Seminars of Academic Year 2024-2025
Spring 2025:
Title: Resolving structure and function in the lipid regulation of receptor tyrosine kinases
CMCP Seminar Series
Speaker: Adam Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Texas Tech University
Host: Ilya Levental, Ph.D.
Dates: Monday, March 10, 2025 - Monday, March 10, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Title: Cholesterol as a Mediator of Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s Disease
CMCP Seminar Series
Speaker: Heather Ferris, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism
University of Virginia
Host: Lukas Tamm, Ph.D.
Dates: Monday, March 17, 2025 - Monday, March 17, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Title: Pannexin isoforms in cancer regulation
Speaker: Silvia Penuela, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Associate Chair of Research,
Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology
University of Western Ontario
Host: Brant Isakson, Ph.D.
Dates: Monday, March 31, 2025 - Monday, March 31, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Ivy Translational Building, 2nd Floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive, Fontaine Research Park
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Title: TBA
CMCP Seminar Series
Speaker: Arun Radhakrishnan
Hosts: Drs. Ilya Levental and Lukas Tamm
Dates: Monday, April 7, 2025 - Monday, April 7, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Title: TBA
Speaker: Gira Bhabha
Hosts: Dr. Jochen Zimmer
Dates: Monday, April 28, 2025 - Monday, April 28, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Title: TBA
Speaker: Lina Cui
Hosts: Dr. Huiwang Ai
Dates: Monday, May 5, 2025 - Monday, May 5, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Title: TBA
Speaker: Jie Yan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Virginia
Host: Dr. Ling Qi
Dates: Monday, June 2, 2025 - Monday, June 2, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Fall 2024:
Title: Protein oligomerization dynamics balance responsiveness and spatial memory in a cell polarity network
CMCP Seminar Series
Speaker: Nathan Goehring
(LMCB) Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology
University College London
Senior Group Leader at The Francis Crick Institute
Host: Dr. Stefanie Redemann
Dates: Thursday, September 12, 2024 - Thursday, September 12, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Sheridan G. Snyder Translational, 480 Ray C. Hunt Drive, Room 314, Fontaine Research Park
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Title: Proteostasis maintenance of GABAA receptors in health and disease
Speaker: Tingwei Mu, PhD
Associate Professor,
Department of Physiology Biophysics
Case Western Reserve University
Host: Dr. Ling Qi
Dates: Monday, September 16, 2024 - Monday, September 16, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Title: Understanding cardiovascular disease susceptibility using human pluripotent stem cell models
Speaker: Michelle Ward
Assistant Professor
CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Host: Dr. Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez
Dates: Monday, September 23, 2024 - Monday, September 23, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Title: TBA
Speaker: Kai (Jack) Zhang
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Yale School of Medicine
Host: Huan Bao
Dates: Monday, September 30, 2024 - Monday, September 30, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Title: Cyclic GMP–AMP receptors in antiviral immunity
Speaker: Uday Tak
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology (MIC)
The University of Virginia School of Medicine
Host: Dr. Ling Qi
Dates: Monday, October 14, 2024 - Monday, October 14, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Title: Cellular LEGO: Building cell division and cell signaling apparatus from the protein building blocks
CMCP Seminar Series
Speaker: Radhika Subramanian
Associate Professor Harvard Medical School
Department of Molecular Biology
Harvard Medical School
Hosts: Dr. Stefanie Redemann and Dr. Elias Spiliotis
Dates: Monday, October 21, 2024 - Monday, October 21, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Title: Investigating Lipid Posttranslational Modifications in Cardiac Development and Disease
Speaker: Whitney Edwards
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host: Dr. Anne Kenworthy
Dates: Monday, November 4, 2024 - Monday, November 4, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Title: Prestin Conformational Dynamics and the Molecular Basis of the Cochlear Amplifier
CMCP Seminar Series
Speaker: Eduardo Perozo
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
Institute for Biophysical Dynamics; Pritzker Fellow
The University of Chicago
Host: Dr. Seham Ebrahim
Dates: Monday, November 11, 2024 - Monday, November 11, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Title: Ribosome stalling and angiogenin function in ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases
Speaker: Andrei Korostelev
Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute
UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
Host: Dr. Ahmad Jomaa
Dates: Monday, November 18, 2024 - Monday, November 18, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Title: Spatial control of membrane traffic by microtubule-associated septins
CMCP Seminar Series
Speaker: Elias Spiliotis
Professor
Department of Cell Biology
University of Virginia
Host: Anne Kenworthy
Dates: Monday, December 2, 2024 - Monday, December 2, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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Title: TBA
Speaker: Mike Bressan
Host: Dr. Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez
Dates: Monday, December 9, 2024 - Monday, December 9, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor, 560 Ray C. Hunt Drive Ivy Translational Building
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