Tuesday, September, 5, 2017
10:45 AM
4630 TBBC
Host: Joel S. Miller
November Events & Seminars
School of Medicine Seminar Series
Abraham Palmer, PhD
Professor & Vice Chair
Basic Research
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego
“Using the Quantitative Genetics Toolbox to Identify New Ways to Treat Mental Illness”
November 28, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Membrane Trafficking Interest Group
Leo Parra
Jorgensen Lab
“Interspecies complementation
identifies two functional targets of Unc18 proteins”
Nov 21st at 9AM
1200 EEJMRB (Kjeldsberg Conference Room)
Seminars in Metabolism Presents:
Michael Cowley, PhD
Professor of Physiology
Founding Director, Monash Obesity & Diabetes Institute
Monash University
“Brain/dorsomedial hypothalamus and brown adipose tissue control of body weight and blood glucose”
November 16, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 2600
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology & Biochemistry
Faculty Search Seminar
Helena Safavi
Research Assistant Professor
Univeristy of Utah
"Next-Generation Drug Discovery and Design from Venoms"
Thursday, November 16, 2017
501 BPRB 10:00AM
Accepting Molecular Biology PHD or Biological Chemistry PHD Applications for Fall 2018!
PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
APPLICATION GUIDELINES
Applications Due December 1, 2017
Financial and Employment Challenges
Facing Graduate Students & Adjuncts
lecture & panel discussion
Knowledge is Power?
Employment at a University can have many challenges at the adjunct, postdoc, and graduate student level. Join us for a presentation by Professor Mauro Caraccioli of Virginia Tech regarding his past activism on behalf of graduate students and the current issues facing adjunct professors and graduate students. Following the presentation, we will have a panel discussion including University representatives and a Q&A session.
Lecture & Panel
Monday, November 13
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Student Union Bldg - Parlor A
For more information, contact the Graduate School at info@gradschool.utah.edu
The Department of Pathology
— PRESENTS —
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Presented by
Gang Li, Ph.D.
Instructor
Department of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
“From GWAS to Functional SNPs and to Mechanisms”
Thursday, November 16th, 2017 12:00 p.m.
HSEB Alumni Hall
Ophthalmology Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series
Deborah Ferrington, PhD
Professor, Elaine & Robert Larson Endowed Vision
Research Chair
Univ. of Minnesota Medical School, Dept. of Ophth. & Visual Neurosciences
The Pathology of Age-Related Macular Degenera7on Involves Altered Bioenerge7cs in the Re7nal Pigment Epithelium
Location: John A. Moran Eye Center Auditorium
Date: November 8, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm
IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION, & INFECTIOUS DISEASE SEMINAR SERIES
Patricia Ernst, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology
Pre-clinical Associate Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program
University of Colorado
"H3K4 methyltransferase function in hematopoiesis and leukemia"
Friday, November 3, 2017
12:15 - 1:15PM
HSEB 2680
Host: Dean Tantin
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes
Diabetes and Metabolism Center
Seminars in Metabolism
Jenna Goodrum
Graduate Student
Department of Biochemistry – Adam Hughes Lab
“Rsp5/Nedd4 Regulates Mitochondrial Structure in Response to Metabolic Stress”
November 2, 2017
HSEB 2600
4:00 – 5:00PM
University of Utah
Department of Biology Seminar
Thursday, November 30
4:00-5:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Paul Bresloff, Ph.D
Department of Mathematics
University of Utah
“Stochasticity and self-organization in cell biology”
Satish Nair, PhD
Director
Center for Biophsyics & Quantitative Biology
I.C. Gunsalus Chair & Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois
"Turning Linear Peptides into Cyclic Drugs"
Thursday, November 16, 2017
4:00PM in HSEB 3515B
PhD Thesis Defense
Raghav Kalia
BS Delhi University
MS Jawaharlal Nehru University
"Necleotide-Mediated Allostery and Adaptor Binding by the Mitochondrial Fission Dynamin"
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
1:00PM
HSEB 3515B
Terrie Taylor, DO
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Osteopathic Medical Specialties
Michigan State University
“Understanding the Pathogenesis of Pediatric Cerebral Malaria: More Pieces of the Puzzle”
November 14, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Host: Tracey Lamb, Pathology
The Department of Pathology
— PRESENTS —
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Presented by
Ye Grace Chen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University
“Circumnavigating the RNA World:
Circular RNA Immunity”
Tuesday, November 14th, 2017 12:00 p.m.
Kjeldsberg Conference Room, JMRB 1200
Katie Drerup, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurobiology
National Institute of Child Health Development
"Regulation of retrograde mitochondrial transport in axons"
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
4:00PM
EIHG Auditorium
Human Genetics Seminar Series Presents
NEEDHI BHALLA, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of MCD Biology
University of California, Santa Cruz
“A Tale of Two Checkpoints”
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
12:00 NOON
EIHG 1st floor Auditorium
MATERIALS COLLOQUIUM
Howard Katz PhD
Professor
John Hopkins University
"Polymer-Dopant Synergies for Thermoelectric Performance in Sustainable Materials"
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
10:45 AM 4630 TBBC
Host: Luisa Whittaker-Brooks
Make some Industry connections!
Gilead
Monica Tijerina & Scott Mitchell from Gilead will give an overview of pharmaceutical development with a case study and talk about Gilead as a company. There will be a Q&A period and they would like to mingle and get to meet with as many people as possible.
Date: Thursday, November 2nd
Time: 1:30-3:00pm
Location: HSEB 1750
Seminars in Metabolism Presents
J. David Symons, PhD
Professor, Nutrition and Integrative Physiology
Adjunct Professor, Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes
Investigator, Molecular Medicine Program
University of Utah
“The influence of autophagy on endothelial cell metabolism and function”
Thursday, November 30, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 2600
DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY PRESENTS:
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Gang Li, PhD
Instructor
Department of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Thusday, November 16, 2017
13:00 PM
HSEB Alumni Hall
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes
Diabetes and Metabolism Center
Seminars in Metabolism
Andrew W. Norris, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of Iowa
“Digging up the many roots of cystic fibrosis related diabetes”
4:00 – 5:00PM
November 9, 2017
HSEB 2600
Bio/Org Seminar
Mitsuhiko Shionoya
University of Tokyo
"Metal-based Supramolecular Array, Space, and Motion"
Thursday, November 9, 2017
10:45AM 4630 TBBC
Host: Cynthia Burrows
Sherwood Casjens
Department of Pathology
“My Love Affair with Bacteriophage
(and by the way they are relevant too)”
Monday, November 6, 2017
4:15 PM
Kjeldsberg Conference Room
Emma Eccles Jones Medical Research Building
Physical Seminar
Peter G. Kusalik
Department of Chemistry
University of Calgary
"Molecular Simulations of Crystallization and Self-Assembly"
Monday, November 13, 2017
TBBC 4630
4:00PM
Host: Valeria Molinero
Department of Biology Seminar
TEP Faculty Candidate Seminar
Phyllis D. Coley, Ph.D.
