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MBTP/CSB Seminar Series 2025-2026
The 2025-2026 seminars will be held in-person in 1220 MRB3 unless otherwise noted.
Please note the meeting time: 12:20pm - 1:10pm. Beginning June 19, 2026, the seminar will begin at 12pm and end at 1pm.聽
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 2, 2025 | Erkan Karakas, PhD Molecular Physiology and Biophysics | "Behind the Scenes of Cellular Signaling: The Structural Story of IP3 Receptors" |
| September 16, 2025 | Alexis Campbell Blind Lab | "Sphingolipids as Regulatory Ligands for SF-1" |
| September 23, 2025 RCR Special Session | Chuck Sanders, PhD Biochemistry | "You Gotta Know When to Hold 鈥楨m, Know When to Fold 鈥楨m鈥�" |
| September 30, 2025 Postdoc Seminar | Yanqing Xue, PhD Mitchell Lab | "(Per)sulfide donation by cysteine desulfurase IscS in enzymatic ribosome thioamidation" |
| October 7, 2025 | John Kuriyan, PhD Biochemistry | "Protein Allostery and Cancer Drug Resistance: ABL Fusion Proteins" |
| October 21, 2025 | Shone Ran Yang Lab | "EnzyReact: Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Structure-Aware Modeling of Enzyme Multispecificity" |
| October 28, 2025 RCR Special Session | Breann Brown, PhD Biochemistry | "Don't you know that you're toxic? Resolving Professional Conflicts" |
| November 4, 2025 | Ray Blind, PhD Medicine | "Structural biology of nuclear signaling: how lipids, bilirubin and inositol phosphates all directly regulate transcription" |
| November 18, 2025 | Chris Jurich Yang and Meiler Labs | "Leveraging the pre-reaction state to predict enzyme function" |
| December 2, 2025 | Teru Nakagawa, PhD Molecular Physiology and Biophysics | "AMPA receptor gating: allosteric mechanism underlying fast excitatory synaptic transmission" |
| December 16, 2025 | Gustavo Araiza Meiler Lab | "Facilitating pan-Alphavirus immunity through antigen-presenting adapters" |
| January 13, 2026 | Dylan Burnette, PhD Cell and Developmental Biology | "Contractile Cells and Cellular Castaways: How Cytoskeletal Mechanics Shape Heart Function and Extracellular Life" |
| January 20, 2026 | Kate Clowes Moster, Sanders Lab Dr. Anne Karpay Award in Structural Biology Presentation | "Avoiding traffic jams: Correcting KCNQ1 mistrafficking and navigating grad school" |
| February 3, 2026 | Stephanie Wankowicz, PhD Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. | "Making sense of chaos: conformational entropy and ligand binding" |
| February 24, 2026 | Stedman Stephens Folkmann Lab | "Elucidating the role PLK-1 plays in regulating P granule polarization" |
| March 3, 2026 | Gregor Neuert, PhD Molecular Physiology and Biophysics | "The Average Cell Does Not Exist" |
| March 24, 2026 | Cameron Cohen Jackson Lab | "Molecular Functions of Tepsin in Autophagy and Membrane Trafficking" |
| March 31, 2026 RCR Special Session | Borden Lacy, PhD Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology | "Research Sustainability" |
| April 14, 2026 | Yi Ren, PhD Biochemistry | "Molecular Mechanism of mRNA Nuclear Export" |
| April 21, 2026 | Julissa Burgos Tyska Lab | "IRTKS stabilizes Tir for intimate bacterial attachment and subsequent pedestal formation" |
| April 28, 2026 RCR Special Session | Doug Kojetin, PhD Biochemistry | 鈥淧reprint or Peril? Weighing bioRxiv鈥檚 Impact on Research Communication and Rigor鈥� |
| May 5, 2026 | Sun Peck, PhD Medicine | "Unraveling mechanisms of matrix mineralization in musculoskeletal pathology" |
| May 19, 2026 | Jade McDaniel Walker Lab | "Leveraging unexplored chemical space and computational methods to design antagonists for metabolic targets" |
| May 26, 2026 RCR Special Session | Walter Chazin, PhD Biochemistry and Chemistry | "Let's talk mentors and mentees [I hope you can catch because I will be throwing treats!]" |
| June 2, 2026 | Breann Brown, PhD Biochemistry | "Uncovering the role of protein structure and dynamics in the regulation of heme biosynthesis" |
| June 16, 2026 C-2203 MCN | Kaitlyn Gallagher Lacy Lab | "Defining the mechanism of a novel tripartite C. difficile toxin and its role in pathogenesis" |
| June 23, 2026 RCR Special Session 161 Nursing Annex | Ben Bratton, PhD Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology | |
| July 7, 2026 Special Seminar | Heather Kroh, PhD Director, Biophysical Instrumentation Core | |
| July 21, 2026 | Caro Icardi Iverson Lab | |
| August 4, 2026 | Matt Tyska, PhD Cell and Developmental Biology | |
| August 18, 2026 | Mathew Frischman Kuriyan Lab | |
| September 1, 2026 | Ivelin Georgiev, PhD Pathology, Mircobiology and Immunology | |
| September 15, 2026 | Christina M. Jimenez Meiler Lab |
CSB Faculty Meeting
The CSB Faculty Meeting is currently taking a summer hiatus. Once new meetings are scheduled, the calendar will be updated.
The CSB Faculty Meeting is held in 5131 MRB3 at 12:00pm on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, unless otherwise noted.聽
| Date | Faculty Presenter |
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CSB Research Symposia
The CSB regularly hosts symposia featuring distinguished scientists engaged in cutting-edge research that investigates the structure, function and dynamics of complex biological systems. The most recent symposium explored聽the intersection of artificial intelligence and structural biology.聽
Beyond the scientific sessions, CSB symposia provide opportunities for community building and collaboration.