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  • Archived MBTP/CSB Calendar 2024-2025

    DateSpeakerTitle
    September 3, 2024Martin Egli, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"Structural Models of QTY Code Designed Water-Soluble Membrane Proteins"
    September 17, 2024Clinton Holt
    Georgiev Lab    		"Predicting Same Site Antibodies with Contrastive Learning"
    October 1, 2024John Yang, PhD
    Chemistry    		"Mutexa: A Computational Ecosystem for Protein Engineering"
    October 15, 2024Amy Tran
    Schey and Meiler Labs    		"Predicting Antibody-Antigen Interaction from Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry Data with Rosetta"
    October 22, 2024
    		Abraheem Khouqeer
    Ferrell Lab    		"Impact of Microenvironmental Factors on FLT3 Inhibitor Resistance in Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Insights into Non-Genetic Mechanisms of Resistance"
    October 29, 2024
    RCR Special Session    		Doug Kojetin, PhD
    Biochemistry    		鈥淧reprint or Peril? Weighing bioRxiv鈥檚 Impact on Research Communication and Rigor鈥�
    November 5, 2024Derek Claxton, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Evaluating accuracy of computational predictions for missense variant pathogenicity in glucose-6-phosphatase"
    November 7, 2024
    Special Seminar
    2:30 PM    		Karla Neugebauer, PhD
    Yale University    		"Biochemistry and Our Changing Climate: curriculum that uncovers real world relevance of academic disciplines"
    November 19, 2024Caitlin Butt
    Walker Lab    		"Investigating the use of open-source data in a deep learning model for antimicrobial prediction"
    December 3, 2024Tina Iverson, PhD
    Pharmacology    		"A systems-structural biology approach to mammalian signal transduction"
    December 10, 2024Ben Blakely
    McLean Lab    		"Chiral Ion Mobility: Towards Broadscale Enantiomer Separations using High Resolution Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry"
    January 7, 2025
    Seminar Postponed    		POSTPONED
    Jens Meiler, PhD
    Chemistry    		POSTPONED
    "How artificial intelligence is reshaping protein structure prediction and therapeutic design"
    January 14, 2025
    RCR Special Session    		Sun Peck, PhD
    Medicine    		"Scientific Communication: How to Make and Give Effective Presentations"
    January 21, 2025
    Karpay Award Presentation    		Jenny Tran
    Breann Brown Lab
    2025 Karpay Award Winner    		"Communication Runs in Our Blood: From Proteins to People"
    January 28, 2025
    RCR Special Session    		Stephanie Wankowicz, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Open-Source Software: The AlphaFold 3 Debate"
    February 4, 2025Mike Stone, PhD
    Chemistry    		"Chemistry and Biology of DNA Alkylating Agents"
    February 18, 2025Chris Jurich
    Yang and Meiler Labs    		"Combining physics and machine learning to enhance metagenomic enzyme discovery"
    February 25, 2025
    Rescheduled seminar    		Jens Meiler, PhD
    Chemistry    		"How artificial intelligence is reshaping protein structure prediction and therapeutic design"
    March 4, 2025Yi Ren, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"Mechanisms and viral inhibition of mRNA nuclear export"
    March 18, 2025Mason Wilkinson
    Sanders Lab    		"Small Molecule Modulation of PMP22 Expression and Trafficking"
    March 25, 2025Lauren Jackson, PhD
    Biological Sciences    		"Membrane remodeling by endosomal coat complexes"
    April 1, 2025
    RCR Special Session    		Allison Walker, PhD
    Chemistry and Biological Sciences    		"Detecting Image Manipulation and Generation in Scientific Publications"
    April 15, 2025Joseph DeCorte
    Meiler Lab    		"Bridging the Gap: Structure-based optimization of PROTAC linkers"
    April 29, 2025
    RCR Special Session    		QJ Zhou, PhD, CDB
    Yi Ren, PhD, Biochemistry
    Melissa Chambers, CryoEm Facililty    		"Communication in research labs and facilities: understanding, adapting and improving"
    May 6, 2025Brandt Eichman, PhD
    Biological Sciences    		"Repair of stalled replication by DNA remodeling enzymes"
    May 27, 2025
    		Emma Peacock
    Eichman Lab    		"Characterizing the Replication Fork Reversal Mechanism of FBH1"
    June 3, 2025Benjamin P. Brown, PhD
    Pharmacology    		"A Generalizable Deep Learning Framework for Protein-Ligand Affinity Ranking"
    June 17, 2025POSTPONED
    Kendra Cunningham
    Yang Lab    		POSTPONED
    "Impact of Distal Mutations on Substrate Positioning in Fluoroacetate Dehalogenase (FAcD)"
