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)
