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.

DateSpeaker’s NameAffiliationSeminar Title
September 15, 2026Mary Elting, PhDAssociate 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, PhDAndrew 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, PhDAssistant 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, PhDAssistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Immunology and Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine
October
13, 2026
Chang Jiang, PhDMoffitt 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, PhDAssistant 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
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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, PhDGeorge 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, PHDAssistant Professor, Molecular Ocogenesis Program, Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center, The Wistar Institute

December 15, 2026
Frederick Arnold, PhDAssistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine
December
22, 2026

NO SEMINAR
Christmas Week
December
29, 2026

NO SEMINAR
New Year Week
January
5, 2027

January
12, 2027
January
19, 2027
January
26, 2027
February
2, 2027
February
9, 2027
February
16, 2027
February
23, 2027
March
2, 2027
Mecham Lecture
March
9, 2027
March
16, 2027
March
23, 2027
March
30, 2027
April
6, 2027
April
13, 2027
April
20, 2027
April
27, 2026