    July 1, 2025Ben Bratton, PhD
    Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology    		"Getting into one-micron shapes: role of bacterial cytoskeletons in patterning bacterial shapes"
    July 8, 2025RESCHEDULED
    Kendra Cunningham
    Yang Lab    		RESCHEDULED
    "Impact of Distal Mutations on Substrate Positioning in Fluoroacetate Dehalogenase (FAcD)"
    July 15, 2025Patrick Ginther
    Chazin Lab    		"Fragment-based Development of Small Molecule Inhibitors of RAGE"
    August 5, 2025Andrew Folkmann, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"Order in the Chaos: Spatial Inhomogeneity in Biomolecular Condensates"
    August 19, 2025Victoria Howard
    Georgiev Lab    		鈥淎 pipeline for influenza A(H3N2) vaccine design and characterization using transformers鈥�
    August 26, 2025
    RCR Special Session    		Dylan Burnette, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology    		"How to Catch a Scientific Forgery in the Age of AI"
    September 2, 2025Erkan Karakas, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Behind the Scenes of Cellular Signaling: The Structural Story of IP3 Receptors"
    September 16, 2025Alexis 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

  • Archived MBTP/CSB Calendar 2023-2024

    DateSpeakerTitle
    September 5, 2023Walter Chazin, PhD
    Biochemistry and Chemistry    		"A cancer biologist walked into a structural biology lab ..."
    September 19, 2023Eli McDonald
    Meiler and Plate Labs    		"Cystic Fibrosis: from Structural Biology to Personalized Medicine"
    September 26, 2023
    RCR Special Session    		Tina Iverson, PhD
    Pharmacology    		"When your friend or peer is in distress: An overview of resources"
    October 3, 2023QJ Zhou, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology    		"Toward Understanding Irregular Macromolecule Assembly at Molecular Resolution"
    October 17, 2023Wook Shin
    Yang Lab    		"From Chaos to Order: Deep Learning Models that Generate Entropy"
    October 24, 2023
    Special Seminar    		CSB Green Team"Greening the Lab"
    October 31, 2023
    RCR Special Session    		Gregor Neuert, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Data Mastery for AI in Biology: Acquisition, Storage, and Analysis"
    November 7, 2023Chuck Sanders, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"How Peripheral Myelin Protein 22 (PMP22) Causes Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease"
    November 28, 2023
    *Note date change    		Walter Chazin, PhD
    Director, Molecular Biophysics Training Program    		"An open Q&A and Discussion of the MBTP"
    December 5, 2023Hassane Mchaourab, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Conformational Dynamics of Membrane Proteins. cryoEM, Spectroscopy and AlphaFold2"
    December 12, 2023
    *Note date change    		Kathryn Brewer
    Sanders Lab    		"Using CETSA to Assess The Role of KCNQ1 Destabilization in Long QT Syndrome"
    January 9, 2024
    *Note date change    		Allison Walker, PhD
    Chemistry and Biological Sciences    		"Machine learning strategies for natural product discovery and biosynthesis"
    January 23, 2024
    Karpay Award Presentation    		Eli McDonald, Meiler and Plate Labs
    Karpay Award Presentation    		"CFTR Folding: Started from the Translocon Now We Here"
    January 30, 2024
    RCR Special Session    		Jessica Taylor
    Brown Lab
    Breann Brown, PhD
    Biochemistry     		"Our Obligation to Society as Scientists, If We Have One"
    February 6, 2024Lauren Buchanan, PhD
    Chemistry    		"Investigating Peptide Structure and Polymorphism with 2D IR Spectroscopy"
    February 20, 2024Gustavo Araiza
    Meiler and Bachmann Labs    		"Epitope-focusing and viral escape prediction for the design and selection of robust influenza antibodies"
    March 5, 2024Ben Spiller, PhD
    Pharmacology    		"Structure and Function of Allergy Causing IgE Epitopes from Peanut Allergic Patients"
    March 19, 2024Dalton Boutwell
    Buchanan and Walker Labs    		"Elucidating the Aggregation Kinetics of 伪-synuclein with Machine Learning Assisted 2D IR Spectroscopy"
    March 26, 2024
    Special Seminar
    		Michael Wedemeyer, PhD
    UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
    Hosted by the Meiler Lab    		"Unveiling Novel Interactions between the Kappa Opioid Receptor and 14-3-3纬"
    April 2, 2024Doug Kojetin, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"Really Awesome Science!"