University of Utah
“Is the high diversity in tropical forests driven by the interactions between plants and their pests”
Thursday, November 2
4:00-5:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
October Events & Seminars
BIOLOGICAL SEMINAR
William J Placzek
University of Alabama Birmingham
"Characterizing a new protein binding motif: Reverse-BH3 interactions with MCL1"
THURSDAY-OCTOBER 26, 2017
10:45 am 4630 TBBC
TEP Faculty Candidate Seminar
Janice L. Robertson, Ph.D.
University of Iowa
“Driving forces of membrane protein assembly in membranes”
Thursday, October 26
4:00-5:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Department of Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Brandon Buckway, Ph.D.
Senior PET Radiochemist
Center for Quantitative Cancer Imaging
Huntsman Cancer Institute,
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Utah
“Theranostic Radiopharmaceuticals for Positron Emission Tomography (PET)”
Monday, October 23, 2017
HSEB 4100B
4:00PM – 5:00PM
Come See Us At SACNAS 2017!
Booth 813
Salt Palace Convention Center
100 S W Temple, Salt Lake City
"2017 SACNAS is proud to invite you to beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. Bordered by the Great Salt Lake, and the Wasatch and Oquirrh mountain ranges, there is plenty to see between conference sessions and workshops!"
Karl Thompson, Ph.D.
Howard University
“tRNA modifications necessary for optimal gene expression of global regulators in E. coli”
Thursday, October 19
4:00-5:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
ANALYTICAL SEMINAR
Jean-François Masson
University of Montreal
"Plasmonic nanobiosensors: From therapeutic drug and environmental Monitoring to optophysiology of living cells"
MONDAY-OCTOBER 16, 2017
4:00 pm room 4630 TBBC
Department of Biology Seminar
Marcus Stensmyr, Ph.D.
Lund University
“Where the wild flies are: olfactory ecology of Drosophila”
Thursday, October 12
4:00-5:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
FACULTY SEARCH SEMINAR
Kristi J. Warren, PhD
Instructor
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Sex differences in asthma linked to group 2 innate lymphoid cell activation
1:00 P.M.
MAULIK PATEL, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Vanderbilt University
“Transmission Dynamics of Mitochondrial Mutations and Their Functional Consequences”
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
12:00 NOON
EIHG 1st floor Auditorium
PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM
Andrei Tokmakoff
University of Chicago
"The Dynamics of Protons in Liquid Water Viewed through Ultrafast IR Spectroscopy”
MONDAY-OCTOBER 02, 2017
4:00 pm 4630 TBBC
Seminars in Metabolism Presents:
Gwenael Layec, PhD
Department, Internal Medicine
University of Utah
VA Medical Center
“Is skeletal muscle metabolism and O2 availability impaired in patients with COPD? Insight from in vivo MR Spectroscopy”
Thursday, October 26, 207
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 2600
Nels Elde, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Human Genetics
School of Medicine
University of Utah
Evolutionary Innovations from Biological Collisions”
October 24, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
ANALYTICAL/PHYSICAL SEMINAR
Scott K. Shaw
Assistant Professor
The University of Iowa
"Measuring Molecules Near Surfaces: Better than a Needle in a Haystack"
MONDAY-OCTOBER 23, 2017
4:00 pm 4630 TBBC
Xuewu Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Biophysics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Signaling and regulation mechanisms of the guidance receptor plexin
Friday, October 20th, 2017
12:00 pm
HSEB 2600
ORGANIC/BIORGANIC SEMINAR
Simon B. Blakey
Emory University
“Oxidative C-H Functionalization”
THURSDAY-OCTOBER 19. 2017
10:45 am 4630 TBBC
Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series
Jennifer L Weidhaas, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Utah
''Human health risks from waterborne pathogens: an environmental engineering perspective''
Friday, October 13, 2017
12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m
HSEB 2680
Seminars in Metabolism Presents:
Milind Chalishazar
Graduate Research Assistant
Oncological Sciences – Trudy G. Oliver Lab
Huntsman Cancer Institute
“MYC-driven small cell lung cancer exhibits unique metabolic and therapeutic vulnerabilities”
Thursday, October 12, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 2600
Brian Dilkes, Ph.D.
Purdue University
“Genetics as atom smasher: testing longstanding hypotheses at gene level resolution”
Thursday, October 5
4:00-5:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Seminars in Metabolism presents:
Karina Vazquez-Arreguin
Graduate Research Assistant
Microbiology & Immunology – Dean Tantin Lab
University of Utah
“The Role of Oct1 in intestinal stem cells and cancer?
Thursday, October 5, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 2600
The biochemistry seminar Series presents:
Benjamin Tu, PhD
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
"Unexpected functions for epigenetic modifications on chromatin"
Monday, October 2nd, 2017
4:00PM
HSEB 3515B
Host: Adam Hughes
hughes@biochem.utah.edu
Pharmacology & Toxicology
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Dr. Bokai Zhu
Baylor College of Medicine
Unveiling ‘Musica Universalis’ Of The Cell
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
501 BPRB (Biopolymer)
1:30 PM
Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series
Robert Ernst, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Microbial Pathogenesis
University of Maryland - Baltimore
"Structure Matters - Engineering bacteria to benefit the host''
Friday, October 27, 2017
12: 15p m -1 15 p m
HSEB 2680
SciComm Fair
October 23, 2017
The SciComm Fair brings attention to science communication resources from across campus that help grad students and postdocs up their communication game. As part of the day of Science Communication Events, the SciComm Fair will showcase NPR’s science correspondents Joe Palca and Madeline Sofia, local experts in communicating research, and a diverse array of campus programs.
1:00 – 3:30 | USTAR (SMBB) Atrium
Joe’s Big Idea: How to get the Most out of Being a FoJBI with Madeline Sofia
Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series
Robert Ernst, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Microbial Pathogenesis
University of Maryland - Baltimore
"Structure Matters - Engineering bacteria to benefit the host''
Friday, October 27, 2017
12: 15p m -1 15 p m
HSEB 2680
ORGANIC SEMINAR
Nadine Kuhl
Senior Scientist
Merck Research Labs, Rahway, New Jersey
“Development of a Commercial Manufacturing Route for Verubecestat”
FRIDAY-OCTOBER 20, 2017
1:30 pm 4630 TBBC
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes
Diabetes and Metabolism Center
Seminars in Metabolism Presents:
Rana Gupta, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department, Internal Medicine Touchstone Diabetes Center
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
“Regulation of Adipose Tissue Development and Remodeling in Obesity”
Thursday, October 19, 207
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 2600
Department of Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Jessica Kramer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Utah
Bioengineering Department
“Glycocalyx Engineering with Synthetic Glycopolypeptides”
Monday, October 16, 2017
HSEB 4100B
4:00PM – 5:00PM
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
DISERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR
Erica C. Larson
PHD Candidate
University of Utah
Improving Therapeutic Strategies against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and HIV
Friday, October 13, 2017
Room: HSEB 2680
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 am
Steven R. Cummings, MD
Director, San Francisco Coordinating Center
Research Scientist- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute
Professor of Medicine- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Emeritus
University of California, San Francisco
“Arbitrary Diagnoses: The Cases of Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia”
October 10, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
SEMINAR
Cecilia G. Sanchez PhD
Assistant Professor
Section of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care, Dept. Medicine
Tulane University
Geroscience in the Development of New Therapeutic Tools against Pulmonary Fibrosis
Thursday, October 5, 2017
501 BPRB
11:30 A.M.
