| Date | Location | Time | Visitor | Title | Host |
| Feb. 1 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Emily Dykhuizen, Purdue University | The tumor suppressive role of Polybromo-1, a subunity of the PBAF chromatin remodeling complex | Dr. Catherine Musselman |
| Feb. 8 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Didier Hodzic, Washington University School of Medicine | Multiple isoforms of Nesprin1 are integral compnents of ciliary rootlets | Dr. Sheila Baker |
| Feb. 22 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Edwin Antony, Marquette University | ABCD-The Language of Replication Protein A | Dr. Maria Spies |
| Mar. 1 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Sanjeevi Sivansankar, Iowa State University | Biophysics of cadherin adhesion: How cells sense and respond to force | Dr. Kris DeMali |
| Mar. 22 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Cancelled: Dr. Jerrold Turner, Harvard Medical School | Mechanisms and impact of mucosal barrier regulation | Dr. Ernesto Fuentes |
| March 29 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Ken Dill, Stony Brook University | How cellular decisions are encoded in its proteome's physical chemistry | Biochem Grad Students |
| Apr. 11 | 2117 MERF | 1:00 PM | Kyle Powers, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Structure and function of the disordered tails in translesion synthesis DNA polymerases | Mentor: Dr. Todd Washington |
| Apr. 12 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Bret D. Freudenthal, University of Kansas Medical Center | From a Hawkeye to a Jayhawk: Studies of DNA damage and repair | Drs. Maria Spies and Todd Washington |
| Apr. 13 | 2117 MERF | 12:30 PM | Mark Miller,Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Use of osmotic coefficient measurements to validate and to correct the interaction thermodynamics of amino acids in molecular dynamics simulations | Mentor: Dr. Adrian Elcock |
| Apr. 20 | 2117 MERF | 12:00 PM | Venkata Sanaboyana, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Profess towards molecular simulations of plasmid segreagation in E. coli | Mentor: Dr. Adrian Elcock |
| Apr. 26 | 4-403 BSB (Heath) | 9:00 AM | Dr. Xu Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University | A Structural Perspective on Epigentic Regulation: Inhibitor Development and Gene Evolution | Dr. Ernesto Fuentes |
| Apr. 26 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Vincenzo Venditti, Iowa State University | Conformational dynamics-mediated self-regulatory mechanisms in large multi-domain enzymes | Dr. Ernesto Fuentes |
| June 1 | 1117 MERF | 11:00 AM | Quinn Li, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Elucidating Enzyme Catalytic Power and Protein-Ligand Dynamics | Mentor: Dr. Ashley Spies |
| June 11 | 2117 MERF | 10:00 AM | Emily Malcolm, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Regulation of plasma tryclycerides by ANGPTL4 and GPIHBP1 | Mentor: Dr. Brandon Davies |
| July 12 | 2117 MERF | 1:00 PM | Wesley Lay, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Optimizing computer simulation models for carbohydrates and proteins at the atomistic and coarse-grained level | Mentor: Dr. Adrian Elcock |
| July 13 | 2117 MERF | 11:30 AM | Arpit Sharma, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Loss of the Skeletal Muscle Mitrochondrial Pyruvate Carrier Drives Cori Cycling and Whole-body Leanness | Mentor: Dr. Eric Taylor |
| Sept. 6 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Chun Han, Cornell University | Recognition of degenerating neurons and new CRISPR tools in Drosophila | Dr. Lori Wallrath |
| Sept. 13 (Henry Bull Lecture) | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Dale Wigley, Imperial College London | Structure and mechanism of INO80 and SWR1 chromatin remodeling complexes | Dr. Maria Spies |
| Oct. 4 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Raluca Gordan, Duke University | Transcription factor binding at damaged DNA sites and its potential role in mutagenesis | Dr. Miles Pufall |
| Oct. 11 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Arthur Cooper, New York Medical College | ω-Amidase: An Underappreciated, but Important Enzyme in L-Glutamine and L-Asparagine Metabolism Relevance to Sulfur and Nitrogen Metabolism, Tumor Biology and Hyperammonemic Disease | Dr. Eric Taylor |
| Oct. 25 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Melanie Samuels, Baylor College of Medicine | Genetic Modulators of neuronal resilience | Dr. Sheila Baker |
| Nov. 8 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Jerrold Turner, Harvard University | Stemming the tide: Mechanisms and impact of mucosal barrier regulation | Dr. Ernesto Fuentes |
| Nov. 29 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. A. Joshua Wand, University of Pennsylvania | The dark energy of proteins comes to light: Entropy in molecular recognition by proteins | Dr. Ernesto Fuentes |
| Dec. 10 | 2117 MERF | 1:00 PM | Lalita Oonthonpan, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Two Human Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier Mutations Reveal Distinct Mechanisms of Molecular Pathogenesis | Mentor: Dr. Eric Taylor |
| Dec. 14 | 2117 MERF | 1:00 PM | Sean Tompkins, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Mitochondrial Pyruvate Transport Regulates a Glutamine Switch Controlling Hepatocellular Tumorigenesis | Mentor: Dr. Eric Taylor |