Seminar Archive

Past Molecular Genetics Seminars

Spring 2024

• Jan 17: GSC meeting with Molecular Genetics Graduate Students
• Jan 24: No seminar
• Jan 31: Dr. Timothy J Plageman
• Feb 7: Valentina Posada (C.E. Burd lab) Fourth year seminar
• Feb 14: Oliver Marchus (Hollick lab) Fourth year seminar
• Feb 21: Matthew Mc Pherson (Hopper lab) Fourth year seminar
• Feb 28: Rabab Abu Alhasan (Singh lab) Fourth year seminar
• March 6: Jackson Hastings (Hopper lab) Fourth year seminar
• March 13 (no seminar, spring break)
• March 20:  SEMINAR CANCELLED
• March 27 Biao Ding Memorial Seminar: Dr. Peter Nagy
• April 3: Noah Lepola (C.E. Burd lab) Fourth year seminar
• April 10
• April 17
• April 24
• May 1 Annual DEI lecture: Dr. Blanton Tolbert

Autumn 2023

• August 23rd No seminar
• August 30th No seminar
• September 6th Molecular Genetics Open House. 2:30-5:30 pm, 1st floor Biological Sciences Building.
• September 13th: Dr. Greetchen Diaz
• September 20th: Dr. Bonnie Kircher
• September 27th: Dr. Christin Burd
• October 4th: Dr. Dana Shaw
• October 11th
• October 18th Waller Scientific Lecture: Dr. Zachary Lippman
  • Thursday, October 19th: Waller Lay Public Lecture: Dr. Zachary Lippman
• October 25th: Dr. Sharon Kessler
• November 1st: Dr. Simone Webb
• November 8th: Dr. Timothy Hines
• November 15th Dr. Ally Nguyen
• November 22nd: No seminar (Thanksgiving/Indigenous People's Day break)
• November 29th: Dr. Rolf Stottman
• December 6th:  Dr. Akanksha Thawani

Spring 2023

• January 11th Leah Rosin
• January 18th Rachel Belote
• Monday, January 23rd Sarah Hill
• January 25th Nathan McDonald
• February 1st Christine Cucinotta
• Monday February 6th Fanju Meng
• February 8th Rachel Shahan
• February 15th Esteban Orellana Vinueza
• February 22nd Kanishk Jain
• March 1st Graduate Program meeting with GSC
• March 8th No Seminar
• March 15th No seminar (Spring break)
• March 22nd Dr. Vladislav Belyy
• March 29th Nels O'Connell (PhD student, Bisaro Lab) 4th year talk
• April 5th Mowei Li  (PhD student, Hollick Lab) 4th year talk
• April 12th Youngmin Park (PhD student, Zhu Lab) 4th year talk
• April 19th Hanieh Taheri  (PhD student, Sparreboom/Hu Labs) 4th year talk
• April 26th Biao Ding Memorial Lecture: Anne Simon

Spring 2023

• September 28^th GSC meeting with Molecular Genetics graduate students (Lazenby 021)
• October 5^th No seminar
• October 12^th  Regina Nostramo (hosted by Susan Cole, Lazenby 021)
• October 19^th Valerie Tornini (hosted by Lauren Levesque, Anna Lubertozzi and Jay Hollick via Zoom).
• October 26^th  Nabora S. Reyes de Barboza (hosted by Valentina Posada and Christin Burd via Zoom).
• November 2^nd Melissa Roth (hosted by Ankita Das and Patrice Hamel via Zoom).
• November 9^th Olena Zhulyn (hosted by the Singh lab via Zoom).
• November 16^th Reserved for Faculty Search presentations
• November 23^rd No seminar (Thanksgiving/Indigenous People's Day)
• November 30^th Reserved for Faculty Search presentations
• December 7^th Reserved for Faculty Search presentations
• December 14^th Reserved for Faculty Search presentations

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 @ 4:10 pm
Online via Zoom
Fourth year seminar
Priscila Rodriguez Garcia (Herman Lab) 

