Visiting Speaker Seminars

2023-2024

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
9/05 Dr. Nimrat Chatterjee, Asst. Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont Cancer Center Translesion synthesis: beyond DNA damage tolerance

 

 

Noon

 

Low Learning Center & WebEx

 

Dmitry Korzhnev

 

9/19 Dr. Brad Nolen, Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, University of Oregon Structural and biochemical insights into activation of Arp2/3 complex by WASP family protein Noon ARB Small Conference Room & WebEx Steven Chou
10/03

 

 

 

 

Dr. R. Andrew Byrd, Senior Investigator at the Center for Cancer Research, NIH

 

 

 

 

Surface Dancing: Arf1-ASAP1 peripheral membrane complexes at the surface – challenges for integrated structural biology

 

 

 

 

Noon

 

 

 

 

Low Learning Center & WebEx

 

 

 

Dmitry Korzhnev

 

 

 

 

10/17

 

Dr. Hesper Rego, Asst. Professor, School of Medicine, Yale University

 

 

Mycobacterial metabolism at the single-cell level

 

 

Noon

 

Keller Auditorium & WebEx Only

 

Wendy Mok

 

10/31 Dr. Dmitri Ivanov, Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, UT Health San Antonio, TX Recognition and Restriction of Retroviruses by the TRIM5α Restriction Factor Noon

 

Low Learning Center & WebEx

 

Daniel Fairchild

 

11/14 Dr. Paul Babitzke, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of the Center for RNA Molecular Biology at Pennsylvania State University Regulation of gene expression via RNA polymerase pausing and termination Noon

 

Keller Auditorium & WebEx

 

 

Michael Guertin

 

 

11/28 Noon Low Learning Center
12/12 Dr. Benjamin Turk- Associate Professor of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Yale University Dissecting MAP Kinase Interaction Networks Noon Low Learning Center Wolfgang Peti
12/26 Noon Low Learning Center &  WebEx
1/09 Low Learning Center and WebEx
1/23 Dr. Zachary Nagel, Associate Professor of Genomics and Cancer Biology Environmental Health, Harvard University Noon Low Learning Center & WebEx Dmitry Korzhnev
2/06 Dr. Robert Burgess, Associate Professor, Tufts University Noon Low Learning Center Oscar Vargas-Rodriguez
2/20 Noon Keller Auditorium
3/05 Dr. Barbara Kazmierczak, Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Microbial Pathogenesis; Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation MD/PhD Program Director, Yale University Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx Wendy Mok
3/19 Noon Keller Auditorium and WebEx
4/02 Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx
4/16 Dr. Hashim M Al-Hashimi, Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Noon Keller Auditorium
4/30 Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx
5/14 Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx
5/28 Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx
6/11 Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx
6/25 Noon Low Learning Center and WebEx