Calendar of Events
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MBTP/CSB Seminar Series 2024-2025
The 2023-2024 seminars will be held in-person in 1220 MRB3.Please note the meeting time: 12:20pm - 1:10pm.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 3, 2024 | Martin Egli, PhD Biochemistry | "Structural Models of QTY Code Designed Water-Soluble Membrane Proteins" |
| September 17, 2024 | Clinton Holt Georgiev Lab | "Predicting Same Site Antibodies with Contrastive Learning" |
| October 1, 2024 | John Yang, PhD Chemistry | "Mutexa: A Computational Ecosystem for Protein Engineering" |
| October 15, 2024 | Amy 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 | “Preprint or Peril? Weighing bioRxiv’s Impact on Research Communication and Rigor” |
| November 5, 2024 | Derek 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, 2024 | Caitlin Butt Walker Lab | "Investigating the use of open-source data in a deep learning model for antimicrobial prediction" |
| December 3, 2024 | Tina Iverson, PhD Pharmacology | "A systems-structural biology approach to mammalian signal transduction" |
| December 10, 2024 | Ben 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, 2025 | Mike Stone, PhD Chemistry | "Chemistry and Biology of DNA Alkylating Agents" |
| February 18, 2025 | Chris 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, 2025 | Yi Ren, PhD Biochemistry | "Mechanisms and viral inhibition of mRNA nuclear export" |
| March 18, 2025 | Mason Wilkinson Sanders Lab | "Small Molecule Modulation of PMP22 Expression and Trafficking" |
| March 25, 2025 | Lauren 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, 2025 | Joseph 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, 2025 | Brandt 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, 2025 | Benjamin P. Brown, PhD Pharmacology | "A Generalizable Deep Learning Framework for Protein-Ligand Affinity Ranking" |
| June 17, 2025 | POSTPONED Kendra Cunningham Yang Lab | POSTPONED "Impact of Distal Mutations on Substrate Positioning in Fluoroacetate Dehalogenase (FAcD)" |
| July 1, 2025 | Ben Bratton, PhD Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology | "Getting into one-micron shapes: role of bacterial cytoskeletons in patterning bacterial shapes" |
| July 8, 2025 | RESCHEDULED Kendra Cunningham Yang Lab | RESCHEDULED "Impact of Distal Mutations on Substrate Positioning in Fluoroacetate Dehalogenase (FAcD)" |
| July 15, 2025 | Patrick Ginther Chazin Lab | "Fragment-based Development of Small Molecule Inhibitors of RAGE" |
| August 5, 2025 | Andrew Folkmann, PhD Biochemistry | |
| August 19, 2025 | Victoria Howard Georgiev Lab | |
| August 26, 2025 RCR Special Session | Dylan Burnette, PhD Cell and Developmental Biology | |
| September 2, 2025 | Erkan Karakas, PhD Molecular Physiology and Biophysics | |
| September 16, 2025 | Alexis Campbell Blind Lab | |
| September 23, 2025 RCR Special Session | Chuck Sanders, PhD Biochemistry | |
| September 30, 2025 Postdoc Seminar | Yanqing Xue, PhD Mitchell 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 |
|---|---|
| April 8, 2025 | Andrew Follkmann, Biochemistry |
| May 13, 2025 | CANCELLED |
| June 10, 2025 | Kevin Schey, Biochemistry |
| July 8, 2025 | CANCELLED for summer break |
| August 12, 2025 | CANCELLED for summer break |
| September 9, 2025 | Business Meeting |