September Events & Seminars
RPT Seminar
Colin Dale, PhD
University of Utah
“Degeneration and Adaptation in the Cradle of Symbiosis”
Thursday, September 28
4:00-5:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Department of Biochemistry Presents:
The Rising Star Symposium
Thusday, September 21st
Session 1: Chemical Biology
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
HSEB 3515B
Break for Lunch
Session 2: Protein Design
2:00 - 5:00PM
HSEB 2680
Friday, September 22nd
Session 1: Metabolism
9:00AM - 1:00PM
HSEB 3515B
Break for Lunch
Sessions 2: Structure/Imaging
2:10P- 4:30PM
HSEB 3515B
featuring
Keynote Speaker:
Erik Jorgensen, PhD
University of Utah
"Bending Membranes during Ultrafast Endocytosis"
The Division of oncology presents:
Oncology Faculty Candidate
Kara Maxwell, MD, PhD
Department of Hematology/Oncology The University of Pennsylvania
"Inherited Genetics in Breast and Ovarian Tumorigenesis and Treatment"
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
12:00PM
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Research North 4 Large Conference Room
Hosted by:
Dr. Lynn Henry
Oncology Division Interim Chief
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy presents
Kim McAllister, PhD
Professor, Department of Neurobiology
University of California, Davis
“Novel roles for immune molecules in brain development and disease”
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Human Genetics Seminar Series Presents:
Bradly R. Cairns, PhD
"Totipotency: Insights from Germline Stem Cells and Ealry Embryos"
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
12PM
EIHG 1st Floor Auditorium
Hosted by: Charlie Murtaugh
“Interorganellar communication between peroxisomes and mitochondria”
By: Esther Nuebel, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow
Research Specialist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Utah
&
“Vms1 roles in mitochondrial and ribosomal quality control”
By: Eric Fredrickson, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Biochemistry – Rutter Lab
University of Utah
Thursday, September 28
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 2600
Zebrafish Interest Group presents:
Kristin Artinger, PhD
Professor
Department of Craniofacial Biology
University of Colorado Denver
"Regulation of Neural Crest Migration in Zebrafish"
Monday, Septebmer 18, 2017
12:00PM
HSEB 4100B
Contact Kristen Kwan with questions!
kmkwan@genetics.utah.edu
HUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE SYMPOSIUM
“Frontiers in Cancer Prevention, Research, and Therapy”
Friday, September 15, 2017 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
HCI George and Dolores Doré Eccles Auditorium
6th floor, Huntsman Cancer Institute
Parry Inorganic Colloquium
Tobin J. Marks, Northwestern University
Charles E. & Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry & Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Vladimir N. Ipatieff, Professor of Catalytic Chemistry
"Surface Science Meets Momogeneous Catalysis: Cooperative Properties of Electrophilic Organometallic Ensembles"
Immunology, Inflammation, & Infectious Disease Seminar Series
Floyd Wormley, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean of Resarech & Graduate Studies, The University of Texas at San Antonio
"Induction of Memory-like Responses by Innate Cells against Cryptococcus neoformans in vivo"
Friday, September 1, 2017
12:15 - 1:15PM
HSEB 2680
Glen Kwon, PhD
Professor
Jens T. Carstensen Distinguished Chair Professor
School of Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical Sciences Division
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
“Injectable Polymeric Micelles and Gels for Poorly Water-soluble Anticancer Drug Combinations”
Monday, September 25, 2017
HSEB 4100B
4:00PM – 5:00PM
Seminar Series Presents:
RPT Seminar
Richard M. Clark, PhD
Associate Profesor
Department of Biology
University of Utah
"Genetic underpinnings of environmental adaptation in an extreme generalist herbivore"
Thursday, September 14, 2017
4:00 - 5:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
BIOSCIENCE SYMPOSIUM
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Marriott University Park Hotel
1:00 PM – 8:30 PM
DON SUMMERS MEMORIAL LECTURE
Tom Cech, University of Colorado, Boulder
Registration Required:
The Biochemistry Seminar Series presents:
Cole Haynes, PhD
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
"Mitochondrial stress responses, innate immunity and toxic genomes"
Monday, September 11, 2017
4:00PM
HSEB 3515B
Host: Jared Rutter
Contact Jared with Quetions:
rutter@biochem.uta.edu
Ryan Looper
Henery Eyring Associate Professor, University of Utah Chemistry
"Engineering the Aminohexose-Cytosine Antibiotics as Selective P-site Inhibitors"
Thursday, September 7, 2017
10:45 AM
4630 TBC
August Events & Seminars
Please join Recursion Pharmaceuticals and BioUtah for our
Women in Science and Technology Series
Dr. Ana Maria Lopez
Thursday, August 3, 2017
5:00-6:30 PM
630 S Komas Drive Suite 300
Dr. Lopez is the Associate Vice President for Health Equity and Inclusion at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Director of Cancer Health Equity at Huntsman Cancer Institute, and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
Department of chemistry presents
Luisa Whittaker-Brooks
"Fundamentals, state-of-the-art, and recent trends in nanostructured materials for energy and electronic applications"
Tuesday, August 29, 201710:45AM TBBC 4630
The Neurobiology and Anatomy Department presents a special seminar:
Helen Lai, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
“Elucidating the logic of somatosensory-motor networks”
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series
Alan L. Scott, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology Bloomberg School of Public
Health
Johns Hopkins University
“Worms in the Lungs: Macrophages and Dysregulated Wound Repair”
Friday, August 25, 2017
12:15p.m. -1:15 p.m.
