October Events

Structural Biology Interest Group

Thursday, October 1, 2020, 9:00am to 10:00am

The Structural Biology Interest Group meetings are biweekly at 9:00am. Currently the group meets via Zoom.  The faculty director of the group is Dr. Todd Washington.  To join the mailing list or request the Zoom link, please contact Sonya Housholder in the CCOM Office of Research.  The October 1 meeting has been canceled.   

Microbiology and Immunology Zoom Seminar: Dr. Jack Stapleton, MD

Tuesday, October 6, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for more information. Positive strand RNA virus T cell receptor interference: Do mechanisms alter T cell fate? Jack Stapleton, MD Professor of Internal Medicine - Infectious Diseases Professor of Microbiology and Immunology University of Iowa  

Microbiology and Immunology Zoom Seminar: Dr. Sean Whelan, PhD

Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for more information. A vesicular stomatitis virus vectored vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 Sean Whelan, PhD Marvin A. Brennecke Distinguished Professor and Chair, Molecular Microbiology Washington University, St. Louis  

Structural Biology Interest Group

Thursday, October 15, 2020, 9:00am to 10:00am

The Structural Biology Interest Group meetings are biweekly at 9:00am. Currently the group meets via Zoom.  The faculty director of the group is Dr. Todd Washington.  To join the mailing list or request the Zoom link, please contact Sonya Housholder in the CCOM Office of Research.  "Lesion removal by NEIL DNA glycosylases from G-quadruplexes is dictated by sequence and position context" by Elizabeth Lotsof, Graduate Student, Dr. Sheila David lab, University of California Davis  

Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture - Vamsi Mootha, MD

Thursday, October 15, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Dr. Vamsi Mootha will present a lecture "Hypoxia as a Therapy for Mitochondrial Disease" on October 15 at 4:00pm via Zoom. Dr. Mootha is a Professor of Systems Biology at the Harvard Medical School, Professor of Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Please contact Sonya Housholder for the Zoom passcode....

Microbiology and Immunology Zoom Seminar: Dr. Michael Johnson, PhD

Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for more information. Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Copper II Michael Johnson, PhD Faculty, Department of Immunobiology University of Arizona  

Structural Biology Interest Group

Thursday, October 29, 2020, 9:00am to 10:00am

The Structural Biology Interest Group meetings are biweekly at 9:00am. Currently the group meets via Zoom.  The faculty director of the group is Dr. Todd Washington.  To join the mailing list or request the Zoom link, please contact Sonya Housholder in the CCOM Office of Research.  "Structural basis of nucleosome-dependent cGAS inhibition" by Joshua Boyer, Research Associate, Dr. Qi Zhang lab University of North Carollina, Chapel Hill