Seminars

Thursdays, L4.176, at noon, unless otherwise noted.

Date	Speaker/Title	Host/PI
9/27/18	Sebastian Winter, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center “Precision Editing of the Gut Microbiota”	Anthony Michael, Ph.D.
10/11/18	Ruma Banerjee, Ph.D. Professor, University of Michigan “Metabolic Signaling through Hydrogen Sulfide”	Margaret Phillips, Ph.D.
10/17/18 Wednesday	Michael Rout, Ph.D. Professor, The Rockefeller University “A Hole New View: Structure and Mechanism of the Nuclear Pore Complex”	Steven McKnight, Ph.D.
10/25/18	Vincent Tagliabracci, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center “Expanding the Kinome”	Margaret Phillips, Ph.D.
11/8/18	Tahir Tahirov, Ph.D Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center “Structure and Function of Human Primosome”	Deepak Nijhawan, Ph.D.
11/15/18	Guy Poirier, Ph.D. Professor, Laval University “Cross-talk between covalent and non-covalent PARylation during DNA damage repair”	Yonghao Yu, Ph.D.
11/29/18	Jennifer Roizen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Duke University “Masked Alcohols and Amines Guide Position-Selective C–H Functionalization Reactions”*	Uttam Tambar, Ph.D.
12/6/18	Christian Kastrup, Ph.D. Associate Professor, The University of British Columbia “Materials and Mechanisms that Control Coagulation and Hemorrhage”	Daniel Siegwart, Ph.D.
12/13/18	Cunqi Ye, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher, UT Southwestern Medical Center “Histones: Tunable methyl repositories by membrane phospholipids and the phosphatase PP2A”	Benjamin Tu, Ph.D.
12/18/18	Anthony Burgett, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma “Novel Anti-Viral and Precision Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Development Through Targeting the Oxysterol-binding Proteins (OSBP/ORPs)”	Joseph Ready, Ph.D.
12/20/18	Sergey Pronin, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine “New methods and strategies in the synthesis of natural products”	Uttam Tambar, Ph.D.
1/10/19	Andrew Koh, Ph.D. Associate Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center “The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Modulating the Immune Response in Cancer and Stem Cell Transplant Patients”	Noelle Williams, Ph.D.
1/17/19	Matt Sieber, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center “Examining how dynamic changes in mitochondrial metabolism drive fertility and progeny disease susceptibility”	Benjamin Tu, Ph.D.
2/14/2019	Tom Snaddon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Indiana University Bloomington “Enantioselective Chemical Synthesis Methods via Cooperative Catalysis: Design, Development and Application”*	Uttam Tambar, Ph.D.
2/19/18	Brian Stoltz, Ph.D. Professor, Caltech “Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry”	Joseph Ready, Ph.D.
2/21/19	Tom Maimone, Ph.D. Associate Professor, The University of California, Berkeley “Synthesis and Study of Complex Natural Products”	Myles Smith, Ph.D.
3/7/19	Squire Booker, Ph.D. Professor, Penn State University “The Biosynthesis of Lipoic Acid: A Saga of Death, Destruction, and Rebirth”	Benjamin Tu, Ph.D.
3/21/19	Elizabeth Nolan, Ph.D. Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Metals and Immunity: Exploring Siderophore Scaffolds for Immunization and Antibacterial Strategies”	Anthony Michael, Ph.D.
3/28/19	David Nagib, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University “C-H and C-O Functionalization via Radical Chaperones”	Uttam Tambar, Ph.D.
4/4/19	Seminar Canceled
4/11/19	Karen Allen, Ph.D. Professor, Boston University “Adaptation of phosphatases as regulators, catalysts, and housekeepers”	Anthony Michael, Ph.D.
4/17/19 Wednesday 4 p.m.	A.L. Chilton Lectureship in Biochemistry James A. Wells, Ph.D. Professor, University of California, San Francisco “Attacking the Surfaceome of Cancer Cells”	Margaret Phillips, Ph.D.
4/18/19	Steven Malcolmson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Duke University “New Strategies for the Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Amines and Other Challenging Scaffolds”	Joseph Ready, Ph.D.
4/25/19	Youla Tsantrizos, Ph.D. Professor, McGill University “Engineering Phosphorus-Containing Molecules as Tools for Biochemical Investigations and Asymmetric Catalysis”	Chuo Chen, Ph.D.
5/2/19	Canceled
5/9/19	Shaomeng Wang, Ph.D. Professor, University of Michigan “Targeting gene transcription by PROTAC for new cancer therapeutics”	Chuo Chen, Ph.D.
5/16/19	Steven Townsend, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University “Human Milk Oligosaccharides: Defense Against Pathogens”	Jennifer Kohler, Ph.D.