    April 16, 2024Anna Cassidy
    Zanic Lab    		"Investigating the Role of the GTP-Cap in the Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics in Mammalian Cells"
    April 30, 2024
    RCR Special Session    		Beth Lawrence, PhD
    Zanic Lab
    Marija Zanic, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology    		"Lab Dynamics"
    May 14, 2024
    *Note date change    		Borden Lacy, PhD
    Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology    		"Understanding the role of toxins in Clostridioides difficile pathogenesis"
    May 28, 2024
    RCR Special Session    		Tim Cover, MD
    Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology    		"Scientific publishing: impact, economics, and the peer-review process"
    June 4, 2024Matthew Lang, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Single molecule and single cell experiments with piconewton forces reveal the very best 鈥渄igital鈥� 伪尾TCR-pMHC pairings"
    June 18, 2024Christine Ancajas
    Walker Lab    		"Machine Learning-Guided Discovery of Bioactive Natural Products"
    June 25, 2024
    		Jordan Stacy
    Iverson Lab    		"Linking GPCR C-tail Phosphorylation Motifs to Biased Arrestin Functions"
    July 2, 2024Nancy Carrasco, MD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"The tale of the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS): From cloning to structure"
    July 16, 2024Cameron Cohen
    Jackson Lab    		"Characterizing tepsin-LC3B binding and its role in ATG9A trafficking and autophagy"
    July 30, 2024
    RCR Special Session    		Will Wan, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"Peer Review: Why We Do It and Should We Bother"
    August 6, 2024Marija Zanic, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology    		"Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of microtubule dynamics"
    August 20, 2024Oliver Chalkley, Zhou Lab"Developing a Novel Genetically Encodable in Situ Cryo-ET Tag"
    August 27, 2024
    RCR Special Session    		Ivelin Georgiev, PhD
    Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology    		"Patenting your work: the what鈥檚, the how鈥檚, and the why鈥檚"
    September 3, 2024Martin Egli, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"Structural Models of QTY Code Designed Water-Soluble Membrane Proteins"
    September 17, 2024Clinton Holt
    Georgiev Lab    		"Predicting Same Site Antibodies with Contrastive Learning"

  • Archived MBTP/CSB Calendar 2022-2023

    DateSpeakerTitle
    September 6, 2022Richard Sando, PhD
    Pharmacology and Vanderbilt Brain Institute    		"Signaling Mechanisms and Biological Functions of the Adhesion-class GPCRs"
    September 20, 2022William Weeks
    Buchanan Lab    		"Developing nonperturbative spectroscopic approaches for characterizing heterogenous ensembles during protein self-assembly"
    October 4, 2022Galina Lepesheva, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"CYP51: evolutionary origins, structural basis for catalytic conservation, and druggability across phylogeny"
    October 18, 2022Jenny Tran
    Brown Lab    		"The structural basis of autoregulation in heme biosynthesis initiation"
    October 25, 2022Lauren Jackson, PhD
    Biological Sciences    		"Feedback: the good, the bad, & the ugly"
    November 1, 2022Ray Blind, PhD
    Medicine, Pharmacology and Biochemistry    		"A novel nuclear receptor drug screen reveals new compounds and new structural mechanisms of LRH-1 regulation"
    November 15, 2022Hope Woods
    Meiler Lab    		"Computational Modeling and Prediction of Deletion Mutations"
    November 29, 2022
    RCR Special Session    		Lauren Buchanan, PhD
    Chemistry
    Allison Walker, PhD
    Chemistry    		"Peer Review"
    December 6, 2022Breann Brown, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"Structure-Based Insights into Control of Heme Biosynthesis"
    December 13, 2022
    *Note date change    		Haley Stubbs
    Iverson Lab    		"Structural and biochemical characterization of 伪2,6 sialyltransferases for future probe development"
    January 10, 2023
    *Note date change    		Gregor Neuert, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Mechanisms of long noncoding RNA regulation during X-chromosome inactivation"
    January 24, 2023
    		Ivette Perez, Iverson Lab
    Karpay Award Presentation    		"Arrestin Development, next episode?"
