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

Spring Seminar Series 2024
4:00 pm  (Mondays, unless otherwise noted)

APRIL 2024

• April 18 (Thursday) - Lecture Hall 3
  Rachel Ee, National University of Singapore

  Peptide Nanonets as Antimicrobial and Anti-inflammatory Agents
  (hosted by Saki Ichikawa)
  
   

2023/2024 Fall/Winter Department Work-In-Progress Series
4:00 pm Mondays Lecture Hall III, unless noted otherwise

OCTOBER 2023

• October 23
  Shi Feng  (Cerione Lab) - Is filament formation necessary to drive catalysis of glutaminase enzymes?
  Derek Wei (Hollopeter Lab) - How does APE-1 regulate the protein phosphatase GSP-2?
• October 30

  Anthony Bui  (Chappie Lab) - Structural characterization of non-canonical McrBC homologs provides insights into DNA binding
  Erika Beyrent (Hollopeter Lab) - How is the Inversin complex activated?

NOVEMBER 2023

• November 6
  Erik Henze  (Kawate Lab) - Untargeted secretomics reveals a novel set of Pannexin-1 signaling metabolite
  Jenn Roscoe (Sevier Lab) - Characterizing the role of the UPR during overly oxidizing ER redox conditions
• November 13 - No WIP - Department Seminar
• November 20 - No WIP - Thanksgiving Break

• November 27
  Rebecca Schmitt  (Cerione Lab) - Glioblastoma Resilience Through Dock7-Driven Survival and Plasticity
  Kuang-Tse Wang (Adler Lab) - Delineating how RoboA Regulates Stem Cell Differentiation

DECEMBER 2023

• December 4 - POSTPONED
  Brian Aguilera  (Kurpios Lab) - Pitx2 regulated epithelial homeostasis and function in the postnatal intestine
• December 11
  Jillian Breault  (Sevier Lab) - Structure and function of a BiP ATPase mutant
  Matt Zanotelli (Cerione Lab) - Sustained AKT and mTOR/S6K activity by Dock7 in the survival of cancer cells
• December 18 - NO WIP - Winter Break
• December 25 - NO WIP - Winter Break

JANUARY 2024

• January 1 - NO WIP - Winter Break
• January 8
  Jacqueline Ehrlich  (Kawate Lab) - Structural investigations of Pannexin gating
• January 15 - NO WIP - Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
• January 22
  Sumanth Mosale  (Sardana Lab) - Understanding Membrane Protein Quality Control Mechanism at Lysosomes
  Sam Deck  (Cerione Lab) - Advancements in our Understanding of the Molecular Mechanisms of K-Ras Activation Using Novel X-Ray Crystallography Approaches
• January 29 - NO WIP - BBS Recruitment

FEBRUARY 2024

• February 5
  Alexandra Hommer  (Sevier Lab) - Cellular Targeting and Functions for the Methionine Sulfoxide Reductases (MSRs)
  Saul De La Pena (Cerione Lab) - Unraveling the Biology and Structure of Rhodopsin and its Effectors in the Presence of its Native Lipids
• February 12
  Libby Huang (Kurpios Lab) - Reconstructing the origin and assembly of villus smooth muscles
  Justin Tapper (Adler Lab) - Developing transgenic strategies in planarians
• February 19
  Sarah Codd (Kawate Lab) - Elucidating the structure and function of TTYH1 using C. elegans as a model organism
  Bill Katt  (Cerione Lab) - Progress in Pooches: MEK Inhibitors to Treat Canine Oral Cancers
• February 26
  Jade Bowerman  (Sardana Lab) - Investigation of factors regulating AP-1 function in intra-Golgi recycling
  Kayleigh Morrison  (Hollopeter Lab) - The Curious Case of a Two-Faced Protein Domain

MARCH 2024

• March 4
  Isabel Delo  (Adler Lab) - Investigating the role of Smad4-2 in neural feeding circuit regeneration
  Julia Zhu (Sardana Lab) - Uncovering Novel Functions of the Disease-associated Protein Cystinosin using Yeast as a Model
• March 11
  Jacob Neumann (Cerione Lab) - Determining how survivin influences metabolic reprogramming in pancreatic cancer
  Shun Enomoto (Cerione Lab) - Determining how embryonic stem cell derived extracellular vesicles delay senescence