{"id":244,"date":"2017-06-12T11:43:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/molecular-biology-biophysics\/?page_id=244"},"modified":"2026-10-23T18:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:53:35","slug":"visiting-speaker-seminars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/molecular-biology-biophysics\/news-and-events\/visiting-speaker-seminars\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Speaker Seminars Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

2026-2027<\/h3>\n

Seminars will be on TUESDAYS AT NOON, IN-PERSON AND VIA WEBEX<\/h3>\n

Event Link: https:\/\/uconnhealth.webex.com\/uconnhealth\/j.php?MTID=m28b132d5474ef646adbd92f651594f4f<\/a><\/p>\n

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Date<\/strong><\/td>\nPresenter<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nTime<\/strong><\/td>\nLocation<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/08<\/td>\nKohta Saito MD, MPH<\/strong>, Asst. Professor of Medicine, Associate Program Director, Infectious\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Diseases Fellowship Program, Charles R. Steinberg, M.D. Clinical Scholar in \u00a0 \u00a0 Infectious Disease, <\/span><\/span>Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Education<\/em><\/td>\nDeconvoluting Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/em><\/td>\nNoon<\/p>\n

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Low Learning Center & WebEx<\/p>\n

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Wendy Mok<\/p>\n

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9\/22<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\nLow Learning Center & WebEx<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/06<\/td>\nNele Hollmann<\/strong>, Assistant Professor<\/em>
\nBiochemistry & Molecular Biology University of Georgia<\/em><\/td>\n		Decoding viral RNPs through integrative structural biology<\/td>\n<\/td>\nLow Learning Center & WebEx<\/td>\nBernd Simon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/20<\/td>\nJuliana Reis Cortines<\/strong>,\u00a0 Associate Professor, Department of Virology, Institute of Microbiology, Paulo de Paulo de G\u00f3es (IMPG), UFRJ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro<\/em><\/td>\nOne Virus, Many Scales: Exploring the Biology of Giant Viruses<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\nARB Large Conference Room and WebEx<\/td>\nJoana Paulino<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/03<\/p>\n

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John D. Helmann, <\/strong>Professor of Microbiology, Cornell University<\/em><\/td>\nSynergy and antagonism in bacterial antibiotic resistance <\/td>\nNoon<\/p>\n

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Low Learning Center & WebEx<\/td>\nMelissa Caimano<\/p>\n

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11\/17<\/td>\n James Bardwell,<\/strong><\/strong> PH.D., <\/strong>Rowena G. Matthews Collegiate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator<\/em>
\nUniversity of Michigan<\/td>\n		The roles of G4 quadruplexes\u00a0in neurodegenerative diseases<\/p>\n

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Noon<\/td>\nARB Large Conference Room (EG013) & WebEx<\/td>\n\u00a0Irina Bezsonova<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/01<\/td>\nVignesh Kasinath<\/strong>,\u00a0 Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences University of Colorado,\u00a0 Boulder<\/em><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nLow Learning Center & WebEx<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/15<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nOnyiuke Room & WebEx<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/29<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\nLow Learning Center & WebEx<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
01\/12<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\nLow Learning Center & WebEx<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
01\/26<\/td>\nKatherine Henzler-Wildman<\/strong>, Professor of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin<\/em><\/td>\n<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\nLow Learning Center & WebEx<\/td>\nJeff Hoch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02\/09<\/td>\nJustyna Sikorska<\/strong>, Merck (NJ) in NMR guided drug discovery<\/em><\/td>\n<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\nLow Learning Center & WebEx<\/td>\nBernd Simon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02\/23<\/td>\n\n

Yang Gao<\/strong>, Associate Professor of BioSciences <\/em>CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research, Rice University<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\nLow Learning Center & WebEx<\/td>\nDmitry Korzhnev<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03\/09<\/td>\nJeffrey Tharp,<\/strong>\u00a0Asst. Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Pharmacology, Indiana University School of Medicine<\/em><\/td>\n<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\nLow Learning Center and WebEx<\/td>\n\u00a0Oscar Vargas-Rodriguez<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03\/23<\/td>\nHany Farid<\/strong>, Professor of Computer Science, Dartmouth College<\/em><\/td>\n<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\nLow Learning Center and WebEx<\/td>\nJeff Hoch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/30<\/td>\nSebastian Hiller<\/strong>, Professor for Structural Biology and Biophysics, the Biozentrum of the University of Basel\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\nLow Learning Center and WebEx<\/td>\n\u00a0Wolfgang Peti<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
04\/06<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\nLow Learning Center and WebEx<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
04\/20<\/td>\n\u00a0Emilia Galperin<\/strong>, Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky<\/em><\/td>\n<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\nLow Learning Center and WebEx<\/td>\nIrina Bezsonova<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
05\/04<\/td>\nAndrew McShan,<\/strong> PhD,\u00a0Assistant Professor, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Tech Center for Functional Lipids (C-FLip)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\n<\/td>\nWolfgang Peti<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
05\/18<\/td>\n\u00a0Haissi Cui, <\/strong>Assistant Professor, <\/strong>University of Toronto<\/td>\n<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0Oscar Vargas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
06\/01<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
06\/15<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nNoon<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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