2023-2024
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2022-2023
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST (Dept) |
| Sep 8, 2022 | Jeremy Nathans | Molecular Genetic Studies of CNS Vascular Development | Chen Ran (Cell Bio, Liberles Lab postdoc) |
| Sep 22, 2022 | Mike Lampson | Violation of Mendel's First Law: Centromere Drive and Suppression in Meiosis | Radhika Subramanian (Cell Bio) |
| Oct 13, 2022 | Jeff Gordon | Developing Microbiome-directed Therapeutics for Treating Child Undernutrition | Sloan Devlin (BCMP) |
| Oct 20, 2022 | Jim Wells | Probing and Attacking the Cancer Surfaceome | Xin Zhou (BCMP) |
| Oct 27, 2022 | Judy Lieberman | Lighting a Fire: Pyroptosis in the Immune Response to Infection and Cancer | Nika Danial (Cell Bio) |
| Nov 10, 2022 | Asifa Akhtar | Epigenetic Regulation by Histone Acetylation at Crossroads of Metabolic Control | Lucas Farnung (Cell Bio) |
| Nov 17, 2022 | John Rubenstein | V-ATPase: the birth, life, death, and rebirth of a proton pump | Steve Harrison (BCMP) |
| Nov 28, 2022 (Mon) | Doug Green | Persister Act: Near Death Experiences in Cancer Cells | Joan Brugge (Cell Bio) |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Cigall Kadoch | Structure and Function of Mammalian SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Human Cancer | Annie Hsieh (Cell Bio, Haigis Lab postdoc) |
| Jan 5, 2023 | Eric Schmidt | Biosynthetic Potential of the Animal World | BCMP Trainee Committee |
| Jan 12, 2023 | Dan Nomura | Imagining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms | Steve Gygi (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 19, 2023 | Joe Yeeles | Priming in the Eukaryotic Replisome | Johannes Walter (BCMP) |
| Jan 26, 2023 | Laura Kiessling | Glycans in Cell Recognition | Marcia Haigis (Cell Bio) |
| Feb 2, 2023 | Babis Kalodimos | The Conformational Landscape of Protein Kinases in Physiology and Disease | Hari Arthanari (BCMP) |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Jochen Zimmer | Building an Extracellular Matrix: Insights into Hyrluranon Synthesis and Length Control | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) |
| Feb 16, 2023 | David Bartel | Regulation of mRNA Translation and Decay | Sun Hur (BCMP) |
| Feb 23, 2023 | Chantal Abergel | The Concept of Virus in the Giant Virus Era | Amy Lee (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 2, 2023 | Sarah Woodson | Dynamics of RNA-Protein Assembly during Transcription | Steve Buratowski (BCMP) |
| Mar 16, 2023 | Alanna Schepartz | Delivering Proteins to the Cytosol and Nucles, for Real | Sloan Devlin (BCMP) |
| Mar 23, 2023 | Charles Zuker | The Body-Brain Axis | Steve Liberles (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Sean Morrison | The Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche | Pere Puigserver (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 13, 2023 | James Bardwell | Curing Nicotine Addiction through Directed Evolution | (BCMP) |
| Apr 20, 2023 | Julius Brennecke | Evolution of Endogenous Retroviruses in Drosophila | Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 27, 2023 | James Fraser | Finding new ligands to the SARS CoV 2 Macrodomain using Fragments, Neutrons, and Entropy | Nick Polizzi (BCMP) |
| May 11, 2023 | Melanie Ohi | Characterizing the structural building block of caveolae - from blobs to atoms and back to blobs | Sun Hur (BCMP) |
| June 1, 2023 | Alberto Kornblihtt | Chromatin, transcript elongation and alternative splicing at the base of a combined therapy for spinal muscular atrophy | Josefina del Marmol (BCMP) |
| June 15, 2023 | Claudio Joazerio | Ribosome-associated Quality Control: Mechanisms, Evolution and Role in Disease | Susan Shao (Cell Bio) |
| June 26, 2023 | Alex Marson | Decoding and Reprogramming Human T Cell Circuits with CRISPR | Xin Zhou (BCMP) |
| June 29, 2023 | Ibrahim Cisse | Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells | Karen Adelman (BCMP) |
2021-2022
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST (Dept) |
| Sep 16, 2021 | John Tesmer, PhD | Structure and function of G protein-coupled receptor kinases | Andrew Kruse (BCMP) |
| Sep 23, 2021 | Anthony A Hyman, PhD | Condensates in physiology and disease | Tobi Walther (Cell Bio) |
| Sep 27, 2021 | Samara Reck-Peterson, PhD | RNA Recoding of the Intracellular Transport Machinery | Radhika Subramanian (Cell Bio) |
| Sep 30, 2021 | Steve Hahn, PhD | Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation and coactivator specificity | Steve Buratowski (BCMP) |
| Oct 14, 2021 | Rebecca Heald, PhD | Fun experiments you can only do with frogs | Adrian Salic (Cell Bio) |
| Oct 21, 2021 | Victor Corces, PhD | Mechanisms of transgenerational inheritance of obesity epiphenotypes | Steve Buratowski (BCMP) |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Xavier Darzacq, PhD | Live cells single molecule biochemistry: what can we learn by interrogating molecular interactions in their cellular context? | Lucas Farnung (Cell Bio) |
| Nov 04, 2021 | Kevan Shokat, PhD | Discovering and Deploying Chemical Strategies to Drug KRAS: The Formerly Undruggable Oncogene | Eric Fischer (BCMP) |
