Seminars

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

BMB Department Seminars

Spring 2022

Wednesdays at 4 p.m. in 120 Ackert Hall or Zoom

Please see weekly abstract for location information.

Date	Speaker	Affiliate	Title/PDF Abstract
January 26	Jeremy Schmit	Physics Kansas State University	Biophysical basis of biomolecular condensate functionality
February 2	Huilin Li	Structural Biology Van Andel Institute	Molecular mechanism of proteostasis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
February 9	No Seminar
February 16	John Tomich	Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Kansas State University	Linear Amphipathic Oligopeptides Stably Encase Low Dielectric Solvents: A New Platform Vehicle for Hydrophobic Therapeutics
February 23	Socrates Munoz	Chemistry Kansas State University	Simplicity as the Driving Force for New Reaction Invention: Adventures in Organofluorine Chemistry and Catalysis
March 2	Ming-Shun Chen	USDA-ARS Entomology Kansas State University	Sword and Shield: Roles of Parasite Effectors and Plant Cell Wall during Parasite – Host Interactions
March 9	Pankaj Baral canceled	Biology Kansas State University	Nociceptor Neuron Regulation of Respiratory Viral infection
March 16 Spring Break	No Seminar
March 23	Leonard Dobens	Genetics, Development and Evolutionary Biology University of Misouri, Kansas City	Control of Insulin Sensitivity by the Tribbles Pseudokinase: Lessons from Drosophila
March 30	Mark Wilson	Biochemistry University of Nebraska	New Light on an Old Problem: Time-resolved X-ray Crystallography of Enzymes in Action
April 6-7 Hageman Lecture	Daniel Voytas	Genetics, Cell Biology and Development University of Minnesota	Overcoming Bottlenecks in Plant Gene Editing Gene Editing Ushers in a New Era in Plant Agriculture
April 13	Nicholas Wallace	Biology Kansas State University	Beta-Genus Human Paillomaviruses and Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers
April 20 In person	Ronak Tilvawala	Molecular Biosciences University of Kansas	Citrullination and Thrombosis
April 27	Erik Holmstrom	Molecular Biosciences University of Kansas	Compaction and folding of RNAs in apolar chemical environments
May 4	Punit Prakash	Electrical and Computer Engineering Kansas State University	Technologies for personalized delivery of energy-based image-guided interventions