Title: TBA

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 @ 4:10 pm
Online via Zoom
Fourth year seminar
Ashton Holub (Husband Lab)

Title: TBA

Wednesday, March 24, 2021 @ 4:10 pm
Online via Zoom
Fourth year seminar
Derek Boehm (Bird lab)
Title: TBA

Wednesday, April 7, 2021 @ 4:10 pm
Online via Zoom
Fourth year seminar
Kristen Navarro (Chamberlin Lab)
Title: TBA

May 30, 2019

Room 200, Campbell Hall (NOTE: different location)
Dr. Ram Dixit, Washington University
"A Tale of Two Spirals"
Host: Molecular Genetics (Iris Meier)

May 21, 2019 (NOTE: this is a TUESDAY)
Room 200, Campbell Hall (NOTE: different location)
Dr. Yanhai Yin, Iowa State University
"Network and Mechanisms for Plant Steroid Hormone Regulated Plant Growth and Drought Responses"
Host: Molecular Genetics (David Somers)

May 17, 2019 (NOTE: this is a FRIDAY)
Room 200, Campbell Hall (NOTE: different location)
Falkenthal Symposium
Guest speaker: Dr. Amit Sharma, The Ohio State University
"Viral and Host Determinants of SHIV Replication in Macaque Lymphocytes"
Host: Molecular Genetics

May 2, 2019
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Dr. Robin Buell, Michigan State University
"Genome dynamics in potato: Polyploidy and vegetative propagation permits genome plasticity"
Host: Molecular Genetics (Jay Hollick)

April 25, 2019
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Elizabeth Regedanz, 4th year seminar
"Understanding the roles of TCP24 and PRC2 in Geminivirus gene expression"
Host: Molecular Genetics

April 18, 2019
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Dr. Aaron Goldman, Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology
"Identifying a transcriptional regulatory network for heart regeneration" 
Host: Molecular Genetics

April 11, 2019
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Diego Cuerda-Gil, 4th year seminar
"Designing an mRNA tethering system to recruit silencing factor proteins"
Host: Molecular Genetics

April 4, 2019
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Marcos Corchado, 4th year seminar
"The role of LPR-3 as a cell non-autonomous regulator of LET-60/RAS in C. elegans"
Host: Molecular Genetics

March 28, 2019
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Biao Ding Memorial Lecture
Dr. Neocles Leontis, Bowling Green State University
"To G or not to G - that is the question: How (and why) to build a structured RNA with far fewer Guanosines"
Host: Molecular Genetics

March 21, 2019
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Dr. Venkatesan Sundaresan, UC Davis
"The zygotic transition in rice and applications for clonal propagation of hybrid seeds"
Host: Molecular Genetics (Jay Hollick)

February 28, 2019
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Dr. Ruben Petreaca, Dept of Molecular Genetics
"Chromatin remodeling factors in DNA double strand break repair"
Host: Molecular Genetics

January 31, 2019
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Dr. Wen Tang, Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology
"Genetics and genomics of the piRNA pathway" 
Host: Molecular Genetics

January 24, 2019
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Dr. Christoph Lepper, Dept. of Physiology and Cell Biology
"Resizing the muscle stem cell pool via signaling from the myofiber"
Host: Molecular Genetics

September 27, 2018
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Dr. Adrienne Roeder, Adolph E. Waller Memorial Lecturer
"Three stores about why I love being a plant biologist" (Public Lecture)
Host: Adolph E. Waller Memorial Lecture Series and Molecular Genetics

September 13, 2018
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Dr. Anna Dobritsa
Pollen apertures as a model for formation of distinct cellular domains (Video)
Host: Molecular Genetics

May 3, 2018
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Pooja Gangras (4th Year Student Presentation, Advisors: S. Amacher/G. Singh)
TBA
Host: Molecular Genetics

April 26, 2018
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Natalie Deans (4th Year Student Presentation, Advisor: J. Hollick)
TBA
Host: Molecular Genetics

