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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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Faculty Candidate DBB Seminar: “Metabolic Control of Inflammatory and Cell Cycle Signaling Mediated by a Network of Co-Regulated Lipids”

Marielle S. Koeberlin, PhD - Basic Life Research Scientist/postdoctoral fellow, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

 Feb 05, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6804)

Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko and Dr. Josh Munger

Faculty Candidate DBB Seminar: “Neuronal Long Non-Coding RNAs: Insights from the Fly Olfactory System”

Gaëlle Talross, PhD - Associate Research Scientist, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

 Feb 12, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6804)

Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko

Faculty Candidate DBB Seminar: “Beta-arrestin-mediated Signaling: Allosteric Activation of Non-Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Src”

Natalia Pakharukova, PhD - Postdoctoral Associate, EMBO and HFSP fellow, Department of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

 Feb 19, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6804)

Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko

Special Seminar (General Talk): “This NPR Life: What it’s like to be a public health reporter these days”

Pien Huang - Health Reporter, Science Desk, National Public Radio, Washington, D.C.

 Feb 20, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | Class of ‘62 Aud (G-9425)

Faculty Candidate DBB Seminar: “Reading and Editing the Tubulin Code”

Jiayi Chen, PhD - Research Fellow, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

 Feb 26, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6809)

Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko

DBB Seminar: “Recognition of Self Versus Nonself dsRNA in Vertebrates and Invertebrates”

Brenda L. Bass, PhD - Distinguished Professor & Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chair, Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

 Mar 05, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6804)

Host: Dr. Eric J. Wagner (co-sponsored by the Protein Synthesis Cluster and the RNA Society & Lexogen)

Faculty Candidate DBB Seminar: “Investigating Nuclear Compartment Function Using RNA Proximity Labeling”

Nadiya Khyzha, PhD - Postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Henikoff lab, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA

 Mar 12, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | K307 (3-6809)

Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko

Annual Retreat of the NIH NIGMS Predoctoral T32 in Cellular, Biochemical and Molecular Sciences (CBMS): “New insights into Xist structure and function”

Jeannie T. Lee, MD, PhD - Endowed Chair in Molecular Biology; Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Vice Chair & Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Dr. Lee is the keynote speaker.

 Mar 19, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m.
 Medical Center | Class of ‘62 Aud (G-9425)

Host: Graduate Student NIH NIGMS T32 Retreat in Cellular, Biochemical and Molecular Sciences Hosts: Dr. Lynne Maquat and Dr. Jeffrey Hayes (co-sponsored by Graduate Women in Science)

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: TBD

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

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 07, 2025 @ 2:00 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