Communication Biology (Nature Portfolio Journal) | Navigating Scientific Publishing in the Nature Portfolio | Noon | WebEx | Wendy Mok |
9/06 | Dr. Eran Agmon, Asst Prof/Basic Sci, Cell Analysis Modeling – CCAM | Vivarium: A Framework for Integrative, Multi-Scale Computational Cell Biology | Noon | Low Learning Center & WebEx | Wolfgang Peti |
9/20 | Dr. Penny Beuning, Chair, and Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Northeastern University | “Moving in the Right Circles: Dynamics of processivity clamp proteins.” | Noon | Low Learning Center | Dmitry Korzhnev |
10/4 | Dr. Stanley Brul, Professor, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam | Visualizing Spore Germination Protein Complexes in Action in Bacterial Endospores; Lessons and Challenges Ahead | Noon | Low Learning Center
-Virtual only – WebEx |
Angela DeMarco (Mok’s Lab) |
10/18 | Dr. Colin Smith, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Wesleyan University | Characterizing aberrant energy landscapes in computationally designed and naturally occurring proteins | Noon | Keller Auditorium | Irina Bezsonova |
11/1 | Dr. Janice Pata, Chair & Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences, University of Albany | Kinetic Mechanisms of S. aureus PolC & DnaE: Insights Into the Initiation of DNA Synthesis in Gram-positive Bacteria | Noon | Low Learning Center | Dmitry Korzhnev |
11/15 | Dr. Lars Dietrich, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, Columbia University | Metabolic heterogeneity and antibiotic tolerance in bacterial biofilms | Noon | Keller Auditorium | Wendy Mok |
11/29 | N/A | N/A | Noon | Low Learning Center | N/A |
12/13 | Dr. Emily Derbyshire, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Duke University | Interdisciplinary Approaches to reveal parasite vulnerabilities | Noon | Low Learning Center Virtual only – WebEx | Wendy Mok |
12/27 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
1/10 | Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, Professor & Chair, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California | Mechanism and regulation of DNA repair: RAD52 and BRCA2 regulate pathway choice in double-stranded DNA break repair | Noon | Low Learning Center | Dmitry Korzhnev |
1/24 | Dr. Achim Werner– NIH, Stadtman Tenure Track Investigator, Stem Cell Biochemistry Unit, Skeletal, Matrix & Mechanisms of Development & Stem Cell Fate | Deciphering ubiquitin-dependent cell-fate decisions during development through biochemical screening of human disease mutations | Noon | Low Learning Center | Irina Bezsonova |
2/7 | N/A | N/A | Noon | Low Learning Center | N/A |
2/21 | Dr. Alison ONeil-Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Wesleyan University | iPSC and zebrafish modeling of pesticide exposure as a route to sporadic ALS | Noon | Low Learning Center | Irina Bezsonova |
3/7 | Dr. Gustavo M. Silva, Assistant Professor, Duke University | Ribosome Ubiquitination and Translation Control During Stress | Noon | Low Learning Center Virtual Only – WebEx | Irina Bezsonova |
3/21 | Dr. Michael Latham, Asst. Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota | Conformational heterogeneity of the MR complex underlies its function in DNA double-strand break repair. | Noon | Keller Auditorium | Gianluca Arianna/Dmitry Korzhnev |
4/4 | Dr. Mark L. Dell’Acqua – Professor & Vice-Chair, Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine | Regulation of Local Synaptic Plasticity and Distal Signaling to the Nucleus by Neuronal L-type Ca2+ Channel Complexes | Noon | Low Learning Center | Wolfgang Peti & Kimberly Dodge-Kafka |
4/18 | Dr. Petra Levin – Professor, Washington University, St. Louis | The environment shapes the cell | Noon | Low Learning Center | Patricia Hare |
5/2 | Noon | Low Learning Center | |||
5/16 | Dr. Babak Javid – Associate Professor, Division of Experimental Medicine, UCSF Investigator, Wellcome Trust | Targeting (mis)translation as an anti-virulence strategy | Noon | Low Learning Center | Oscar Vargas-Rodriguez |
5/30 | Noon | Low Learning Center | |||
6/13 | Sergey Melnikov – Principal Investigator, Newcastle University Medical School |
– Canceled – |
Noon | Low Learning Center |
Oscar Vargas-Rodriguez |
6/27 | Noon | Low Learning Center |