Fridays, Noon to 1 PM
- Seminars will be held in person in Room 1060 in the Biological Sciences Building [Kraus Auditorium]
- Check the event listing on our web calendar on the home page for latest info on a particular seminar.
Winter 2025
Feb. 7 Daria Siekhaus, UCLA (Host: MCDB DEI-C Babli Adhikary, Valentina Caicedo Garzón)
Feb. 14 Sujith Puthiyaveetil , Purdue University (Host: Andrzej Wierzbicki)
Feb. 21 Takashi Akera , NIH NHLBI (Host: JK Nandakumar)
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 Kristin Baldwin, Columbia University Irving Medical Center (Host: Sarah Kargbo-Hill)
Apr. 4 Rob Harris , Arizona State University (Host: Laura Buttitta)
Apr. 11 Alice Cheung, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Host: Libo Shan)
Apr. 18 Anthony Koleske, Yale University (Host: Morgan DeSantis)
Fall 2024
Sept. 13 Joseph Ecker, Salk Institute
(Host: Alex Marand)
Sept. 20 Elizabeth Chen , UT Southwestern
(Host: Tzumin Lee)
Sept. 27 Michael Reiser , HHMI 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, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
(Hosts: Ann Miller and 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
Note: These seminars are in 0420 Central Campus Classroom Building
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)
Aug. 9 Andrea Cuentas-Condori, Yale School of Medicine (Host: Paul Kramer)
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, International 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. 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)
No Seminars: Mar. 1 (Spring Break), Apr. 26 (Exams)
Fall 2023
Sept. 6 Katie Drerup, University of Wisconsin (Host: Morgan DeSantis)
*TIME AND PLACE: 11 am, Room 1010 BSB
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)
*TIME AND PLACE: 2 PM, Room 1010 BSB
Oct. 6 Jay Tan, University of Pittsburgh (Host: Ming Li)
Oct. 13 Richard McKenney, UCalifornia - 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)
No Seminars: Nov. 24 (Holiday), Dec. 8 & 15 (Exams)