    January 31, 2023
    RCR Special Session    		Sun Peck, PhD
    Medicine, Biochemistry and Biomedical Engineering    		"Considering biological variables across basic science research: what are you missing?"
    February 7, 2023Tina Iverson, PhD
    Pharmacology    		"An evolving view of mitochondrial complex II 鈥� alternative assemblies, respiration, signaling, and beyond"
    February 21, 2023Abraheem Khouqeer
    Neuert Lab    		"Investigation of Cell Death Signaling in T Cells Under Hyperosmotic Stress"
    February 28, 2023
    RCR Special Session    		Ray Blind, PhD
    Medicine, Pharmacology and Biochemistry    		"Mentoring Undergraduates in Biomedical Research"
    March 14, 2023
    * New date*    		Walter Chazin, PhD
    Director, Molecular Biophysics Training Program    		"MBTP/CSB Student Feedback Meeting"
    This meeting is for ALL students in MBTP and CSB labs.
    March 21, 2023Julissa Burgos
    Tyska Lab    		"Dissecting mechanisms of actin pedestal formation induced by Enterohemorrhagic E. coli"
    March 28, 2023
    *Note date change    		Ivelin Georgiev, PhD
    Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology    		"Rethinking the spectrum of antibody-antigen specificities"
    April 4, 2023Dylan Burnette, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology    		"The role of a-actinin paralogs in cardiac hypertrophy and contractile force production"
    April 18, 2023Reecan J. Juarez
    Yang Lab    		"LassoHTP: a Tool for Lasso Peptide Design and Discovery"
    April 25, 2023
    RCR Special Session    		Jens Meiler, PhD
    Chemistry    		"ChatGPT: Opportunities and Risks in Research and Teaching"
    May 2, 2023Matt Tyska, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology    		"Shaping the cell surface with cytoskeletal assembly"
    May 16, 2023Kaeli Bryant
    Cover Lab    		"New Insights into the Structural Assembly of the Helicobacter pylori Cag Type IV Secretion System"
    May 23, 2023
    RCR Special Session    		Breann Brown, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"Performance under Pressure"
    May 30, 2023
    Postdoc Seminar    		Areetha D'Souza, PhD
    Chazin Lab    		"The scaffolding role of XPA/RPA in Nucleotide Excision Repair"
    June 6, 2023Tim Cover, MD
    Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology    		"Molecular architecture of bacterial type IV secretion systems"
    June 20, 2023Tyler Huth
    Wan Lab    		"Elucidating the Mechanism of Phosphatidylserine Exposure During Ebola Virus Assembly"
    June 27, 2023
    RCR Special Session    		Matt Tyska, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology    		"Producing powerful plots for pleasing and persuasive publications"
    July 4, 2022NO SEMINARNO SEMINAR
    July 11, 2023Brett Kroncke, PhD
    Medicine    		"Of Hearts and Heredity: The Fickle Dance of KCNH2 Genetics and the Shadow of Cardiac Catastrophe in Mendelian Heartbreak"
    July 18, 2023Mason Wilkinson
    Sanders Lab    		"Towards Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Therapeutics Targeting PMP22 Mistrafficking"
    August 1, 2023Will Wan, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"Elucidating the Molecular Biology of Ebola Virus"
    August 15, 2023Jessica Taylor
    Brown Lab    		"Dissecting the Molecular Basis for Heme Biosynthesis Dysfunction"
    August 22, 2023
    RCR Special Session    		John Yang, PhD
    Chemistry    		"Ethical Considerations in Computational Modeling: Exploring Generalizability, Reproducibility, and Accuracy in Research"

  • Archived MBTP/CSB Calendar 2021-2022

    DateSpeakerTitle
    September 7, 2021Ben Spiller, PhD
    Pharmacology    		"The Human IgE Response to Peanut Allergens: First Steps"
    September 21, 2021Eli McDonald
    Plate and Meiler Labs    		"Molecular Chaperone Evaluation of CFTR Folding"
