The BMG Seminar Series presentations will be in-person unless noted.
September 11, 2024
David Bedwell, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
September 18, 2024: Into the Unknown: Molecular mechanisms of translation regulation by viral RNA structures
Madeline Sherlock, Ph.D.
New York Structural Biology Center (NYSBC)
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Jerry Wang, Ph.D.
September 25, 2024: Structural and functional studies on the virulence factors of the dental caries pathogen Streptococcus mutans
Champion Deivanayagam, PhD
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
October 2, 2024:Strains of lethal brain pathogens encoded in shape
Szymon Manka Ph.D.
New York Structural Biology Center (NYSBC)
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Jerry Wang, Ph.D.
October 9, 2024: Molecular mechanisms of replication origin licensing
Franziska Bleichert, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Yale School of Medicine
Yale University
10:15-11:15 am
BBRB 263
Host: Jerry Wang, Ph.D.
October 16, 2024: RNA processing mechanisms of DEAD-box helicases
Elizabeth Duran, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Faculty Office Tower, Room 1001
Host: David Schneider, Ph.D.
October 23, 2024: Gene-Environmental Coordination of Post-Embryonic Neuronal Maturation
HaoSheng Sun
Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology (CDIB)
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Bevill Biomedical Sciences- BBRB 263- 845 19th St S, Birmingham, AL 35205
October 30, 2024: Feasibility and potential impact of Exon Skipping as Therapeutics for Neurofibromatosis Type I
Deeann Wallis, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Bevill Biomedical Sciences- BBRB 263- 845 19th St S, Birmingham, AL 35205
November 6, 2024: Polymicrobial cooperation and competition
Hui Wu Ph.D.
Integrative Biosciences, School of Dentistry
Oregon Health & Science University
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Champion Deivanayagam, Ph.D.
November 13, 2024: Epigenetic approaches to gynecological cancers
Rugang Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair, Experimental Therapeutics,
The John M. O'Quinn Endowed Chair in Cancer Research,
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Narendra Wajapeyee, Ph.D.
November 20, 2024: Exploring Higher-Order Protein-Membrane Assemblies with Cryo-Electron Tomography
Qiangjun Zhou, Ph.D.
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Vanderbilt Brain Institute
Center for Structural Biology
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
10:15-11:15 am
BBRB 263
Host: Jerry Wang, Ph.D.
November 27: Week of Thanksgiving
There will be no seminar this week due to the Thanksgiving Holidays.
December 4, 2024: Metabolic determinants of tumor progression
Sunil Sudarshan, Ph.D.
Department of Urology
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
BBRB 263
December 11, 2024: No Seminar
December 18, 2024: Epigenetic adapters of transcription govern cell fate
Coral Wille, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Lyons-Harrison Faculty Office Tower
LHFOT 1101
510 20th Street South
Birmingham, AL 35233
December 25, 2024: Christmas Day
There will be no seminar this week due to the Christmas Holidays.
January 1, 2025: New Year's Holiday
There will be no seminar this week due to the New Year's Holiday.
January 8, 2025: Therapeutic Approaches Targeting HPV-Associated Malignancies
Sanjib Banerjee, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
January 15, 2025: An RNA Decay and Processing Machine Linked to Human Neurological Disease
Anita Corbett, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Emory University
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Gino Cingolani
January 22, 2025: Bacteriophage T4: an extraordinary model for deep learning of biological mechanisms and designing of future biomedicines
Venigalla B Rao, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Catholic University of America
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Gino Cingolani
January 29, 2025: Telomere Structure and Transcription Regulation: single-molecule FRET and Beyond
Hui-Ting Lee, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Jerry Wang, PhD
February 5, 2025: TBD
Jun Zhang, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Jerry Wang, Ph. D.
February 12, 2025: RNA-based gene regulation of bacterial manganese exporters
Tatiana Mishanina, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California San Diego
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: David Schneider, Ph.D.
February 19, 2025: Influenza and secondary bacterial infections
Kevin Harrod, Ph.D.
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Jerry Wang, Ph.D.
February 26, 2025: Understand the conformation transitioning pathway and energetics of herpesvirus fusogen for structure-based vaccine design
Xinghong Dai, PhD.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Jerry Wang, Ph.D.
March 5, 2025: From Disorder to New Order: Stress, Phase Separation and Prions
Yury O. Chernoff, Ph.D.
School of Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Igor Chesnokov
March 12, 2025: When to shoot the messenger: Decoding the logic of mRNA surveillance
Sujatha Jagannathan, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Colorado Anschutz
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: David Bedwell, Ph.D.
March 19, 2025: Induced targeted protein degradation as a new cancer therapeutic strategy
Shaomeng Wang, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine, Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry
University of Michigan
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: David Bedwell
March 26, 2025: TBD
Jawdat Al-Bassam, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of Calfornia, Davis
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Gino Cingolani, Ph.D.
April 2, 2025: TBD
Alexander Zaika, Ph.D.
Department of Surgery
University of Miami Health Systems
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Igor Chesnokov
April 9, 2025: Higher-order assemblies in immunity
Tian-min Fu, Ph.D.
Department of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology
Ohio State University
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Jerry Wang, Ph.D.
April 16, 2025: tRNA regulation, fragmentation and base modifications
Zhangli Su, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Jerry Wang
April 23, 2025: Survival dependencies emerging during cancer drug resistance evolution
Kris Wood, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Duke University
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Narendra Wajapeyee, Ph.D.
April 30, 2025: TBD
Aaron Lucius, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: David Schneider, Ph.D.
May 7, 2025: TBD
Jessica Scoffield, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Jerry Wang
May 14, 2025: TBD
Olga Beliaeva, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Jerry Wang
May 21, 2025: TBD
Aurelio Galli, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Department of Surgery
University of Alabama Birmingham
10:15-11:15 am
Finley Conference Center
Host: Jerry Wang Ph.D.
May 28, 2025: TBD
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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