Calendar of Events
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MBTP/CSB Seminar Series 2025-2026
The 2025-2026 seminars will be held in-person in 1220 MRB3.Please note the meeting time: 12:20pm - 1:10pm.
| 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 ‘Em, Know When to Fold ‘Em…" |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| February 17, 2026 | Stedman Stephens Folkmann Lab | |
| March 3, 2026 | Gregor Neuert, PhD Molecular Physiology and Biophysics | |
| March 24, 2026 | Cameron Cohen Jackson Lab | |
| March 31, 2026 RCR Special Session | Borden Lacy, PhD Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology | "Research Sustainability" |
| April 7, 2026 | Breann Brown, PhD Biochemistry | |
| April 21, 2026 | Julissa Burgos Folkmann Lab | |
| April 28, 2026 RCR Special Session | Doug Kojetin, PhD Biochemistry | “Preprint or Peril? Weighing bioRxiv’s Impact on Research Communication and Rigor” |
| May 5, 2026 | Sun Peck, PhD Medicine | |
| May 19, 2026 | Jade McDaniel Walker Lab | |
| May 26, 2026 RCR Special Session | Walter Chazin, PhD Biochemistry and Chemistry | |
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| June 16, 2026 | Kaitlyn Gallagher Lacy Lab | |
| June 23, 2026 RCR Special Session | Ben Bratton, PhD Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology | |
| July 7, 2026 | ||
| July 21, 2026 | Caro Icardi Iverson Lab | |
| August 4, 2026 | ||
| 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 held in 5131 MRB3 and via Zoom at 12:00pm on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, unless otherwise noted.| Date | Faculty Presenter |
|---|---|
| September 9, 2025 | Business Meeting |
| October 14, 2025 | CANCELED for Metro Nashville Public Schools Fall Break |
| November 11, 2025 | Jens Meiler, Chemistry |
| December 9, 2025 | Walter Chazin, Biochemistry and Chemistry |
| February 10, 2026 | Hassane Mchaourab |