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 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 Savanya Galhenage Characterization of Transcriptional Regulators of Glucosinolate Biosynthesis for Engineering Resilience in Thlaspi arvense
November 16 Lily Hilgenfeld
November 30 Zolian Zoong Lwe
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