Date
| Speaker | Title & Host |
September 5, 2019 | Wei Li, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine | "Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer Driver Genes" Eric Wagner |
September 12, 2019 | Eliseo Eugenin. PhD, UTMB | "Role of cell to cell communication in NeuroHIV and Cancer" Mark White |
September 19, 2019 | Kristian Andersen, PhD, The Scripps Research Institute | “Outsmarting Outbreaks – Using Genomics to Track Viruses” Andrew Routh |
September 26, 2019 | Tomas Cihlar, PhD, Gilead Sciences | “Discovery and Development of Remdesivir, a Broad-spectrum Small Molecule Antiviral” Pei-yong Shi |
FRIDAY October 4, 2019 | Guey-Shin Wang, PhD, Institute of Biomedical Science, Taipei, Taiwan | “RNA toxicity induces post-translational dysregulation in myotonic dystrophy” Muge Martinez |
October 10, 2019 | Dean Scholl, PhD, AvidBiotics | “Engineered phage tail-like bacteriocins for human therapeutics” Petr Leiman |
October 17, 2019 RESCHEDULED | Gideon Dreyfuss, PhD,HHMI, U. Penn | Eric Wagner |
October 24, 2019 | Michael Bressan, PhD, UNC | Muge Martinez |
October 31, 2019 | | |
November 7, 2019 | John Pascal, PhD, U. de Montreal | “Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase enzymes: structure, regulation, and inhibition” Whitney Yin & Zoe Hoffpauir |
November 14, 2019 | Andrew Routh, PhD, UTMB | “Defective RNA virus genomes: passive interference or programmed enhancement?” Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
November 21, 2019 | Eric Wagner, PhD, UTMB | "Negative Regulation of Paused RNA Polymerase II: The value of a pair of scissors" Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
November 28, 2019 | Thanksgiving – No seminar | |
December 5, 2019 | Lilei Zhang, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine | “Circadian regulation of cardiac remodeling” Yumei Ye |
December 9/10, 2019 December 12, 2019 | Rich Roberts, PhD, New England Biolabs Adrian R. Krainer, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | “Bacterial Methylomes” Mariano Garcia-Blanco Pioneering Biological Discovery Seminar |
December 19, 2019 | | |
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January 9, 2020 | Ken Dill, PhD, Stony brook | Monte Pettitt |
January 16, 2020 | Kay Choi, PhD, UTMB | "How do flaviviruses find their own RNA genome for viral replication?" Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
January 23, 2020 | Manny Ares, PhD, UC Santa Cruz | “Mechanisms that influence splicing decisions” Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
January 30, 2020 | Jeffrey Chang, PhD, UT Health Science Center Houston | "Genomic dissection of metastatic breast cancer tumors" Pei-yong Shi |
February 6, 2020 | | |
February 13, 2020 | Sandra Schmid, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center | “Dynamin function: Looking under and away from the lamp-post” Michael Sheetz |
February 20, 2020 | Nicholas S. Heaton, PhD, Duke University Medical Center | "Tissue Specific Interferon Regulation and Effects on Influenza Virus Pathogenesis" Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
February 27, 2020 | Lynn Zechiedrich, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine | “Using supercoiling, sequence, and curvature to create nanoparticle DNAs for gene therapy” Monte Pettitt |
March 2, 2020 3:00 PM MONDAY - Faculty Candidate | Jiajie Diao, PhD, University of Cincinnati | "Studying SNARE - mediated membrane fusion at the single vesicle level" Linda Kenney |
March 5, 2020 | Walter J Chazin, PhD, Vanderbilt University | “The core scaffolding of nucleotide excision repair machinery: From molecular mechanism to personalized medicine” Junji Iwahara |
March 12, 2020 | Margo Brinton, PhD, Georgia State University | "Both cellular and flaviviral specific factors determine the mode of induction and characteristics of stress granules" Pei-yong Shi |
March 19, 2020 | Paul de Figueiredo, PhD, Texas A&M | "Mechanisms controlling Brucella intracellular parasitism" Bill Russell |
TUESDAY March 24, 2020 | Christine Mayr, MD, PhD, Sloan Kettering Institute | Eric Wagner |
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July 2, 2020 | Ridvan Nepravishta, PhD, UTMB | “Numerous reconciliations before divorce: The dynamic interactions of transcription factors with DNA” Junji Iwahara |