    September 28, 2021
    Postdoc Seminar    		Pankaj Sharma, PhD
    Iverson Lab    		"Assembly of respiratory complex II"
    October 5, 2021Allison Walker, PhD
    Chemistry    		"Predicting Natural Product Activities with Machine Learning"
    October 19, 2021James Hayes
    Burnette Lab    		"A role for non-muscle alpha-actinins in cardiac myocyte sarcomerogenesis"
    October 26, 2021
    Postdoc Seminar    		Rachana Tomar, PhD
    Stone Lab    		"Deciphering the mutagenic signature of aflatoxin B1 damage to the genome"
    November 2, 2021Walter Chazin, PhD
    Biochemistry and Chemistry    		"What is integrative structural biology and how is it used for understanding dynamic protein machinery?"
    November 16, 2021Natalie Wallace
    Jackson Lab    		"Characterizing an emerging role for tepsin in autophagy"
    November 30, 2021
    RCR Special Session    		Borden Lacy, PhD
    Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology    		"RCR in the Climate of Climate Change"
    December 7, 2021Ray Blind, PhD
    Biochemistry and Medicine    		"New structural mechanisms of nuclear receptor regulation inform ligand design and discovery"
    December 21, 2021Abigail Neininger
    Burnette Lab    		"A novel automated image analysis tool uncovers the role of myosin II-based contraction in cardiac myocyte sarcomere assembly"
    January 11, 2022Yi Ren, PhD
    Biochemistry    		Mechanisms and Viral Inhibition of mRNA Nuclear Export
    January 18, 2022
    Karpay Award Presentation     		Noah Bradley, Eichman Lab
    		"DNA Damage: If You Break It, You Fix It"

    SEMINAR POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 8, 2022
    January 25, 2022
    RCR Special Session    		Will Wan, PhD
    Biochemistry    		鈥淎ccess and Transparency in Academic Publishing鈥�
    February 1, 2022Erkan Karakas, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Structural basis for activation and gating of IP3 receptors"
    February 15, 2022Maddie Johnson
    Lang Lab    		"Single-Molecule Investigation of Cellulose Degradation by the Cellobiohydrolase TfCel6B"
    March 1, 2022John Yang, PhD
    Chemistry    		"Computational Facilities for Automatic Enzyme Design"
    March 8, 2022
    Karpay Award Presentation    		Noah Bradley, Eichman Lab"DNA Damage: If You Break It, You Fix It"

    Rescheduled from January 18
    March 15, 2022Clint Holt
    Georgiev Lab    		"Epitope-focused Vaccines Against Conserved Peptides in Influenza and Coronaviruses"
    March 22, 2022
    RCR Special Session    		Chuck Sanders, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"What you should know about Intellectual Property"
    March 29, 2022
    Special Seminar    		Kaitlyn Ledwich, PhD
    Chemistry    		Seminar postponed until fall semester
    April 5, 2022Mike Stone, PhD
    Chemistry    		"Chemistry and Biology of N7-dG DNA Alkylation Products"
    April 12, 2022
    Special Seminar
    Scripps Research    		"Nuclear receptor function made crystal clear with NMR spectroscopy"
    April 19, 2022Johnny Cordoba
    Chazin Lab    		"Understanding the Structural Gymnastics of Polymerase Alpha-Primase using Solution Studies and CryoEM"
    April 26, 2022
    RCR Special Session    		Hassane Mchaourab, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		鈥淪tatistical significance: Dos and Don鈥檛s鈥�
    May 3, 2022Brandt Eichman, PhD
    Biological Sciences    		"Structural and chemical biology of genome integrity"
    May 4, 2022 - 12:15 pm
    Special Seminar    		Julian O. Streit
    Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London    		"Visualising co-translational protein folding on the ribosome through high-resolution structural snapshots"
    May 17, 2022Shannon Smith