| Nov 10, 2021 | Gira Bhabha, PhD | How microsporidia pathogens use ballistic organelles to invade host cells | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) |
| Nov 18, 2021 | Daniela Nicastro, PhD | Probing the molecular organization of cells and organelles using cryo-electron tomography | Alan Brown (BCMP) |
| Dec 02, 2021 | Job Dekker, PhD | Chromosome folding throughout the cell cycle and across the tree of life | David Pellman (Cell Bio) |
| Dec 09, 2021 | Jeff Gordon, MD | Cancelled | Sloan Devlin (BCMP) |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Elly Tanaka, PhD | Cellular and molecular determinants of regeneration ability | Randy King (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 06, 2022 | Rotem Sorek, PhD | Rescheduled | Kevin Struhl (BCMP) |
| Jan 13, 2022 | David Holtzman, MD | The role of APOE in Aβ and tau mediated pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease | John Flanagan (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 20, 2022 | John Rubenstein, PhD | Rescheduled | Steve Harrison (BCMP) |
| Jan 27, 2022 | Yanhui Xu, PhD | Structural Insights into assembly of Mediator-bound preinitiation complex | Maofu Liao (Cell Bio) |
| Feb 03, 2022 | James Bardwell, PhD | Rescheduled | Jean Zhao(BCMP) |
| Feb 17, 2022 | Allison Williams, PhD | Rescheduled | Steve Blacklow (BCMP) |
| Feb 24, 2022 | Eric N Olson, PhD | New Insights into Muscle Development, Disease and Regeneration | Fred Goldberg (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 03, 2022 | Sarah O'Connor, PhD | Harnessing the chemistry of medicinal plants | Phil Cole (BCMP) |
| Mar 10, 2022 | Anne Brunet, PhD | Mechanisms of aging | Brendan Manning (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 17, 2022 | Amy Keating, PhD | Navigating landscapes of protein-peptide interaction specificity | Tim Springer (BCMP) |
| Mar 24, 2022 | Peter Walter, PhD | Targeting the Cell’s Stress Pathways for Therapeutic Benefit | Bob Farese (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 07, 2022 | Lily Jan, PhD | Unexpected ion channel functions | Marito Hayashi (Cell Bio Trainee) |
| Apr 14, 2022 | Craig Cameron, PhD | Antiviral therapy: Towards the Personal and the Precise | Steve Harrison (BCMP) |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Navdeep Chandel, PhD | Mitochondrial control of physiology and disease | Ed Chouchani (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 28, 2022 | Roshanak Irannejad, PhD | Regulation of BPCR signaling by transporters | Andrew Kruse (BCMP) |
| May 05, 2022 | Rachel Klevit, PhD | BARD1: Out from behind BRCA1's shadow | Dan Finley (Cell Bio) |
| June 02, 2022 | Leemor Joshua-Tor | A Shape-shifting Nuclease Unravels Structured RNA | BCMP |
| June 09, 2022 | Brian Shoichet, PhD | Following the Rabbit into Chemical Space | Hari Arthanari (BCMP) |
| June 16, 2022 | Eva Nogales | Functional Modules in Large Transcriptional Co-activator Complexes | Davie Van Vactor (Cell Bio) |
| June 23, 2022 | David Olson, PhD | Psychedelics and Related Plasticity-Promoting Neurotherapeutics | Sloan Devlin (BCMP) |
2020-2021
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST (Dept) |
| Sep 10, 2020 | Brendan D Manning, PhD | PI3K-mTOR Signaling and the Metabolic Control of Cell Growth | Wade Harper (Cell Bio) |
| Sep 25, 2020 | Seychelle Vos, PhD | Pause & Go: Visualizing Early Mammalian Transcription Elongation Regulation | Maofu Liao (Cell Bio) |
| Oct 01, 2020 | Liang Tong, PhD | Molecular insights into human pre-mRNA 3'-end processing | Steve Buratowski (BCMP) |
| Oct 15, 2020 | Michael Summers, PhD | Structural basis and mechanism of HIV-1 genome packaging | Gerhard Wagner (BCMP) |
| Oct 22, 2020 | Russell A DeBose-Boyd, PhD | UBIAD1, a Vitamin K Synthetic Enzyme that Moonlights as Regulator of HMG CoA Reductase Degradation and Cholesterol Synthesis | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) |
| Nov 05, 2020 | Eric N Olson, PhD | New Insights into Muscle Development, Disease and Regeneration | Fred Goldberg (Cell Bio) |
| Nov 12, 2020 | Titia de Lange, PhD | The role of CST/Pola/primase at telomeres and DSBs | Joe Loparo (BCMP) |
| Dec 03, 2020 | Mande Holford, PhD | Venom Attacks Cancer | Jon Clardy (BCMP) |
| Dec 17, 2020 | Anja Groth, PhD | Chromatin Replication and Epigenome Maintenance | Steve Buratowski (BCMP) |
| Jan 07, 2021 | Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, PhD | Understanding the source of regenerative potential in animals | Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 14, 2021 | Mark Dawson, PhD | Identifying non-genetic features of malignant clonal dominance at single cell resolution | Karen Adelman (BCMP) |
| Jan 21, 2021 | Zuzana Tothova, MD, PhD | Biology and Therpeutic Targeting of Cohesin Mutations in Myeloid Malignancies | Joan Brugge (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 28, 2021 | Jonathan Javitch, MD, PhD | Single-molecule FRET to study the organization and dynamics of receptors and transporters | Andrew Kruse (BCMP) |
| Feb 04, 2021 | Vanessa Ruta, PhD | Theme and Variations: Mechanisms of Behavioral Evolution | Steve Liberles (Cell Bio) |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Genevieve Almouzni, PhD | Histone H3 variants and partners in the nucleus | Karen Adelman (BCMP) |
