Fall, 2024 | 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 | Faculty Host |
September 10, 2024 | Malay Choudhury, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine | “Targeting the amino acid transporters for pulmonary fibrosis” | |
September 17, 2024 | Farners Amarganti I Riera, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Ob/Gyn, Washington University School of Medicine | “Regulation of Ovarian Follicle Development via Intra- and Intracellular Signaling Pathways” | |
| September 24, 2024* 3:00 PM Moore Auditorium | Thomas Schwarz, Ph.D (Erlanger-Gasser Lecture) | Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hohspital, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center | “Mitochondrial Dyamics for mRNA Transport and Neuronal Survival” | |
October 1, 2024 | Wei Yang, Ph.D. | NIH Distinguished Investigator, Mechanism of DNA Repair, Replication, and Recombination Section, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIH/NIDDK | “Dynamic Movement of proteins, nucleic acids and cations in DNA repair, replication and recombination (3R)” | Zhongsheng You |
October 8, 2024 | NO SEMINAR on 10/8 CBP|MCB Retreat October 10- 11, 2024 | |||
October 15, 2024 | Zhiyu Dai, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine | “Introducing Lung Vascular Biology: Insights into Pulmonary Vascular Disease Mechanisms” | |
October 22, 2024 | Jessica Silva-Fisher, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Divison of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine | “Exciting discoveries of long non-coding RNA protein interactions and RNA modifications in cancer” | |
October 29, 2024 | John Krais, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Divison of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine | “DNA break repair and Cancer” | |
November 5, 2024 | Rui Tang, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine | “Quantitative dissection of cancer- stroma interactions in lung cancer metastasis” | |
| November 12, 2024 | Emily Goldberg, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, UCSF | “A novel mechanism of protein acylation and its role in immune function” | Amber Stratman |
November 19, 2024 | Abby Green, M.D. | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Divisions of Hematology-Oncology and Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine | “Exploiting mutational processes in cancer for the therapeutic benefit” | |
November 26, 2024 | NO SEMINAR – Thanksgiving Week November 26, 2024 | |||
| December 3, 2024 | CANCELLED | |||
| December 10, 2024 | Adam Frost, M.D., Ph.D. | Principal Investigator, Altos Labs Bay Area Institute of Science | “Expect to be Surprised: the ESCRTs and Nuclear Envelope Homeostasis” | Dave Pagliarini |
| December 17, 2024 | Lan Yang Ph.D. | Edwin H. and Florence G. Skinner Professor, Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis | “Leveraging Whispering-Gallery-Mode Optical Resonators for Biomedical Applications: Ultrasensitive and Label-Free Detection of Nanoparticles and Cells” | David W. Piston |
| December 24, 2024 | NO SEMINAR– Christmas Week December 24th, 2024 | |||
| December 31, 2024 | NO SEMINAR– New Year Week December 31st, 2024 | |||
| January 7, 2025 | NO SEMINAR | |||
| January 14, 2025 | Maulik Patel Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School Of Medicine | “Beyond Meatbolism: Mitochondrial genetics and cell biology in the context of reproduction, development and whole organism physiology” | Dave Pagliarini |
| January 21, 2025 | Congcong He Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University | “Autophagic regulation of metabolic and neuronal health” | Zhongsheng You |
| January 28, 2025 | Catherine Royer Ph.D. | Chaired Constellation Professor in Biocomputation and Bioinformatics, Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Chemistry and Chemistry Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | “The molecular basis for the timing of the G1/S transition in budding yeast revealed by quantitative microscopy approaches” | David W. Piston |
| February 4, 2025 | Yury Polikanov Ph.D. | Professor, Biological Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago | “Two birds, one stone: Antibacterials that target the ribosome and DNA gyrase and evade multiple resistance mechanisms” | Sergej Djuranovic |
| February 11, 2025 | Tobiloba Oni Ph.D. | Fellow, Whitehead Institute, MIT | “Dissecting Cellular Interactions in Pancreatic Cancer” | Xueyan He |
| February 18, 2025 | NO SEMINAR | |||
| February 25, 2025 | Oleta T. Johnson, Ph.D. | William R and Daniel L. Young Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, MIT | “Pharmacologically Choreographing Proteins with Lessons from a Molecular Chaperone Protein” | Heather True |
| March 4, 2025 | Alexander Chubykin Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University | “Disrupted Theta Oscillations and Synaptic Connectivity in a Mouse Model of Fragile X Syndrome” | Vitaly Klyachko |
| March 11, 2025 | George M. Burslem Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania | “Chemical Approaches for Modulating Post-Translational Modifications “ | Amber Stratman |
| March 18, 2025 | Qiwei Wang Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Cancer Biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine | “Targeting the Intersections of Oncogenic, Immunogenic, and Metabolic Pathways to Advance Breast Cancer Treatment” | Xueyan He |
| March 25, 2025 | Ruth Scherz-Shouval Ph.D. | The Robert and Yadelle Sklare Professorial Chair in Biochemistry, Department of Biological Sciences, Weizmann Institute, Israel | “Tumor-stroma co-evolution” | Sheila Stewart |
| April 1, 2025 | Jose Saenz M.D., Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Washington University School of Medicine | “ADAR on the radar: insights into double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) signaling in gastric injury.” | David Kast |
| April 8, 2025 *3:00pm Moore Auditorium | Chenghua Gu Ph.D. (Mecham Distinguished Lecture) | Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard University, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | “Neuro-vascular interactions in the brain: from cell biology to physiology” | |
| April 15, 2025 | Moe R. Mahjoub Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology | “Seeing is believing: Discovery of a new organelle essential for multiciliogenesis” | |
| April 22, 2025 | Chao Ma Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Center for Immunotherapy & Precision Immuno-Oncology, Cleveland Clinic | “Engineering human in vitro models of physiology and diseases for precision medicine” | Xueyan He |
| April 29, 2025 | Lin He Ph.D. | Professor; Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley | “miRNAs in cilia development “ | Polina Lishko and Chun-Kan Chen |