BMB Department Seminars Fall 2025
Wednesdays at 4 p.m. in 120 Ackert Hall
Coffee and Cookies available at 3:45 p.m. in Chalmers 168
| Date | Speaker | Title & Abstract (pdf) | |
| August 27 | Jeffrey Comer, Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University | Sequence optimization of peptides that fold and self-assemble at water–solid interfaces | |
| September 3 | Justin Randall, Science and Engineering, University of Missouri - Kansas City | High-throughput approaches for antimicrobial peptide discovery and optimization | |
| September 10 | Morgan Milton, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, East Carolina University | ||
| September 17 | Meng Wang, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | ADVANCE Distinguished Lecture Series Metabolic signals in longevity regulation across scales | |
| September 24 | Buddho Chakrabarti, Physics, Kansas State University | Applied soft matter physics: From phase separation to chromatin and beyond | |
| October 1 | Canceled: Arash Bashirullah, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin | ||
| October 8 | Amanda Brinkworth, Pathobiology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nebraska Medical Center | Adapting a 3D-organotypic human skin model to model the tick-pathogen-skin interface | |
| October 15 | Postponed until Spring 2026: Travis Bourret, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University | ||
| October 22 | Kathrin Schrick, Biology, Kansas State University | Transcriptional regulators of elongation growth and glucosinolate biosynthesis in the plant epidermis | |
| October 29 | Zachary Berndsen, Biochemistry, University of Missouri | The Lipoprotein Structural Landscape: Insights from Humans and Insects | |
| November 5 | Stephanie Gates, Biochemistry, University of Missouri | VCP/p97 Regulation by Cofactor Interactions and Conformational Switching | |
| November 12 | Joanna Slusky, Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas | ||
| November 19 | Raghu Chivukula, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School | ||
| November 26 | No seminar | ||
| December 3 | Lihua Wang, Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University | Vaccine and porcine-derived neutralizing monoclonal antibody development against swine fever | |
| December 10 | Randal Halfmann, Stowers Institute |