    Meiler Lab    		"Ultra-large virtual screen identifies new class of antagonists against protease activated receptor 4 (PAR4)"
    May 24, 2022
    RCR Special Session    		QJ Zhou, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology
    and
    Yi Ren, PhD
    Biochemistry    		鈥淯nderstanding different cultures in the research laboratory鈥�
    May 31, 2022
    Special Seminar    		Sven Klumpe , PhD
    Max Planck Institute    		"Towards Structural Developmental Biology: Imaging Cells and Tissues at Molecular Resolution"
    June 7, 2022Lauren Jackson, PhD
    Biological Sciences    		"Some assembly required: coat proteins in membrane trafficking & autophagy"
    June 21, 2022Matt Rogers
    Zanic Lab    		"The Design and Fabrication of a Microfluidic Device for Studying Microtubules in vitro"
    July 5, 2022Teru Nakagawa, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Structure and mechanism of AMPA receptor auxiliary subunit complexes"
    July 19, 2022Velia Garcia
    Chazin Lab    		"Studying the calcium-induced tetramerization of CP and implications for inflammatory receptor activation"
    July 26, 2022
    RCR Special Session    		Jens Meiler, PhD
    Chemistry    		"Successfully collaborating with other laboratories on campus, nationally, and internationally, do's and don'ts"
    August 2, 2022Jens Meiler, PhD
    Chemistry    		"Going Deep - The Past, Presence, and Future of Neural Networks in Structural Biology"
    August 16, 2022Kayla Hess
    Buchanan Lab    		"Exploring the impact of gold nanoparticles on amylin aggregation via 2D IR spectroscopy"

  • Archived MBTP/CSB Calendar 2020-2021

    DateSpeakerTitle
    September 1, 2020
    Student Invited Speaker
    UCLA    		"New frontiers in electron diffraction and the quest to resolve the atomic structures of toxic, functional and infectious amyloids"
    September 15, 2020Nicole Kendrick
    Olivares Lab    		"How TorsinA takes the ATPase out of AAA+ Superfamily: Mechanism of Nucleotide Usage by TorsinA"
    September 29, 2020Teru Nakagawa, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Working on a Project"
    October 6, 2020Will Wan, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"Determining Structures in Complex Environments Using Cryo-Electron Tomography"
    October 20, 2020Kelvin Luong
    Fesik Lab    		鈥淪tructural insights to guide medicinal chemistry鈥�
    October 27, 2020
    RCR Special Session    		Marija Zanic, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology    		"Lab Dynamics"
    November 3, 2020QJ Zhou, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology    		鈥淪eeing More, Knowing More: Visualizing Ultrastructure of Synapses鈥�
    November 17, 2020Veronica Farmer
    Zanic Lab    		"XMAP215 promotes microtubule catastrophe in spite of an increased GTP-cap size"
    December 1, 2020Jens Meiler, PhD
    Chemistry    		"Engineering antibodies and Vaccines with Rosetta"
    December 15, 2020Colbie Chinowski
    Tyska Lab    		"Multiscale function of non-muscle myosin-2c in the intestinal epithelium"
    January 12, 2021Gregor Neuert, PhD
    Molecular Physiology & Biophysics    		"Cell physiology in
    kinetic environments"
    January 19, 2021
    Karpay Award Presentation    		James Hutchison, Sanders Lab"We're All in This Together: Choosing the Right RAFTing Partners"
    January 26, 2021
    RCR Special Session    		Ivelin Georgiev, PhD
    Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology    		"Patents, startups, and collaborations"
    February 2, 2021Mike Stone, PhD
    Chemistry    		"Chemistry and Biology of N7-dG DNA Alkylation Products"
    February 16, 2021Alyssa Rodriguez
    Eichman Lab    		"The autoinhibitory role of the GRF domain of DNA glycosylase NEIL3"
    March 2, 2021Chuck Sanders, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"Membrane Protein Super-Trafficking as a Disease Mechanism"