| Feb 18, 2021 | Olivia Rissland, PhD | Destruction of Maternally Deposited RNA Binding Proteins during Embryogenesis | Susan Shao (Cell Bio) |
| Feb 25, 2021 | Sonya Neal, PhD | Rhomboid pseudoprotease Dfm1 ERADicates multi-spanning membrane substrates | Steve Blacklow (BCMP) |
| Mar 05, 2021 | Wendy Bickmore, PhD | The role of spatial proximity in genome regulation | Lucas Farnung (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 11, 2021 | Robert Tjian, PhD | From Biochemistry to Live Cell Single Molecule Imaging: Shifting Paradigms in Transcriptional Control Mechanisms | BCMP Trainee Committee |
| Mar 18, 2021 | Ramesh Shivdasani, MD, PhD | Remembrance of Things Past | David Pellman (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 25, 2021 | Scott Blanchard, PhD | Variant Ribosomal RNA Alleles Are Conserved, Exhibit Context-Specific Expression and have the potential to Regulate Gene Expression | Sun Hur (BCMP) |
| Mar 30, 2021 | Navdeep Chandel, PhD | Cancelled | Ed Chouchani (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 01, 2021 | Dan Littman, MD, PhD | Networking of microbiota and the immune and nervous systems in homeostasis and disease | Jean Zhao (BCMP) |
| Apr 08, 2021 | Bil Clemons, PhD | A detailed look at tail-anchored membrane protein targeting - from opisthokonts to protists to plants | Steve Harrison (BCMP) |
| Apr 15, 2021 | Karolin Luger, PhD | Unfinished business: nucleosome assembly and remodeling | Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 22, 2021 | M. Madan Babu, PhD | Data Science Approaches to GPCR Signaling | Hari Arthanari (BCMP) |
| Apr 29, 2021 | Karen Oegema, PhD | Lessons from an organelle knockout | Randy King (Cell Bio) |
| May 06, 2021 | Elizabeth Villa, PhD | Opening Windows into the Cell: Bringing Structure to Cell Biology with Cryo-electron tomography | Steve Blacklow (BCMP) |
| May 17, 2021 | Helen Hobbs, MD | Fatty liver disease: from ancestry to biochemistry | Tobi Walther (Cell Bio) |
| May 20, 2021 | Alanna Schepartz, PhD | Cancelled | Sloan Devlin (BCMP) |
| May 27, 2021 | Carlos Bustamante, PhD | Ribosomes shift into low gear in response to stable mRNA secondary structures | Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio) |
| Jun 03, 2021 | Michael Snyder, PhD | Big Data, Health and COVID-19 | Kevin Struhl (BCMP) |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Alex Schier, PhD | Cancelled | Davie Van Vactor (Cell Bio) |
2019-2020
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST (Dept) |
| Sep 12, 2019 | Ailong Ke, PhD | From Mechanism and Structural Insights to Applications for CRISPR-Cas3 | Hao Wu (BCMP) |
| Sep 19, 2019 | Rachel Green, PhD | Collided ribosomes function as a hub for the regulation of protein synthesis | Susan Shao (Cell Bio) |
| Sep 26, 2019 | Ning Zheng, PhD | Targeting Ubiquitin Ligases: Themes and Variations | Eric Fischer (BCMP) |
| Oct 2, 2019 | Virginijus Šikšnys, PhD | Mining CRISPR-Cas diversity: Cas9s and beyond | Adrian Salic (Cell Bio) |
| Oct 10, 2019 | James Munro, PhD | Single-molecule conformational-change imaging of viral glycoproteins labeled with non-canonical amino acids | Tim Springer (BCMP) |
| Oct 31, 2019 | Julie Theriot, PhD | Cooperation, Competition and Conviction in Decision-Making for Motile Cells | Randy King (Cell Bio) |
| Nov 7, 2019 | Jian Payandeh, PhD | TBA | Andrew Kruse (BCMP) |
| Nov 14, 2019 | Brenda Schulman, PhD | How a ubiquitin-like protein brings ubiquitylation to life | Bob Farese (Cell Bio) |
| Nov 21, 2019 | Jin Zhang, PhD | Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell | Phil Cole (BCMP) |
| Dec 5, 2019 | Daniel Gerlich, PhD | Mechanics of nuclear assembly | Tomas Kirchhausen (Cell Bio) |
| Dec 12, 2019 | Cori Bargmann, PhD | Organizing behavior across timescales | Tim Springer (BCMP) |
| Jan 9, 2020 | Heran Darwin, PhD | Regulating the Regulation by the Pup-Proteasome System in Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Dan Finley (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 16, 2020 | James Berger, PhD | (Un?)structural mechanisms for initiating DNA Replication | Steve Harrison (BCMP) |
| Jan 23, 2020 | Olga Boudker, PhD | Toward development of activators of glutamate transporters | Maofu Liao (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 30, 2020 | David Cortez, PhD | Replicating damaged DNA: A new story about an ancient mechanism | Johannes Walter (BCMP) |
| Feb 6, 2020 | Hongtao Yu, PhD | Folding the Genome by Cohesin | David Pellman (Cell Bio) |
| Feb13, 2020 | Eranthie Weerapana, PhD | Chemical-proteomic strategies to investigate reactive cysteines | Sara Buhrlage (BCMP) |
| Feb 24, 2020 | Vishva Dixit, MD | Shedding light on Ubiquitin Modification in Neurodegeneration and Cancer | Alexandra Whiteley (Finley Lab) |
| Feb 27, 2020 | Ben Garcia, PhD | Quantitative Proteomics for Understanding Cancer Epigenetics | Phil Cole (BCMP) |
2018-2019
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST (Dept) |
| Sep 20, 2018 | Hiten D Madhani, MD, PhD | Musings on the mesmerizing mystery of the missing methylase in a menacing meningitis microbe | Yang Shi (Cell Bio) |
