All presentations are held in McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 423, Tuesdays from 1:00 – 2:00 PM.
| Date | Speaker | Presentation | Faculty Host |
| January 23, 2024 | David Shechner, PhD Assistant Professor of Pharmacology University of Washington | How does RNA compartmentalize and functionalize the human genome? | Sergej Djuranovic |
| January 30, 2024 | Saif Hasan, PhD* Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology University of Maryland School of Medicine | The tale of a tail: Structural basis of secretory hijacking by the SARS-CoV-2 spike in infection and vaccination | Colin Nichols |
| February 6, 2024 | Sebastian Kadener, PhD Professor Biology Department Brandeis University | Molecular and Physiological Functions of circRNAs | Chun-Kan Chen |
| February 13, 2024 | Naomi Dirckx, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Orthopedic Surgery Washington University School of Medicine | Differential effects of the PTH-responsive citrate transporter SLC13A5 during growth and aging | Silvia Jansen |
| February 20, 2024 | Michael Emanuele, PhD Professor Department of Pharmacology University of North Carolina School of Medicine | Ubiquitin signaling in normal and cancer cell cycles | Ben Major |
| February 26, 2024 (Monday) | Yaser Hashem, PhD* Group Leader Inserm Universite de Strasbourg | Snapshots from species-specific aspects of eukaryotic mRNA translation and their involvement in diseases | Sergej Djuranovic |
| March 5, 2024 | CANCELLED | ||
| March 12, 2024 | CANCELLED | ||
| March 19, 2024 | Marko Jovanovic, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences Columbia University | How RBP interactions drive post-transcriptional gene expression regulation | Sergej Djuranovic |
| March 26, 2024 | CANCELLED | ||
| April 2, 2024 | Grace Chen, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Immunobiology Yale University | Circular RNA Immunity | Chun-Kan Chen |
| April 9, 2024 | Robert P. Mecham Distinguished Lectureship 3:00 | FLTC – Connor Auditorium Richard O. Hynes, PhD Daniel K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research Professor of Biology Member, Ludwig Center at MIT Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | The matrix is everywhere and affects most of metazoan life | |
| April 16, 2024 | Dion Dickman, PhD Associate Professor Department of Neurobiology University of Souther California | Input-specific Mechanisms Controlling Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity | Ghazal Ashrafi |
| April 23, 2024 | Chi Min (Mimi) Ho, PhD Assistant Professor Microbiology & Immunology Columbia University | TBD | Slavica Pavlovic-Djuranovic |
| April 30, 2024 | Rachel Arey, PhD Assistant Professor Molecular and Cellular Biology Baylor College of Medicine | TBD | Amber Stratman |
| May 7, 2024 | Travis Stracker, PhD NIH, National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research | TBD | Zhongsheng You |