HSEB 2680
DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACEUTICS & PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY PRESENTS
"The drug delivery field at the inflection point: Why we need to change"
Kinam Park, PhD
Department of Chemistry presents
Eric Schmidt
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Adjunct Professor Of Biology
"Generation of chemical diversity via biosyntheis"
Thursday, August 31, 201710:45AM TBBC 4630
Department of biology presents
Markus Babst, PhD
"Calcium Regulates Yeast Metabolism"
Thusday, August 31, 2017
4:00 - 5:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Seminars in Metabolism Presents:
Ling He, MB, PhD
Assistant Professor, Deparment of Pediatrics and Pharmacolgy John Hopkins School of Medicine
"Coactivators regulate hepatic glucose metabolism and insulin signaling"
Thursday, August 31 2017
4:00 - 5:00PM
HSEB 2600
July Events & Seminars
CRISPR-RNP Transfection Workshop
This Workshop will present two days of morning informational seminars dicussing the use of CRISPR-RNP technology in cell culture cells from design, optimization, and delivery. Along with a Keynote address by Dr. Dana Carroll on the ethical and societal issues of the use of CRISPR technologies. Informational seminars will be open to all researchers.
Contact the Mutation Generation and Detection Core at mutrus@genetics.utah.edu
Thursday, July 27
Friday, July 28
Eccles Auditorium, EIHG
Presented by the Mutation Generation and Detection Core, The Center for Iron and Heme Disorders, and The Center for Clinical and Translational Science
Sponsored by Lonza and Integrated DNA Technologies
Special Seminar
Robert Johnston, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Johns Hopkins University
“Stochastic Patterning of Photoreceptors in Fly and Human Retinas”
1:00 PM, Thursday July 20
EIHG Auditorium
Hosted by Nitin Phadnis
The Department of Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry along with The Nano Institute Presents:
Professor Shinji Sakuma, Ph.D.
Setsunan University
Osaka, Japan
"Cell Penetrating Peptide-Linked Polymers as a Novel Enhancement Tool for Mucosal Vaccination and Absorption"
Friday, July 14, 2017
HSEB 5100B
11:00am – Noon
Hosted by Professor Jindřich Kopeček
July 18 - 19
Global Symposium: Cell Sheet Clinical Translation for Regenerative Medicine
This is the first Global Symposium on Cell Sheet Tissue Translation for Regenerative Medicine, where global experts from Tokyo, Sweden, Korea and the University of Utah will gather and introduce their latest achievements in science and clinical applications. Contact Katie Peacock at Katie.Peacock@hsc.utah.edu to register.
June Events & Seminars
Human Genetics Seminar Series Presents
LOUIS M. KUNKEL, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Genetics and Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School and
The Boston Children’s Hospital
“Genetic Modifiers of Muscular Dystrophy as Targets for Therapy”
Tuesday June 6, 2017
12:00 NOON
EIHG 1st floor Auditorium
Dr. Stephen Hursting, PhD, MPH
Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Nutrition Research at Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Breaking the Obesity-Breast Cancer Link: New Targets and Strategies
Monday, June 5th at 12pm in the HCH Altaview Conference room
A Seminar by Faculty Candidate
Peter S. Shen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Utah
Structural basis of protein translocation by the Vps4 AAA ATPase
Thursday, June 1, 2017
2:00 pm
HSEB 3515B
Seminars in Metabolism Presents the Hatch Scholar Recipients:
“Oct-1 and OCA-B as potential targets for T1D pathogenesis”
By: Heejoo Kim
Graduate Research Assistant
Microbiology and Immunology
University of Utah
&
“Minimizing the Fear of Hypoglycemia"
By: Candace Reno, PhD
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Molecular Medicine Program
University of Utah
Thursday, June 1, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 2600
May Events & Seminars
Kathleen A. Cooney, M.D.
H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair
Chair, Department of Internal Medicine
University of Utah
School of Medicine
Huntsman Cancer Institute
“Prostate Cancer Susceptibility Genes: From Bench to Bedside”
May 23, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Annual State of the Program Meeting
Monday, May 15, 2017
2:00 p.m.
HSEB 1730
Hongxia Ren, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Indiana University School of Medicine
“Orphan Receptor Gpr17 Regulates Appetite and Glucose Metabolism-Identifying Novel CNS Targets for Metabolic Disease Therapy”
May 11, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM
HSEB 4100B
Dipayan Chaudhuri, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Utah
“Mitochondrial cardiomyopathies feature enhanced mitochondrial calcium signaling”
May 4, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM
HSEB 4100B
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine And Molecular Medicine
Presents Faculty Candidate
Aaron Johnson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado, Denver
Integration of muscle morphogenesis with muscle disease
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
11:00 am
HSEB 4100B
MEGAN DENNIS, Ph.D.
UC Davis Genome Center Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine University of California, Davis School of Medicine
“Complex genomic variation and its role in human evolution and disease”
Tuesday May 2, 2017
12:00 NOON
EIHG 1st floor Auditorium
William Holland, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Touchstone Diabetes Center
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
“Lipid Sensing in the Pancreatic Alpha Cell”
May 25, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM
HSEB 2600
Rebecca Haeusler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
Columbia University
Insulin regulates cholesterol metabolism through FoxO transcription factors
Monday, May 22nd, 2017
4:00 pm
HSEB 3515B
SUSAN STROME, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
University of California, Santa Cruz
“Transmission of an Epigenetic “Memory of Germline” from Parents to Offspring in C. elegans”
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
12:00 NOON
EIHG 1st floor Auditorium
Genetics Training Program
2017 Retreat
May 8-9, The Lodges at Deer Valley
Registration Deadline: Wednesday April 26, 2017
All members of the U of U research community are invited.
Accommodations provided by the Genetics Training Program.
Extended Evening Poster Session!
Present a poster & Highlight your poster's story during day sessions.
Register at: http://gtg2.genetics.utah.edu
Please refer to the web site for more information about poster presentations and childcare; for additional questions, contact David Grunwald (grunwald@genetics.utah.edu)
Richard Flavell, Ph.D., F.R.S.
HHMI Investigator and Sterling Professor
Department of Immunobiology
Yale University
School of Medicine
“The role of inflammasomes in antiviral response and the innate immune sensing of genomic integrity”
May 9, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Nirao Shah, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University
“Nature and Nurture: Control of innate sexually dimorphic behavior”
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Informal Seminar
TILL BÖCKING, PHD
Single Molecule Science & ARC Center of Excellence in Advanced Imaging,
School of Medical Science,
University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia
“A Novel Fluorescence-based HIV Uncoating Assay to Survey the Effects of Capsid-binding Proteins at the Single-particle Level.”
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
1:00pm, Room 206 JFB
Symposium: Unraveling Genetic Modifiers of Muscular Dystrophy
24 May 2017
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, 1st Floor Auditorium
Program Objective: To understand the process of identifying genetic modifiers of disease severity in Mendelian disorders.
