BMB Graduate Group Student Seminars for Spring 2026
Graduate Defenses
| Date | Location | Candidate | Degree | Title |
| Friday, March 27 1:00 p.m. |
Chalmers room 36 | Soheila Fatehi | Ph.D. | Staphylococcal Peroxidase Inhibitor: Structure/Function Analysis and Studies on Host-Species Specificity |
| Wednesday, April 1 1:30 p.m. |
Ackert room 324A | Lauren Apprill | M.S. |
Seminar Series
Seminars are Mondays at 4:30 p.m. in 13A Leasure Hall
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Feb. 16 | Zolian Zoong Lwe | Preliminary Characterization of the Arabidopsis Lipase AT5G16120 |
| Feb. 23 | Lauren Bishop | Chitin Binding by Cuticle Protein 27 and Identification of Binding Residues |
| Mar. 2 | Aidan Moore | Characterization of Novel Inhibitors of ClpB |
| Mar. 9 | Zachary Spaulding | Human CLPB interacts with MICU1, a regulator of mitochondrial calcium transport and inner membrane morphology |
| Mar. 16 | spring break | |
| Mar. 23 | Braxton Robertson | |
| Mar. 30 | Jingcheng Yu | |
| Apr. 6 | Aashna Srivastava | |
| Apr. 13 | Soheila Fatehi | |
| Apr. 20 | Andrea Miller | |
| Apr. 27 | Dewey Leierer |