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.
|
| 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. |
| December 14, 2023 "Next Generation single-molecular studies of DNA processing molecular machines" | Dr. Yann Chemla University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Petr Leiman, Ph.D. |
| January 4, 2024 | TBD | TBD |
| January 11, 2024 | Dr. Xiaoyong Bao The University of Texas Medical Branch | Krishna Rajarathnam, Ph.D. |
| January 18, 2024 | Dr. Yasuhiro Sawada | Mike Sheetz, Ph.D. |
| January 25, 2024 | Dr. Alison Coady The University of Texas Medical Branch | Krishna Rajarathnam, Ph.D. |
| February 1, 2024 | Dr. Jon Kurie MD Anderson | William Russell, Ph.D. |
| February 8, 2024 | TBD | TBD |
| February 15, 2024 | Dr. Eric Joyce University of Pennsylvania | Guy Nir, Ph.D. |
| February 22, 2024 | Dr. Jeffrey Rogers Baylor College of Medicine | Michelle Ward, Ph.D. |
| February 29, 2024 | Dr. Mehmet Sen University of Houston | Yunfeng Chen, Ph.D. |
| March 7, 2024 | Dr. Darren Cusanovich University of Arizona | Michelle Ward, Ph.D. |
| March 14, 2024 | Dr. Venigalla B. Rao The Catholic University of America | Petr Leiman, Ph.D. |
| March 21, 2024 | Dr. Cheng Zhu Georgia Tech | Yunfeng Chen, Ph.D. |
| March 28, 2024 | Dr. Christophe Herman Baylor College of Medicine | Stuti Desai, Ph.D. |
| April 4, 2024 | Dr. Greg Ira Baylor College of Medicine | Maga Rowicka, Ph.D. |
| April 11, 2024 | Dr. Babak Faryabi University of Pennsylvania | Guy Nir, Ph.D. |
| April 18, 2024 | Dr. Ting Wang Washington University School of Medicine | John Hurley |
| April 25, 2024 | TBD | TBD |
| May 2, 2024 | Dr. Olivia Steele-Mortimer Rocky Mountain Labs | Linda Kenney, Ph.D. |
| May 9, 2024 | TBD | TBD |
| May 16, 2024 | Dr. Golnaz Vahedi University of Pennsylvania | Guy Nir, Ph.D. |
| May 23, 2024 | TBD | TBD |
| May 30, 2024 | TBD | TBD |