April 19, 2018
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Meredith Sigman (4th Year Student Presentation, Advisor: K. Slotkin)
TBA
Host: Molecular Genetics

April 12, 2018
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Dr. Shou-Wei Ding, UC Riverside
Antiviral RNAi in plants and mammals
Host: Jian-Qiu Wu

April 5, 2018
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Steve Wilson (4th Year Student Presentation, Advisor: A. Bird)
Understanding Loz1-mediated zinc dependent regulation in S.pombe
Host: Molecular Genetics

March 29, 2018
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Galen Rask (4th Year Student Presentation, Advisor: A. Dobritsa)
TBA
Host: Molecular Genetics

March 22, 2018
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Anne Witzky (4th Year Student Presentation, Advisor:  M. Ibba)
Characterization of EF-P post-translational modification in Bacillus subtilis
Host: Molecular Genetics

March 8, 2018
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Amrit Singh
How mRNP composition determines mRNA fate
Host: Molecular Genetics

March 1, 2018
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Lauren Woodward (4th year student presentation, Advisor: G. Singh)
TBA
Host: Molecular Genetics

January 18, 2018
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Wayne Miles
Surviving RB-loss
Host: Molecular Genetics

November 20, 2015 - 1:00pm
Room 773, Biological Sciences Building
Thesis Defense Seminar
Ning Wang (Wu Lab)
Roles of actin motor myosin-V, Rho GEF Gef3, and membrane trafficking in fission yeast cytokinesis
Host: Molecular Genetics

October 8, 2015 - 4:10pm

Room 155, Jennings Hall
Ana Alonso
Metabolomics & Fluxomics: Cutting-Edge Tools to Decipher Plant Metabolic Networks
Host: Molecular Genetics

October 1, 2015 - 4:10pm
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Andrea Doseff
Mechanisms of Cell Death: Implications for Cancer and Inflammation
Host: Molecular Genetics

December 4, 2014 - 4:10pm
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Guramrit Singh
Unraveling the complexities of the exon junction complex during post-transcriptional gene expression
Host: Molecular Genetics

Novemeber 20, 2014 - 4:10pm
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Adriana Dawes
Signalling pathway dynamics during nematode vulval specification
Host: Molecular Genetics & Math

November 6, 2014 - 4:10pm
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Gustavo Leone
TBA
Host: Molecular Genetics & CCC

October 30, 2014 - 4:10pm
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Stephen Osmani
Integration of mitotic regulation with cell-to-cell connectivity
Host: Molecular Genetics

October 23, 2014 - 4:10pm              !!!!CANCELED as of 9/21/2014!!!
Room 170, DHLRI
David Baulcombe
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Cambridge
"RNA silencing and epigenetics in plants"
Host: Molecular Genetics

October 16, 2014 - 4:10pm
Room 155, Jennings Hall
David Mackey
A Conserved Family of Bacterial Virulence Factors Target Specific Isoforms of Protein Phosphatase 2A to Perturb Plant Metabolism and Defense
Host: Molecular Genetics

October 2, 2014 - 4:10pm
Room 111, Parks Hall
David Bisaro
From Epigenetic Pathways to the Control of Translation: Lessons Learned from Geminiviruses
Host: Molecular Genetics

September 25, 2014 - 4:10pm
Room 111, Parks Hall
Amanda Bird
"Identifying Factors that Influence Zinc Ion Homeostasis"
Host: Molecular Genetics and Nutrition

September 18, 2014 - 4:10pm
Room 111, Parks Hall
Keith Slotkin
"Understanding the Epigenetic Regulation of Transposable Elements: What have we Learned in the Past Five Years?"
Host: Molecular Genetics

September 4, 2014 - 4:10pm
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Anna Dobritsa
"Aperture formation on Arabidopsis pollen surface"
Host: Molecular Genetics

May 29, 2014 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
Wahi Kanu (4th year student presentation, Advisor: S. Cole)
"Examining the role of mir-125 family in the segmentation clock."
Host: Molecular Genetics

