Wednesdays at 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. in SI 001 (unless otherwise noted)
Fall 2019
September 25th: Kevin Zhao (Zlotnick) "A pair of charged residues allosterically regulates HBV capsid assembly through secondary and quaternary structure"
October 2nd: Garrett Booher (VanNieuwenhze) "High-throughput Screen for Novel Inhibitors of Penicillin Binding Proteins"
October 23rd: Yifan Zhang (Giedroc) "The Rrf2 Family Repressor SifR and FeIII-Catechol-Dependent Iron Acquisition in Streptococcus pneumoniae"
October 30th: Yiming Fang (Nephew/Mitra) "Cancer Associated Fibroblasts Promote Ovarian Cancer Chemoresistance by Inducing Cancer Stem Cells through Wnt Signaling"
November 6th: Christine Kim (Zlotnick) "Disruption of HBV Capsids Mediated by Exogenous Molecules"
November 20th: Wenqian Li (Yan Yu) "Spatial Organization of Phagocytic Receptors and Its Role in Immune Synergy"
December 4th: Chris Sausen (Bochman) "The Pif1 DNA helicase is regulated by its N-terminus"
Spring 2020
January 22nd: Brady Strittmatter (Hollenhorst) "Activation of the oncogene ERG by the Ras/ERK and PI3K/AKT pathways"
January 29th: Jennifer Wong (Dann) "TBA"
February 12th: Carrie Lierz (Oakley) "TBA"
February 19th: Liu Yang (Brun) "Modified localization of peptidoglycan synthesis machinery results in different cell growth modes"
February 26th: Nijia Ke (Bauer) "TBA"
March 4th: Perla Palomino (Ressl) "TBA"
March 25th: Caleb Starr (Zlotnick) "TBA"
April 1st: Jane Newman (van Kessel) "SmcR-mediated regulation of quorum sensing in Vibrio vulnificus"
April 22nd: Yuxi Li (Niu) "The sensitivity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Exo1 nuclease towards DNA structures and its role in maintaining genome integrity"
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