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: Platelet-CD8⁺ T Cell Interactions in Thromboinflammation

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

Ajay Israni presents: Biochemical Basis of Microbial Xenobiotic Processing

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

Sanja Sever presents: Mission ImPossible: Transforming Dynamin Paradigm

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

Tao Wu, PhD presents - “Uncover the Driving Forces underpinning Cellular Plasticity Unlocking”

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

Michelle Ward, PhD presents: Understanding cardiovascular disease susceptibility using human pluripotent stem cell models

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

L. David Sibley, PhD presents: "Cryo-EM and functional analyses of a novel microtubule organizing center in Toxoplasma"

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: "Therapeutic Targeting of Membrane Protein Misfolding in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Peripheral Neuropathy"

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

Lukasz Jaremko, PhD presents: Beyond static models: structural ensembles and hidden conformational states in mechanistic biology

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

BMB Seminars

TBA - September 4, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

Ismail Khater, PhD presents: TBA

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

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

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

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

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

Li (Amily) Guo MD PhD presents: Platelet-CD8⁺ T Cell Interactions in Thromboinflammation

TBA - January 22, 2026

Ajay Israni presents: Biochemical Basis of Microbial Xenobiotic Processing

Sanja Sever presents: Mission ImPossible: Transforming Dynamin Paradigm

Tao Wu, PhD presents - “Uncover the Driving Forces underpinning Cellular Plasticity Unlocking”

Michelle Ward, PhD presents: Understanding cardiovascular disease susceptibility using human pluripotent stem cell models

L. David Sibley, PhD presents: "Cryo-EM and functional analyses of a novel microtubule organizing center in Toxoplasma"

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

Charles Sanders, PhD presents: "Therapeutic Targeting of Membrane Protein Misfolding in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Peripheral Neuropathy"

Michael Feig, PhD presents: TBA

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

Dillon Nye, PhD presents: TBA

Smita Patel presents: TBA

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

Johannes Walter, PhD presents: TBA

Eric Wagner, PhD presents: Integrator: Enforcing the Transcriptional Pause–Elongation Checkpoint

Sushmita Roy, PhD presents: TBA

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

Lukasz Jaremko, PhD presents: Beyond static models: structural ensembles and hidden conformational states in mechanistic biology

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