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Previous Years Seminars

2024-25 Academic Year

Summer 2025

May 14     Eric Horstick, University of West Virginia (Host: Rich Hume)

Winter 2025

Feb. 7        Daria Siekhaus, (Host: CEC- Babli Adhikary, Valentina Caicedo Garzón) 

Feb. 14      Sujith Puthiyaveetil, Purdue University (Host: Andrzej Wierzbicki)

Feb. 28      Nicole Calakos, Duke University (Host: Paul Kramer)

Mar. 14      Xinnian Dong, Duke University (Host: Ping He)

Mar. 21      Hongzhen Hu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Host: Bo Duan)

Mar. 28      Jack Humphrey, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Host: Sarah Kargbo-Hill)

Apr. 4         Rob Harris, Arizona State University (Host: Laura Buttitta)

Apr. 9         Jean-Francois Collet, deDuve Institute, Brussels (Host: James Bardwell)

Apr. 11       Gitta Coaker, UC Davis (Host: Libo Shan)

Apr. 15       Jonathan Gershenzon, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (Host: Eran Pichersky)

Apr. 18       Anthony Koleske, Yale University (Host: Morgan DeSantis)

Apr. 24       Fei Wang, UT Southwestern (Host: Ming Li)        

Fall 2024

Sept. 13     Joseph Ecker, Salk Institute (Host: Alex Marand)

Sept. 20     Elizabeth Chen, UT Southwestern (Host: Tzumin Lee)

Sept. 27     Michael Reiser, Janelia Farms Research Campus (Host: Josie  Clowney)

Oct. 4         William Prinz, UTSW, Department of Cell Biology (Host: Ming Li)

Oct. 11       Hank Seifert, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine (Host: Lyle Simmons)

Oct. 18       Matt Good, UPenn Perelman School of Medicine (Hosts: Ann Miller & Allen Liu (Mechanical Engineering))

Nov. 1       James Imlay, University of Illinois (Host: Ari Kozik)

Nov. 8       Jochen Zimmer, University of Virginia (Host: Erik Nielsen)

Nov. 15     Emma Farley, University of California San Diego (Host: Ken Cadigan)

2023-24 Academic Year

Summer 2024

May 24     Alfa Herrera, Northwestern University (Hosts:  Matt Chapman and Ken Cadigan)        

July 12     Nicolle Rosa Mercado, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Host: JK Nandakumar)

Winter 2024

Feb. 9       Danielle Reed, Monell Center (Host: Monica Dus)

Feb. 16     Rita Sattler, Barrow Neurological Institute (Host: Sarah Kargbo-Hill)

Feb. 23     Marcin Nowotny, Int'l Institute of Molecular & Cell Biology, Warsaw (Host: Andrzej Wierzbicki)

Mar. 8       Adam Carter, NYU (Host: Paul Kramer)

Mar. 15    Agnel Sfeir , Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Host: JK Nandakumar)

Mar. 22    Amanda Larracuente, University of Rochester (Host: DEIC )

Mar. 27    Wenbo Ma, The Sainsbury Laboratory (Host: Libo Shan)    

Mar. 27    Bruce Bamber, University of Toledo (Host: Bo Duan)   

Mar. 29    Paula Littlejohn, University of British Columbia (Host: Ariangela Kozik) 

Apr. 5       Rachel Smith-Bolton, University of Illinois (Host: Laura Buttitta)

Apr. 12     Iain Cheeseman, Whitehead Institute, MIT (Host: Morgan DeSantis)

Apr. 19     Ravi Allada, Michigan Neuroscience Institute (Hosts: Ken Cadigan & Sara Aton)

Fall 2023

Sept. 6     Katie Drerup, University of Wisconsin (Host: Morgan DeSantis)

Sept. 22   Troy Shirangi, Villanova University (Host: Josie Clowney)

Sept. 29   Yi-Zhi Wang, Northwestern University (Host: Wanlu Du)

Oct. 2       Tyler Huycke, UC San Francisco (Host: Gyorgyi Csankovszki)

Oct. 6       Jay Tan, University of Pittsburgh (Host: Ming Li)

Oct. 13     Richard McKenney, University of California - Davis (Host: Morgan DeSantis)

Oct. 20     Ram Dixit, Washington University in St. Louis  Host: Erik Nielsen) 

Oct. 27     Mark Hoon, National Institutes of Health (Host: Bo Duan)

Nov. 3       Cheryl Kerfeld, Michigan State University (Host: Anthony Vecchiarelli)

Nov. 10     Erin Goley, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Host: Lyle Simmons)

Nov. 17     Robert Piper, University of Iowa (Host: Yanzhuang Wang

2022-23 Academic Year

Summer 2023

June 16   Junior West, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Host: Ann Miller)

