Department of Molecular Biology

College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources

Departmental Seminars


The Molecular Biology Department鈥檚 seminar program is one of the very best on campus. We make a strong effort to bring in visiting scientists who can provide a entertaining, enlightening, and current research report on an important area of molecular biology. Shown below is a listing of the current semester鈥檚 seminar speakers.


PLEASE NOTE:  Fall Semester seminars will start at 2:10 pm. and are held in the Berry Center Auditorium - Room 138.

Molecular Biology Fall 2016 SEMINARS

Date
Speaker & Affiliation
Seminar Title
Host
9/02/2016
Don Jarvis
University of Wyoming
Introduction to MOLB Seminar
None
9/09/2016
Michael Ailion
University of Washington
From unmotivated worms to diabetic mice: how secretory cells make a unique organelle
David Fay
9/16/2016
Gerardo Vasta
University of Maryland
The sweet tooth of innate immunity: Lectins as self/non-self recognition proteins
Don Jarvis
9/23/2016
Dennis Brown
North Carolina State University
From Alpha Virus Assembly to Arbovirus Vaccines
Don Jarvis
9/30/2016
Aaron Straight
Stanford University
Mechanisms of Chromosome Segregation: Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Centromere Formation
Jay Gatlin
10/07/2016
Douglas Kominsky
Montana State University
Insights into Tissue Metabolism and Acute Inflammation
Peter Thorsness
10/14/2016
Sue Jaspersen
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Assembly of microtubule organizing centers
Dan Levy
10/21/2016
Paul Straight
Texas A&M University
Bacterial Fitness, Programs for Competitive Success
Dan Wall
10/28/2016
Bob Haltiwanger
University of Georgia
Regulation of the Notch Signaling Pathway by Glycosylation
Christopher Meadows
11/04/2016
Aimee Beaulieu
Rutgers University
Regulation of Lymphocyte Responses to Infection
Jason Gigley
11/11/2016
Erin Nishimura
Colorado State University
Single-cell transcriptome profiling and single-molecule transcript visualization in the early embryo
David Fay
11/18/2016
Emma Wilson
University of California-Riverside
Bugs on the brain: a niche of neuroimmunology
Jason Gigley
11/25/2016
None
Thanksgiving Holiday
None
12/02/2016
Anna Moroni
University of Milan
Engineering of a light-activated potassium channel protein for optogenetics
Mark Gomelsky
12/09/2016
Jesse Rinehart
Yale University
A general synthetic gateway to study the function of protein phosphorylation
Don Jarvis

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