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Department Seminars

If you would like to speak with any of these people during their visit, or need additional information, please contact Stephanie Scoville.

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DBB Seminar: “The Role of RNA Modification in the Formation of Nucleoli and Cajal Bodies”

U. Thomas Meier, PhD - Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

 Apr 02, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6804)

Host: Dr. Yi-Tao Yu (co-sponsored by the RNA Structure & Function Cluster)

DBB Seminar: “Toward Sub-Nanometer Visualization of Endogenous Chromatin-Associated Complexes in Action”

Yasuhiro Arimura, PhD - Assistant Professor, Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA

 Apr 09, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6804)

Host: T32 trainee Elizabeth Lucas and Dr. Jeff Hayes (co-sponsored by the NIH NIGMS T32 Training Grant in Cellular, Biochemical and Molecular Sciences, Dr. Lynne Maquat, PI & Dr. Jeffrey Hayes, Co-PI)

DBB Seminar: “Long noncoding RNAs: Strength in Numbers”

Nadya Dimitrova, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

 Apr 16, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6804)

Host: Dr. Lynne Maquat (co-sponsored by Graduate Women in Science and the RNA Society & Lexogen)

DBB Seminar: “A Conserved Intra-Bundle Salt Bridge in the OATP1B Subfamily Controls Uptake Kinetics and Transporter Conformation”

Aviv Paz, PhD - University at Buffalo Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute; Assistant Professor, Department of Structural Biology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo; Adjunct Associate Professor of Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY

 Apr 23, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6804)

Host: Dr. Mark Dumont (co-sponsored by the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology)

DBB Seminar: “m6A is Decoded by Modified tRNAs to Coordinate mRNA Decay”

Sebastian Leidel, PhD - Research Group for RNA Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (DCBP), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

 Apr 30, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6804)

Host: Dr. Eric Phizicky and Dr. Beth Grayhack (co-sponsored by the Protein Synthesis Cluster and the RNA Structure & Function Cluster)

DBB Seminar: “Degron-tagging of an Endogenous Repressor Defines the Mechanism for Turning Genes On and Off”

Scott Hiebert, PhD - Professor, Department of Biochemistry; Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; Hortense B. Ingram Chair in Cancer Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

 May 08, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6809)

Host: T32 trainee Hannah Clary, Dr. Clara Kielkopf, NIH NIGMS T32 Training Grant in Cellular, Biochemical and Molecular Sciences, Dr. Lynne Maquat, PI & Dr. Jeffrey Hayes, Co-PI and GWIS