Seminars

Tuesdays – 4:00 p.m. (unless otherwise noted)
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Faculty Organizers: ChangHui Pak, Eric Strieter
Student Organizer: Can Ozden

Contact: UMass Seminars IDGP

To find more seminars in the Life Sciences, visit the Graduate Programs in Life Sciences Calendar.

Fall 2020 Seminar Schedule

Sep 7	Intrinsically disordered proteins as regulators of enzymes and multivalent interactions Magnus Kjærgaard Aarhus University Hosts: Margaret Stratton and Peter Chien 12:00pm Virtual Seminar Monday
Sep 15	Mapping the pathways of spliceosome active site formation with single molecule microscopy Aaron Hoskins University of Wisconsin, Madison Host: Eric Strieter 4:00pm Virtual Seminar
Sep 22	Byron Talks Katherine Zabala Sanidad (Zhang Lab) Postdoctoral Associate, Zeng Lab, Weill Cornell Medicine Host: Guodong Zhang Alex Wells (Pobezinsky Lab) Postoctoral Fellow, Belkaid Lab, NIAID/NIH Talk Title: Investigation of the tissue-imprinted cues regulating cutaneous immunity Host: Leonid Pobezinsky 4:00pm Virtual Seminar
Sep 28	Clash of the titans: How ticks navigate bloodmeal hosts and their microbes for survival Seemay Chou University of California, San Francisco Host: Peter Chien 12:00pm Virtual Seminar Monday
Oct 12	Precision targeting of the gut microbiota: Cancer and beyond Matthew Redinbo University of North Carolina Host: Guodong Zhang 12:00pm Virtual Seminar Monday
Oct 19	Maintenance and remodeling of epithelial cell-cell junctions during cell shape changes Ann Miller University of Michigan Host: Tom Maresca 12:00pm Virtual Seminar Monday
Oct 20	Bioproduct formation from CO₂ Shota Atsumi University of California, Davis Host: Josh Foster 4:00pm Virtual Seminar
Oct 26	Immune clocks: A right time to vaccinate and to fight infections Nicolas Cermakian McGill University Host: Michelle Farkas 12:00pm Virtual Seminar Monday
Oct 27	Multiplexable protein reporters and other new apps for nanopore sensor technology Jeff Nivala University of Washington Host: Spencer Shorkey 4:00pm Virtual Seminar
Nov 2	Tau Mini-Symposium Uncovering mechanisms of tau aggregation, spreading and toxicity by CRISPR-based functional genomics Michel Goedert, University of Cambridge Cryo-EM structures of amyloid filaments from human brain Martin Kampmann, University of California, San Francisco Hosts: Jeanne Hardy and Amanda Woerman 12:00pm Virtual Seminar Monday
Nov 9	ATPases in Protein Remodeling and Destruction Adrian Olivares Vanderbilt University Host: Afua Adusei 12:00pm Virtual Seminar Monday
Nov 10	A detailed look at tail-anchored membrane protein targeting - from yeast to people to plants Bil Clemons California Institute of Technology Host: Lynmarie Thompson 4:00pm Virtual Seminar
Nov 17	Cellular and Molecular Determinants of Copper Activation of Protein Kinases in Cancer Donita Brady University of Pennsylvania Host: Meg Stratton 4:00pm Virtual Seminar

Seminars

Fall 2020 Seminar Schedule

Intrinsically disordered proteins as regulators of enzymes and multivalent interactions

Mapping the pathways of spliceosome active site formation with single molecule microscopy

Byron Talks

Clash of the titans: How ticks navigate bloodmeal hosts and their microbes for survival

Precision targeting of the gut microbiota: Cancer and beyond

Maintenance and remodeling of epithelial cell-cell junctions during cell shape changes

Bioproduct formation from CO2

Immune clocks: A right time to vaccinate and to fight infections

Multiplexable protein reporters and other new apps for nanopore sensor technology

Tau Mini-Symposium

ATPases in Protein Remodeling and Destruction

A detailed look at tail-anchored membrane protein targeting - from yeast to people to plants

Cellular and Molecular Determinants of Copper Activation of Protein Kinases in Cancer

Bioproduct formation from CO₂