Seminars Archives
Seminar Archives
04/16/18: Toward Optimal Insulin Action and Performance for People with Diabetes
Danny Hung-Chieh Chou, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah Host: Dr. Huiwang Ai Date: Monday, April 16, 2018 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Location: Pinn Hall, A.P. Somlyo Conference…02/02/18: Near-Infrared Molecular Probes for In Vivo Imaging and Photothermal Therapy
Bradley D. Smith, Ph. D. Emil T. Hofman Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Director, Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility Host: Dr. Huiwang Ai Dates: Friday, February 2, 2018 - Friday, February 2, 2018…Toward Optimal Insulin Action and Performance for People with Diabetes
Archive Spring 2018 Danny Hung-Chieh Chou, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah Host: Dr. Huiwang AiNear-Infrared Molecular Probes for In Vivo Imaging and Photothermal Therapy
Archive Spring 2018 Bradley D. Smith, Ph. D. Emil T. Hofman Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Director, Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility Host: Dr. Huiwang Ai04/29/19: Bacterial outer membrane protein Ail and its interactions with the human host
Francesca M. Marassi, PhD Cell Death and Survival Networks Research Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Institute Host: Anne Kenworthy Dates: Monday, April 29, 2019 - Monday, April 29, 2019 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM…04/08/19: Eavesdropping on tumors with engineered exosome biochips
Yong Zeng, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Chemistry, KU Bioengineering Graduate Program, and KU Cancer Center. University of Kansas Host: Dr. Huiwang Ai Dr. Zeng currently is an Associate Professor…03/07/19: Catch me if you can – Macromolecular complexes shaping adaptive immunity
Dr. Robert Tampé ERC Investigator Life Sciences Institute of Biochemistry, Biocenter, Goethe University Frankfurt Research Center CRC 807 – Membrane Transport and Communication Host: Dr. Lukas Tamm Identifying and eliminating infected…01/21/19: Stochastic Assembly of Calcium Signaling Units in Muscle
Dr. Luis Fernando Santana, Professor, UC Davis. Host: Dr. Swapnil Sonkusare Dr. Luis Fernando Santana from UC Davis. Fernando is the Chair of Physiology at UC Davis, and has been…11/26/18: Eavesdropping on Tumors with Engineered Exosome Biochips
Yong Zeng, PhD, Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas Host: Dr. Huiwang Ai Dr. Zeng currently is an Associate Professor at the University of Kansas in the Department of Chemistry,…Bacterial outer membrane protein Ail and its interactions with the human host
Archive Spring 2019 Francesca M. Marassi, PhD Cell Death and Survival Networks Research Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Institute Host: Anne KenworthyCatch me if you can – Macromolecular complexes shaping adaptive immunity
Archive Spring 2019 Dr. Robert Tampé ERC Investigator Life Sciences Institute of Biochemistry, Biocenter, Goethe University Frankfurt Research Center CRC 807 – Membrane Transport and Communication Host: Dr. Lukas Tamm Identifying…CMCP Research In Progress Series: Imaging Calcium Signals in the Adrenal Rosette
Research In Progress Spring 2019 Presenters: Dr. Paula Barrett Lab: Barrett Lab Research-in-progress seminars. Research-in-progress seminars will be held on the second and fourth Thursday of every month at 4 PM…05/04/20: Designing, and evolving, genetically encoded biosensors to visualize cell physiology
Cancelled due to Covid-19, To be rescheduled. Speaker: Dr. Robert Campbell Professor of Science, Chemistry University of Alberta, Canada and University of Tokyo, Japan Host: Dr. Huiwang Ai Abstract: The Campbell…01/23/20: Visualizing biomolecular interactions at single-molecule and single-cell levels
Speaker: Dr. Ruobo Zhou HHMI Postoctoral Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University Host: Dr. Anne Kenworthy Date: Thursday, January 23, 2020 Time: 4:00…01/20/20: Deciphering spatiotemporal regulation of cell signaling with high resolution imaging
Speaker: Dr. Erik Welf Instructor Departments of Cell Biology and Bioinformatics UT Southwestern Medical Center Host: Dr. Anne Kenworthy Date: Monday, January 20, 2020 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Location: Pinn Hall,…01/16/20: Brain Control and Readout at Biologically Relevant Resolutions.