July 14    Joshua Raji, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Host: Josie Clowney) 

Aug. 11    Begüm Aydin, The Rockefeller University (Host: Ken Cadigan)

Winter 2023

Feb. 10    Naoshige Uchida, Harvard University (Host: Sam Kwon)

Feb. 13    James Marks, NIH (Host: Ken Cadigan) 

Feb. 17    Diana Bautista, UC Berkeley (Host: Bo Duan) 

Feb. 24    Tania Reis, UColorado, Denver (Host: Laura Buttitta) 

Mar. 1      Ariangela Kozik, UM Puminary Division (Host: Gary Huffnagle)    

Mar. 10    Matt Tyska, Vanderbilt University (Hosts: Ann Miller and Simon P. Hogan for Molecular Cellular Pathology series)

Mar. 17    Yerbol Kurmangaliyev, Brandeis University (Host: Josie Clowney) 

Mar. 24    Keren Lasker, Scripps (Host: Anthony Vecchiarelli) 

Mar. 31    Catherine Kaczorowski, UM Dept. of Neurology (Host: Sara Aton) 

Apr. 7       Qinglian Liu, Virginia Commonwealth University (Host: Yanzhuang Wang) 

Apr. 13     Hongjie Li, Baylor College of Medicine (Host: Laura Buttitta)

Apr. 14     Marija Zanic, Vanderbilt University (Host: Morgan DeSantis)

Fall 2022

Sept. 16   James Shorter, UPenn (Host: Morgan DeSantis)

Sept. 19   Alec Davidson, Morehouse College (Host: Sara Aton)

Sept. 23   Chris Fromme, Cornell University (Host: Ming Li)

Oct. 7       Scott Keeney, Sloan-Kettering Institute, NYC (Host: JK Nandakumar)

Oct. 14     Nancy Padilla-Coreano, University of Florida (Host: Community Engagement Committee)

Oct. 21     Yan Qin, University of Denver (Host: Wanlu Du)

Oct. 28     Longhua Guo, UM Physiology/ Variations in Biology Seminar (Host: Laura Buttitta)

Nov. 4      Judith Frydman, Stanford (Hosts: Ursula Jakob and Stephanie Moon, Human Genetics)

Nov. 11    Mubarak Syed, University of New Mexico (Host: Monica Dus)

Nov. 18    Maria Cristina Gambetta, Univ. of Lausanne (Host: Monica Dus)

Nov. 18    Ariangela Kozik,  UM Pulmonary Division (Host: Gary Huffnagle) 

Dec. 12    Won Do Heo, Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (Hosts: Ann Miller & Sarah

Vetch (Biophysics))

2021-22 Academic Year

Summer 2022

May 13    Libo Shan, Texas A&M University (Host: Jianming Li)

May 20   Jonathon Ditlev, University of Toronto (Host. Anthony Vecchiarelli)

June 3    Cory White, Johns Hopkins University (Hosts: Monica Dus & Josie Clowney)

June 17  Dominique Stephens, UT Austin (Hosts: Monica Dus &  Morgan DeSantis)

June 24  Bogdan Beirowski, UBuffalo (Host: Ken Cadigan)

July 8      Rick Baker, UNC Chapel Hill (Host: Morgan Desantis)

July 15    Laura Seeholzer, UCSF (Host: Josie Clowney)

July 29    Oleta Johnson, UCSF (Host: Anuj Kumar)

Winter 2022

Feb. 11    Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (Host: Andrzej Wierzbicki)

Feb. 18    Brent R. Stockwell, Columbia University (Host: Wanlu Du)

Feb. 25    Hong Qiao,  UT-Austin (Host: Ming Li)

Mar. 11    Xiuren Zhang, Texas A&M (Host: Andrzej Wierzbicki)

Mar. 18    Tsui-Fen Chou, Caltech (Host: Yanzhuang Wang)

Mar. 25    Anna Dobritsa, Ohio State University (Host: Cora MacAlister)

Apr. 1       Pelin Volkan, Duke University (Host: Josie Clowney)

Apr. 15     Allan Basbaum, UCSF (Host: Bo Duan)

Fall 2021

Sept. 17   Kris DeMali, University of Iowa (Host: Ann Miller)

Sept. 22   Nonia Pariente, PLoS Biology (Host: Anupam Chakravarty)

Sept. 24   Juan Bonifacino, National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Host: Ming Li)

Oct. 1        Matthew Kayser, University of Pennsylvania (Host: Sara Aton)

Oct. 8        Sophie Caron, University of Utah (Host: Monica Dus)

