BMB Graduate Group Student Seminars for Fall 2026

Graduate Defenses

Date	Location	Candidate	Degree	Title

Seminars are Mondays at 4:30 p.m. in 13A Leasure Hall

September 14	Dr. Timothy Durrett	Dialogue on the requirements and expectations for the BMB Graduate Program
September 21	Shelby Innes	Mechanisms of Lifespan and Healthspan Benefits by Neuroactive Compounds on Aging and Age-related Diseases
September 28	Braden Allphin	Structure-function analysis of Lyme disease complement classical pathway inhibitor, Elp-BG36
October 5	canceled
October 12	Tingyuan Xiao	An Expanded Role for BADC and CTI Function in Pennycress
October 19	Ruoying Chen	Potential Roles of Microexon Genes in Population Diversity of Hessian Fly
October 26	Aprajita Jha	Towards the development of novel complement-directed drugs based on Borrelial complement inhibitors
November 2	Amit Dutta	Investigating REST and Neurotransmitter Signaling in Neuroactive Drug-Induced Longevity in C. elegans
November 9 *postponed*	Savanya Galhenage	Characterization of Transcriptional Regulators of Glucosinolate Biosynthesis for Engineering Resilience in Thlaspi arvense
November 16	Lily Hilgenfeld	Mimicking Self: Structural Basis of CD47 Axis Subversion by the GBS B75KN-N Domain
November 30	Zolian Zoong Lwe
Date	Speaker	Title