Session One:Genetic Modifiers in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Session Two:Genetic Modifiers in Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy
Session Three: Genetic Modifiers in Myotonic DystrophySession Four: Genetic Modifiers in Facioscapulohumeral
Muscular Dystrophy
Closing Remarks: Kevin Flanigan, MD, Ohio State University
Sponsored by the Utah Program for Inherited Neuromuscular Disorders (UPIN), the School of Medicine Neuromuscular Division, and the Neuroscience Initiative
Please contact Erin DeSpain (erind@genetics.utah.edu) with questions
Claudio Villanueva, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Utah School of Medicine
“Liver-derived acylcarnitines fuel adaptive thermogenesis”
May 18, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM
HSEB 2600
Jay Hesselberth
U. of Colorado School of Medicine
Genetics and genomics
of RNA repair
Tuesday, May 16th
4:00 pm
HSEB 1750
Membrane Trafficking Symposium 2017
May 10, ASB 210 (Biology)
8:30 Jared Rutter
9am Phyllis Hanson (WUSTL)
10am Diane Downhour (Elde Lab)
11am Chris Hill
11:30 Michael Kay
1pm Sean Merrill (Jorgensen Lab)
1:30 Markus Babst
2pm Max Schuler (Hughes/Shaw Lab)
2:30 Vivian Budnik (UMASS)
Joe Alcock, MD
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
University of New Mexico
“Bribery, coercion, and cooperation in the microbiome”
Tuesday, May 9
2:30-3:30 PM
EIHG Auditorium
2017 Hematology and Metals in Biology Symposium
Friday, May 5th
HSEB 5100B
7:45 am -3:15 pm
Breakfast and Lunch Available for AttendeesSponsored by the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, the Departments of Medicine,
Division Hematology, and Biochemistry and NIDDK‐sponsored CIHD Cores and T32 Hematology
Training Program
Contact diane.mcveyward@path.utah.edu or betty.leibold@genetics.utah.edu
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics
Department of Human Genetics
Presents Thesis Defense By
Jonathan M. Downie
"Surveying the Genetic Risk Landscape of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in the Era of Next-Generation Sequencing"
Wednesday May 3, 2017
11:00 AM
Eccles Auditorium
April Events & Seminars
Tibiabin Benitez-Santana
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Molecular Medicine Program
University of Utah
“Role of LXRs in intestinal lipid handing”
April 27, 2017
4:00-5:00 pm, HSEB
Mark Krasnow, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
HHMI Investigator
Stanford University School of Medicine
“Elucidating Lung Development, Stem Cells, and Cancer at Single Cell Resolution”
April 25, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
MATERIALS SEMINAR
Dr. Matthew G. Moffitt
Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of Victoria, Canada
MONDAY-APRIL 24, 2017
4:00pm
4630 TBBC
"Controlling Structure and Function of Hierarchical Polymeric Nanoparticles: from Molecular Mimics to Microfluidics"
Daniel Wall, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
University of Wyoming
"Self-recognition, cellular exchange and social consequences in Myxococcus xanthus"
Monday, April 24th, 2017
4:00 pm HSEB 1750
Bonnie Bassler
HHMI Investigator
Chair, Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
"Bacterial Quorum Sensing and its Control"
Monday, April 17, 2017
4:00 PM
Eccles Auditorium,
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics
Jane Johnson, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Neuroscience
UT Southwestern Medical Center
“Lineage-specific transcription regulators in neural and neuroendocrine cancers"
April 13, 2017
12:00PM
HCI 3 South Conference Room
Dr. Anna Sherwood
Director of Research and Development Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp.
Friday, April 14, 2017
12pm - Presentation and Discussion
Shoreline Conference Room (6th floor Huntsman Cancer Hospital)
Small group lunch with presenter
following presentation RSVP to
adriana.rodriguez@hci.utah.edu
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D.
President
Rockefeller University
“The Genetic Architecture of Human Disease from Next/GEN Sequencing”
April 11, 2017
EIHG Auditorium 4 PM
ANALYT/PHYS SEMINAR
Ryan J. White
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
UMBC
"Developing Specific Electrochemical Sensing and Imaging Platforms Inspired by Biology"
MONDAY-APRIL 10, 2017
4:00 pm in room 4630 TBBC
Adriana Vieira de Abreu, PhD
Sr. Laboratory Specialist
Molecular Medicine Program
University of Utah
“Screening for Novel Hypoglycemia Unawareness Treatments”
Thursday, April 6, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 4100B
BIO/ORG SEMINAR
Jikui Song
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of California – Riverside
THURSDAY-APRIL 27, 2017
10:45 am
4630 TBBC
“Mechanistic Basis of Mammalian DNA Methylation”
Martin Horvath, Ph.D.
Department of Biology, University of Utah
“Biology in Macromolecular Structure”
Thursday, April 27
4:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Robbie Wilson, Ph.D.
University of Queensland
“Measuring success in nature and sport: how animals perform and why it matters”
Thursday, April 20
4:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Elizabeth A. Leibold, PhD
Professor, Internal Medicine
Adjunct, Oncological Science
Division of Hematology
University of Utah
“Iron regulatory protein 2 is required for maintaining mitochondrial and ER function in pancreatic β cells”
April 20, 2017
4:00-5:00 pm, HSEB 2948
Antonio J. Giraldez, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Genetics
Yale University School of Medicine
“Uncovering New Regulatory Codes During Embryonic Development”
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
12:00 NOON
EIHG 1st floor Auditorium
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI SEMINAR
Professor and Senior Faculty Advisor
Office of the Vice President for Research
"Confessions of a Gas-Phase Chemist in a Materials World"
MONDAY-APRIL 17, 2017
4:00 pm in room 4630 TBBC
Stavros G. Drakos, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Nora Eccles Treadwell Investigator
Co-Director Heart Failure and Transplant Section
Director of CV Research, Division of Cardiology
University of Utah
“Understanding how mechanical circulatory support can recover a failing heart”
Thursday, April 13, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 4100B
Erik Jorgensen, Ph.D., University of Utah
"Ultrafast endocytosis at synapses”
Thursday, April 13
4:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology
BIOLOGICAL SEMINAR
Remo Rohs
Molecular and Computational Biology Program
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Southern California
"Integrating Genomics and Structural Biology Reveals Mechanisms of Gene Regulation"
THURSDAY-APRIL 13, 2017
10:45 am 4630 TBBC
Wayne Potts, Ph.D.
University of Utah
“Influence of host and pathogen genetic diversity on virulence evolution”
Thursday, April 6
4:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Health Sciences Entrepreneurship Seminar Series
Mark Yandell, Ph.D.
Founder, IDbyDNA Inc.
Professor of Human Genetics
H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair
Co-Director, USTAR Center for Genetic Discovery
Technical Director, Utah Genome Project
University of Utah
“From Bench, to the Bedside,
and Onward to the Market:
Commercializing Academic Software”
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
HSEB 4100 C HSEB Building
2017 Developmental Biology
Training Grant Retreat
FRI, April 28, 2pm
EIHG Auditorium
Suzanne Paradis
PHD, Associate Professor of Biology,
Brandeis University
“Signaling pathways that
instruct rapid changes in
neuronal connectivity.”
