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Seminar Schedule

Fall 2025 Seminars

Unless otherwise announced, seminars will be held at the Houston Science Center (HSC) Room 102 at 4:00pm or/and streamed (links to be announced).

Date
Speaker
Title
Host
09/03 Ramakrishna Kommagani
Baylor College of Medicine
Gut Microbiome Meets Endometriosis: Mechanisms, Diagnosis, and Therapy Ping Yi
09/10 Yiwen Chen 
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Large-scale data-driven approaches for illuminating the “dark” proteome in human cancer Weiyi Peng
09/17 Marianne C. Kramer
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Identification of a cleaved aberrant RNA associated with the initiation of transgene silencing Brigitte Dauwalder
09/24 Maria Orive 
University of Kansas
The effects of partial clonality on evolutionary rescue and the opportunity for spatial adaptation Ricardo Azevedo
10/01 Shelley Sianta 
UT Austin
TBD Rebecca Zufall
10/08  Vineet Gupta 
UTMB (Galveston)
From discovery to clinic: Novel myeloid directed therapeutics for Lupus Nephritis Stuart Dryer
10/15 Moria Chambers
Bucknell University
Lessons learned from firefly immunity Richard Meisel
10/22  Meg Filbin 
Metropolitan State University, Denver
Regulating protein synthesis at the membrane: interaction between a chemotropic receptor and the large ribosomal subunit Quentin Vicens
10/29 Jason Martina 
Texas State University, San Marcos
TBD Steven Pennings
11/05  Liz Koziol 
University of Kansas
Native & Commercial Mycorrhizal Applications in Organic Agriculture and Restoration Kerri Crawford
11/12  George Bloom 
University of Virginia
From Bench to Bedside: How Basic Science Might Lead to Prevention Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease Jokubas Ziburkus
11/19 Abhiskek Singharoy
Arizona State University
TBD Mehmet Sen
12/03  Xintong Dong 
UT Dallas
TBD Wangchao Xu
12/10 Julia Davydova
University of Minnesota
From Rodent Models to Pigs and Non-Human Primates: Driving the Clinical Translation of Oncolytic Adenoviruses Shaun Zhang