Calendar

Title: Regulatory Roles of Unstructured Regions in RNA-binding Proteins
Area: Protein structure and folding

Speaker:  Dr. Javier Tabima Restrepo, Clark University
Format: Remote
Title: The intricacies of the genome of a small, gut associated fungus: Basidiobolus
Area: Microbiome

TBA

Speaker:  Dr. Annelise E. Barron, Stanford University
Format:  Remote
Title:  One ellipsoid to control them all — Peptoid anti-infectives that are antiviral, antibacterial & antifungal and well-tolerated in the lung
Area: Anti-microbial peptoids

SPRING BREAK

Speaker:  Dr. Karen Wozniak, Oklahoma State University
Format:  In-person
Title:  Innate Immune Responses Against the Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.
Area: Host-pathogen interactions

Format:  In-person
Title:  Crystal Structure of a Mycobacteriophage Immunity Repressor Bound to DNA Sheds New Light on Transcriptional Silencing
Area: Protein structure and transcriptional regulation

Speaker:  Dr, James Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Format: Remote
Title: TBA
Area: Ecological theory

Speaker:  Dr. Yulia Akbergenova, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT
Format:  In-person
Title:  Structural maturation of active zones at Drosophila neuromuscular junctions
Area:  Neuromuscular junctions

Speaker:  Dr. Liqin Du, Texas State University
Format: Remote
Title: TBA
Area: Cancer (neuroblastoma), drug discovery, differentiation

Speaker:  Dr. Maureen Ferran , Rochester Institute of Technology
Format: In-person
Title: TBA
Area: Viruses as a cancer therapy