FA18 Seminar Series

Seminars

Date	Speaker, Affiliation, Topic of Discussion (click title to see abstract)
8/22/2018	No seminar - First Week of Classes
8/29/2018	Program Faculty Research Seminars NAME: Dr. Matt Ferguson NAME: Dr. Cheryl Jorcyk
9/5/2018	Program Faculty Research Seminars NAME: Dr. Lisa Warner NAME: Dr. Byung Kim
9/19/2018	No Seminar
10/3/2018	NAME: Dr. Nikolaos Sgourakis, University of California, Santa Cruz HOST: Dr. Lisa Warner, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Getting in the Groove: Chaperone-assisted peptide exchange dynamics in the Major Histocompatibility Complex
10/10/2018	NAME: Dr. Sally E. Dickinson, The University of Arizona Cancer Center HOST: Dr. Cheryl Jorcyk, Department of Biological Sciences TITLE: Translational Skin Cancer Prevention Research at the University of Arizona and the Targeting of Toll-like Receptor 4
10/17/2018	NAME: Dr. Megan T. Valentine, University of California, Santa Barbara HOST: Dr. Matt Ferguson, Department of Physics Star power: Using sea squirts to investigate mechanosensing and vascular remodeling.
10/24/2018	No Seminar
10/31/2018	No Seminar
11/7/2018	Research Seminar NAME: Sarah Kobernat, Biomolecular Sciences Ph.D. Candidate TITLE: Multiple Targets for Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Signaling: Implications for Liver Disease
11/14/2018	NAME: Dr. Audrey Lamb, University of Kansas HOST: Dr. Rajesh Nagarajan, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry TITLE: From opine to evidence: staphylopine, pseudopaline and yersinopine biosynthesis
11/21/2018	NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving
11/28/2018	NAME: Dr. Amar Natarajan, University of Nebraska Medical Center HOST: Dr. Rajesh Nagarajan, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry TITLE:Targeting the diseased state of IKKbeta for pancreatic cancer therapy
11/29/2018	NAME: Josh Eixenberger TITLE: Harnessing the Physical Properties of ZnO Nanoparticles for Biological Applications and Factors that Impact ZnO Nanoparticle Toxicity
11/30/2018	TIME:12:00 pm - 1:00 pm NAME: Abir Rahman TITLE: Investigating autophagy dysfunction induced by a Parkinson’s Disease-causing mutation in VPS35
12/5/2018	NO SEMINAR
12/12/2018	NO SEMINAR – Finals Week