Calendar of Events
Scroll down for a schedule of the CSB Faculty Meetings.
MBTP/CSB Seminar Series 2019-2020
The remaining 2019-2020 seminars will be held via Zoom.All MBTP/CSB Seminars are held in 1220 MRB3, 12:20pm - 1:10pm.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 3, 2019 | Teru Nakagawa, PhD Molecular Physiology and Biophysics | “AMPA receptor structure and auxiliary subunits” |
| September 17, 2019 | Ian Setliff Georgiev Lab | “Development and application of high-throughput sequencing-based technologies for antibody discovery” |
| September 24, 2019 RCR Special Session | Gregor Neuert, PhD Molecular Physiology and Biophysics | "Data Acquisition and Management" |
| October 1, 2019 | Matt Lang, PhD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | “Mechanosensing drives αβT cell recognition” |
| October 22, 2019 | Ben Brown Meiler Lab | “QSAR-guided de novo drug design and scaffold optimization for lead compound generation” |
| October 29, 2019 RCR Special Session | Chuck Sanders, PhD Biochemistry | "What Moses has to do with Your Grant Review" |
| November 5, 2019 | Breann Brown, PhD Biochemistry | “Control of protein function by assembly: implications for combating stress and disease” |
| November 19, 2019 | Hope Woods Meiler Lab | “Predicting Stability Changes in Transmembrane Proteins from Single Point Mutations” |
| December 3, 2019 | Yi Ren, PhD Biochemistry | "Mechanisms and regulation of nuclear mRNA export" |
| December 17, 2019 | Katherine Amidon Eichman Lab | "The molecular basis of SRAP domain DNA-protein crosslinking" |
| January 7, 2020 | Carlos Lopez, PhD Biochemistry | “Extracting cellular response mechanisms from large -omics datasets” |
| 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, 2020 | Dylan Burnette, PhD Cell and Developmental Biology | “The assembly of cellular contractile systems during cell division and muscle development” |
| February 18, 2020 | Johnny Cordoba Chazin Lab | “Structural Transitions of a Dynamic Replicative Polymerase” |
| March 3, 2020 | Matt Tyska, PhD Cell and Developmental Biology | “Shaping the cell surface with mechanical work derived from cytoskeletal assembly” |
| March 17, 2020 - This seminar is postponed. | Manuel "Mac" Castro Sanders Lab - Postponed | “Exploring the binding potency and specificity of small molecules against the transmembrane Amyloid Precursor Protein fragment, C99” |
| 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, 2020 | Andrew Morris Ren Lab | “Characterizing the Interaction of mRNA Export Factor UAP56 with Influenza Virus NP Protein” |
| April 28, 2020 | Noah Bradley Eichman Lab | "Resistance to Genotoxic Natural Products through Base Excision Repair" |
| May 5, 2020 | Tina Iverson, PhD Pharmacology | “Something Awesome to be Determined after Grant Deadlines” |
| May 19, 2020 | Emily Linton Karakas Lab | “Regulatory effects of an antagonistic self-binding peptide on type 3 IP3R” |
| May 26, 2020 RCR Special Session | Dylan Burnette, PhD Cell and Developmental Biology | “Sharing your research on social media” |
| June 2, 2020 | Cynthia Renhart King, PhD Biomedical Engineering | “Powering Tumor Cell Migration through Heterogeneous Microenvironments” |
| June 16, 2020 | Andrea 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. | Jose Rodriguez, PhD UCLA - Postponed | Postponed |
| July 7, 2020 | Michael Sheedlo, PhD Lacy Lab | "Structural Characterization of Bacterial Translocases" |
| July 14, 2020 | Jamaine Davis, PhD Meharry Medical College | "Oxidative stress mechanisms and BRCA1 mutation status" |
| July 21, 2020 | Manuel "Mac" Castro Sanders Lab | “Exploring the binding potency and specificity of small molecules against the transmembrane Amyloid Precursor Protein fragment, C99” |
| July 28, 2020 RCR Special Session | Erkan Karakas, PhD Molecular Physiology and Biophysics | "Research misconduct in structural biology" |
| August 4, 2020 | Adrian Olivares, PhD Biochemistry | |
| August 18, 2020 | Haley Stubbs Iverson Lab | |
| August 25, 2020 | Taylor Engdahl Crowe Lab | |
| September 1, 2020 Student Invited Speaker | Jose Rodriguez, PhD UCLA | |
| September 15, 2020 | Nicole Kendrick Olivares Lab | "How TorsinA takes the ATPase out of AAA+ Superfamily: Mechanism of Nucleotide Usage by TorsinA" |
| September 22, 2020 | Marija Zanic, PhD Cell and Developmental Biology | "Lab Dynamics" |
CSB Faculty Meeting
The CSB Faculty Meeting is held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month in 5131 MRB3 at 12:00 pm, unless otherwise noted.| Date | Faculty Presenter |
|---|---|
| June 9, 2020 The time for this meeting is changed to 2:00 pm | Ray Blind Department of Medicine |
| July 14, 2020 This talk will be presented as part of the MBTP/CSB Seminar Series. | Jamaine Davis Meharry Medical College |
| August 11, 2020 | Erkan Karakas Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| September 8, 2020 | TBA |
| October 13, 2020 | Jens Meiler Chemistry |
| November 10, 2020 | TBA |
| December 8, 2020 | Carlos Lopez Biochemistry |