| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Jan. 30 | Dr. Jeff Savas, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine | Impaired turnover of the synaptic vesicle machinery in amyloid beta proteoxocitity | Dr. Sheila Baker |
| Feb. 6 | Dr. Dana Carroll, University of Utah School of Medicine | Genome Editing: A view from the edge | Drs. Maria Spies and Miles Pufall (Co-sponsored with the Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture Series) |
| Feb. 13 | Dr. Daved Fremont, Washington University School of Medicine | Mechanisms of viral immune evasion | Dr. Ernie Fuentes |
| Feb. 27 | Dr. Christy Hagan, University of Kansas Medical Center | Progesterone-mediated immune evasion in breast cancer | Dr. Miles Pufall |
| Mar. 5 | Dr. Richard Maraia, Senior Investigator, NIH | La and the La-related protein-4; tRNA & mRNA metabolism, codon surveillance, and decay | Dr. David Price |
| Apr. 8 | Nitija Tiwari, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Regulatory mechanisms of the S. aureus SrrAB two-component system |
Mentor: Dr. Ernesto Fuentes |
| June 16 | Brittany Ripley, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar | Regulated recruitment of translesion synthesis polymerases through direct interactions with Rad6-18 | Mentor: Dr. Todd Washington |
| July 2 | Devin Reusch, Biochemistry, MS Thesis Defense Seminar | Time lapsed X-Ray Chrystallography of DNA Polymerase ι | Mentor: Dr. Todd Washington |
| Sept. 10 | Dr. Antonis Kourtidis, Medical University of South Carolina | Close encounters of the RNAi kind: the silencing life of the adherens junctions | Dr. Kris DeMali |
| Oct. 8 | Dr. Sandipan Chowdhury, University of Iowa | Understanding multi-state gating of ion channels: lessons from cryo-electron microscopy and thermodynamics | Dr. Madeline Shea |
| Nov. 5 | Panelists: Drs. Kris DeMali, Ernesto Fuentes, Madeline Shea, David Price, and Maria Spies | "How to Find a Good Post-Doctoral Fellowship" | |
| Nov. 12 | Panelists: Kelli Davie, Alicia Salvi, and Drs. Brandon Davies, Pam Geyer, and Todd Washington | "How to Write a Killer Fellowship Application" | |
| Nov. 19 | Panelists: Drs. Xiao Peng, Lacy Barton, Young Joo Sun, Elizabeth Boehm, and Liyang Zhang | "What to Expect From the First Year of a Post-Doctoral Fellowship/Scientific Job" |