BMB Departmental Seminar Series
2024-2025
September 5, 2024, 4-5:30pm, VEC 401
William Greenleaf, PhD, Professor
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Lab website:
https://greenleaf.stanford.edu/
Hosted by Rohit Roy (Al-Hashimi Lab)
September 26, 2024, 4-5:30pm, VEC 401
Chia-Hsueh Lee, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Structural Biology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Lab website:
https://www.stjude.org/research/labs/lee-lab-chia-hsueh.html
Hosted by Thomas Newton (Sobolevsky Lab)
October 10, 2024, 4-5:30pm, VEC 401
Kathleen Collins, PhD
Walter and Ruth Schubert Family Chair
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Lab website:
https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/kcollinslab
Hosted by Erhan Aslan (Landweber Lab)
October 17, 2024, 2-3:30pm, HHSC 301
Akanksha Thawani, PhD
Merck Postdoctoral Fellow
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
University of California, Berkeley
Lab website:
https://www.akankshathawani.com/
Hosted by Dr. Stavros Lomvardas
November 7, 2024, 4-5:30pm, VEC 401
Ronald Breaker, PhD
Chair, Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry
Yale School of Medicine
Lab website:
https://breaker.yale.edu/
Hosted by Stephen Tang (Sternberg Lab)
November 14, 2024, 4-5:30pm, VEC 401
Eric Freed, PhD, Senior Investigator
Intramural Research Program
National Institutes of Health
Lab website:
https://ccr.cancer.gov/staff-directory/eric-o-freed
Hosted by Dr. Steve Goff
December 12, 2024, 4-5:30pm, VEC 401
Edward Twomey, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Lab website:
https://twomey.med.jhmi.edu/
Hosted by Dr. Alexander Sobolevsky
December 19, 2024, 2-3:30pm, HHSC 301
Sofia Quinodoz, PhD, HHMI Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellow
Princeton University
Lab website:
https://cbe.princeton.edu/people/sofia-quinodoz
Hosted by Dr. Stavros Lomvardas
January 16, 2025, 10-11:30am, HHSC 301
Christopher Barnes, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology
Stanford University
Lab website:
https://www.thebarneslab.com/
Hosted by Caroline Velez (Honig Lab)
January 16, 2025, 4-5:30pm, VEC 201
Wolfgang Baumeister, PhD
Director, Department of Molecular Structural Biology
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Lab website:
https://www.biochem.mpg.de/baumeister
Hosted by Dr. Anthony Fitzpatrick
January 30, 2025, 4-5:30pm, VEC 401
R. Dyche Mullins, PhD
Professor of Cellular Molecular Pharmacology
University of California, San Francisco
Lab website:
https://mullinslab.ucsf.edu/
Hosted by T. Amber Butcher (Greene Lab)
February 13, 2025, 4-5:30pm, VEC 401
Agnel Sfeir, PhD
PaineWebber Chair of Cancer Genetics
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Lab website:
https://www.mskcc.org/research/ski/labs/agnel-sfeir
Hosted by Dr. Michal Levo
February 20, 2025, 4-5:30pm, HHSC 301
Robert Martienssen, PhD
William J. Matheson Professor & HHMI Investigator
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Lab website:
https://martienssenlab.labsites.cshl.edu/
Hosted by Margarita Angelova (Landweber Lab)
March 20, 2025, 4-5:30pm, HHSC 301
Paul Robustelli, PhD
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Dartmouth College
Lab website:
https://www.robustellilab.com/
Hosted by Drs. Hashim Al-Hashimi, Anthony Fitzpatrick, & Arthur Palmer
June 17, 2025, 11am-12pm, HHSC 301
Zihe Rao, PhD
Chair, Laboratory of Structural Biology
Tsinghua University
Lab website: https://www.med.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1142/1592.htm
Hosted by Dr. Wayne Hendrickson
June 20, 2025, 1:30-2:30pm, HHSC 301
Finn Werner, PhD
Professor of Molecular Biophysics
University College London
Lab website: https://rnaplab188459471.wordpress.com/
Hosted by Drs. Max Gottesman & Laura Landweber
June 25, 2025, 4-5pm, HHSC 301
Oliver Rando, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Biotechnology
UMass Chan Medical School
Lab website: https://www.umassmed.edu/randolab/
Hosted by Dr. Stavros Lomvardas
2023-2024
May 16, 2024, 4-5:30pm, HHSC 301
Dr. Karissa Sanbonmatsu, PhD, Principle Investigator
Theoretical Biology & Biophysics Group
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lab website:
https://www.lanl.gov/projects/karissa/
Hosted by Dr. Stavros Lomvardas
May 9, 2024, 4-5:30pm, VEC 201
Dr. Samuel Sternberg, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Columbia University
Lab website:
https://www.sternberglab.org/
Hosted by Dr. Stavros Lomvardas
April 18, 2024, 4-5:30pm, VEC 1402
Dr. Daniel Herschlag, PhD, Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Stanford University
Lab website:
https://herschlaglab.stanford.edu/
Hosted by Dr. Hashim Al-Hashimi
March 28, 2024, 4-5:30pm, VEC 401
Dr. Galia Debelouchina, PhD, Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
Lab website:
https://debelouchinalab.ucsd.edu/team.html
Hosted by Dr. Hashim Al-Hashimi
March 21, 2024, 4-5:30pm, VEC 201
Dr. Colin Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Wesleyan University
Lab website:
https://smithlab.research.wesleyan.edu/
Hosted by Dr. Anum Glasgow
March 7, 2024, 4-5:30pm, VEC 201
Dr. Andreas Schlundt, PhD, Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Goethe University
Lab website:
https://www.bio.uni-frankfurt.de/43970453/Abt__Schlundt
Hosted by Dr. Anna-Lena Steckelberg