| Oct 3, 2018 | Bernd Bukau, PhD | The busy life of nascent chains revealed by ribosome profiling: how newly synthesized proteins make it to the native state | Wade Harper (Cell Bio) |
| Nov 1, 2018 | Kikue Tachibana-Konwalski, PhD | How the Genome is Reorganized during Zygotic Reprogramming to Totipotency | David Pellman (Cell Bio) |
| Nov 15, 2018 | Tony Hunter, PhD | New signal transduction targets in cancer therapy | Fred Goldberg (Cell Bio) |
| Dec 6, 2018 | Mark Krasnow, MD, PhD | Lung stem cells, their niches, and cancer at single cell resolution | Steve Liberles (Cell Bio) |
| Dec 13, 2018 | Agnel Sfeir, PhD | Maintaining our genomes: nuclear and mitochondrial | Joe Loparo (BCMP) |
| Dec 20, 2018 | Rudolf Jaenisch, PhD | Stem cells and epigenetic regulation in development and disease | Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 10, 2019 | Thomas Langer, PhD | Proteolytic control of mitochondrial plasticity | Tobi Walther (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 17, 2019 | Taekjip Ha, PhD | DNA Biophysics in Chromatin Function & Cellular Mechanics | Tim Springer (BCMP) |
| Jan 24, 2019 | Nieng Yan, PhD | How is electrical signal generated? Structural and mechanistic investigations of Nav channels | Maofu Liao (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 31, 2019 | Lori Passmore, PhD | The end of the message: Mechanistic Insights into the mRNA poly(A) tail machinery | Steve Buratowski (BCMP) |
| Feb 7, 2019 | Stephen Quake, PhD | The Cell is a Bag of RNA | Tomas Kirchhausen (Cell Bio) |
| Feb 14, 2019 | Chris Voigt, PhD | Systematic Discovery of Molecules Produced by the Human Microbiome, and Engineered Microbial Interventions | Jon Clardy/Sloan Devlin (BCMP) |
| Feb 21, 2019 | Jack Szostak, PhD | The Origin of Cellular Life | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) |
| Feb 28, 2019 | Cynthia Wolberger, PhD | The role of H2B ubiquitination in histone methylation and nucleosome dynamics | Phil Cole (BCMP) |
| Mar 7, 2019 | Manajit Hayer-Hartl, PhD | Cellular Machineries for the Biogenesis and Condensate Formation of RuBisCO: the Most Abundant Protein in Nature | Susan Shao (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 14, 2019 | Demet Arac, PhD | Cellular Communication via Adhesion | Andrew Kruse (BCMP) |
| Mar 28, 2019 | Simon Boulton, PhD | Single molecule analysis of homologous recombination | Johannes Walter (BCMP) |
| Apr 11, 2019 | John Diffley, PhD | How our genomes are copied | Johannes Walter (BCMP) |
| Apr 24, 2019 | Christopher Vakoc, MD, PhD | Novel transcription factor dependencies in cancer | BCMP Trainee Committee |
| Apr 29, 2019 | Cynthia Kenyon, PhD | The Plasticity of Aging | Kevin Struhl (BCMP) |
| May 2, 2019 | Juergen Knoblich, PhD | Cerebral organoids: modelling human brain development and tumorigenesis in stem cell derived 3D culture | John Flanagan (Cell Bio) |
| May 16, 2019 | Anjana Rao, PhD | TET methylcytosine oxidases, cell lineage specification and cancer | Adrian Salic (Cell Bio) |
| May 23, 2019 | Dario Alessi, PhD | Control of Rab GTPases by the LRRK2 protein kinase | Nathanael Gray (BCMP) |
| May 30, 2019 | Baljit Khakh, PhD | Cells that Tile Your Brain: astrocyte roles in neural circuits | Steve Liberles (Cell Bio) |
| Jun 6, 2019 | David Eisenberg, PhD | Reversible amyloid-like fibrils formed by the interactions of low-complexity protein domains | Gerhard Wagner (BCMP) |
| Jun 14, 2019 | Karen Vousden, PhD | Metabolic control of ROS and tumour progression | Joan Brugge (Cell Bio) |
2017-2018
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST (Dept) |
| Sep 7, 2017 | Abby Dernburg, PhD | Counting to One: Meiotic crossover control through a liquid crystalline interface between chromosomes | Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio) |
| Sep 14, 2017 | William Sellers, MD | Linking the discovery of cancer vulnerabilities to therapeutic development | Steve Blacklow (BCMP) |
| Sep 28, 2017 | Sean Brady, PhD | Watch your step, there is new chemistry everywhere. | Jon Clardy (BCMP) |
| Oct 25, 2017 | Alex Stark, PhD | Decoding Transcriptional Regulation in Drosophila | Karen Adelman (BCMP) |
| Nov 9, 2017 | Tracy Handel, PhD | Structure, Activation and Inhibition of Chemokine Receptors | Andrew Kruse (BCMP) |
| Nov 16, 2017 | Arshad Desai, PhD | New Horizons for the Chromosome Segregation Machinery | David Pellman (Cell Bio) |
| Nov 30, 2017 | John Lis, PhD | Dissecting Molecular Mechanisms of Transcription & Its Regulation In Cells | Karen Adelman (BCMP) |
| Dec 7, 2017 | John A G Briggs, PhD | Determining the structures of coated vesicles and enveloped viruses “in situ" using Cryo-electron tomography | Maofu Liao (Cell Bio) |
| Dec 14, 2017 | Elaine Ostrander, PhD | Dog Genes Tell Surprising Tales: Genetic Origins and Diversity of Dog Breeds | Kevin Struhl (BCMP) |
| Jan 18, 2018 | Andrea Musacchio, PhD | Reconstitution of (very small parts of) cell division | Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 25, 2018 | Alex Dunn, PhD | Mechanosensing at cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesions | Tim Springer (BCMP) |
