BMB Department Seminars Fall 2024

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

September 4

Siva Sankari
Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Host peptides modulate Bacterial Metabolism

September 11

Amy Kiger
Cell and Developmental Biology
University of California, San Diego

Getting into shape: phosphoinositide roles in muscle cell remodeling

September 18

Anna Zinovyeva
Biology
Kansas State University

Modelling neurodevelopmental disorders-associated Argonaute mutations in C. elegans ALG-1 reveals variant-specific changes in miRNA populations, functional impairment, and target gene disruption

September 25

Sanford Bernstein
Biology
San Diego State University

Mechanistic Insights into Myosin-Based Muscle Diseases

October 2

Michael Smanski
Biochemistry Molecular Biology and Biophysics
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

New branches on the tree of life: Engineered speciation and its applications in pest control and crop biotechnology

October 9 - Canceled

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

October 16

Sourav Roy
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Kansas State University

Proteins in motion: Understanding the role of dynamics in the function of borrelial immune evasion and regulatory proteins

October 23

Hans Martin Dalton
Molecular Biosciences
University of Kansas

Drug repurposing screens for novel therapeutics and biology in essential genetic pathways

October 30

Jared May
Science and Engineering
University of Missouri - Kansas City

Using plant viruses to understand how biomolecular condensates shape virus-host interactions

November 6

Vanessa Ante
Biology
Kansas State University

The Borrelia burgdorferi cAMP pathway: cyaB regulates virulence

November 13

Berhane Ghebrehiwet
Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology
Stony Brook University

GC1qR is a Novel Therapeutic Target for Cancer

November 20

Davood B. Pourkargar
Chemical Engineering
Kansas State University

Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Characterization, Predictive Modeling, and Optimization of Agrifood and Biomedical Systems

November 27 - Thanksgiving Break

No Seminar

December 4

Longhua Guo
Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Universtiy of Michigan

Aging and Rejuvenation in extremely long-lived planarians