| Date | Speaker, Department/Institution | Workshop Title |
| 1/28 |
Sarah Wernimont, Postdoctoral & Medical Fellow, Dr. Eric Taylor Lab Adam Rauckhorst, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr. Eric Taylor Lab |
Mitochondrial macronutrient flux and regulation of syncytiotrophoblast differentiation Hypoxic stress reveals intrinsic non-canonical metabolomic network structures |
| 2/4 | Dr. Jared McLendon, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Internal Medicine, Dr. Boudreau Lab | Post transcriptional gene regulation in cardiac biology |
| 2/11 |
Colen Lankford, Molecular Medicine Graduate Student, Dr. Sheila Baker Lab Shivangi Makarand Inamdar, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Dr. Sheila Baker Lab |
Phenotypic analysis of a mouse model for KCNV2 retinopathy Regulating HCN1 channels |
| 2/18 | Meng Wu, Adjunct Professor, Biochemistry | In vitro plate-based high throughput assays/screening |
| 2/25 | Dominique Limoli, Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology | War and Peace: Polymicrobial interactions during cystic fibrosis airway infection |
| 3/3 | Jeffrey White, Molecular Medicine Graduate Student, Dr. Ronald Weigel Lab | SUMO-responsive Transcriptional Repression from TFAP2A-Occupied Microsatellites |
| 3/10 | David Price, Professor, Biochemistry | A Unified View of the Sequence and Functional Organization of the Human RNA Polymerase II Promoter |
| 4/14 | Kathryn Spitler, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Dr. Brandon Davies Lab | ANGPTL4 from adipose, but not liver, is responsible for regulating plasma triglyceride partitioning |
| 4/21 |
Juan Santana, Research Associate, Dr. David Price Lab Benjamin Spector, Research Assistant, Dr. David Price Lab |
Selective temporal depletion of general transcription factors using CRISPR/Cas9 and the dTAG system DFF ChIP-Seq: exploring the interface of transcription and chromatin on human and cytomegalovirus genomes |
| 9/22 | Kathryn Hobbs, Graduate Student, Biochemistry, Dr. Ashley Spies Lab | Exploring mechanisms of caspase-7 allostery |
| 9/29 | Dr. Tingting Duan, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Dr. Pam Geyer Lab | Mitosis without nuclear breakdown in germline stem cells |
| 10/6 | Emily Lavering, Graduate Student, Biochemistry, Dr. Dan Weeks Lab | The Roles of Protein Aggregation in Ribosome Biogenesis |
| 10/13 | John Saxton, Storage Systems Administrator, University of Iowa, Host: Dr. Kris DeMali | Backing up Research Data |
| 10/27 | Chris Ball. Graduate Student, Biochemistry, Dr. David Price Lab | Control of host RNA polymerase II by a multifunctional viral transcription factor |
| 11/3 | Ryan Mahling, Thesis Defense Seminar, PhD Candidate, Dr. Madeline Shea Lab | Recognition of NaV1.2 by Calmodulin and Fibroblast Growth Factor Homologous Factors |
| 11/10 | Jade Miller, Biochemistry Undergraduate, Mentor: Dr. Maria Spies Jacob Lam, Biochemistry Undergraduate, Mentor: E. Dale Abel |
Undergraduate Honors Symposium |
| 11/17 |
Alicia Ortiz, Graduate Student, Biochemistry, Dr. Kris DeMali Lab Kelli Davie, Graduate Student, Biochemistry, Dr. Brandon Davies Lab |
Investigating Metabolic Changes in Response to Force on E-cadherin Lipase regulation by ANGPTL proteins |
| 11/18 | William Hacker, Thesis Defense Seminar, PhD Candidate, Dr. Adrian Elcock Lab | Computational modeling of the Escherichia coli chromosome and integrated simulations of bacterial transcription and translation |