The Structural Biology Forum is a public monthly avenue for scientists and trainees at UAB to exchange ideas and talk about structural biology. We strive to host five external speakers every year in addition to internal speakers.

• Jan. 10, 2024 - Dr. Amarshi Mukherjee, post-doc (Dokland's Lab), Dept. of Microbiology, UAB
  Title: "Unveiling the Architectural Marvel of S. aureus SaPI1 Particle Portal Structure and Exploring Its Function"
• Feb. 7, 2024 - Geoff Perumal, B.S., Thermo Scientific
  Title: "Advancements in Cryo-Electron Tomography Applications"
• Mar. 6, 2024 - Dr. Erik Schwiebert, Director of Therapeutics Accelerator, Southern Research, Birmingham
  Title: "The Station 41 Therapeutics Accelerator: SR and UAB Collaboration"
• Apr. 17, 2024 - Dr. Juan Calix, Assist. Professor, Dept. of Medicine, UAB
  Title: "Filling in the gaps of a unifying model of bacterial Wzy glycobiology"
• May 15, 2024 - Dr. Pramod Kumar, Scientist III (Cingolani's lab), Dept. of Biochemistry and Mol. Genetics, UAB
  Title: "Structure and Function Underpinning of Pentameric Ligand Gated Ion Channels at Lipid-Protein Interface"
• Sept. 11, 2024 - Dr. Gino Cingolani, Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Mol. Genetics, UAB
  Title: “An update on UAB Center for Integrative Structural Biology”
• Oct. 16, 2024 - Talia Fargason, Ph.D student (Jun Zhang's lab), Dept. of Chemistry, UAB
  Title: "Controlled by disorder: Phosphorylation of SRSF1’s unstructured regions modulates domain availability for spliceosome maturation"
• Nov. 13, 2024 - Drs. Md. Mohasin (Orihuela's lab) and Feroze Ganaie (Nahm's lab), Dept. of Medicine, UAB
  Titles: "Variability in Capsular Polysaccharide Secondary and Tertiary Structure directly influence Streptococcus pneumoniae interactions with the host" and "Discovery of a novel pneumococcal capsule type 33E that has emerged from vaccine type 33F and may evade vaccine-induced immunity"
• Dec. 4, 2024 - Dr. Patrick Frantom, Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alabama 
  Title: “Mechanisms of protected persulfide transfer in the Suf Fe-S cluster assembly pathway” 
• Jan. 8, 2025 - Dr. Owen Pornillos, Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, The University of Utah
  Title: "Stability and allostery of the HIV-1 capsid"
• Feb. 12, 2025 - Dr. Yuh Min Chook, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  Title: "Mechanisms of XPO1 inhibition and degradation by the cancer drug Selinexor".
• Mar. 12, 2025 - Dr. Michael Marty, Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University of Arizona
  Title: "Revealing membrane protein-lipid interactions with native and lipidomic
  mass spectrometry"
• Apr. 2, 2025 - Dr. Yong Xiong, Professor. Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale School of Medicine
  Title: "Visualizing host-virus interactions at high resolutions in situ"
• May 7, 2025 - Dr. Tatyana Polenova, Professor, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University of Delaware
  Title TBD (seminar cancelled)
• Oct. 1, 2025 - Dr. Corinne Augelli-Szafran, Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Mol Genetics, UAB
• Title: "A Drug Discovery Overview"
• Nov 5, 2025 - Dr. Champion Deivanayagam, Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Mol Genetics, UAB
  Title: "Molecular investigation into the adhesive surface proteins of the dental caries pathogen Streptococcus mutans: Is it possible to inhibit bacterial adhesion?"
• Dec. 3, 2025 - Dr. Zhiyong Liu, Assistant Professor. Dept. of of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, UAB
  Title: "Role of Calcium-dependent RabGAPs in membrane trafficking".
• Jan 7, 2026 - Dr. Andrew Ulijasz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology, UAB
  Title TBD