Speaker: Dr. Or Shemesh Postdoctoral Fellow Synthetic Neurobiology, MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology Host: Dr. Anne Kenworthy Date: Thursday, January 16, 2020 Time: 4:00…01/09/20: Lateral and Transverse Asymmetries in Mammalian Membranes
Speaker: Dr. Ilya Levental Associate Professor of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Host: Dr. Anne Kenworthy Date: Thursday, January…12/12/19: “Microtubule Networks and Organization of the Cytoplasm”
Speaker: Dr. Irina Kaverina Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Vanderbilt University Host: Dr. Anne Kenworthy Date: Thursday, December 12, 2019 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Location: Pinn Hall, 3016 Cell Bio…12/5/19: A dynamic single molecule view of genome activation during early embryonic development
Speaker: Dr. Mustafa Mir Postdoctoral ResearcherDepartment of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of California, Berkeley Host: Dr. Anne Kenworthy Date: Thursday, December 5, 2019 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Location: Snyder 31410/24/19: Molecular Engineering for Live Cell Imaging and Reprogramming toward Cancer Immunotherapy
Speaker: Dr. Peter Yingxiao Wang Professor of BioengineeringDepartment of BioengineeringInstitute of Engineering in MedicineUniversity of California, San Diego Host: Dr. Huiwang Ai Date: Monday, October 14, 2019 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00…Title: Substrate or Inhibitor: P-glycoprotein’s Complex Mechanism of Allosteric Modulation
Spring 2020 Speaker: Dr. Hassane Mchaourab Chair, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Professor, Department of Physics Professor, Department Chemistry Professor, Center for Structural Biology at Vanderbilt University Host: Dr.…Title: Deciphering spatiotemporal regulation of cell signaling with high resolution imaging
Archive Spring 2020 Speaker: Dr. Erik Welf Instructor Departments of Cell Biology and Bioinformatics UT Southwestern Medical Center Host: Dr. Anne KenworthyTitle: Visualizing biomolecular interactions at single-molecule and single-cell levels
Archive Spring 2020 Speaker: Dr. Ruobo Zhou HHMI Postoctoral Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University Host: Dr. Anne KenworthyTitle: Brain Control and Readout at Biologically Relevant Resolutions.
Archive Spring 2020 Speaker: Dr. Or Shemesh Postdoctoral Fellow Synthetic Neurobiology, MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology Host: Dr. Anne KenworthyTitle: Lateral and Transverse Asymmetries in Mammalian Membranes
Archive Spring 2020 Speaker: Dr. Ilya Levental Associate Professor of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Host: Dr. Anne…Title: Designing, and evolving, genetically encoded biosensors to visualize cell physiology
Archive Spring 2020 Cancelled due to Covid-19, To be rescheduled. Speaker: Dr. Robert Campbell Professor of Science, Chemistry University of Alberta, Canada and University of Tokyo, Japan Host: Dr.…Title: “Microtubule Networks and Organization of the Cytoplasm”
Archive Fall 2019 Spring 2020 Speaker: Dr. Irina Kaverina Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Vanderbilt University Host: Dr. Anne KenworthyA dynamic single molecule view of genome activation during early embryonic development
Archive Fall 2019 Spring 2020 Speaker: Dr. Mustafa Mir Postdoctoral ResearcherDepartment of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of California, Berkeley Host: Dr. Anne KenworthyMolecular Engineering for Live Cell Imaging and Reprogramming toward Cancer Immunotherapy
Archive Fall 2019 Speaker: Dr. Peter Yingxiao Wang Professor of BioengineeringDepartment of BioengineeringInstitute of Engineering in MedicineUniversity of California, San Diego Host: Dr. Huiwang Ai5/24/21: The First Protein Crystallography PhDs: Dorothy Hodgkin And Max Perutz
A special seminar organized by the Graduate Students of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, hosted by the Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology seminar series. Speaker: Georgina Ferry, Writer, Publisher, Podcast and…4/26/21: Towards common solutions to uncommon (rare) diseases
Speaker: Dr. Henry Colecraft John C. Dalton Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, and Professor of Pharmacology,Molecular Physiology of Voltage-Dependent Calcium Channels Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University…4/12/21: Towards a mechanistic understanding of cilia biology with CLEM and Cryo-EM
Speaker: Dr. Gaia Pigino Research Group Leader Max Planck Institute Host: Dr. Anne Kenworthy Date: Monday, April 12, 2021 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Location: Zoom3/8/21: Mechanisms of microtubule nucleation and organization studied by in vitro reconstitutions.