Sat, April 29
Silver Lake Lodge,
Deer Valley Resort
Anthony B. Firulli
PHD, Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University
“Building a Heart Hand by Hand.”
Poster Session (with prizes!) and Dinner
RSVP or further info: Teresa Upton | tupton@genetics.utah.edu
Please join Recursion Pharmaceuticals for our
Women in Science and Technology Series
Thursday, April 27, 2017
5:00-6:30 PM
630 S Komas Drive Suite 300
“Pathways (and stumbling blocks)
to success in science”
Presentation by Anne Carpenter, PhD,
Principal Investigator, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
For more information, please contact Bettina at bettina.franz@recursionpharma.com
Learn more about Recursion Pharmaceuticals at www.recursionpharma.com
RAGSDALE COLLOQUIUM
Thomas J. Greenbowe
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Senior Instructor II, Chemical Education
University of Oregon
TUESDAY-APRIL 25, 2017
10:45 am
4630 TBBC
"Strategies for Helping Students to be Successful in Their General Chemistry Course”
Michelle Mendoza
"Powering cell motility with
oncogenic signals: ERK and the cytoskeleton"
April 25th, 2017 9:00am
1200 EEJMRB (Kjeldsberg Conference Room)
ICBG Symposium
This symposium highlights some of the many projects around the University of Utah campus focused on drug discovery in neuroscience. The purpose is to bring together the many research communities in neuroscience and drug discovery to share success stories and to talk about common interests, opportunities, and barriers.
MARCH FOR SCIENCE
Saturday, April 22
City Creek Park at 3 p.m.
Salt Lake’s march begins at City Creek Park at 3 p.m. and proceeds to the State Capitol to hear from speakers, including Nobel Laureate Mario Capecchi, professor of biology, and Claudio Villanueva, professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah. All are welcome to attend.
PARRY INORGANIC COLLOQUIUM
Tobin J. Marks
Northwestern University
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry
“Surface Science Meets Homogeneous Catalysis: Cooperative Properties of Electrophilic Organometallic Ensembles”
TUESDAY-APRIL 11, 2017
10:45 am 4630 TBBC
Michelle Mendoza, Ph.D.,
University of Utah
“Powering cell motility with oncogenic signals: ERK and the cytoskeleton”
Wednesday, April 5
4:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
The Neurobiology and Anatomy Department is very proud to present our 6th Annual
Chi–Bin Chien Memorial Lecture
Thomas C. Südhof, MD
Nobel Laureate and Professor
Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Stanford University and
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Molecular mechanisms of synapse specification - implications for neuropsychiatric disorders"
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
2:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
March Events & Seminars
The Office of the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences invites you to attend a special presentation given by:
Nirav R. Shah, M.D., MPH
Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer for Clinical Operations
Kaiser Permanente; Southern California Region
"The future of health and health care"
Friday,March 31, 12:00-1:00 pm
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics (EIHG) Auditorium
Please RSVP if you plan to attend: Katie.Peacock@hsc.utah.edu
College of Pharmacy Seminar
JASON KWAN
"Bioactive natural products from uncultured symbiotic bacteria"
March 30, 2017
3:00pm
2680 HSEB
The Department of Anthropology
Eric Schniter, PhD
Assistant Professor Economic Science Institute, Chapman University Department of Anthropology, California State University Fullerton
"The Long Life of Skill Development among Tsimane Forager Horticulturalists"
Friday, March 24, 2017 @ 2:15pm Stewart Bldg Room 205
Pete Hendrickson
PhD Dissertation Defense
"DUX leads the way: Double Homeobox
Retrogenes in Embryonic Genome
Activation and Totipotency"
Friday, March 24, 2016, 2:10 PM
HCI - George and Dolores Doré Eccles
6th Floor Auditorium
Biochemistry Faculty Candidate
Ryan Baldridge, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
"Death of a misfolded protein – how a ubiquitin-gated channel protects the ER"
Thursday, March 23, 2017
2:00 pm, HSEB 4100B
David Blair, Ph.D.
University of Utah
“Mechanism of very rapid protein export through the flagellum: Strange players and multifarious energization”
Thursday, March 23, 4:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology
Andrew Aday, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health and Science University
"Advancing single (epi)genomics technologies and applications"
March 23, 12:00 PM, HCI 3 South Conference Room
ORGANIC SEMINAR
Robert Knowles
Assistant Professor
Princeton
THURSDAY-MARCH 9, 2017
10:45 am 4630 TBBC
“Proton-coupled electron transfer in organic synthesis”
March 9, 2017
6:00-8:00 p.m.
2017 H. A. & Edna Benning Society Public Lecture in Medicine
University of Utah, Rice-Eccles Stadium, 4th floor ballroom
Benning Public Lecture by
Danielle Ofri, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Medicine, NYU School of Medical School, Editor-in-Chief, Bellevue Literary Review
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear (and Vice Versa):
The Highest Stakes In Medicine
Schedule of Events:
6:00 Welcome Reception
6:30 Opening remarks by
Vivian Lee, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.
Senior Vice President for Health Sciences
Dean, School of Medicine
CEO, University of Utah Health Care
7:00 Presentation by
Danielle Ofri, M.D., Ph.D.
Please RSVP to Natalie Carroll (801) 585-5905 or response@hsc.utah.edu
ACS LOCAL SECTION SEMINAR
Jyllian N. Kemsley
Senior Editor
Chemical & Engineering News
THURSDAY-MARCH 2, 2017
2:30 pm/4:00pm 4630 TBBC
2:30 pm “Non-traditional Career Opportunities for Chemists “
4:00 pm “Reporting on Chemical Safety”
2017 Tyler Lecture
Robert H. Eckel, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes, Division of Cardiology
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Charles A. Boettcher II Chair in Atherosclerosis
University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus
“The Evolving Story of Lipid Delivery to the Brain, Energy Balance & Insulin Sensitivity”
Thursday, March 2, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 4100B
Center for Cell and Genome Science Seminar
Donald Burke, Ph.D.,
University of Missouri
“RNA Synthetic Biology from Fluorescent Logic Gates to Broad-Spectrum Aptamer Inhibitors of HIV”
Wednesday, March 1
4:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Curie Club 2016-2017 Student Discussion Series
Storytelling from Successful Women in STEM
Undergraduate and graduate women are invited to a monthly gathering to hear stories
from successful women in STEM.
Advice and mentorship served with tea, coffee, hot chocolate, and treats!
