Date/Title of TalkThursdays 4 PM Basic Science Auditorium 2.212
| Speaker | Host |
September 14, 2023 "Drugging Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance"
| Dr. Susan Rosenberg Baylor College of Medicine | Linda Kenney, Ph.D. |
September 21, 2023 "Investigating targetable vulnerabilities of human tumors with complex genomic rearrangements" | Dr. Kadir Akdemir MD Anderson
| Guy Nir, Ph.D.
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October 12, 2023 "Dare to hide: Different facets of immunity in the host-pathogen arms race" | Dr. Naeha Subramanian University of Washington | Linda Kenney, Ph.D. |
October 19, 2023 **VIRTUAL** “New High-Throughput Technologies to Understand the Molecular
Basis of Membrane Penetration within the Rule of 5 and Beyond” | Dr. Juan Hu University of California, Irvine | Bernard Pettitt, Ph.D. |
October 26, 2023 “Pediatric Cryptosporidiosis: Engineering tissue-specific stability to
develop a GI targeted parasiticidal agent”
| Dr. Manjunatha Ujjini Dr. Joseph Young Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR) | Xuping Xie, Ph.D. |
November 9, 2023 “Development of countermeasures against highly pathogenic viruses” | Dr. Junki Maruyama The University of Texas Medical Branch | Krishna Rajarathnam, Ph.D. |
November 16, 2023 "The Shape of DNA" | Dr. Erez Lieberman Aiden Baylor College of Medicine | Guy Nir, Ph.D. |
November 30, 2023 "Regenerative Therapies to Accelerate Wound Healing and Reduce Hypertrophic Scarring" | Dr. Amina El Ayadi The University of Texas Medical Branch | Krishna Rajarathnam, Ph.D. |
December 7, 2023 "Phosphoinositides orchestrate integrin trafficking and Cdc42 activity in the podosome" | Dr. Cheng-Han Yu Hong Kong University | Mike Sheetz, Ph.D. |
January 18, 2024 "Brain-Targeted Mechanical Acceleration via Oscillating Head Motion Lowers Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Rats and Humans" | Dr. Yasuhiro Sawada National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities | Mike Sheetz, Ph.D. |
January 25, 2024 "Fungal-Bacterial Interaction in the Urinary Tract" | Dr. Alison Coady The University of Texas Medical Branch | Krishna Rajarathnam, Ph.D. |
February 1, 2024 "Small Molecule Allosteric Agonists of Integrin CD11b as Novel Therapeutics for Autoimmune Diseases" | Dr. Vineet Gupta The University of Texas Medical Branch | Krishna Rajarathnam, Ph.D. |
February 8, 2024 "Norovirus uses Metabolites and Structural Flexibility to Avoid the Immune System" | Dr. Thomas Smith The University of Texas Medical Branch | Guy Nir, Ph.D. |
February 15, 2024 "From Tangled Mess to Ordered Structure: Unraveling the Mechanisms of 3D Genome Organization" | Dr. Eric Joyce University of Pennsylvania | Guy Nir, Ph.D. |
February 22, 2024 "Genetic Diversity in Nonhuman Primates: Insights into Primate Evolution and Biomedical Applications" | Dr. Jeffrey Rogers Baylor College of Medicine | Michelle Ward, Ph.D. |
February 29, 2024 "Metal Mastery of Integrins" | Dr. Mehmet Sen University of Houston | Yunfeng Chen, Ph.D. |
March 7, 2024 "Dynamic Gene Regulation in Development and Disease: Using Single-Cell (and Multi-Cell) Genomics to Search for "Crouching Tigers" in the Human Genome" | Dr. Darren Cusanovich University of Arizona | Michelle Ward, Ph.D. |
March 14, 2024 | TBD | TBD |
March 21, 2024 "Catch Bonds and their Biological Relevance" | Dr. Cheng Zhu Georgia Tech | Yunfeng Chen, Ph.D. |
March 28, 2024- CANCELED |
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April 4, 2024 "Wave Front Shaping for Single Molecule Microscopy - Why and How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Microscope" | Dr. Yoav Shechtman American Technion Society | Guy Nir, Ph.D. |
April 11, 2024 | Dr. Babak Faryabi University of Pennsylvania | Guy Nir, Ph.D. |
April 18, 2024 "Transcription Errors Drive Phenotypic Variability from E. coli to SARS-CoV-2" | Dr. Christophe Herman Baylor College of Medicine | Stuti Desai, Ph.D. |
April 25, 2024 | Dr. Ting Wang Washington University School of Medicine | John Hurley Faith Cox |
May 2, 2024 | Dr. Olivia Steele-Mortimer Rocky Mountain Labs | Linda Kenney, Ph.D. |
May 9, 2024 | Dr. Jon Kurie MD Anderson | William Russell, Ph.D.
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May 16, 2024 | Dr. Golnaz Vahedi University of Pennsylvania | Guy Nir, Ph.D. |
May 23, 2024 | Dr. Heidi Kaplan UTHealth | Faith Cox John Hurley |
May 30, 2024 | Dr. Greg Ira Baylor College of Medicine
| Maga Rowicka, Ph.D. |