Beyond our formal seminar series, Cell Biology often hosts ad hoc seminars and lectures for our community. Cell Bio Seminars generally feature researchers who happens to be passing through or in town for a conference near Boston. Dissertation Seminars are held when our PhD students complete their tenure with us. We rarely miss an opportunity to feature new and exciting research! If there are no seminars listed below currently, check back in a few weeks as one is bound to pop up.
Current Academic Year
| DATE | EVENT | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
| Sept. 16, 2024 | Cell Bio Seminar | Akinao Nose, Ph.D. | Design Principles of Neural Circuits Generating Adaptive Animal Behaviors |
| Oct. 24, 2024 | Dissertation Defense | Matthew Baird | Regulation of the proteasome by Hul5 and calmodulin |
| Nov. 18, 2024 | Dissertation Defense | Samantha Sedor | Molecular Insights into Noncanonical Histone Chaperone Complexes |
| Nov. 19 | Cell Bio Seminar | Kathy F. Liu, Ph.D. | Catalytic and Non-Catalytic Roles of rRNA-Modifying Enzymes in Leukemogenesis |
| Nov. 22, 2024 | Cell Bio Seminar | Gunnar von Heijne, Ph.D. | CANCELED: Cotranslational protein folding |
| Nov. 22, 2024 | Dissertation Defense | Richard Chen Han | Adaptive Innovation in the Octopus Ribosome |
| Feb. 28, 2025 | Cell Bio Seminar | Prof. Alwin Köhler | Tardigrade Extremotolerance - Life at the Edge |
| Apr. 11, 2025 | Dissertation Defense | Tina Zeina | Synthesis of ubiquitin chains at the proteasome |
| Apr. 14, 2025 | Cell Bio Seminar | Prof. Dr. Roland Beckmann | Clearing translational stalls at the ER by coordination of UFMylation and RQC |
| Apr. 17, 2025 | Dissertation Defense | Juntao Yu | Mechanism of Replisome-Mediated Parental Histone Inheritance |
| Apr. 23, 2025 | Dissertation Defense | Martha Ordonez | Mechanisms of cysteine regulation of liver cholesterol metabolism and adipose tissue thermogenesis |
| Apr. 28, 2025 | Dissertation Defense | Judith A. Kaye | Cell types of interoception and their response to acute injury |
| May 2, 2025 | Dissertation Defense | Silvia Huerta Lopez | The Neural Basis of a Thirst-dependent Odor Spotlight |
| June 16, 2025 | Dissertation Defense | Allison James | Mechanisms of Nucleosome Engagement by Superfamily 2 ATPases |