| Feb 1, 2018 | Ruth Lehmann, PhD | Protecting Immortality: Germline Mitochondrial Inheritance and Function | Davie Van Vactor (Cell Bio) |
| Feb 8, 2018 | Kathrine Henzler-Wildman, PhD | NMR insights into the transport mechanism of the small multi drug efflux pump, EmrE | Steve Blacklow (BCMP) |
| Feb 15, 2018 | Gabriel Waksman, FMedSci, FRS | Structural and molecular biology of type IV secretion systems in Gram-negative bacteria | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) |
| Feb 22, 2018 | David Agard, PhD | Protein folding as an allosteric strategy: the yin and yang of chaperone-mediated client activation | BCMP Trainee Committee |
| Mar 1, 2018 | Fred Hughson, PhD | Chaperoning SNARE assembly to control membrane fusion | Susan Shao (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 8, 2018 | Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD | Targeting glyco-immune checkpoints for cancer therapy | Bob Farese & Tobi Walther (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 15, 2018 | James Haber, PhD | Stability and Instability in the Repair of a Broken Chromosome | Johannes Walter (BCMP) |
| Mar 22, 2018 | Patrick Cramer, PhD | Transcription of the genome – from molecular movies to regulatory systems | Sun Hur (BCMP) |
| Mar 29, 2018 | Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD | Cellular Ecology | Adrian Salic (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 12, 2018 | Daniel Fletcher, PhD | Mind the gap: Physical segregation of proteins at cell-cell interfaces | Susan Shao (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 19, 2018 | Michael Rape, PhD | The other code: ubiquitylation and its roles in neuronal differentiation and survival | Eric Fischer (BCMP) |
| Apr 26, 2018 | Huda Zoghbi, MD | Equilibrium in the brain: Lessons from a balance disorder | Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas (Cell Bio) |
| May 3, 2018 | Hopi Hoekstra, PhD | The genetic basis of parental care | Kevin Struhl (BCMP) |
| May 10, 2018 | David Julius, PhD | Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway: Exploiting Toxins to Understand Gut Feelings | Tomas Kirchhausen (Cell Bio) |
| May 17, 2018 | Lewis Kay, PhD | Seeing the invisible by NMR spectroscopy: An application to p97 | Gerhard Wagner (BCMP) |
| May 31, 2018 | Benjamin F Cravatt, PhD | Activity-based proteomics – protein and ligand discovery on a global scale | Heeseon An (Cell Bio Trainee) |
| Jun 7, 2018 | Melina Schuh, PhD | New insights into aneuploidy in mammalian oocytes | Randy King (Cell Bio) |
| Jun 21, 2018 | Diana Bautista, PhD | Molecular mechanisms of itch, touch and pain. | Stephen Liberles (Cell Bio) |
2016-2017
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST (Dept) |
| Sep 15, 2016 | David Liu, PhD | Protein Evolution and Engineering to Enable Biotechnology and Novel Therapeutics | Sloan Devlin (BCMP) |
| Sep 22, 2016 | Dame Carol Robinson, DBE FRS FMedSc | Mass spectrometry - its roles in structural biology and drug discovery | Wade Harper (Cell Bio) |
| Sep 29, 2016 | Bryan Roth, MD, PhD | Structure-guided and structure-inspired GPCR drug discovery | Andrew Kruse (BCMP) |
| Oct 6, 2016 | Ardem Patapoutian, PhD | How do you feel? Ion channels that feel the force | Steve Liberles (Cell Bio) |
| Oct 27, 2016 | Joseph (Jody) Puglisi, PhD | The molecular choreography of translation | Andrew Kruse (BCMP) |
| Nov 3, 2016 | Jodi Nunnari, PhD | Mitochondrial Behavior | Nika Danial (Cell Bio) |
| Nov 9, 2016 | Michael Elowitz, PhD | Design principles for signaling, memory, and cell state control pathways in mammalian cells | Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio) |
| Nov 17, 2016 | Pamela Bjorkman, PhD | A Molecular Arms Race: The Immune System Versus HIV | Piotr Sliz (BCMP) |
| Dec 1, 2016 | Rama Ranganathan, PhD | Protein mechanics: the link between structure, function and evolvability | William Shih (BCMP) |
| Jan 9, 2017 | David Baker, PhD | Post-Evolutionary Biology: Design of novel protein structures, functions and assemblies | Eric Fischer (BCMP) |
| Jan 12, 2017 | Sjors Scheres, PhD | How cryo-EM is revolutionising structural biology: the structure of human gamma-secretase as an example | Maofu Liao (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 26, 2017 | Andrew Dillin, PhD | Orchestrating aging across a troubled soma | Tobi Walther (Cell Bio) |
| Feb 2, 2017 | Clifford Brangwynne, PhD | RNA/protein droplets: Moving through intracellular phase space | Piotr Sliz (BCMP) |
| Feb 16, 2017 | Adam Frost, MD, PhD | How do mitochondria divide? A fresh look at dynamin-family GTPases | Steve Blacklow (BCMP) |
| Feb 23, 2017 | Daniel Herschlag, PhD | Adventures in the RNA World, Past, Present and Future | Matt Sonnett (Cell Bio Trainee) |
| Mar 2, 2017 | K. Dane Wittrup, PhD | Synergistic Innate and Adaptive Immunotherapy for Cancer | Andrew Kruse (BCMP) |
| Mar 9, 2017 | Roy Parker, PhD | RNP Granules in Health and Disease | Wade Harper (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 16, 2017 | Daniel Rosenbaum, | Structure-function of integral membrane receptors and transporters involved in human disease | BCMP Trainee Committee |
