| Date | Speaker, Title, Department | Workshop Title |
| 01/25/2022 | Dr. Pam Geyer, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | "Disease variants of barrier-to-autointegration Factor alter nuclear structure and genome stability" |
| 02/02/2022 | Juan Santana, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research Associate, Lab: Dr. David Price | "Differential dependencies of human RNA polymerase II promoters on TBP, TAF1, TAF4, TFIIB, and XPB" |
| 02/08/2022 | Cade Rahlf, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Undergraduate, Lab: Dr. Madeline Shea | "Calmodulin Binding to Intrinsically Disordered Domains of Highly Conserved Intracellular Fibroblast Growth Factors" |
| 03/01/2022 | Dr. Dustin Bosch, Assistant Professor, Pathology | "Competition among Bacteroides species: Ntox15 effectors and immunity proteins" |
| 03/08/2022 | Divya Bhat, Cancer Biology Graduate Student, Mentor: Dr. Maria Spies | "RAD52 inhibition as a new frontier in anti-cancer therapy" |
| 03/22/2022 | Dr. Brandon Davies, Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | "Dissecting the functions of a key regulator of lipoprotein metabolism" |
| 03/29/2022 | Dr. Adrian Elcock, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | "Methods for modeling and simulating bacterial macromolecules" |
| 04/05/2022 | Kathryn Hobbs, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student, Mentor: Dr. Michael Ashley Spies | "Allosteric Tuning of Caspase-7 Activity" |
| 04/19/2022 | Dr. Michael Schneiders, Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | "Computational Models of Crystals and Missense Variants" |
| 04/26/2022 | Dr. Jessica Tucker, Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology | "Using gammaherpesvirus infection to explore tRNA expression dynamics" |
| 05/03/2022 | Mortezaali Razzaghi, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lab: Dr. Maria Spies | "Structural Mechanisms and Pharmacological Targeting of the RAD52 DNA Repair Protein" |
| 09/20/2022 | Dr. Daniel Weeks, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | "Studies on the Parkinson's Protein alpha-Synuclein Using Xenopus laevis" |
| 09/27/2022 | Dr. Sheila Baker, Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | "Photoreceptor Calcium Channels and Synapse Development" |
| 10/04/2022 | Dr. David Price, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | "Zombie Pre-Initiation Complexes (PICs)" |
| 10/11/2022 | Specific Aims Presentations by Graduate Students Logan Dawson, Lab: Dr. Kris DeMali Lucy Langmack, Lab: Dr. Ted Abel Sydney Walker, Lab: Dr. Brandon Davies |
"Mechanisms Coupling Actin-Cytoskeleton Reinforcement and Metabolism" "Characterizing missense mutations in the ligand binding domain and DNA binding domain of NR4A2 transcription factors from individuals with autism spectrum disorder" "Regulation of extracellular lipases by ANGPTL3" |
| 10/18/2022 | Nicholas Hammons, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student, Lab: Dr. Ernesto Fuentes | "Characterizing the Regulation of the Staphylococcal aureus SrrB Histidine Kinase" |
| 10/26/2022 | Dr. Michael Gebhardt, Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology | "Exploring the Hfq-mediated RNA-RNA interactome in Pseudomonas aeruginosa" |
| 11/01/2022 | Rebecca Splitt, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student, Lab: Dr. Kris DeMali | "Investigating E-cadherin Mediated Force Transmission" |
| 11/08/2022 | Dr. William Hacker, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Lab: Dr. Adrian Elcock | "Development and Application of a Simulation Toolkit for Modeling Prokaryotic Transcription and Translation Dynamics" |
| 11/15/2022 | Sarah Mayer and Nathan Mohar, Genetics Graduate Students, Lab: Dr. Lori Wallrath | "Drosophila Models of SNRNP200-Associated Retinitis Pigmentosa Exhibit Photoreceptor Abnormalities" "Identificaiton and Analysis of Genetic Modifiers of Laminopathies" |
| 11/29/2022 | Grace Ciampa, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student, Lab: Dr. Long-Sheng Song | "Examining the Function of a Novel Protein in the Cardiac Junctional Membrane Complex" |
| 12/06/2022 | Andrew Kalenkiewiecz, MSTP/Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student, Lab: Dr. Ashley Spies | "Unraveling the Structural and Thermodynamic Basis of Caspase Allostery" |
Date:
Wednesday, February 16, 2022