Academic Year

TBA - September 4, 2025

September 4, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Stand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Joseph Wenke, PhD presents: "Persisting Clinical Challenges that Require New Solutions"

September 18, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

De Witt Sumners, PhD presents: Randon Knotting in Biology and Chemistry

September 25, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Zucai Suo, PhD presents: DNA base excision repair in nucleus and mitochondria

October 9, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Sumitabha Brahmachari, PhD - Presents: Principles of Genome Architecture and Regulation

October 16, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Speaker: Sumitabha Brahmachari , PhD - Postdoctoral Associate - Rice University Host: Erez Lieberman Aiden, PhD

Craig Cameron, PhD presents: Complexities of the Enterovirus Lifecycle Revealed by Analysis of Single Cells and Cell Pairs

October 30, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Ismail Khater, PhD presents: TBA

November 6, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Speaker: Ismail Khater, PhD Harvard Medical School Hosts: Guy Nir, PhD - Erez Lieberman Aiden, PhD

Sina Ghaemmaghami, PhD presents: "Global Analysis of Protein Folding Stabilities"

November 13, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Yunfeng Chen, PhD presents: "A prototypical mechanotherapeutic agent targets platelet catch bond to suppress shear-driven thrombogenesis"

November 20, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Wah Chiu, PhD presents "Cryogenic electron imaging of macromolecules, cells, and tissues"

December 4, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Silvia Jansen, PhD presents "Actin remodeling mechanisms in congenital childhood diseases"

December 11, 2025 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Catherine Schein presents "Interactions between allergens and the immune system, identifying key IgE epitopes in peanut allergens."

January 8, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Li (Amily) Guo MD PhD presents: TBA

January 15, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

TBA - January 22, 2026

January 22, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

TBA - January 29, 2026

January 29, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Sanja Sever presents: TBA

February 5, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Guy Nir, PhD presents - Unraveling the topology of entire chromosomes with locus-specificity and nanometric accuracy

February 12, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Michelle Ward, PhD presents: TBA

February 19, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

L. David Sibley, PhD presents: TBA

February 26, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Cynthia Reinhart-King, Ph.D. presents "Mechanometabolism of cancer cell migration"

March 5, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Charles Sanders, PhD presents: TBA

March 12, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Michael Feig, PhD presents: TBA

March 26, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Kevin N. Dalby, PhD presents: Targeting the Regulation of Translational Elongation: Mechanistic Insights into eEF2K

April 2, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Dillon Nye, PhD presents: TBA

April 9, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Principal Investigator RNA Biology New England Biolabs

Smita Patel presents: TBA

April 16, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

TBA - April 23, 2026

April 23, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Johannes Walter, PhD presents: TBA

April 30, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

TBA - May 7, 2026

May 7, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Sushmita Roy, PhD presents: TBA

May 14, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

Ido Golding, PhD presents: Bacteriophage Dormancy: Emerging Principles & Open Questions

May 21, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

TBA - May 28, 2026

May 28, 2026 - 4pm-5pm Libbie Moody Thompson Basic Science Building - 1005 Strand Street, Galveston, TX 77555 USA

BMB Seminars