BMB Department Seminars Spring 2025

Wednesdays at 4 p.m. in 120 Ackert Hall

Coffee and Cookies available at 3:45 p.m. in Chalmers 168

Speaker

Title/PDF Abstract

January 29 Canceled

Dawn Cornelison
Molecular Biology and Immunology
University of Missouri

Eph:ephrin signaling in myogenesis: The good, the bad and the repulsive

February 5

Dana Nayduch
Research Entomologist
USDA-Agricultural Research Station

Leveraging the filthy biology of house flies to monitor and mitigate microbial threats to animal and human health

February 12 Canceled

Travis Bourret
Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Creighton University

DksA is a redox-sensitive, global gene regulatory protein required for infectivity of the Lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi

February 19

Daniel J. Kliebenstein
Plant Sciences
University of California, Davis

Ecological, Selective and Genomic Forces Shaping Enzyme and Defense Metabolite Evolution Across the Brassicales

February 26

Debra Silver
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke Medical School

Building our brains: Lessons from the RNA world

March 5

Meng Wang
Genetics and Developmental Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Janelia Research Campus

March 12

Hua Bai
Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Iowa State University

March 19 Spring Break

No Seminar

March 26

Ann Chiao
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

April 2-3 Hageman Lecture

Daniel Herschlag
Biochemistry
Stanford University

April 9

Ruben Martinez Barricarte
Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Vanderbilt University

April 16

Vincenzo Venditti
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Iowa State Universtiy

April 23

Pankaj Baral
Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology
Kansas State University

April 30

Scott Leiser
Molecular and Integrative Physiology
University of Michigan

May 7

Julio Cesar Hernandez Pavon
Psychological Sciences
Kansas State University

May 14

Wolf Zueckert
Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology
University of Kansas Medical Center