Oct. 15      Anne Straube, University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School (Host: Morgan DeSantis)    

Oct. 22      Carlos Portera-Cailliau, UCLA (Host: Sam Kwon)

Oct. 29      Lesley N. Weaver, Indiana University (Host: Laura Buttitta) 

Nov. 5       Martin Jonikas, Princeton (Host: Anthony Vecchiarelli)   

Nov. 19     Roberto Márquez, EEB, Univ. of Michigan (Host: Laura Buttitta)    

Dec. 10     Elizabeth Haswell, Washington University (Host: Erik Nielsen)

2020-21 Academic Year

Summer 2021

                 Sean Burgess, UCalifornia-Davis

                 Clement Chow, University of Utah

Winter 2021

Jan. 29    Annika Barber, Rutgers University (Host: Monica Dus)

Feb. 19    Mike Henne, UT Southwester (Host: Ming Li)

Feb. 26    Nicole Martinez, Yale University (Host: Morgan DeSantis)

Mar. 5      Chelsey SprIggs, U-M (Host: Morgan DeSantis)

Mar. 12    Arash Komeili, UC Berkeley (Host: Anthony Vecchiarelli)

Mar. 19    Petra Levin, Washington University, St. Louis (Host: Anthony Vecchiarelli)

Mar. 26    Courtney Hollender, Michigan State University (Host: Cora MacAlister)

Apr. 2       Alison Barth, Carnegie Mellon University (Host: Sam Kwon)

Apr. 9       Suzanne Pfeffer, Stanford University (Host: Ming Li)

Apr. 16     Sophie Dumont, UC San Francisco (Host: Morgan DeSantis)

Fall 2020

Sept. 18    Michael Ragusa, Dartmouth (Host: Dan Klionsky)

Sept. 25    Cheng-Yu Lee, UM  LSI       

Oct. 2        Elissa Hallem, UCLA (Host: Monica Dus)

Oct. 9        Vera Moiseenkova-Bell, UPenn (Host: Randy Stockbridge)

Oct. 16      Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, UPenn (Host: Bahaar Chawla)

Nov. 6       Kathy Nagel, NYU (Host: Josie Clowney)

Nov. 20    Jill Wildonger, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Host: Morgan DeSantis)

Dec. 4      Craig Montell, University of California, Santa Barbara (Host: Bo Duan)

2019-20 Academic Year

Winter 2020

Feb. 21     Sam Gu, Rutgers University (Host: Györgyi Csankovszki)

Feb. 28     Kumaran Ramamurthi, National Cancer Institute, NIH (Host:  Lyle Simmons)

Fall 2019

Sept. 13    Jessica Tollkuhn, Cold Spring Harbor Labs (Host: Josie Clowney)

Sept. 17    Mohan K. Balasubramanian, University of Warwick (Host: Ann Miller, Allen Liu, Puck Ohi)

Sept. 20    Chris Doe, University of Oregon (Host: Josie Clowney)

Sept. 27    Wu-Min Deng, Florida State University (Host: Laura Buttitta)

Oct. 4        Imed Gallouzi, Goodman Cancer Center, McGill University (Host: Mohammed Akaaboune)

Oct. 11      Marco Gallio, Northwestern University (Host: Monica Dus)

Oct. 18      Mike Phillips, University of Toronto (Host: Eran Pichersky)

Oct. 25      Suneet Agarwal, Harvard Medical School (Host: JK Nandakumar)

Nov. 1        Scott Hultgren, Washington University of St. Louis (Host: Matt Chapman)

Nov. 8        Daphne Goring, University of Toronto (Host: Cora MacAlister)

Nov. 15      Dan Feldman, University of California, Berkeley (Host: Sam Kwon)

Nov. 22      Brian Storrie, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Host: Yanzhuang Wang)

Dec. 6        Sean Megason, Harvard (Host: Cunming Duan)

2018-19 Academic Year

Winter 2019

Feb. 8        Paul Franken, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland (Host: Sara Aton)

Mar. 1        Magdalena Bezanilla, Dartmouth College (Host: Erik Nielsen)

Mar. 15      Roberto Zoncu, University of California, Berkeley (Host: Haoxing Xu)

Mar. 22      Feng Qiao, University of California, Irvine (Host: JK Nandakumar)

Mar. 29      Heidi Lempradl, Van Andel Institute, Michigan (Host: Monica Dus)

Apr. 5         Tzumin Lee, HHMI (Hosts:  Cunming Duan and Josie Clowney)

Apr. 12       Kun-Liang Guan, University of California, San Diego (Host: Yanzhuang Wang)

Apr. 19       Maxim Frolov, University of Illinois, Chicago (Host: Laura Buttitta)