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

DATEEVENTSPEAKERTALK TITLE
Sept. 4, 2025Dissertation DefenseMartin FilipovskiStructural and Functional Studies of Transcription Through Chromatin
Oct. 8, 2025Dissertation DefenseDella SyauStructure and Function of Activated Transcription Elongation through Chromatin
Oct. 22, 2025Dissertation DefenseKevin DongDeveloping new chemoproteomic platforms to decode and perturb the degradome
Mar. 13, 2026Dissertation DefenseAyantu TemesgenInvestigating Metabolic Regulation of CD8+ T Cells: Acylcarnitine-Mediated Dysfunction and Activation-Induced Oxidative Dynamics
Mar. 23, 2026Dissertation DefenseTevis VitaleMetabolic regulation of anti-tumor immunity
Apr. 14, 2026Dissertation DefenseSam LappRegulation and function of feeding-induced mTORC1 in skeletal muscle
May 1, 2026Cell Bio SeminarXiang David Li, Ph.D.Chemical Approaches to Decoding Epigenetics
May 6, 2026Dissertation DefenseBryan Seguinot ZapataProteome Remodeling in Erythropoiesis Mediated by TBCEL and YPEL5