BCMB 601 Department Seminar Fall 2023

Date	Name and affiliation of the speaker	Website/Title	Host
8/23/2023	Billy Lau, Departments of Psychology and Department of Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN	Neural basis of behavior	Rajan Lamichhane
8/30/2023	Ivis Chaple Gore: Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN	Radiochemistry Research Capabilities at the University of Tennessee Knoxville	Rajan Lamichhane
9/6/2023	Larry York: Biosciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville TN	Functional phenomics for carbon efficiency of roots, plants, and ecosystems https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/larry-m-york	Rajan Lamichhane /Gladys Alexandre
9/13/2023	Ian Wallace: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA	ian.wallace@uga.edu https://iwallace36.wixsite.com/wallacelab Synthesis, deposition, and regulation of cell wall polysaccharides in Arabidopsis	Brad Binder
9/20/2023	Justin Miller: Department of Chemistry, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN	https://millerbiochem.wixsite.com/mtsu Investigating the Impact of Novel DNA-Binding Activity Exhibited by Poly(aspartic acid) hydrolase-1 on Biofilm Structures	Rajan Lamichhane
9/27/2023	Itay Budin: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA	www.budinlab.com How lipid chemistry shapes membranes: from mitochondria in our cells to life at the bottom of earth’s oceans	Sarah Shelby
10/4/2023	Keerthi Krishnan: Biochemistry and Cellular & Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN	Tenure talk	Gladys Alexandre /Brad Binder
10/11/2023	Colleen Niswender: Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, TN	https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/niswender-lab/ Metabotropic glutamate receptor 7 as a therapeutic target in neurodevelopmental disorders	Keerthi Krishnan
10/18/2023	Jingyi Fe: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL	http://feilab.uchicago.edu RNA-mediated gene regulation: action under the light	Rajan Lamichhane
10/25/2023	Nora Springer: College of Veterinary Medicine, Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, Knoxville, TN	Building a Better Model: Utilizing Natural Disease in Dogs to Enhance Translation of Basic Cancer Research	Rajan Lamichhane /Gladys Alexandre
11/1/2023	Reza Vafabakhsh: Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL	http://www.rezalab.org	Rajan Lamichhane
11/8/2023	Shalini Low-Nam: Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN	https://www.chem.purdue.edu/people/profile/slownam Molecular mechanisms of CAR T cell activation and tumor cell killing	Sarah Shelby
11/15/2023	James Olzmann: Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California Berkley, Berkley CA	http://www.olzmannlab.com/ Cellular mechanisms of lipid homeostasis and lipotoxicity	Amit Joshi
11/29/2023	Jebrell Glover: Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA	https://sites.google.com/lehigh.edu/glover-research-lab-lehigh/home	Fran Barrera
12/6/2023	Jonathan Wall: Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN	http://gsm.utmck.edu/internalmed/faculty/wall.cfm	Elias Fernandez

3:35-5pm Moss202

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology College of Arts & Sciences