Seminars 2024-2025

BMB Seminars take place most Thursdays in the Basic Sciences Auditorium 2.212 at 4pm.

Please note: NO Seminar on Oct. 3, Nov. 28, Dec. 26, and March 20.
New events and details are added often, check back for the latest list of seminars.

Exploring the Omics Ocean: Turning Data Tides into Scientific Discoveries

September 12, 2024 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by George Golovko, PhD. Assistant Professor, UTMB

Kelly T. Hughes, PhD presents "The effect of tRNA structure and codon context on translation efficiency and fidelity"

September 19, 2024 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Kelly T. Hughes, PhD. Professor, University of Utah

Kathleen H. Burns, MD, PhD presents "A Retrotransposon in Cancer: The Marker and the Mutator"

September 26, 2024 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Kathleen H. Burns, MD, PhD

Grzegorz Ira, PhD presents "Unexpected links between mitochondria and nuclear genome stability"

October 10, 2024 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Grzegorz Ira, PhD. Professor, Baylor College of Medicine

Z. Leonard Liu, PhD presents "Clotting at the Extreme: Multiscale Computation Drives Novel Understanding of Heart Attacks and Strokes"

October 17, 2024 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Z. Leonard Liu, PhD.

Yann Robert Chemla, PhD presents "Single-molecule measurements of switch-like regulation in DNA processing machines"

October 24, 2024 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Speaker: Yann Robert Chemla, PhD

Lukasz Jaremko, PhD presents "Harnessing Dynamics and Small Organic Molecules with NMR and cryo-EM to Innovate Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery"

October 31, 2024 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Lukasz Jaremko, PhD

Janice Endsley, PhD presents "C-type Lectin Receptors in the Immune-metabolic Response to Infections"

November 7, 2024 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Janice Endsley, PhD

Junmin Peng, PhD presents "Human Disease Research: The Power of High-Throughput Proteomics"

November 14, 2024 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Junmin Peng, PhD

Marc-Jan Gubbels, PhD presents "Machinery and machination of Toxoplasma gondii cell division"

November 21, 2024 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Marc-Jan Gubbels, PhD

Igor Jouline, PhD presents "PAS and Cache: homologous small molecule binding sensors conserved from bacteria to humans"

December 12, 2024 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Igor Jouline, PhD, Professor of Microbiology at The Ohio State University.

Adam Rosenthal, PhD presents "Early lessons from single cell RNA seq of bacterial pathogens"

January 9, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Adam Rosenthal, PhD Assistant Professor University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Laura Knoll, PhD presents (TBD)

January 23, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Laura Knoll, PhD. Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Brian Beliveau, PhD presents "Technologies for investigating chromatin structure in situ"

January 30, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Brian Beliveau, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genome Sciences from University of Washington

Venigalla B. Rao, PhD presents "Bacteriophage T4: an extraordinary model for deep learning of biological mechanisms and designing of future biomedicines"

February 6, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Venigalla B. Rao, PhD, Professor, The Catholic University of American, Washington, D.C.

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Seminar Contacts

Chair

Dr. Guy Nir
Phone: (409) 772-3575
Email: niguy@utmb.edu

Coordinator

Colleen C. Casey
Phone: (409) 772-8071
Email: cccasey@utmb.edu

BMB Seminars