May 22, 2014 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
Joey Marquadt (4th year student presentation, Advisor: Harold Fisk)
“Examining the Centrosomal Localization Domain of Mps1”
Host: Molecular Genetics

May 22, 2014 - 1:00PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
Special Topic Seminar
Andrzej Wierzbicki
“Control of chromatin structure by long non-coding RNA”
Host: Keith Slotkin

May 15, 2014 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
Bo Zhang (4th year student presentation, Advisor: P. Herman)
“Characterization of the Recruitment of Casein Kinase 1 to P Bodies”
Host: Molecular Genetics

May 1, 2014 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
Yihua Zhu (4th year student presentation, Advisor: J.Q. Wu)
“Characterization of novel genes that participate in fission yeast cytokinesis”
Host: Molecular Genetics

April 17, 2014 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
Shubhra Majumder (Post Doctoral presentation, Advisor: H. Fisk)
“Novel roles of VDACs in regulating ciliogenesis and centriole assembly”
Host: Molecular Genetics

April 4, 2014 - 4:10PM
Room 0001, Jennings Hall
Waller Lecture Speaker
Dr. Peggy Lemaux
“From Basic to Applied Research: Modifying Expression of the Theoredoxin in Cereals Led to Unexpected Improvements - So, Where Are They”
Host: Molecular Genetics

April 3, 2014 - 4:10PM
Room 355, Jennings Hall
Waller Lecture Speaker
Dr. Peggy Lemaux
“Feast, Famine and the Future of Food”
Host: Molecular Genetics

March 27, 2014 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
Mark Corkins (4th year student presentation, Advisor: A. Bird)
“TBA”
Host: Molecular Genetics

March 6, 2014 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
Natcha Ruiz
“Understanding the function of MurJ in bacterial cell wall biogenesis”
Host: Patrice Hamel

February 27, 2014 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
Valerie Coffman (Post Doctoral presentation. Advisor: A. Dawes)
“Modeling pronuclear rotation in the C. elegans embryo.”
Host: Molecular Genetics

February 20, 2014 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
Biao Ding
“RNA 3D Motifs as A New Constraint of Viral and Subviral RNA Genome Evolution”
Host: Molecular Genetics

January 30, 2014 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
Adriana Dawes
“The role of mechanical and biochemical stimuli for initiation of polarity in the early C. elegans embryo”
Host: Molecular Genetics

December 5, 2013 - 4:10PM
*** Note location change: Room 111, Parks Hall
Harold Fisk
“Multiple roles for the Mps1 protein kinase in centrosome homeostasis”
Host: Molecular Genetics

November 21, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Anya Dobritsa
“Walls and gates: Genetics of exine and aperture formation in Arabidopsis pollen”
Host: Molecular Genetics

November 7, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Zakee Sabbree
“Peripatric speciation and functional conservation in host-isolated symbionts”
Host: Rebecca Lamb

October 31, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Amanda Bird
“Zinc homeostasis in Schizosaccharomyces pombe”
Host: Molecular Genetics

October 24, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Amanda Simcox
“Fly EGF takes wing by paracrine and autocrine signaling”
Host: Molecular Genetics

October 10, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Ana Alonso
“Plant Central Metabolism: From Carbon Flux Maps to Rational Engineering.”
Host: Molecular Genetics

September 26, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
James Hopper
“How Does the GAL Gene Transcriptional Switch of Yeast Work?”
Host: Molecular Genetics

Room 155, Jennings Hall
Hay-Oak Park
“Polarity and Asymmetry in a Single Cell: Lessons from Yeast”
Host: Molecular Genetics

September 5, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Andrea Doseff
“Survival and Apoptotic Networks Regulate Cellular Life Span: Implications for Cancer and Inflammation”
Host: Molecular Genetics

August 29, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Christin Burd
“Unraveling the Mysteries of Melanoma Using Mouse Genetics”
Host: Molecular Genetics

May 16, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
4th Year MG Student Presentation
Lawrence Small
"Cooperation Between Rho and Par Signalling During C. elegans Zygote Polarization."
Host: Molecular Genetics

