Department Seminars
If you would like to speak with any of these people during their visit, or need additional information, please contact Stephanie Scoville.
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
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: “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: “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: “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: “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)
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)
CANCELLED 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
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: “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
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 @ 3:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Lower Adolph Aud. (1-7619)
Special Seminar: "The art of science communication: How to share your passion and excitement for your work"
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.
Host: Dr. Lynne Maquat
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
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: “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