Academic Year

Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer Driver Genes

September 5, 2019 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Wei Li, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

Role of cell to cell communication in NeuroHIV and Cancer

September 12, 2019 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Eliseo Eugenin. PhD, UTMB

Outsmarting Outbreaks – Using Genomics to Track Viruses

September 19, 2019 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Kristian Andersen, PhD, The Scripps Research Institute

Discovery and Development of Remdesivir, a Broad-spectrum Small Molecule Antiviral

September 26, 2019 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Tomas Cihlar, PhD, Gilead Sciences

RNA toxicity induces post-translational dysregulation in myotonic dystrophy

October 4, 2019 - 12am-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Guey-Shin Wang, PhD, Institute of Biomedical Science, Taipei, Taiwan

Engineered phage tail-like bacteriocins for human therapeutics

October 10, 2019 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Dean Scholl, PhD, AvidBiotics

Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase enzymes: structure, regulation, and inhibition

November 7, 2019 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by John Pascal, PhD, U. de Montreal

Defective RNA virus genomes: passive interference or programmed enhancement?

November 14, 2019 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Andrew Routh, PhD, UTMB

Negative Regulation of Paused RNA Polymerase II: The value of a pair of scissors

November 21, 2019 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Eric Wagner, PhD, UTMB

Circadian regulation of cardiac remodeling

December 5, 2019 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Lilei Zhang, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

Bacterial Methylomes

December 12, 2019 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Rich Roberts, PhD, New England Biolabs Adrian R. Krainer, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

How do flaviviruses find their own RNA genome for viral replication?

January 16, 2020 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Kay Choi, PhD, UTMB

Mechanisms that influence splicing decisions

January 23, 2020 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Manny Ares, PhD, UC Santa Cruz

Genomic dissection of metastatic breast cancer tumors

January 30, 2020 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Jeffrey Chang, PhD, UT Health Science Center Houston

Dynamin function: Looking under and away from the lamp-post

February 13, 2020 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Sandra Schmid, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Tissue Specific Interferon Regulation and Effects on Influenza Virus Pathogenesis

February 20, 2020 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Nicholas S. Heaton, PhD, Duke University Medical Center

Using supercoiling, sequence, and curvature to create nanoparticle DNAs for gene therapy

February 27, 2020 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Lynn Zechiedrich, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

Studying SNARE - mediated membrane fusion at the single vesicle level

March 2, 2020 - 3pm-4pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Jiajie Diao, PhD, University of Cincinnati

The core scaffolding of nucleotide excision repair machinery: From molecular mechanism to personalized medicine

March 5, 2020 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Walter J Chazin, PhD, Vanderbilt University

Both cellular and flaviviral specific factors determine the mode of induction and characteristics of stress granules

March 12, 2020 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Margo Brinton, PhD, Georgia State University

Mechanisms controlling Brucella intracellular parasitism

March 19, 2020 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

by Paul de Figueiredo, PhD, Texas A&M

BMB Seminars