The BMG Seminar Series presentations will be in-person unless noted.
September 20, 2023: The Paradox of Wild-Type p53 Genotype in Refractory Cancers - Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities
Zahid Siddik, Ph.D.
Department of Experimental Therapeutics
Division of Cancer Medicine
MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: William Placzek, Ph.D.
September 27, 2023: Life in boiling acid - the molecular biology of Archaea
Steve Bell, PhD
Departments of Biology & Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Indiana University Bloomington
10:15-11:15 a.m.
Bevill Biomedical Research Building, BBRB 263
Host: David Schneider, Ph.D.
October 4, 2023: Into the Unknown: Research in the Time of COVID-19
Amit Gaggar, Ph.D.
Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Medicine
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Bevill Biomedical Research Building, BBRB 263
Host: Chad Petit
October 11, 2023: Surviving and Adapting to Stress: Translational Control and the Integrated Stress Response
Ronald Wek, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Indiana University School of Medicine
10:15-11:15 am
Bevill Biomedical Research Building, BBRB 263
Host: David Bedwell, Ph.D.
October 18, 2023: Context is Queen - The impact of cell-type and biological sex on disease manifestation and treatment
Brittany Lasseigne, Ph.D.
Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
University of Alabama Birmingham
Note time change: 10:30-11:30 am
Bevill Biomedical Research Building, BBRB 170
Host: Chad Petit, Ph.D.
October 25, 2023: Commensal-Pathogen Interactions in Chronic Respiratory Infections
Megan Kiedrowski, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Bevill Biomedical Research Building, BBRB 263
Host: Jerry Wang, Ph.D.
November 1, 2023: Mitochondrial and Genetic Contributors to Parkinson Disease Etiology
Rita Cowell, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Bevill Biomedical Research Building, BBRB 263
Host: Chad Petit, Ph.D.
November 8, 2023: Cryo-EM structures of natively decorated ciliary doublet microtubule and associated complexes
Rui Zhang, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BioPhysics
Washington University/St. Louis School of Medicine
10:15-11:15 am
Bevill Biomedical Research Building, BBRB 263
Host: Jerry Wang, Ph.D.
November 15, 2023: No Seminar
Note: No Seminar
November 22, 2023: Week of Thanksgiving
There will be no seminar this week due to the Thanksgiving Holidays.
November 29, 2023: Stem Cell Gene Editing for Correction of Genetic Diseases
Brian Davis, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Chad Petit, Ph.D.
December 6, 2023: How bacteria swim: Visualizing flagellar assembly and rotation by cryo-electron tomography
Jun Liu, Ph.D.
Department of Microbial Pathogenesis
Yale School of Medicine
Note time change: 10:30-11:30 am
Bevill Biomedical Research Building, BBRB 170
Host: Jerry Wang, Ph.D.
December 13, 2023: New Directions in Ovarian Cancer Research
Sharon Stack, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Director, Harper Cancer Research Institute
University of Notre Dame
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Romi Gupta, Ph.D.
December 20, 2023: No Seminar
Note: No Seminar
December 27, 2023: Christmas Holidays
There will be no seminar this week due to the Christmas Holiday.
January 3, 2024: New Year's Holidays
There will be no seminar this week due to the New Year's Holiday.
January 10, 2024: No Seminar
January 17, 2024: Cilia, the Polycystins, and Factors Influencing Cystic Kidney Diseases Progression
Bradley Yoder, Ph.D.
Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Faculty Office Tower (FOT) 1101
Host: Chad Petit, Ph.D.
January 24, 2024: A Multidrug Bacterial Efflux Pump Links Pathogenesis With Antimicrobial Resistance
William M. Shafer, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Emory University School of Medicine
10:15-11:15 am
Faculty Office Tower (FOT) 1202
January 31, 2024: Characterizing Methylarginine “reader” proteins
Mark T. Bedford, Ph.D.
Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:15-11:15 am
Faculty Office Tower (FOT) 1202
Host: Romi Gupta, Ph.D.
February 7, 2024: Nanoscale axial imaging reveals flexible vesicle formation dynamics in clathrin mediated endocytosis
Alexa Mattheyses, Ph.D.
Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: David Schneider, Ph.D.
February 14, 2024: You are when you eat: How to eat more and live longer (if you’re a fruit fly)
Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, PhD
Professor of Genetics and Development
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Department of Genetics and Development
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Igor Chesnokov
February 21, 2024: Distinct Negative Elongation Factor conformations regulate RNA polymerase II promoter proximal pausing
Seychelle Vos, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: David Schneider, Ph.D.
February 28, 2024: Structural Analysis of Peptide and Protein Assemblies
Vincent Conticello, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Emory University
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Jerry Wang, Ph.D.
March 6, 2024: Structure-guided design of vaccines
Rebecca DuBois, Ph.D.
Department of Biomolecular Engineering
University of California Santa Cruz
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Chad Petit, Ph.D.
March 13, 2024: Surveying the Pharmacological Landscape of Cells with Synthetic Biology
Justin G. English, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry
University of Utah School of Medicine
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Lindsay Rizzardi, Ph.D.
March 20, 2024:Genetic and epigenetic inheritance through the lens of chromatin occupancy
David MacAlpine, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Duke University
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Igor Chesnokov, Ph.D.
March 27, 2024: Structure-based Development of Non-degrader Molecular Glues to Selectively Stabilize a Tumor Suppressor Complex
Derek J. Taylor, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Department of Pharmacology
School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Host: Gino Cingolani, Ph.D.
April 3, 2024: No seminar
April 10, 2024: How do protein domains of low sequence complexity work?
Steven McKnight, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Narendra Wajapeyee, Ph.D.
April 17, 2024: Tumor suppressor p53 and its mutants in cancer
Zhaohui Feng, Ph.D.
Department of Radiation Oncology
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers University
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Narendra Wajapeyee, Ph.D.
April 24, 2024: Single-stranded RNA phages: from bacterial lysis to virulence reduction
Junjie Zhang, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Texas A&M University
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
May 1, 2024: No Seminar
May 8, 2024:Impact of RNA modifications in the translational machinery on protein synthesis
Kristin Koutmou, Ph.D.
Department of Biological Chemistry
University of Michigan Medical School
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: David Bedwell, Ph.D.
May 15, 2024: Targeting cancer signaling nodes to overcome metastasis and therapy resistance
Sumin Kang, PhD
Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Emory University
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
May 22, 2024: Role of RNA structure in pathogenesis and emergence of zoonotic viruses
Jennifer Hyde, PhD
Department of Microbiology
University of Washington Medicine
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
May 29, 2024: No seminar
For more information on the BMG Seminar series, contact Chad Petit, cpetit@uab.edu.
Seminar Series Coordinator
Chad Petit, PhD
205-975-3398
cpetit@uab.edu
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