    March 16, 2021Alexandra Schwartz
    Mchaourab Lab    		"On the Road to Defining my PhD: Initial Experiments with Neurotransmitter: sodium symporters"
    March 30, 2021
    RCR Special Session    		Breann Brown, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"When"
    April 6, 2021Borden Lacy, PhD
    Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology    		"Structures of Bacterial Type IV Secretion Machines"
    April 20, 2021Jessica Taylor
    Brown Lab    		"Molecular Basis for Regulation of Heme Biosynthesis and Blood Disease"
    April 27, 2021
    Special Seminar    		Colbie Chinowsky
    Tyska Lab    		"The Endless Frontier"
    May 4, 2021Marija Zanic, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology    		"Microtubules on the path to catastrophe"
    May 18, 2021Ivette Perez
    Iverson Lab    		"Arrestin activation mediated effector interaction"
    May 25, 2021
    RCR Special Session    		Ray Blind, PhD
    Medicine, Biochemistry & Pharmacology    		"Asterisks, abstracts and articles: addressing
    academic authorship"
    June 1, 2021Hassane Mchaourab, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Cryo-EM structure, MD simulations and DEER spectroscopy of a multidrug ABC transporter reveal an elusive pre-transport intermediate featuring asymmetric drug binding"
    June 22, 2021Steven Walker
    Olivares Lab    		"Investigating the mechanics of the ClpP peptidase in proteolysis"
    June 29, 2021
    RCR Special Session    		Walter Chazin, PhD
    Biochemistry and Chemistry    		"The Many Facets Of RCR: A Candy For Your Thoughts!"
    July 6, 2021Walter Chazin, Director, MBTP
    Borden Lacy, Director, CSB    		"Meeting with the Directors"
    July 20, 2021Kathryn Brewer
    Sanders Lab    		"Improving ddG Predictions of Membrane Protein Mutations"
    July 27, 2021
    RCR Special Session - POSTPONED    		Hassane Mchaourab, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Statistical significance: Dos and Don鈥檛s"
    This seminar is POSTPONED.
    August 3, 2021Irina Kaverina, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology    		"Organization and function of microtubule network in pancreatic beta cells"
    August 17, 2021Elleansar Okwei
    Meiler Lab    		"Improving protein structure prediction using paramagnetic restraints"
    August 31, 2021Gregor Neuert, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Data acquisition, storage, and analysis for experiments and computational modeling"

  • Archived MBTP/CSB Calendar 2019-2020

    DateSpeakerTitle
    September 3, 2019Teru Nakagawa, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		鈥淎MPA receptor structure and auxiliary subunits鈥�
    September 17, 2019Ian Setliff
    Georgiev Lab    		鈥淒evelopment and application of high-throughput sequencing-based technologies for antibody discovery鈥�
    September 24, 2019
    RCR Special Session    		Gregor Neuert, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Data Acquisition and Management"
    October 1, 2019Matt Lang, PhD
    Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering    		鈥淢echanosensing drives 伪尾T cell recognition鈥�
    October 22, 2019Ben Brown
    Meiler Lab    		鈥淨SAR-guided de novo drug design and scaffold optimization for lead compound generation鈥�
    October 29, 2019
    RCR Special Session    		Chuck Sanders, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"What Moses has to do with Your Grant Review"
    November 5, 2019Breann Brown, PhD
    Biochemistry    		鈥淐ontrol of protein function by assembly: implications for combating stress and disease鈥�
    November 19, 2019Hope Woods
    Meiler Lab    		鈥淧redicting Stability Changes in Transmembrane
    Proteins from Single Point Mutations鈥�
