The Department of Molecular Medicine hosts seminars and research Work-in-Progress presentations throughout the year

Spring Seminar Series 2022
4:00 pm via Zoom or in-person (unless otherwise noted)

MARCH

• March 29 (Tuesday) - BBS Signature Series Seminar, Zoom LINK 
  Arturo Casadevall, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  On Virulence
  (hosted by Cynthia Leifer, Department of Microbiology and Immunology)

APRIL

• April 5 (Tuesday) - BBS Signature Series Seminar, LIVESTREAM in Lecture Hall 4
  Erika Pearce, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  Mitochondrial Shape-Shifting in the T cell Response
  (hosted by Ted Clark)
• April 18 (Monday) - SPECIAL SEMINAR, Lecture Hall 3
  Gunther Hollopeter, Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell
  Leveraging C. elegans Genetics to Understand Membrane-associated Machinery
  (hosted by Maurine Linder)
• April 26 (Tuesday) - BBS Signature Series Seminar, Lecture Hall 4
  Douglas Marchuk, Department of Molecular Genetics and Biology, Duke University
  Germline and Somatic Genetics of Cerebral Cavernous Malformations: A Human Genetics Story

MAY

• May 3 (Tuesday, Special time-12:00 pm EST) - BBS Signature Series Seminar, Zoom Link tba
  Françoise Gisou van der Goot, Department of Cell and Membrane Biology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  TBD
• May 31 (Tuesday, Special time-12:00 pm EST) - BBS Signature Series Seminar, Zoom Link tba
  Sigoléne Meilhac, Developmental Biology and INSERM Research Director, Institut Pasteur, Paris

 

2021/2022 Fall/Winter Department Work-In-Progress Series
4:00 pm Mondays Lecture Hall III, unless noted otherwise

NOVEMBER 2021

• November 8
  William Katt (Cerione Lab) - Progress in the Design of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Tissue Transglutaminase
• November 15

  Gwen Beacham (Hollopeter Lab) - A Junctional Phosphatase at the Heart of Jowls
  Cody Alpin (Cerione Lab) - TG2: Structural Insights into an Important Player in Cancer

• November 22

  Ed Partlow (Hollopeter Lab) - Structural Basis of an Endocytic Checkpoint that Primes the AP2 Clathrin Adaptor for Cargo Internalization
  Cora Demler (Kurpios Lab) - Left, Right, and Center: Characterizing the Novel Midline Barrier of the Dorsal Mesentery and its Effect on Asymmetric Gut Looping

DECEMBER 2021

• December 13 - *Classroom 6*
  Erika Beyrent (Hollopeter Lab) - Investigating the Function of the Inversin Complex
  Thuy Tien Nguyen (Cerione Lab) - Mechanistic Basis for Substrate Binding and Allosteric Activation of Glutaminase C, a Driver Enzyme in Cancer Cell Metabolism

JANUARY 2022

• January 10 - zoomed
  Myfanwy Adams (Chappie Lab) - Crystal Structure of the Potato Leafroll Virus Coat Protein and Implications for Viral Assembly
• January 17 - NO WIP, Martin Luther King Holiday
• January 24 - ZOOM link
  Tyler Rozanitis (Kawate Lab) - Mechanistic Studies of Pannexin 1 Channel Using Pharmacological Inhibition and Lipid Stabilization
  Anthony Bui (Chappie Lab) - The Crystal Structure of LlaI.2 Reveals Nucleotide Binding Promiscuity Among Distant McrBC Homologs
• January 31 - NO WIP, BBS Recruitment

FEBRUARY 2022

• February 7 - in-person, LH III
  Jillian Breault (Sevier Lab) - Investigating the Activity of the Hsp70 Co-chaperone Sil1 using a Structural and Functional Approach
  Derek Wei (Hollopeter Lab) - Investigating the Function of APE-1 and GSP-2
• February 14
  Jenn Roscoe (Sevier Lab) -Investigating Mechanisms of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Sensing by the Unfolded Protein Response
  Kuang -Tse Wang (Adler Lab) - Advancing Single-Cell RNA-seq in Planarians
• February 21
  Bhargav Sanketi (Kurpios Lab) - Developmental Origin of Intestinal Smooth Muscles at Single Cell Resolution
• February 28
  Brian Aguilera (Kurpios Lab) - TBA
  Jackie Ehrlich  (Kawate Lab) - TBA

MARCH 2022

• March 7
  Justin Tapper (Adler Lab) - TBA
  Ruizhi Li (Cerione Lab) - TBA
• March 14
  TBD