• 2022-2023

    Sep 6, 2022

    Dissertation Seminar

    Matthew Yip

    Quality control of translation factors

    Dec. 16, 2022 Dissertation Seminar Brandon Woods The Role of miRNA in Activity-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity
    May 25, 2023 Dissertation Seminar Nauman Javed Strategies for characterizing the regulatory code of the human genome
  • 2021-2022

    DATE EVENT SPEAKER TALK TITLE
    Nov 05, 2021 Dissertation Seminar Giulia Notarangelo Environmental barriers to T cell metabolism and function
    Mar 09, 2022 Dissertation Seminar Samantha Wong A study of prolyl hydroxylase domain 3 (PHD3): protein biochemistry and the development of inhibitors 
    Mar 16, 2022 Dissertation Seminar Vincent Chu Protein degradation pathways associated with nonsense-mediated mRNA decay

    Apr 26, 2022

    Dissertation Seminar Sarah Tucker Investigating the intersection of metabolism and NAD-consuming enzymes in intestinal homeostasis and disease
    May 2, 2022 Dissertation Seminar Ciyue (Judy) Shen Systematic approaches for nominating combination therapies in cancer
    May 3, 2022 Dissertation Seminar Tiasha Shafiq

    Locus-Dependent Epigenetic Inheritance of Polycomb-Mediated Gene Silencing

    May 20, 2022 Dissertation Seminar Mei Ying Ng Development of novel agents and tools for drug discovery for the treatment of obesity and diabetes
  • 2020-2021

    DATE SPEAKER TALK TITLE LAB
    Dec 11, 2020 Brad Wierbowski Molecular mechanisms of Sonic hedgehog release and delivery Salic
    Apr 09, 2021 Mitchell Leibowitz Chromothripsis as an On-Target Consequence of CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing  Pellman
    May 03, 2021 Aditi Jatkar Mechanisms of fatty-acid/ glycerolipid regulation of SREBP-1 activation Farese/Walther
    May 05, 2021 Kenneth Gray The Protean Lives and Times of the Alveolar Progenitor Brugge
    May 06, 2021 Meghan Torrence Defining Anabolic Functions of ATF4 as a Downstream Effector of mTORC1 Siganling Manning
    Aug 27, 2021 Francois Thelot Function and inhibition of the lipopolysaccharide floppase MsbA Liao
  • 2019-2020

    DATE SPEAKER TALK TITLE LAB
     Aug 26, 2019 Patricia Cho Identification of cellular processes regulated by NRF2 and dependencies of NRF2-hyperactivated tumor cells Brugge
     Mar 24, 2020 Marco Catipovic Mechanism of Translocation by the Bacterial ATPase SecA Rapoport
     Mar 26, 2020 Vivian Chou Defining the Roles of the Microtubule-Associated Protein TACC in Drosophila synapse development Van Vactor
     Apr 29, 2020 Gergana Shipkovenska Requirements for epigene0c inheritance of heterochroma0n in fission yeast  Moazed
     May 20, 2020 Shiwei Liu Coordination of nuclear envelope assembly and chromosome segregation in metazoan cells Pellman
     Jun 2, 2020 Jiunn Song Genetic determinants of protein targeting from the endoplasmic reticulum to lipid droplets Farese-Walther
     Aug 7, 2020 Sandhya Manohar Small molecule inhibitors reveal novel functions of the APC/C through proteomic and chemical genetic screening King
  • 2018-2019

    DATE SPEAKER TALK TITLE LAB
     Nov 16, 2018 Jessica Spinelli Investigating the Fate of Ammonia in Breast Cancer Haigis
     Feb 28, 2019 Natalie Hendrix YAP regulation of RHO GTPase activities controls epithelial cell morphology and adhesion Brugge
     Mar 18, 2019 Kostadin Petrov Functional Mechanism of Patched1, the Hedgehog Pathway Receptor Salic
     Apr 22, 2019 Xiaoyi Wang DNA maintainer dependent epigenetic inheritance of gene silencing and histone H3K9 methylation Moazed
     May 3, 2019 Ka Ying "Sharon" Hung Regulation of protein turnover by Ubp6 and UBE3B Finley
     May 20, 2019 Shiwei Liu Coordination of nuclear envelope assembly and chromosome segregation in metazoan cells Pellman
     May 29, 2019 Benjamin Umans Vagal afferent pathways of laryngeal and gastric sensation Liberles
     Jul 2, 2019 Katherine Richeson Paradoxical Effects on Mitotic Exit Induced by a Small Molecule Inhibitor of APC/C-Cdc20 King
  • 2017-2018

    DATE SPEAKER TALK TITLE LAB
    Mar 5, 2018 Nicholas Bodnar Mechanism and structure of the Cdc48 ATPase complex Rapoport
    Apr 25, 2018 Sabin Dhakal Functional heterogeneity among clonal populations derived from a triple negative breast cancer cell line Brugge
    Apr 30, 2018 Robert Powers Molecular Mechanisms of the Formation and Maintenance of the Tubular Endoplasmic Reticulum Network Rapoport
    Jun 12, 2018 Elizabeth Lane Regulation of hepatic fuel utilization and storage through BAD-dependent glucose signaling Danial
  • 2015-2016

    DATE SPEAKER TALK TITLE LAB
    Mar 11, 2016 Mark Alan McClintock Spatial control of protein homeostasis by microtubule-based motors in filamentous fungi Reck-Peterson
    Apr 28, 2016 Erika Williams Coding of internal senses: vagal gut-to-brain circuits Liberles
    Apr 29, 2016 Anthony Nguyen A novel program of ubiquitination remodels the erythroid proteome during terminal differentiation Finley
  • 2014-2015

    DATE  SPEAKER TALK TITLE LAB
     Nov 3, 2014 F. Kyle Satterstrom

    Bioinformatic and molecular study of the regulation of SIRT3 expression

    Haigis
     Apr 8, 2015 Natalie Janelle German Investigating and exploiting metabolic vulnerabilities in cancer Haigis
     Apr 30, 2015 Duyen Amy Kieu Bui The Hippo Pathway Effector YAP Regulates Cytokinesis Brugge
     Apr 30, 2015 Wen Zhou Regulation of tumor necrosis factor-­induced cell death and toll-­like receptor mediated activation of macrophages by SPATA2 Yuan
     May 1, 2015 Benedikt Bauer Molecular mechanism of secretory protein translocation Rapoport
     May 4, 2015 Chenning Lu Cooperative binding of Sir proteins to nucleosomes and its implications for silent chromatin assembly in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Moazed
     May 5, 2015 David E. Strochlic Molecular and Genetic Analysis of the Vagus Nerve Liberles
  • 2013-2014

    DATE  SPEAKER TALK TITLE LAB
    Jul 29, 2014 Tina Liu Mechanism of endoplasmic reticulum membrane fusion mediated by the Atlastin GTPase Rapoport