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Previous Years Seminars

2022-2023 Seminars

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

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

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

No Seminars:
March 3    Spring Break
April 21       Exams

 

Fall 2022

Sept. 16           James Shorter, UPenn  /  Host: Morgan DeSantis

**Sept 19           Alec Davidson, Morehouse /  Host: Sara Aton
                               **Special seminar at 12pm on Monday and location: 3150 BSB

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: DEI 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 University/
                             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
                         *** 10 AM, 2260 Undergrad Science Bldg    

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)
                           * Monday, noon, in 1010 BSB

No Seminars:

Sept. 30, Dec. 9
Nov. 25 Holiday
Dec. 17 Exams

Summer 2022

May 13 Libo Shan, Texas A&M University
Host: Jianming Li
in person
May 20 Jonathon Ditlev, University of Toronto
Host. Anthony Vecchiarelli
in person
June 3 Cory White, Johns Hopkins University
Hosts: Monica Dus & Josie Clowney
in person
June 17 Dominique Stephens, UT Austin
Hosts: Monica Dus &  Morgan DeSantis
in person
June 24 Bogdan Beirowski, UBuffalo
Host: Ken Cadigan
in person
July 8 Rick Baker, UNC Chapel Hill
Host: Morgan Desantis
in person
July 15 Laura Seeholzer, UCSF
Host: Josie Clowney
in person
July 29 Oleta Johnson, UCSF
Host: Anuj Kumar
in person

Winter 2022

Feb. 11         Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology

                    Host: Andrzej Wierzbicki  *in person

Feb. 18         Brent R. Stockwell , Columbia University
                        Host: Wanlu Du   *Virtual

Feb. 25        Hong Qiao,  UT-Austin
                     Host: Ming Li  *in person

March 11     Xiuren Zhang, Texas A&M 
                    Host: Andrzej Wierzbicki *in person

March 18     Tsui-Fen Chou, Caltech
                      Host: Yanzhuang Wang  *virtual

March 25     Anna Dobritsa, Ohio State University 
                      Host: Cora MacAlister *in person

April 1          Pelin Volkan, Duke University
                    Host: Josie Clowney  *in person

April 8        Postponed: James Shorter, University of Pennsylvania
                    Host: MCDB  *in person

April 15        Allan Basbaum, UCSF
                    Host: Bo Duan *in person

 

Fall 2021

Sept. 17     Kris DeMali, University of Iowa
                    Host: Ann Miller     *Virtual

Sept. 22    Nonia Pariente, PLoS Biology
                    Host: Anupam Chakravarty     *Virtual

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

Oct. 1        Matthew Kayser, University of Pennsylvania
                    Host: Sara Aton     *Virtual

Oct. 8       Sophie Caron, University of Utah
                    Host: Monica Dus      *Virtual

Oct. 15     Anne Straube, University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School
                     Host: Morgan DeSantis     *Virtual

Oct. 22     Carlos Portera-Cailliau, UCLA
                    Host: Sam Kwon     *Virtual

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

Nov. 5       Martin Jonikas, Princeton
                     Host: Anthony Vecchiarelli     

Nov. 12.     Moved to Dec. 10    

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

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

No Seminars:

    Nov. 26 Holiday 
    Dec. 17 Exams

Summer 2021

Homologous chromosome pairing in meiosis
Sean Burgess, Univ. California-Davis

Genetic variation, ER stress, Disease modifiers
Clement Chow, University of Utah

Winter 2021

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

Feb. 19

Mike Henne, UT Southwestern
(Host: Ming Li)

Feb. 26

Nicole Martinez, Yale
(Host: Morgan DeSantis)

March 5

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

March 12

Arash Komeili, UC Berkeley
(Host: Anthony Vecchiarelli)

March 19

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

March 26

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

April 2

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

April 9

Suzanne Pfeffer, Stanford University
(Host: Ming Li)

April 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
Title: “Structural insights into TRP channels gating"

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
Title:“Receptors, channels and animal behavior”

Winter 2020

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

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

                    Other seminars were canceled.

 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

Winter 2019 

February 8
Paul Franken, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland
(Host:  Sara Aton)
March 1 Magdalena Bezanilla, Dartmouth College
(Host:  Erik Nielsen)
March 8
Spring Break
March 15 Roberto Zoncu, University of California, Berkeley
(Host:  Haoxing Xu)
March 22 Feng Qiao, University of California, Irvine
(Host:  JK Nandakumar)
March 29 Heidi Lempradl , Van Andel Institute, Michigan
(Host:  Monica Dus)
April 5 Tzumin Lee, HHMI
 (Hosts:  Cunming Duan and Josie Clowney)
April 12 Kun-Liang Guan, University of California, San Diego
 (Host:  Yanzhuang Wang)
April 19 Maxim Frolov, University of Illinois, Chicago
(Host:  Laura Buttitta)
May 6 [Monday] Connell Symposium