Winter 2021 Seminars

1/12/21	IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP
1/19/21	Speaker: Dr. Andrew Garrett, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Sciences, SOM, WSU Title: Balancing adhesion and self-avoidance in retinal neural circuit formation.
1/26/21	No seminar
2/2/21	IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP Speaker: Dr. Jim Song, Professor of Microbial Pathogenies and Immunology, Texas A & M Title: Regulation of NAC1 in T cells and T cell-mediated immunity
2/9/21	Speaker: Dr. Travis Taylor, Assistant Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Toledo https://www.utoledo.edu/med/depts/micro/faculty/Travis_Taylor.html Title: TRIM Trims Flavivirus Replication by Trimming the Viral Protease
2/16/21	Speaker: Dr. Susan Weiss, Professor & Vice-Chair, Dept. of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Univ. of Pennsylvania Title: Coronaviruses: History, Biology and Innate immune Antagonism
2/23/21	Rescheduled from W 2020 Speaker: Dr. Huilin Li, Professor, Center for Cancer and Cell Biology, and Program Lead, Structural Biology, Van Andel Research Institute Title: Molecular mechanism of DNA replication from origins to forks and factories.
3/2/21	IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP
3/9/21	Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Allen, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University, Chicago Title: Let's mix it up! Polymorphic toxins and Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence.
3/16/21	NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
3/23/21	Speaker: Dr. Walter Chazin, Professor of Biochemistry, Professor of Physics, Professor of Chemistry, Chancellor's Chair in Medicine, Director-at-Large, Vanderbilt NMR facilities, Vanderbilt University Title: The action of EF-hand proteins inside and outside cells: From regulating cardiac channel to suppressing the growth of bacterial pathogens.
3/30/21	Speaker: Dr. Charlie Fehl, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, WSU Title: Real-time chemical tools to modulate dynamic sugar signaling in cells
4/6/21	IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP
4/13/21	Speaker: Dr. Dax Fu, Associate Professor of Physiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Title: In-cell molecular functions of human zinc transporter-8 and its roles in diabetes pathophysiology
4/20/21	Speaker: Dr. Kay-Uwe Wagner, Lloyd and Marilynn Smith Endowed Chair for Breast Cancer Res., Professor, Dept. of Oncology, & Leader, Tumor Biology & Microenvironment Program, SOM, WSU Title: New Insights into the Biology of Claudin-low Mammary Cancer
4/27/21	Rescheduled from W 2020 Speaker: Dr. Chunyu Wang, MD, Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences & Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Title: Structural mechanisms and drug discovery in Alzheimer's disease and Cancer
5/4/21	IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP
5/11/21	Speaker: Dr. Aaron Ralby, Founder/Director, Linguisticator Ltd, Cambridge, and CEO, Lynxeus, UK Title: Activating Advanced Recall Through Memory Palaces.
5/20/21	Faculty Candidate Seminar - At Noon Speaker: Simone Brixius-Anderko, Ph.D.** Topic: Understanding Aldosterone Biosynthesis for Enhanced Treatment of Hypertension.
	April 26, 2021 IS THE LAST DAY OF CLASSES April 27, 2021 IS A STUDY DAY April 28- May 4 2021 FINAL EXAMS Spring/summer term begins on Monday, May 10, 2021