    December 3, 2019Yi Ren, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"Mechanisms and regulation of nuclear mRNA export"
    December 17, 2019Katherine Amidon
    Eichman Lab    		"The molecular basis of SRAP domain
    DNA-protein crosslinking"
    January 7, 2020Carlos Lopez, PhD
    Biochemistry    		鈥淓xtracting cellular response mechanisms from large -omics datasets鈥�
    January 21, 2020
    Karpay Award Presentation    		Justin Marinko
    Sanders Lab    		"There and Back Again: A Protein's Tale"
    January 28, 2020
    RCR Special Session    		Ben Spiller, PhD
    Pharmacology    		"The Whistleblower Within"
    February 4, 2020Dylan Burnette, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology    		鈥淭he assembly of cellular contractile systems during cell division and muscle development鈥�
    February 18, 2020Johnny Cordoba
    Chazin Lab    		鈥淪tructural Transitions of a Dynamic Replicative Polymerase鈥�
    March 3, 2020Matt Tyska, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology    		鈥淪haping the cell surface with mechanical work derived from cytoskeletal assembly鈥�
    March 17, 2020 - This seminar is postponed.Manuel "Mac" Castro
    Sanders Lab - Postponed    		鈥淓xploring the binding potency and specificity of small molecules against the transmembrane Amyloid Precursor Protein fragment, C99鈥�
    March 24, 2020 - This seminar is postponed.Nicole Kendrick
    Olivares Lab - Postponed    		"How TorsinA takes the ATPase out of AAA+ Superfamily: Mechanism of Nucleotide Usage by TorsinA"
    March 31, 2020
    RCR Special Session - This seminar is postponed.    		Marija Zanic, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology - Postponed    		"Lab Dynamics"
    April 7, 2020
    This seminar is postponed.    		Ben Spiller, PhD
    Pharmacology
    Postponed    		Postponed
    April 21, 2020Andrew Morris
    Ren Lab    		鈥淐haracterizing the Interaction of mRNA Export Factor UAP56 with Influenza Virus NP Protein鈥�
    April 28, 2020
    		Noah Bradley
    Eichman Lab     		"Resistance to Genotoxic Natural Products through Base Excision Repair"
    May 5, 2020Tina Iverson, PhD
    Pharmacology    		鈥淪omething Awesome to be Determined
    after Grant Deadlines鈥�
    May 19, 2020Emily Linton
    Karakas Lab    		鈥淩egulatory effects of an antagonistic self-binding peptide on type 3 IP3R鈥�
    May 26, 2020
    RCR Special Session     		Dylan Burnette, PhD
    Cell and Developmental Biology    		鈥淪haring your research on social media鈥�
    June 2, 2020Cynthia Renhart King, PhD
    Biomedical Engineering    		鈥淧owering Tumor Cell Migration through
    Heterogeneous Microenvironments鈥�
    June 16, 2020Andrea Shiakolas
    Georgiev Lab    		"Antibody discovery using high-throughput mapping of B-cell receptor sequences to antigen specificity"
    June 23, 2020
    Student Invited Speaker
    This seminar is postponed.
    UCLA - Postponed    		Postponed
    July 7, 2020Michael Sheedlo, PhD
    Lacy Lab    		"Structural Characterization of Bacterial Translocases"
    July 14, 2020Jamaine Davis, PhD Meharry Medical College"Oxidative stress mechanisms and BRCA1 mutation status"
    July 21, 2020Manuel "Mac" Castro
    Sanders Lab    		鈥淓xploring the binding potency and specificity of small molecules against the transmembrane Amyloid Precursor Protein fragment, C99鈥�
    July 28, 2020
    RCR Special Session    		Erkan Karakas, PhD
    Molecular Physiology and Biophysics    		"Research misconduct in structural biology"
    August 4, 2020Adrian Olivares, PhD
    Biochemistry    		"ATPases in Protein Remodeling and Destruction"
    August 18, 2020Haley Stubbs
    Iverson Lab    		"Tandem sialoglycan-binding modules in a Streptococcus sanguinis serine-rich repeat adhesin"
    August 25, 2020Taylor Engdahl
    Crowe Lab    		"Human neutralizing antibody response to New World hantavirus infections"