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Seminar Series

About Seminar

The BMOL Seminar Series offers a wide variety of presentations given by students, faculty, and respected members of the scientific community. It is open to the members of Boise State’s campus as well as the public. If you would like to be added to the seminar mailing list, please email us at bmolseminar@boisestate.edu.

Seminars will be held in the Education Building, Room 109.

Fall 2025 Seminar Series Schedule

Date and Time Speaker, Affiliation, and Topic of DiscussionEvent Page Link
September 3rd
3:00 – 4:15 PM		NAME: Dr. Bo Li, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
TITLE: Biosynthesis of Unusual Small Molecules by Opportunistic Pathogens
HOST: Dr. Rajesh Nagarajan, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry		Dr. Li’s Event Page
September 17th
3:00 – 4:15 PM		NAME: Dr. David M. Leitner, University of Nevada, Reno
TITLE: Energy flow in proteins
HOST: Dr. Konrad Meister, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry		Dr. Leitner’s Event Page
October 1st
3:00 – 4:15 PM		NAME: Dr. Chih-Ming Tsai, Washington State University
TITLE: Immune Imprinting as the Basis for Staphylococcal Vaccine Failures
HOST: Dr. Julie Tinker, Department of Biological Sciences		Dr. Tsai’s Event Page
October 15th
3:00 – 4:15 PM		NAME: Dr. Kirsten Lampi, Oregon Health & Science University
TITLE: Protein Aggregation in the Eye Lens due to Cataract-associated Deamidation and Oxidation
HOST: Dr. Laxman Mainali, Department of Physics		Dr. Lampi’s Event Page
October 22nd
3:00 – 4:15 PM		NAME: Dr. Francois Lutzoni, Duke University
TITLE: An ecological clade-based genomic approach for the study of symbiotic pairing mechanisms between lichen-forming fungi and their cyanobacterial partners
HOST: Dr. Konrad Meister, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry		Dr. Lutzoni’s Event Page
November 5th
3:00 – 4:15 PM		NAME: Dr. Martin St. Maurice, Marquette University
TITLE: A Swing and a Miss: Allostery and Carrier Domain Dynamics in Pyruvate Carboxylase
HOST: Dr. Rajesh Nagarajan, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry		Dr. Maurice’s Event Page
November 12th
3:00 – 4:15 PM		Student Research Presentation
NAME: Stephanie Rood, BMOL Ph.D. Student
TITLE: Cold Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma: A Novel Approach of Microbial Inactivation on Crop Seeds
ADVISOR: Dr. Ken Cornell, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Student Research Presentation
NAME: Stephanie Tuft, BMOL Ph.D. Candidate
TITLE: Structure-Property-Processing Relationship in Demineralized Allogeneic Cancellous Bone Bioscaffold Material
ADVISOR: Dr. Julia Oxford, Department of Biological Sciences		Rood & Tuft Student Research Seminar Event Page
November 19th
3:00 – 4:15 PM		Student Research Presentation
NAME: Paige Skinner, BMOL Ph.D. Candidate
TITLE: Bending Without Breaking: Transcriptomic Plasticity in Sagebrush
ADVISOR: Drs. Sven Buerki and Eric Hayden, Department of Biological Sciences

Student Research Presentation
NAME: David Oke, BMOL Ph.D. Candidate
TITLE: Notch Signaling Through the Lens of Biomolecular Condensate
ADVISOR: Dr. Allan Albig, Department of Biological Sciences		Skinner & Oke Student Research Seminar Event Page
November 24th-30thThanksgiving Break
December 3rd
3:00 – 4:15 PM		Student Research Presentation
NAME: Maddie Grier, BMOL Ph.D. Candidate
TITLE: TBD
ADVISOR: Dr. Daniel Fologea, Department of Physics

Student Research Presentation
NAME: Hailey Burgoyne, BMOL Ph.D. Student
TITLE: TBD
ADVISOR: Dr. David Estrada, Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering

Spring 2026 Seminar Series Schedule

Date and Time Speaker, Affiliation, and Topic of DiscussionEvent Page Link
January 21st
3:00 – 4:15 PM
February 4th
3:00 – 4:15 PM
February 18th
3:00 – 4:15 PM
March 4th
3:00 – 4:15 PM		NAME: Dr. Lauren Webb, University of Texas at Austin
TITLE: TBD
HOST: Dr. Jenée Cyran, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
March 16 – 20th
Spring Break
March 25th
3:00 – 4:15 PM		NAME: Dr. Ashutosh Mangalam, University of Iowa
TITLE: TBD
HOST: Dr. Javier Ochoa-Repáraz, Department of Biological Sciences
April 8th
3:00 – 4:15 PM		NAME: Dr. Boris Vinatzer, Virginia Tech
TITLE: TBD
HOST: Dr. Konrad Meister, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
April 22nd
3:00 – 4:15 PM

Affiliate Seminar Series

If you are interested in watching talks presented by other departments (i.e., Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Physics), refer to the links below:

Department of Biological Sciences Seminars

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminars

Department of Physics Seminars and Events