| Date | Visitor | Title of Seminar | Host |
| 02/04/2021 | Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos, Professor of Genome Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington | "Programming the Human Genome" | Biochemistry Graduate Students |
| 02/18/2021 | Dr. Kun-Liang Guan, Distinguished Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Moores Cancer Center at UCSD | "The Hippo pathway in cell growth, organ size control, and cancer" | Biochemistry Graduate Students |
| 02/25/2021 | Dr. Cheryl Stucky, Professor; Director of Neuroscience Doctoral Program, Medical College of Wisconsin | "Skin Matters: Keratinocytes Contribute to Touch, Thermal Sensation and Pain" | Dr. Sheila Baker |
| 03/25/2021 | Dr. Sonja Schmid, Chair, Biophysics, Wageninegin University, Netherlands | "Protein Dynamics Across Timescales" | Dr. Maria Spies |
| 04/08/2021 | Dr. Xiaolan Zhao, Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | "Regulating two branches the DNA damage response" | Dr. Maria Spies |
| 04/15/2021 | Dr. Kyle Roux, Scientist, Stanford Research | "Nuclear Rupture, repair and beyond" | Dr. Lori Wallrath |
| 04/22/2021 | Dr. Seychelle Vos, Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT | "Pause & Go: Structurally elucidating mammalian RNA polymerase II regulation" | Dr. David Price |
| 05/26/2021 | Colleen Caldwell, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student, Thesis Defense Seminar | RPA DNA-binding domain dynamics: A target for homologous recombination regulation | Mentor: Dr. Maria Spies |
| 07/06/2021 | Alicia Salvi, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student, Thesis Defense Seminar | "Mechanisms of Force Transmission" | Mentor: Dr. Kris DeMali |
| 7/07/2021 | Diamond Jelani, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate Student, Thesis Defense Seminar | "Chemical regulation of two-component systems: a study of the regulation of Staphylococcus aureus two-component systems, SrrAB and ArlRS, through the effects of small molecules" |
Mentor: Dr. Ernesto Fuentes |
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07/08/2021 |
Robert McDonnell, Biochemistry Thesis Defense Seminar, University of Iowa | "Modeling RNAs: From Small Molecules to Bacterial Polysomes" | Mentor: Dr. Adrian Elcock |
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09/16/2021 |
Dr. Michael Trakselis, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University | Dr. Maria Spies and Dr. Todd Washington | |
| 09/21/2021 | Dr. Alissa Armstrong, Assistant Professor, Department of BIological Sciences, University of South Carolina | "Nutritional control of Drosophila oogenesis mediated by fat-to-ovary communication" | Dr. Lori Wallrath and Dr. Tina Tootle |
| 10/14/2021 | Liyang Zhang, Intigrated DNA Technologies, Coralville, IA | "Engineered genome editing enzymes with enhanced activities" | Dr. Ernesto Fuentes |
| 10/21/2021 | Dr. John Cooper, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Washington | "Regulation of Actin Capping Protein at Membranes" | Drs. Kris DeMali and Dr. Pete Rubenstein |
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10/22/2001 |
Colton Lankford, Molecular Medicine Graduate Student, Thesis Defense at 1:00pm | "Function and regulation of the photoreceptor hyperpolarization-gated channel HCN1" | Mentor: Sheila Baker |
| 11/04/2021 | Dr. Claudio Punzo, Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School | "Role of Photoreceptor metabolism in retinal diseases" | Dr. Sheila Baker |
| 11/11/2021 | Dr. Wendy Gordon, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota | "Decoding mechanotransduction mechanisms of cell surface receptors" | Dr. Kris DeMali |
| 11/16/2021 | Fletcher Bain, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student, Thesis Defense Seminar | "Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase 1 G-quadruplex DNA Binding and AutoPARylation is Dependent on DNA Sequence and Secondary Structure" | Mentor: Maria Spies |
| 11/18/2021 | Dr. Borden Lacy, Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University | "Structures and functions of the Clostridioides difficile toxins" | Dr. Ernesto Fuentes |
| 11/19/2021 | Kelli Davie, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student, Thesis Defense Seminar | "The Regulation of Endothelial Lipase and Lipoprotein Lipase by ANGPTL3 and ANGPTL8" | Mentor: Brandon Davies |