| Mar 23, 2017 | Elena Conti, PhD | The RNA exosome - ribosome connection: coupling the RNA degradation and translation machineries | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 30, 2017 | Ron Breaker, PhD | Discovering and Drugging Ligand-binding Riboswitches | Richard Gregory (BCMP) |
| Apr 6, 2017 | David Ron, MD | Short-term regulation of protein folding homeostasis in the endoplasmic reticulum | Susan Shao (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 13, 2017 | Lewis Cantley, PhD | PI 3-Kinase and Cancer Metabolism | Jon Clardy (BCMP) |
| Apr 21, 2017 | Judith Frydman, PhD | Proteostasis function and dysfunction: the delicate art of maintaining a healthy proteome | Fred Goldberg (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 27, 2017 | Karlene Cimprich, PhD | The Causes and Consequences of Replication Stress | Johannes Walter (BCMP) |
| May 4, 2017 | Gia Voeltz, PhD | Unraveling the mechanism of ER-associated organelle division | Bob Farese (Cell Bio) |
| May 11, 2017 | Michael Yaffe, MD, PhD | Using Systems Biology of Signaling to Improve Cancer Treatment | Jean Zhao (BCMP) |
| May 18, 2017 | Sue Biggins, PhD | Reconstituting kinetochore functions in vitro | Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio) |
| Jun 1, 2017 | Tony Hyman, PhD | biomolecular condensates, organizers of cellular biochemistry | Tomas Kirchhausen (Cell Bio) |
| Jun 8, 2017 | Sebastian Seung | AI and the connectome | BCMP Trainee Committee |
| Jun 15, 2017 | Dyche Mullins, PhD | Heraclitus and the Cytoskeleton: Physics of self-assembling materials | David Pellman (Cell Bio) |
2015-2016
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST (Dept) |
| Sep 10, 2015 | Bradley Bernstein MD, PhD | Cancer stem cells and drug resistance mechanisms in glioblastoma | Andrew Lassar (BCMP) |
| Sep 17, 2015 | Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD | The Non-Coding RNA revolution in biomedical research | Marcia Haigis (Cell Bio) |
| Sep 21, 2015 | Karen Adelman PhD | Controlling transcription elongation of coding and non-coding RNAs | Richard Gregory (BCMP) |
| Oct 1, 2015 | Gerd A. Blobel, MD, PhD | Propagating transcriptional patterns through mitosis | David Pellman (Cell Bio) |
| Oct 8, 2015 | Jeannie Lee, MD, PhD | X inactivation as a model for Epigenetic regulation by long Noncoding RNA | Kevin Struhl (BCMP) |
| Oct 22, 2015 | Gerald Crabtree, MD | Chromatin regulation: New methods and new concepts from the genomics of human disease | Cell Biology Postdoc Committee |
| Nov 12, 2015 | Christopher D. Lima, PhD | Ubiquitin-like proteins: From conjugation to recognition | Wade Harper (Cell Bio) |
| Dec 3, 2015 | Rick Young, PhD | Control of Gene Expression Programs | Joan Brugge (Cell Bio) |
| Dec 10, 2015 | Christine Mayr, MD, PhD | Alternative 3'UTRs mediate protein-protein interactions and regulate protein localization and protein functions | Steve Buratowski (BCMP) |
| Dec 17, 2015 | K. Christopher Garcia, PhD | Tuning cell surface receptor signaling through ligand engineering: dimeric receptors versus GPCR | Adrian Salic (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 7, 2016 | Angelika Amon, PhD | The Causes and Consequences of Aneuploidy | Johannes Walter (BCMP) |
| Jan 14, 2016 | Anna Pyle, PhD | The molecular mechanism of RNA detection by the RIG-I antiviral sensor: new insights into nanomechanical function and immune modulation | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 21, 2016 | Taekjip Ha, PhD | Mechanobiology at the Single Molecule Level | Steve Blacklow (BCMP) |
| Jan 28, 2016 | Jared Rutter, PhD | Mitochondria, Metabolism and Cellular Decisions: Entwined in Health and Disease | Nika Danial (Cell Bio) |
| Feb 4, 2016 | Nenad Ban, PhD | Beyond the prokaryotic ribosome: structural and functional insights into eukaryotic and mitochondrial ribosomes | Piotr Sliz (BCMP) |
| Feb 18, 2016 | Phil Sharp, PhD | The functions of small and large non-coding RNAs in gene regulation | Richard Gregory (BCMP) |
| Feb 25, 2016 | Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, PhD | Navigating the cellular landscape through new imaging technologies | Tobi Walther & Bob Farese (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 3, 2016 | Ting Wu, PhD | Space and Time: Chromosomes at super-resolution and a 300 year old mystery | Jean Zhao (BCMP) |
| Mar 10, 2016 | Eva Nogales, PhD | Visualizing structure and function of large molecular assemblies by cryo-EM | Maofu Liao (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 17, 2016 | Nahum Sonenberg, PhD | Translational control of cancer and autism | Gerhard Wagner (BCMP) |
| Mar 24, 2016 | Christine Jacobs-Wagner, PhD | Intracellular partitioning and patterning: Lessons from tiny cells | David Pellman (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 31, 2016 | Leslie Vosshall, PhD | Building a mosquito sensory system to hunt humans | BCMP Trainee Committee |
| Apr 14, 2016 | Harry Noller, PhD | RNA Mechanics and Translation | Steve Harrison (BCMP) |
| Apr 28, 2016 | Michael Rosbash, PhD | The Circadian Clock: Connections to Neuronal Function and RNA | Kevin Struhl (BCMP) |
| May 5, 2016 | Eric Betzig, PhD | Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution | Tom Kirchhausen (Cell Bio) |
