BMB Graduate Group Student Seminars for Fall 2026

Graduate Defenses

Date	Location	Candidate	Degree	Title

Graduate Student Seminar Series

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	Dewey Leierer
October 12	Tingyuan Xiao
October 19	Ruoying Chen
October 26	Aprajita Jha
November 2	Amit Dutta
November 9	Zolian Zoong Lwe
November 16	Lily Hilgenfeld
November 30	Savanya Galhenage
Date	Speaker	Title