Wednesday, Mar. 1 | 2pm room 4429 Thatcher Conference room
Beth Buck-Koehntop
Assistant Professor, U of U
Physical & Biochemistry
Pearl Sandick
Assistant Professor, U of U
Particle Physics & Cosmology
Irma Thesleff, DDS, PhD
Professor and Research Director
Developmental Biology Program
Institute of Biotechnology
University of Helsinki
“The roles of conserved
signaling pathways in tooth
development and renewal”
Friday, March 31, 2017
2:00 pm
HSEB 4100B
ORGANIC SEMINAR
Feihe Huang
Department of Chemistry
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
“Pillararene-Based Solid Materials for Separation and Adsorption”
THURSDAY-MARCH 30, 2017
10:45 am 4630 TBBC
Nicole Monroe & John McCullough
Hill & Sundquist Labs
"Structural Basis for ESCRT-mediated membrane fission"
March 28th, 2017 9:00am
1200 EEJMRB (Kjeldsberg Conference Room)
Mario Capecchi, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
University of Utah
School of Medicine
“A Causal Role for Defective Microglia in OCD-Spectrum Disorders”
March 28, 2017, 4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics
Department of Human Genetics Presents Thesis Defense
Nathan Krah
“Prevention and Reversion of Pancreatic Cancer Initiation Through a Differentiation-Based Mechanism”
Friday March 24, 2017
11:00 AM
Eccles Auditorium
Susan Mango, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
“Making and Shaping a Worm”
March 14, 2017
4:00 pm, EIHG Auditorium
ORGANIC/MATERIALS SEMINAR
Ronald A. Smaldone
Organic and Materials Chemistry
University of Texas at Dallas
THURSDAY-MARCH 23, 2017
10:45 am 4630 TBBC
“Better Living through (Dynamic Covalent) Chemistry”
ANALYTICAL SEMINAR
Shane Ardo
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
School of Physical Sciences
UC Irvine
MONDAY-MARCH 20, 2017
4:00pm 4630 TBBC
Host: Shelley Minteer
"Light-to-ionic energy conversion using photoacid-modified ion-selective polymers En route to direct solar desalination of salt water"
Adam Hughes
Department of Biochemistry
“Close Encounters of the Organelle Kind”
Please note 4:15pm time for 2016-2017
Monday, March 20, 2017
4:15 PM
Kjeldsberg Conference Room
Emma Eccles Jones Medical Research Building
Oliver Rando, Ph.D.,
UMass Medical School
“Daddy issues: paternal effects on phenotype in the next generation”
Thursday, March 9
4:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
SPECIAL SEMINAR
Marshall Brennan
Associate editor for Nature Chemistry
“The nature of chemistry publishing”
TUESDAY-MARCH 7, 2017
10:45 am, 4630 TBBC
Julie Hollien
Biology Department
“What fun cats and spaghetti monsters tell us about protein translation”
Please note 4:15pm time for 2016-2017
Monday, March 6, 2017
4:15 PM
Kjeldsberg Conference Room
Emma Eccles Jones Medical Research Building
A/P SEMINAR
Ido Braslavsky
Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
& Visiting Scholar at Stanford, Bioengineering
MONDAY-MARCH 6, 2017
4:00 pm 4630 TBBC
"Ice-binding-proteins and their interaction with ice crystals"
Faculty Candidate
Xiaolei Su, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San Francisco
"Phase Transition in T Cell Signaling"
Monday, March 6, 2017
2:00 pm
HSEB 2110
PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM
Gregory D. Scholes
William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry
Princeton University
"Using Coherence to Enhance Function in Chemical and Biophysical Systems"
FRIDAY-MARCH 31, 2017
1:00 pm in room 4630 TBBC
College of Pharmacy Seminar
JASON SELLO
Novel Small Molecules, Targets, and Strategies in Anti-Infective Development
March 31, 2017
1:00pm
2680 HSEB
BRYANT A. MINER LECTURESHIP
Melanie S. Sanford
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan
“Development and Applications of New Fluorination Reactions"
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2017
10:45 am 4630 TBBC
HENRY EYRING LECTURESHIP
Robert H. Grubbs
CalTech, Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry
2005 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
"Design and Applications of Selective Olefin Metathesis Catalysts"
MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017
3:00 pm 4630 TBBC
Kristin Baldwin
Associate Professor
The Scripps Research Institute
"Reprogramming genomes and neurons"
Monday, March 27, 2017, 4:00 PM
Eccles Auditorium,
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics
Chintan Kikani, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biochemistry – Jared Rutter Lab
University of Utah
“Emerging roles of PAS Kinase in the control of stem cell fate decisions”
Thursday, March 23, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 4100B
DEPARTMENTAL FACULTY COLLOQUIUM
C. Dale Poulter
Chemistry, U of U
BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Distinguished Professor and John A. Widtsoe Chair
TUESDAY-MARCH 21, 2017
10:45 am 4630 TBBC
“From Model Studies to Genetics. The Story of Squalene Synthase.”
Julie Hollien, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
University of Utah
“How Cells Deal with Stress”
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
12:00 NOON
EIHG 1st floor Auditorium
Sara P. Ortega, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Molecular Medicine – Sihem Boudina Lab
University of Utah
“Redox-Regulation of Energy Expenditure & Thermogenesis”
Thursday, March 9, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 4100B
Daniela Chavez
Stanfield Lab
“Sex, Secretion, Muscle, and (C. elegans) Males"
March 14th, 2017 9:00am
1200 EEJMRB (Kjeldsberg Conference Room)
Michael Nachman, Ph.D., UC Berkeley
“The genetic basis of speciation and adaptation in house mice”
Thursday, March 2
4:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
PHYSICAL SEMINAR
Professor Kenneth Jordan
Richard King Mellon Professor
Distinguished Professor of Computational Chemistry
Co-Director, Center for Simulation and Modeling
University of Pittsburgh
THURSDAY-MARCH 9, 2017
4:00 pm 4630 TBBC
"Accommodation of Excess Electrons and Protons by Water Clusters"
Faculty Candidate
Jonathan Friedman, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Davis
Spatial Organization of Mitochondria
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
4:00 pm
HSEB 2680
BIO/PHYS SEMINAR
Aaron Hoskins
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
THURSDAY-MARCH 2, 2017
10:45 am 4630 TBBC
“The Brave New World of Spliceosome Structure and Function”
Previous News & Events Archive
Call for predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees applications to the Developmental Biology Training Grant!
The deadline for applications and support letters is Friday, January 5, 2018. All applications and supporting letters should be sent electronically to Teresa Upton (tupton@genetics.utah.edu)Department of Oncological Sciences Presents
Helena Lucente
PhD Dissertation Defense
MTG16 as a determinant of Notch driven leukemic phenotype
Monday November 13, 2017
2:00PM
HCI - George and Delores Dore Eccles 6th Floor Auditorium
Department of Biochemistry
Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Jonathan Van Vranken
B.S., Wittenberg University
"Coordinated Assembly of the Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain"
Tuesday, October 24 201 7
1:00 p.m.
