| Date | Location | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Feb. 7 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Anthony Kowalczyk, Emory Univeristy | Cadherins as Modulators of Tissue Architecture in Development and Disease | Dr. Kris DeMali |
| Feb. 14 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Alain Nicolas, Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, Paris, France | Role of G-quadruplexes in genome instability and sequence evolution | Dr. Maria Spies |
| Feb. 28 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Jacob Litman, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Advanced optimization and sampling techniques for biomolecules using a polarizable force field | Mentor: Dr. Michael Schnieders |
| Mar. 11 | 2117 MERF | 9:00 AM | Tyler Weaver, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Regulation of polycomb repressive complexes by histone reader domains | Mentor: Dr. Catherine Musselman |
| Mar. 14 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Natasha Snider, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | Proteostasis of intermediate filaments: Disease models, tools and mechanisms | Dr. Lori Wallrath |
| Apr. 11 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Andrei Karginov, University of Illinois at Chicago | Sythetic Biology Approaches for Interrogation of Cell Signaling | Dr. Kris DeMali |
| Apr. 18 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Daniel Starr, University of California Davis | Moving nuclei through constructed spaces; how the nuclear envelope interacts with the cytoskeleton | Dr. Lori Wallrath |
| Apr. 23 | 2117 MERF | 1:00 PM | Lata Symposium | 15th Annual Gene F. Lata Biochemistry Undergraduate Honors Symposium | Department of Biochemistry |
| Apr. 25 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Erika Matunis, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | Stem cell dynamics in the Drosophila testis niche | Dr. Pamela Geyer |
| May 14 | 2189 MERF | 12:30 PM | Dr. Thomas Magin, Universitat Leipzig | Intermediate filament proteins as integrators of tissue organization and metabolism | Dr. Lori Wallrath |
| June 18 | 2117 MERF | 9:00 AM | Hannah Campbell, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Mechanisms of E-cadherin force transmission | Mentor: Dr. Kris DeMali |
| Sept. 12 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Vadim Gaponenko, University of Illinois at Chicago | Biased Antagonism of G-protein Coupled Receptors | Dr. Maria Spies |
| Sept. 26 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Erika Geisbrecht, Kansas State University | Through thick and thin: the path towards muscle proteostasis | Dr. Lori Wallrath |
| Oct. 3 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Robin Dowell, University of Colorado Boulder | Unlocking transcription factor activity from nascent transcription | Dr. Miles Pufall |
| Oct. 24 | 2189 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Jeffrey Hayes, University of Rochester | Histone H1- A nexus for chromatin regulation | Biochemistry Graduate Students |
| Nov. 6 | 2189 MERF | 12:00 PM | Julio Sanchez, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Characterization of the DNA binding activity of the BRG1-AT-hook-bromodomain | Mentor: Dr. Catherine Musselman |
| Nov. 7 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Megan King, Yale University | Mechanotransduction through the LINC complex: From integrins to the nuclear lamina | Dr. Lori Wallrath |
| Nov. 14 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Sandra K. Weller, University of Connecticut | New insights into the mechanism of Herpes Simplex Virus DNA replication: Role of viral nuclease and a DNA binding protein that promotes annealing | Dr. Maria Spies |
| Nov. 21 | 2117 MERF | 10:30 AM | Dr. Jill Dowen, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | DNA loop structures important for gene expression and cellular identity | Dr. Pamela Geyer |
| Dec. 12 | 1117 MERF | 1:00 PM | Melissa Gildenberg, MSTP, Thesis Defense Seminar | The structure and function of fork remodeling helicase Rad5 | Mentor: Dr. Todd Washington |