February 29, 2024, 4-5:30pm, VEC 201
Dr. Thomas Schwartz, PhD, Professor
Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lab website:
https://www.schwartzlab.mit.edu/
Hosted by Dr. Steve Goff
February 8, 2024, 4-5:30pm, VEC 201
Dr. Martin Gruebele, PhD, Chair & Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois
Lab website:
https://gruebele-group.chemistry.illinois.edu/
Hosted by Malcolm Wells (Glasgow Lab)
January 18, 2024, 4-5:30pm, VEC 1402
Dr. Tobin Sosnick, PhD, Chair & Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
University of Chicago
Lab website:
https://sosnick.uchicago.edu/index.html
Hosted by Malcolm Wells (Glasgow Lab)
January 11, 2024, 4-5:30pm, Hammer 301
Dr. Phillip Zamore, PhD, Chair & Professor
RNA Therapeutics Institute
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Lab website:
https://www.zamorelab.umassmed.edu/
Hosted by Margarita Angelova (Landweber Lab)
November 30, 2023, 4-5:30pm, VP&S Amphitheatre 1
Dr. Raluca Gordan, PhD, Associate Professor
Duke University, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Division of Integrative Genomics
Lab website: https://gordanlab.cs.duke.edu/
Hosted by Vivek Raina (Greene Lab)
November 16, 2023, 4-5:30pm, HHSC 301
Dr. Zhipeng Lu, PhD, Assistant Professor
University of Southern California Mann, Department of Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Lab website: https://stasevichlab.colostate.edu/
Hosted by Dr. Chaolin Zhang
November 9, 2023, 4-5:30pm, HHSC 301
Dr. Timothy Stasevich, PhD, Professor
Colorado State University, Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Lab website: https://stasevichlab.colostate.edu/
Hosted by Dr. Anna-Lena Steckelberg
October 12, 2023, 4-5:30pm, VEC 201
Dr. Kevin Corbett, PhD, Professor
UC San Diego, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Molecular Biology
Lab website: http://www.corbettlab.org/
Hosted by Vivek Raina (Greene Lab)
October 5, 2023, 4-5pm, VEC 201
Dr. Jason Shepherd, PhD, Associate Professor
University of Utah, Departments of Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Ophthalmology, & Visual Sciences
Lab website: https://www.shepherdlab.org/
Hosted by Itai Toker (Hobert Lab)
September 14, 2023, 4-5pm, Virtual
Dr. Alice Ting, PhD, Professor
Stanford, School of Humanities and Sciences
Lab website: http://www.tinglab.org/
Hosted by Joan Pulupa (Lomvardas Lab)
August 14, 2023 @4pm - Hammer 312
Dr. Katharina Höfer, PhD
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
Lab website: https://www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/mprg/katharina-hoefer
Hosted by Dr. Anna-Lena Steckelberg
2022-2023
October 20, 2022 @4pm - Hammer 301
Dr. Joan Steitz, Professor
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale School of Medicine
Hosted by Dr. Anna-Lena Steckelberg
November 10, 2022 @4pm- Hammer 301
Dr. Elizabeth Gavis, Professor
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Hosted by Ross Munce (Mann Lab)
January 26, 2023- @4pm Hammer 301
Dr. Jeremy Wilusz, Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by Jeanine Gezelle (Steckelberg Lab)
February 14, 2023- JLG, 9th floor lecture hall
Dr. William Allen, PhD
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Hosted by Dr. Anthony Fitzpatrick
March 2, 2023 @4pm Hammer 301
Dr. Wei Lu, Associate Professor
Department of Structural Biology, Van Andel Institute
Hosted by Dr. Alexander Sobolevsky
March 16, 2023 @4pm Hammer 301
Dr. Angela Gronenborn, Professor
Department of Structural Biology
Hosted by Stephanie Gu (Al-Hashimi Lab)
April 6, 2023 @4pm Hammer 301
Dr. Lei Wang, Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical, University of California San Francisco
Hosted by Chaolin Zhang (Zhang Lab)
April 27, 2023 @4pm Hammer 301
Dr. Vince Hilser, Professor and Chair
Department of Biology, John Hopkins University
Hosted by Anum Glasgow
May 4, 2023 @4pm Hammer 301
Dr. Michael Summers, Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UMBC
Hosted By Dr. Anna-Lena Steckelberg
May 11, 2023 @4pm Hammer 301
Dr. Juan Alfonzo, Professor
Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University
Hosted by Jeanine Gezelle (Steckelberg Lab)
June 9, 2023 @4pm Hammer 5 Conference Room
Dr. Achillefs N. Kapanidis, Professor
Department of Biological Physics, University of Oxford
2021-2022
October 27 @4pm Via Zoom
Dr. Andreas Boland, Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva
Hosted by Dr. Anthony Fitzpatrick
February 17 @ 2:45pm- Hammer 301
Dr. Kristen Lynch, Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by Dr. Anna-Lena Steckelberg
March 10@ 2:45pm-Hammer 301
Dr. Simon Scheuring, Professor
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine
Hosted by Dr. Anthony Fitzpatrick
April 21 @2:45pm-Hammer 301
Dr. Katrin Karbstein, Professor
Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute
Hosted by Dr. Anna-Lena Steckelberg
May 5 @2:45pm- Hammer 301
Dr. Yuan He, Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University
Hosted by Dr. Eric Greene
May 19 @2:45pm- Hammer 301
Dr. Kevin Gardner, Professor
Biochemistry/ Structural Biology, City College of New York, CUNY
Hosted by Dr. Anum Glasgow
June 23 @2;45pm- Zukerman Institute (9th fl lecture theatre)
Dr. Michael Stowell, Professor
University of Colorado Boulder
Hosted by Dr. Anthony Fitzpatrick