Fall/Spring, 26-27 | Department of Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar Series
CB&P Conference Room – McDonnell Science Building, 4th Floor, Room 423
* All seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm (CST), unless indicated otherwise.
| Date | Speaker’s Name | Affiliation | Seminar Title |
| September 15, 2026 | Mary Elting, PhD | Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, North Carolina State University | “Matching cytoskeletal form to function: how self-assembled architectures in tiny yeast and giant ciliates achieve divergent mechanical roles” |
September 22, 2026 | Jin-Moo Lee, MD, PhD | Andrew B. & Gretchen P. Jones Professor of Neurology, Professor or Radiology, Head of the Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine | |
| September 29, 2026 | Candice Paulsen, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale School Of Medicine | “It’s complicated: mapping the calcium regulation mechanism of a critical pain sensor” |
| October 6, 2026 | Lijuan Feng, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Immunology and Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine | |
| October 13, 2026 | Chang Jiang, PhD | Moffitt Cancer Center | |
October 20, 2026 | Steven Tang, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale School of Medicine | |
| October 27, 2026 | John Salogiannis, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, University of Vermont | |
November 3, 2026 | Alex Francette, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher and RISE Fellow, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine | |
November 10, 2026 | Stanislav Zakharenko, MD, PhD | Director, Division Neural Circuits and Behavior, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital | |
| November 17, 2026 *Moore Auditorium 3PM* | Erlanger-Gasser Lecture Tobias Walther, PhD | Chair of the Cell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | |
| November 24, 2026 | NO SEMINAR – Thanksgiving Week | ||
December 1, 2026 | Christopher Counter, PhD | George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology, Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Assistant Professor in Radiation Oncology, Professor of Cell Biology, Member of the Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University School of Medicine | “ |
December 8, 2026 | Nan Zhang, PHD | Assistant Professor, Molecular Ocogenesis Program, Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center, The Wistar Institute | |
December 15, 2026 | Frederick Arnold, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine | |
| December 22, 2026 | NO SEMINAR– Christmas Week | ||
| December 29, 2026 | NO SEMINAR– New Year Week | ||
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| March 2, 2027 | Mecham Lecture | ||
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| April 27, 2026 |