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Surrey Group Leader, Surrey Lab Cell and Developmental Biology, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain Hosts: Dr. Todd Stukenberg and Dr. Stefanie Redemann Date: Monday, March 8, 2021…2/8/21: ABC Transporters in Nutrient Uptake and Pathogenesis
Speaker: Heather W Pinkett, PhD Irving M. Klotz Research Professor , Associate Professor Department of Molecular Biosciences Northwestern University Host: Dr. Linda Columbus Date: Monday, February 8, 2021 Time: 4:00 PM -…2/1/21: Visualization of HIV membrane fusion inhibition by Serinc5 at multiple length scales
PhD Thesis Defense Amanda Ward Date: Monday, February 1, 2021 Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Location: ZoomThe First Protein Crystallography PhDs: Dorothy Hodgkin And Max Perutz
Archive Spring 2021 A special seminar organized by the Graduate Students of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, hosted by the Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology seminar series. Speaker: Georgina…Title: Visualization of HIV membrane fusion inhibition by Serinc5 at multiple length scales
Archive Spring 2021 PhD Thesis Defense Amanda WardTitle: Towards a mechanistic understanding of cilia biology with CLEM and Cryo-EM
Archive Spring 2021 Speaker: Dr. Gaia Pigino Research Group Leader Max Planck Institute Host: Dr. Anne KenworthyTitle: Mechanisms of microtubule nucleation and organization studied by in vitro reconstitutions.
Archive Spring 2021 Speaker: Dr. Thomas Surrey Group Leader, Surrey Lab Cell and Developmental Biology, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain Hosts: Dr. Todd Stukenberg and Dr. Stefanie Redemann5/9/22: Imaging subcellular dynamics from molecules to multicellular organisms
Speaker: Tomas Kirchhausen, Ph.D. Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital Professor of Cell Biology, Springer Family Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Host: Lukas Tamm,…12/13/21: Disordered protein networks as physical drivers of membrane remodeling and traffic
Speaker: Jeanne Stachowiak, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Banks McLaurin Faculty Fellow Department of Biomedical Engineering Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology The University of Texas at Austin Host: Anne Kenworthy, Ph.D.…11/8/21: Coupling lipid synthesis to ER and nuclear envelope dynamics
Speaker: Shirin Bahmanyar, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Yale University, New Haven, CT Host: Stephanie Redemann, Ph.D. Date: Monday, November 8, 2021 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM…Title: Imaging subcellular dynamics from molecules to multicellular organisms
Archive Spring 2022 Speaker: Tomas Kirchhausen, Ph.D. Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital Professor of Cell Biology, Springer Family Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School…Title: Cryo-EM studies of dynamic complexes required for bacterial pathogenesis
Archive Speaker: Melanie Ohi, Ph.D. Rowena G Matthews Collegiate Professor Research Associate Professor, Life Sciences Institute Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute Host: Anne Kenworthy, Ph.D.Title: Disordered protein networks as physical drivers of membrane remodeling and traffic
Archive Fall 2021 Speaker: Jeanne Stachowiak, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Banks McLaurin Faculty Fellow Department of Biomedical Engineering Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology The University of Texas at Austin Host:…Coupling lipid synthesis to ER and nuclear envelope dynamics
Archive Fall 2021 Speaker: Shirin Bahmanyar, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Yale University, New Haven, CT Host: Stephanie Redemann, Ph.D.10/24/22: Anderson Lecture: Fantastic Single Molecule Technologies and Where to Find Them
Anderson Lecture: Fantastic Single Molecule Technologies and Where to Find Them Speaker: Dr. Takjip Ha, Bloomberg Professor of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Host: Dr. Lukas Tamm, Chair,…4/10/23: The Hierarchical Organization in Immune-Pathogen Interactions
Speaker: Yan Yu, Ph.D. Associate Professor Chemistry Department Indiana University Host: Anne Kenworthy, Ph.D. Date: Monday, April 10, 2023 Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Location: Snyder 3145/8/23: Structural basis for glycosphingolipid sorting and sensing of microbial danger
Wayne Lencer, MD Longwood Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Division Chief Gastroenterology, Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital Host: Anne Kenworthy, Ph.D. and James Casanova, Ph.D. Date: Monday, May 8, 2023…5/18/23: Computational design of membrane receptors: from protein motions to CAR T cell therapies
Speaker: Patrick Barth, Ph.D. Associate Professor at EPFL, Adjunct Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Host: Anne Kenworthy, Ph.D. Date: Thursday, May 18, 2023 Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00…6/2/23: Live Cell Imaging of Early Metabolic Changes in FUS ALS Motoneurons