May 2, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 001, Jennings Hall *Please note the change in location*
4th Year MG Student Presentation
Jeffrey Ostler
"Transcriptional gene silencing of virus DNA through RNA-directed DNA methylation"
Host: Molecular Genetics

April 25, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 001, Jennings Hall   *Please note the room change*
Craig Burd
“Nuclear Receptors: Mechanisms of Control and Dysfunction”
Host: Molecular Genetics

April 19, 2013 - 4:30PM
Room 001, Jennings Hall
37th Annual Adolph E. Waller Memorial Lecture Series
James Carrington
“RNA Silencing Mechanisms & Interactions in Plants”
Host: Molecular Genetics Graduate Students

April 18, 2013 - 1:00PM
Room 355, Jennings Hall
Andrew Goover
“Developing a genome-scale view of the genetic processes regulating the vascular cambium and wood formation in trees.”
Host: Molecular Genetics

April 18, 2013 - 5:00PM
Room 001, Jennings Hall
37th Annual Adolph E. Waller Memorial Lecture Series
James Carrington
“Making an Impact through Plant Science”
Host: Molecular Genetics Graduate Students

April 11, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
4th Year MG Student Presentation
Andrea McCue
"Regulation of Genes and Transposable Elements through small interfering RNAs"
Host: Molecular Genetics

April 4, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
4th Year MG Student Presentation
Jingyan Wu
"Identification and Characterization of Novel Genes Involved in tRNA Biology"
Host: Molecular Genetics

March 21, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
4th Year MG Student Presentation
Xiaorui Yang
"Metabolic engineering of cellulolytic Clostridia for n-butanol production from lignocellulosic biomass"
Host: Molecular Genetics

March 7, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
4th Year MG Student Presentation
Subbulakshmi Suresh
"Defining the mitotic roles of two essential Nucleoporins, Nup2 and NupA in Aspergillus nidulans"
Host: Molecular Genetics

February 28, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
4th Year MG Student Presentation
Ning Wang
"Roles of two novel proteins Rng8 and Rng9 in regulating myosin V in fission yeast cytokinesis"
Host: Molecular Genetics

February 14, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
4th Year MG Student Presentation
Saivageethi Nuthikattu
"Defining a role for RDR6 and PTGS in Transcriptional Gene Silencing (TGS)"
Host: Molecular Genetics

January 24, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 111 Parks Hall
Dave Somers
"Timing takes Teamwork: Co-repressors and co-chaperones in the circadian clock"
Host: Molecular Genetics

January 10, 2013 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall
Sharon Amacher
"Visualizing RNA oscillations: single cell resolution imaging of segmentation clock dynamics"
Host: Molecular Genetics

December 6, 2012 - 4:10PM
Room 111, Parks Hall *Please note the updated location.
Keith Slotkin
"Regulation of Genes and Transposable elements by Epigenetically Active Small Interfering RNAs"
Host: Molecular Genetics

November 29, 2012 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Victor Jin
"Learning regulatory codes through modeling and analyzing omics data"
Host: Molecular Genetics

November 15, 2012 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
"RNA and water: Unusual sources of intracellular stress"
Host: MolGen Post-Docs

November 1, 2012 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Jay Hollick
"Non-Mendelian inheritance of epigenetic variation"
Host: Molecular Genetics

October 18, 2012 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Hay-Oak Park
"'Touch and Go' at the bud site: Polarity and asymmetry in a single cell"
Host: Molecular Genetics

October 4, 2012 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Rebecca Lamb
"Glory in the flower: reproductive development in Arabidopsis thaliana"
Host: Molecular Genetics

September 20, 2012 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Ana Alonso
"CarbonQuest: Unfolding the Map of Seed Metabolism"
Host: Molecular Genetics

September 6, 2012 - 4:10PM
Room 155, Jennings Hall
Amanda Bird
“Regulatory zinc finger domains and zinc sensing”
Host: Molecular Genetics