| May 12, 2016 | Brian Shoichet, PhD | Structure-based discovery of new chemotypes with new GPCR phamacology | Andrew Kruse (BCMP) |
| May 19, 2016 | Andreas Martin, PhD | Constructed to Deconstruct: The 26S proteasome as a coordinated degradation machine | Fred Goldberg (Cell Bio) |
| May 23, 2016 | Yamuna Krishnan, PhD | DNA nanodevices to measure protein activity in vivo | Jon Clardy (BCMP) |
| Jun 9, 2016 | Anne Brunet, PhD | Epigenetic and metabolic regulation of aging | Yang Shi (Cell Bio) |
| Jun 16, 2016 | Dirk Görlich, PhD | Transport selectivity of nuclear pore complexes | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) |
2014-2015
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST (Dept) |
| Sep 11, 2014 | Rebecca Heald, PhD | Mechanisms of mitosis and size control in Xenopus | Davie Van Vactor (Cell Bio) |
| Sep 25, 2014 | Russell DeBose-Boyd, PhD | Regulation of cholesterol synthesis through ER-associated degradation | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) and HMS Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership |
| Oct 9, 2014 | James Bardwell, PhD | New Chaperone Discovery | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) |
| Oct 30, 2014 | Catherine Drennen, PhD | Shake, Rattle, and Roll: Capturing Snapshots of Metalloenzymes in Action | Steve Blacklow (BCMP) |
| Nov 13, 2014 | Thomas Schwartz, PhD | Taming a Monster: Toward the Structure of the Nuclear Pore Complex | Piotr Sliz (BCMP) |
| Nov 20, 2014 | Frederic de Sauvage, PhD | Targeting the Hedgehog Pathway in Cancer: From Bench to Clinic | Adrian Salic (Cell Bio) |
| Dec 4, 2014 | Juli Feigon, PhD | To be announced | Gerhard Wagner (BCMP) |
| Dec 10, 2014 | Ronald D. Vale, PhD | Reconstituting T cell Signaling | Samara Reck-Peterson (Cell Bio) |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Craig Peterson, PhD | Chromatin dynamics and transcriptional homeostasis | Steve Buratowski (BCMP) |
| Jan 8, 2015 | Brendan D. Manning, PhD | Metabolic control of cell growth by the TSC-mTOR signaling network | Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 15, 2015 | Robert T. Sauer, PhD | Machines of protein destruction | Stephen Harrison (BCMP) |
| Jan 22, 2015 | Scott Emr, PhD | Sorting out membrane traffic: Ubiquitin-mediated membrane protein quality control and sorting systems | Wade Harper (Cell Bio) |
| Jan 29, 2015 | Judith Campisi, PhD | Cancer and aging: Rival demons? | Andrew Lassar (BCMP) |
| Feb 5, 2015 | Denise Montell, PhD | Life, death, and resurrection at the cellular level | Joan Brugge (Cell Bio) |
| Feb 26, 2015 | Job Dekker, PhD | Two ways to fold the genome | Kevin Struhl (BCMP) |
| Mar 5, 2015 | Mark Von Zastrow, MD, PhD | Endocytic membrane traffic and receptor-mediated cellular signaling | Tom Kirchhausen (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 12, 2015 | Graham C. Walker, PhD | Translesion DNA Polymerases: From Cancer Chemotherapy to Bactericidal Antibiotics | Joseph Loparo (BCMP) |
| Mar 19, 2015 | Michael K. Rosen, PhD | Physical mechanisms of cell organization on micron length scales | David Pellman (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 26, 2015 | Robert H. Singer, PhD | Imaging the regulation of single mRNA molecules in living cells | BCMP Trainee Committee |
| Apr 2, 2015 | Ning Zheng, PhD | Driving protein deubiquitination with propellers | Dan Finley (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 9, 2015 | Michelle Wang, PhD | Single molecule mechanics - towards high throughput | BCMP Trainee Committee |
| Apr 16, 2015 | Gary Ruvkun, PhD | C. elegans surveillance of core cellular components to detect and defend pathogen attacks, real or imagined | Junying Yuan (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 23, 2015 | Seth Darst, PhD | Structural studies of bacterial transcription | Sun Hur (BCMP) |
| Apr 30, 2015 | Edith Heard, PhD | Epigenetic mechanisms in development and disease: Lessons from the inactive X chromosome | Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio) |
| May 7, 2015 | Wei Yang, PhD | Chemistry of DNA transactions | Joseph Loparo (BCMP) |
| May 14, 2015 | Jennifer A Doudna, PhD | The world of CRISPRs: From biology to breakthrough technology | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) |
| May 28, 2015 | Bruce Beutler, MD | Forward genetic analysis of mammalian immunity in real time | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) |
2013-2014
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST (Dept) |
| Sep 12, 2013 | Ramanujan Hegde, FRS | Membrane protein biogenesis and quality control | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) |
| Sep 19, 2013 | Xi He, Ph.D. | Understanding Wnt signaling in development and disease | Andrew Lassar (BCMP) |
| Oct 3, 2013 | Adam Cohen, Ph.D. | Bringing bioelectric phenomena to light | Joseph Loparo (BCMP) |
| Oct 24, 2013 | Leemor Joshua-Tor, Ph.D. | Slicer and the Argonautes | Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio) |
| Oct 31, 2013 | Michael Green, Ph.D. | Tumor Suppressor Genes: Mechanisms of Inactivation, Discovery and Therapeutic Potential | Kevin Struhl (BCMP) |
