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 |
Spring 2023 Seminars
Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | Host |
1/25 | Snow Zhou, MIT (Cellular Faculty Candidate) | Of Yeast and MEN: How budding yeast ensures genome partitioning to its daughters | Jianbin Wang |
2/1 | TBA (Cellular Faculty Candidate) | Andreas Nebenfuehr | |
2/8 | Kate Lee, University of Toronto (Cellular Faculty Candidate) | Mechanisms of stress-induced organelle assembly and disassembly | Rachel McCord |
2/15 | Sho Suzuki, Cornell University (Cellular Faculty Candidate) | Amit Joshi | |
2/22 | SaraH Zanders, Stowers Institute | wtf causes infertility | Jianbin Wang |
3/1 | Belinda Akpa (ORNL) | Rachel McCord | |
3/8 | Tim Downing, UC Irvine | Rachel McCord | |
3/15 | No Class, Spring Break | ||
3/22 | Matt Eddy, University of Florida | Biophysical Tools for Investigating Mechanisms of Drug Signaling with Human GPCRs | Rajan Lamichhane |
3/29 | Kirk W. Deitsch, Cornell University | A Parasite of Many Disguises: How Human Malaria Parasites Avoid Their Host’s Immune Response | Jianbin Wang |
4/5 | Victor Corces, Emory University | Mariano Labrador | |
4/12 | Anindya Dutta, University of Alabama Birmingham | EccDNAs and a 6q22 microdeletion: two tales of the intersection of DNA damage repair and cancer | Jianbin Wang |
4/19 | Siyuan Wang, Yale | ||
4/26 | TBA | ||
5/3 | TBA |
Fall 2022 Seminars
Date | Name and affiliation of the speaker | Title of the talk | Host |
8/24/2022 | Polly Hsu, Michigan State University | Roadblocks on mRNAs: Gene Expression Regulation by Upstream Open Reading Frames in Plants | Albrecht von Arnim |
8/31/2022 | Nils G. Walter, University of Michigan | Single Molecules Come Into Focus: The RNA World We Live In | Rajan Lamichhane |
9/7/2022 | Tian Hong, UTK | Modeling Non‐canonical Switch and Oscillator in Gene Regulatory Networks | Gladys Alexandre |
9/14/2022 | Tomo Kawashima, The University of Kentucky | Dynamics in Plant Reproduction: From Fertilization to Seed Development | Andreas Nebenfuehr |
9/21/2022 | Tania Rozario, University of Georgia | Making heads or tails of tapeworms: Region‐specific regulation of stem‐ cell driven regeneration in Hymenolepis diminuta | Jianbin Wang |
9/28/2022 | Eberhard Voit, Georgia Tech | Weaving Biological Snapshots into Stories through Mathematical Modeling | Tian Hong |
10/5/2022 | Elena Shpak, UTK | Regulation of plant morphogenesis by cell‐cell signaling. | Gladys Alexandre |
10/12/2022 | Scott Lenaghan, UTK | Developing the Toolbox for Plant Synthetic Biology | Elena Shpak |
10/19/2022 | Peter Kim, University of Toronto | Pexophagy meeting Mitophagy: A case for selective autophagy defect in Peroxisome Biogenesis Disorders | Amit Joshi |
10/26/2022 | Priya Banerjee, University of Buffalo | A Programmable Landscape of Biomolecular Condensates | Rajan Lamichhane |
11/2/2022 | Aman Husbands, UPenn | HD‐ZIPIII transcription factors are controlled by deeply conserved START domains | Elena Shpak |
11/9/2022 | David Jackson, CSHL | Communication between plant stem cells by direct transfer of proteins and RNAs | Elena Shpak |
11/16/2022 | Bonnie Bartel, Rice University | Peroxisome function, dysfunction, and dynamics in Arabidopsis | Amit Joshi |
11/30/2022 | Adam Smith, Texas Tech University | Resolving membrane protein‐protein interactions in live cells with PIEFCCS | Fran Barrera |
12/7/2022 | Joe Zhou, UPenn | TBD | Keerthi Krishnan |