Speaker: Vitaly Zimyanin, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Redemann Lab, Center for Membrane & Cell Physiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine Host: Lukas Tamm, Ph.D. Dates: Friday, June 2, 2023 - Friday, June 2,…9/11/23: Dynamic Imaging of Live Prostate Cancer Cells: FLIRR Microscopy
Speaker: Dr. Ammasi Periasamy, Ph.D. Director and founder of WM Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, Professor of Biology & Biomedical Engineering Host: Dr. Anne Kenworthy Refreshments will be served at…Title: Live Cell Imaging of Early Metabolic Changes in FUS ALS Motoneurons
Archive Spring 2023 Speaker: Vitaly Zimyanin, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Redemann Lab, Center for Membrane & Cell Physiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine Host: Lukas Tamm, Ph.D.Title: Computational design of membrane receptors: from protein motions to CAR T cell therapies
Archive Spring 2023 Speaker: Patrick Barth, Ph.D. Associate Professor at EPFL, Adjunct Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Host: Anne Kenworthy, Ph.D.Title: The Hierarchical Organization in Immune-Pathogen Interactions
Archive Spring 2023 Speaker: Yan Yu, Ph.D. Associate Professor Chemistry Department Indiana University Host: Anne Kenworthy, Ph.D.Title: Structural basis for glycosphingolipid sorting and sensing of microbial danger
Archive Spring 2023 Wayne Lencer, MD Longwood Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Division Chief Gastroenterology, Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital Host: Anne Kenworthy, Ph.D. and James Casanova, Ph.D.Anderson Lecture: Fantastic Single Molecule Technologies and Where to Find Them
Archive Fall 2022 Speaker: Dr. Takjip Ha, Bloomberg Professor of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Host: Dr. Lukas Tamm, Chair, Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, and Director of…Title: Redox signaling in the regulation of macrophage inflammatory responses.
Archive Spring 2024 Speaker: Moran Benhar, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Host: Dr. Huiwang AiTitle: GlycoSwitch: a novel signaling circuit to control endocytosis
Archive Spring 2024 Speaker: Ludger Johannes, Ph.D. Director, Cellular and Chemical Biology, Institut Curie Host: Dr. Anne Kenworthy Please note that this event is on a Thursday and the time…Title: Tales from the deep: How pressure adapted lipidomes maintain critical membrane functions
Archive Spring 2024 Speaker: Ed Lyman, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Delaware Host: Dr. Ilya LeventalTitle: Prestin Conformational Dynamics and the Molecular Basis of the Cochlear Amplifier
Archive Spring 2024 Speaker: Eduardo Perozo, Ph.D. Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago Host: Dr. Seham EbrahimTitle: Structural Insights into the Activation and Gating of IP3 Receptors through Cryo-EM
Archive Spring 2024 Speaker: Erkan Karakas, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, Vanderbilt School of Medicine Host: Dr. Anne KenworthyTitle: Visualizing cellular force-sensing through the actin cytoskeleton
Archive Spring 2024 Speaker: Greg Alushin, Ph.D. Associate Professor The Rockefeller University Host: Dr. Seham EbrahimTitle: The trafficking and storage of lipids in biology and disease
Archive Spring 2024 Speaker: Hongyuan (Robert) Yang, Ph.D. Professor Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston Host: Dr. Ling QiTitle: Molecular insights from in situ cryo-ET studies of eukaryotic chromatin
Archive Fall 2023 Speaker: Lu Gan, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biological Sciences Centre for BioImaging Sciences National University of Singapore Host: Jochen Zimmer, Ph.D.Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize-winning biologist to visit UVa
Archive Spring 2024 This opportunity is being organized by the Office of the V.P. for Research. Details TBATitle: Characterizing and exploiting allostery in G-protein coupled receptors
Archive Fall 2023 Speaker: Evan S. O'Brien Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology Stanford School of Medicine Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer Refreshments will be served at 11:30 a.m.…Title: Cell surface receptor: from ligand identification to drug development.
Archive Fall 2023 Speaker: Yi Miao, Ph.D. Basic Life Research Scientist Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer Refreshments will be served at 11:30 a.m.…Title: Phase Separation in Chromatin Organization and Transcription
Archive Fall 2023 Speaker: Pilong Li, Ph.D. Associate Professor of School of Life Sciences Tsinghua University Host: Dr. Ling Qi Refreshments to be served prior to the event.9/11/23: Dynamic Imaging of Live Prostate Cancer Cells: FLIRR Microscopy
Speaker: Dr. Ammasi Periasamy, Ph.D. Director and founder of WM Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, Professor of Biology & Biomedical Engineering Host: Dr. Anne Kenworthy Refreshments will be served at…Title: Dynamic Imaging of Live Prostate Cancer Cells: FLIRR Microscopy
Archive Fall 2023 Speaker: Dr. Ammasi Periasamy, Ph.D. Director and founder of WM Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, Professor of Biology & Biomedical Engineering Host: Dr. Anne Kenworthy Refreshments will…