Seminars 2025-2026

BMB Seminars take place most Thursdays in the Basic Sciences Auditorium 2.212 at 4pm.

Please note: NO Seminar on Nov. 27, Dec. 18, Dec. 25, Jan.1 and Mar. 19.
New events and details are added often, check back for the latest list of seminars.

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: 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

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

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

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

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

Past Events

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

Seminars by Academic Year

Seminar Contacts

Chair

Dr. Guy Nir
Phone: (409) 772-3575
Email: niguy@utmb.edu

Coordinator

Rex Roy

BMB Seminars