Previous Dissertation Seminars

DATE	SPEAKER	TALK TITLE	LAB
Oct. 18, 2023	Anita Reddy	Examining the role of succinate signaling in tissue remodeling	Chouchani
Nov. 27, 2023	Liam Kelley	Multi-omics interrogation of metabolic stress in cancer	Haigis
Feb. 12, 2024	Narendra Joshi	Sensory Pathways of the Oral Cavity and Upper Airways	Liberles
April 29, 2024	Krystle Kalafut	Defining the Regulation and Function of Hepatic mTORC1 Signaling.	Manning
April 30, 2024	Alex Panov	The roles of proteasome-associated factors RPN13, UCHL5, and UBE3C in basal, unfolded, and aggregated protein turnover	Harper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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