EIHG Auditorium
Announcement for a Thesis Defense
for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in
Microbiology & Immunology
Jonathan Grist
Department of Pathology
Division of Microbiology and Immunology
“CXCL1/CXCR2 signaling axis and disease progression in pre-clinical animal models of multiple sclerosis”
Monday October 23, 2017
1:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics
Department of Human Genetics
Presents Thesis Defense By
Shrutokirti De
“Hoxb8 Microglia - Origin, Development and Functions”
Thursday October 19, 2017
10:00 AM
Eccles Auditorium
Call for predoctoral trainees applications to the Genetics Training Grant!
The deadline for applications and support letters is Thursday October 19, 2017.
All applications and supporting letters should be sent electronically to Patty Lisieski pattyl@genetics.utah.edu
Department of Biology
Thesis Defense for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Malia Deshotel
B.S., Shepherd University
"Yin and Yang of RNA Stability
in Arabidopsis"
Friday, August 18, 2017
** 12:00 PM **
210 ASB
Call for predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees applications to the Developmental Biology Training Grant!
The deadline for applications and support letters is September 1, 2017. All applications and supporting letters should be sent electronically to Teresa Upton (tupton@genetics.utah.edu)The Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy presents:
Wei-Chao Huang
Doctoral Candidate
Dissertation Defense
“Epigenetic Allelic Effects in the Mammalian Brain”
Friday, July 21, 2017
2:00 PM
EIHG Auditorium
The Department of Biochemistry presents:
Amanda Smith
PhD. Thesis Defense
"Investigating HIV Resistance Mechanisms to D-Peptide Entry Inhibitors"
Monday, July 17, 2017
10:00 a.m.
EIHG Auditorium
Call for Med-Into-Grad Applications
The Center for Clinical and Translational Science ( CCTS) Med to Grad Scholars Program is accepting applications for the coming year.
Ruben Rocha, ruben.rocha@hsc.utah.edu
Application Due Date: August 1, 2017
Welcome Aylin Rodan, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, to the Molecular Biology Program!
Dr. Rodan's Profile...
Department of Human Genetics Presents Thesis Defense By
Matthew Moulton
"Roles of Glycosyltransferases in Drosophila Development"
Wednesday May 31, 2017
2:00 PM
Eccles Auditorium
Department of Pathology Division of Microbiology & Immunology present
Jacqueline Paquette
Department of Pathology
Division of Microbiology and Immunology
“Genetic and mechanistic analyses of type I interferon-driven Lyme arthritis”
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
1:00 PM
EIHG Auditorium
Department of Pathology Division of Microbiology & Immunology present
Margaret Alexander PhD Dissertation Defense
"Small talk: ExosomalmiRNAs in immune cell communication”"
Friday May 19, 2017
10:00 am
EIHG Auditorium
BCP Faculty Kristen Keefe Receives U of U Distinguished Teaching Award!
Congratulations to Michael Kay and Jindřich Kopeček for 2017 Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Distinguished Mentor Award!
Congratulations to Wesley Sundquist for 2017 Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence!
Biochemistry scholar awarded U’s most prestigious faculty award
For graduate students and postdocs in the sciences who are interested in communicating science to the public, the Graduate School would like to tell you about an exciting initiative: Friends of Joe’s Big Idea
If you are interested in learning more about science communication and sharing your ideas and information about events, consider becoming a FOJBI and working with NPR to help build a connected community. To become part of this network, email msofia@npr.org and let her know your name, department/research focus, and that you would like to join!
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The University of Utah is the top research institution in the nation when it comes to commercializing technology innovations, according to the Milken Institute’s 2017 ranking of Best Universities for Technology Transfer.
Congratulations to Brad Cairns & Dana Carroll elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
Congratulations to Nora Brown, Biology, Phadnis Lab, MB'15 2017 NSF-GRFP Honorable
Mention!
2017 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP). NSF-GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in STEM disciplines who are pursing Master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions. This year, eleven students associated with the University of Utah received NSF-GRFP awards, and 5 students received NSF-GRFP Honorable Mentions.
Call for Computational Approaches to Diabetes and Metabolism Research T32 Training Grant Applications
Trainee slots are available for TWO postdoctoral positions and ONE predoctoral position starting July 1, 2017.
For additional information, please contact Barb Saffel, Barbara.saffel@utah.edu or 801-213-3730
Applications are due May 1, 2017.
Call for Hematology Research Training Program Applications
The Hematology Research Training Program has openings for 1 pre-doctoral and 1 post-doctoral (PhD, MD or MD, PhD) positions. This training grant supports research in basic and translational mechanisms regulating the production of blood cells and in regulating the genes relevant to normal blood cell maturation and function.
Applications and supporting letters should be sent by email to Shelly Saxton shelly.saxton@hsc.utah.edu (801) 213-2081, Division of Hematology, SOM 5C402
Application Deadline is April 24, 2017
TWiEVO video podcast that was recorded at the Microbial Path Retreat in November:
http://www.microbe.tv/twievo/twievo-14/
Guests: Jessica Brown, Michael Kay, Wayne Potts, June Round, and Janis Weis
Department of Oncological Sciences Presents
Shelley MacNeil PhD Dissertation Defense
"Dissecting Cancer Using Computational Pathway Analysis"
Friday March 10, 2017
11:00 AM HSEB
Room 1730
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics
Department of Human Genetics
Qing Li
Thesis Defense
"Improved Methods for NGS-Based Conotoxin Discovery”
Thursday, March 2nd
2:00 PM
Eccles Auditorium
Announcement for a Thesis Defense
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in
Microbiology & Immunology
Raymond Soto
“Microbiota Derived Products
Regulate Extra-intestinal Immune
Cells Through Toll-like Receptor
Signaling”
Thursday, March 2, 2017
1:30 pm
HSEB 4100B
Call for Genetics Training Grant Applications
We anticipate several openings for predoctoral traineeships on the Genetics Training Grant during Spring, 2017 and invite applications from graduate students who have completed their qualifying exams.
Patty Lisieski
pattyl@genetics.utah.edu
Department of Human Genetics
Application deadline:
Friday March 10, 2017
Volunteer your expertise at the 2017 Salt Lake Valley Science and Engineering Fair (SLVSEF). SLVSEF is an annual regional science fair for 5th through 12th grade students who have passed their school fairs. The top winning students from SLVSEF will move on to compete at the International Science and Engineering Fair!
Why You Should Judge:
- Gain volunteer experience or STEM/community outreach for grants
- Provide your expertise as a science, medical, or engineering professional to encourage
students interested in your field
- Get a chance to see internationally competitive science fair projects
Science Fair Dates:
Judge Registration Deadline – Friday, March 10, 2017
Elementary Division – Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Secondary Division – Thursday, March 23, 2017
For further details, visit https://slvsef.org
Register at http://slvsef.org/judges/register