| Nov 7, 2013 | Diane Mathis, Ph.D. | T cell control of organismal metabolism | Bruce Spiegelman (Cell Bio) |
| Nov 14, 2013 | Phil Cole, M.D., Ph.D. | Chemical Approaches to Understanding and Modulating Cell Signaling | Stephen Blacklow (BCMP) |
| Nov 21, 2013 | Mike Levine, Ph.D. | Mechanisms of transcriptional precision in the Drosophila embryo | Davie Van Vactor (Cell Bio) |
| Dec 5, 2013 | Samie Jaffrey, Ph.D. | Imaging RNA and RNA biology using RNA mimics of green fluorescent protein | John Flanagan (Cell Bio) |
| Dec 12, 2013 | Susan Lindquist, Ph.D. | Yeast to human IPS cell discovery platform for protein folding diseases | Sun Hur (BCMP) |
| Jan 9, 2014 | Christopher Hill, Ph.D. | Proteasome Associations | Stephen Blacklow (BCMP) |
| Jan 16, 2014 | Sangeeta Bhatia, M.D., Ph.D. | Building Hepatic Tissues for Disease Modeling and Therapy | Cell Bio Graduate Students |
| Jan 23, 2014 | Daniel Durocher, Ph.D. | Cell cycle regulation of DNA double - strand break repair | Johannes Walter (BCMP) |
| Feb 6, 2014 | Judy Lieberman, M.D., Ph.D. | Bug Exterminators: A New Immune Defense Against Bacteria | Timothy Springer (BCMP) |
| Feb 20, 2014 | Jonathon Howard, Ph.D. | Ciliary and flagellar motility: From single molecules to collective motion | David Pellman (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 6, 2014 | Shelley Berger, Ph.D. | Epigenetic regulation of aging and senescence: and its not all bad news! | Richard Gregory (BCMP) |
| Mar 13, 2014 | Ron Breaker, Ph.D. | Riboswitches, Ribozymes, and the Ancient RNA World | Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 20, 2014 | Eduardo Perozo, Ph.D. | Structural Basis of Voltage-Dependent Gating in Ion Channels and Enzymes | James Chou (BCMP) |
| Mar 27, 2014 | Steve Jacobsen, Ph.D. | Genetics and genomics of gene silencing | Yang Shi (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 3, 2014 | Yi Zhang, Ph.D. | Mechanism and function of dynamic regulation of DNA methylation by TET and TDG proteins | Stephen Buratowski (BCMP) |
| Apr 10, 2014 | Sandra Schmid, Ph.D | Star-Gazing: Insights into the regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis from quantitative live cell imaging | Tom Kirchhausen (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 17, 2014 | Robert Roeder, Ph.D. | Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Animal Cells | Kevin Struhl (BCMP) |
| Apr 24, 2014 | Daniel Louvard, Ph.D. | Plasticity and repair of intestinal mucosa is mediated by actin microfilaments | Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas (Cell Bio) |
| May 1, 2014 | Doug Melton, Ph.D. | Making Pancreatic Beta Cells | George Daley (BCMP) |
| May 8, 2014 | Dan Gottschling, Ph.D. | Organelle deterioration with age: The limits of an interconnected cellular system | Dan Finley (Cell Bio) |
| May 15, 2014 | John Kuriyan, Ph.D. | Structural Mechanisms in CAMK-II Regulation | Stephen Harrison (BCMP) |
| May 21, 2014 | David Agard, Ph.D. | Structural mechanisms of microtubule nucleation and prokaryotic tubulin polymerization | Samara Reck-Peterson (Cell Bio) |
| May 29, 2014 | Joan Steitz, Ph.D. | Noncoding RNAs: with a Viral Twist | Stephen Buratowski (BCMP) |
| Jun 5, 2014 | Peter Walter, Ph.D. | Unfolded Protein Response in Health and Disease | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) |
| Jun 12, 2014 | Jim Wells, Ph.D. | New Engineered Tools for Signaling | Stephen Blacklow (BCMP) |
2012-2013
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST (Dept) |
| Jan 10, 2013 | Rachel Green, Ph.D. | Kevin Struhl (BCMP) | |
| Jan 17, 2013 | Scott Sternson, Ph.D. | Stephen Liberles (Cell Bio) | |
| Jan 31, 2013 | Kathryn Anderson, Ph.D. | Cilia, centrosomes and signaling in the mouse embryo | Adrian Salic (Cell Bio) |
| Feb 7, 2013 | Jue Chen, Ph.D. | James Chou (BCMP) | |
| Feb 21, 2013 | Walter Chazin, Ph.D. | Y. Dimitrova (BCMP) | |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Amita Sehgal, Ph.D. | Genetic Basis of Sleep, Wake Cycles, Control of Timing and the Need to Sleep | Cell Biology Graduate Students |
| Mar 14, 2013 | Joe DiRisi, Ph.D. | Strange Tails in Viral Discovery | Tom Rapoport (Cell Bio) |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Patrick Cramer, Ph.D. | Gene Transcription: From Molecular Movies to Regulatory Systems | Stephen Buratowski (BCMP) |
| Mar 28, 2013 | Maria Carmo-Fonseca, M.D., Ph.D. | Fidelity of Gene Expression | Tom Kirchhausen (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 4, 2013 | Bob Weinberg, Ph.D. | Steve Harrison (BCMP) | |
| Apr 11, 2013 | Thomas Tuschl, Ph.D. | Characterization of Human Regulatory RNAs & RNA-Binding Proteins | Danesh Moazed (Cell Bio) |
| Apr 25, 2013 | Tarun Kapoor, Ph.D. | Examining Mechanisms Underlying the Self- Organized Assembly of the Cell Division Apparatus | Samara Reck-Peterson (Cell Bio) |
| May 2, 2013 | Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D. | RNA-mediated genome defense in bacteria | Sun Hur (BCMP) |
| May 16, 2013 | Chris Burge, Ph.D. | Diverse Functions of Splicing Factors & Alternative mRNA Isoforms | Richard Gregory (BCMP) |
| May 30, 2013 | Steven Bell, Ph.D. | Initiation of Eukaryotic DNA Replication | BCMP Trainee Committee |