Older Faculty and Student News & Events
MB/BC Recruitment Dinners
Dinner and Poster Session
6:30-8:30 PM
Friday, January 20, 2017
Jewish Community Center (JCC)
2 North Medical Drive
Friday, February 3, 2017
Salt Lake City Library
210 East 400 South
Friday, February 17, 2017
Natural History Museum of Utah, Rio Tinto Center
301 Wakara Way
Student AAPS Speaker
Peter Senter, Ph.D.
Vice President
Seattle Genetics, Inc., Bothell, Washington
“Potent Antibody-Based Conjugates for Cancer Therapy: From Early Stage Research to a Clinically Approved Drug”
Monday, February 13th, 2017
HSEB Room 4100 B
4:00PM – 5:00PM
Faculty Candidate
Lulu A. Cambronne, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
The intermediary metabolite NAD+: How metabolism talks to the cell
Tuesday, January 10th, 2017
2:00 pm
HSEB 4100B
HSC Calendar Link
Dr. Tim Greenamyre
Love Family Professor & Vice-Chair Neurology
Director, Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Chief, Movement Disorders
University of Pittsburgh
Parkinson disease: At the intersection of genes and environment
Thursday, January 5, 2017
HSEB 2680
4:00 pm
The Biochemistry Seminar Series presents
Danica Fujimori, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
University of California San Francisco
"Functional crosstalk between chromatin recognition and modification in histone demethylases"
Monday, December 12th, 2016
4:00 pm
HSEB 3515B
John H. Weis Memorial Graduate Student Award
John Weis was a remarkable colleague who was passionate about many things, including the education and training of Ph.D. and M.D. students. In recognition of his dedication to teaching and mentoring, a Graduate Student Award is being established in his honor.
The Award recognizes outstanding graduate achievement by a Ph.D. or M.D. student who exemplifies John’s creative and original approach to science and life at the University of Utah. It provides funds to support the expenses for a student to attend a scientific meeting or a course that furthers their training. More information about the Award is available here: John Weis Memorial Graduate Student Award. The winners for this year are listed below.
Sara Bridge, M.D. student
Sarah has completed her third year of medical school and has taken a leave of absence to conduct HIV/AIDS clinical research in Mbarara, Uganda as an International Clinical Research Fellow supported by the Doris Duke Foundation. She will use the Travel Award to attend a three-week immersion course on Social Medicine that will take place at Lacor Hospital in Gulu, Uganda.
Dollie LaJoie, Ph.D. student
Dollie is a graduate student in Dr. Katie Ullman’s lab in the Department of Oncological Sciences. Dollie studies the role of ESCRT proteins in reforming the nuclear envelope during cell division. She will use the Travel Award to attend the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
Gurkan Mollaoglu, Ph.D. student
Gurkan is a graduate student in Dr. Trudy Oliver’s lab in the Department of Oncological Sciences. Gurkan studies the role of Sox2 in the regulation of the tumor immune microenvironment in lung squamous cell carcinoma. He will use the Travel Award to attend an International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) meeting in New York.
Matt Szaniawski, Ph.D. student
Matt is a graduate student in Dr. Vicente Planelles’ lab in the Department of Pathology. Matt studies the role of SAMHD1 in controlling HIV-1 infection in primary human macrophages. He will use the Travel Award to attend the HIV Persistence During Therapy Workshop in Miami, FL.
SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM
Honoring the legacy of
Professor John M. Opitz
Pioneer in Human and Medical Genetics
In recognition of his receipt of the BVK (Bundesverdienstkreuz), Federal Cross of
Merit, by the German Federal Government (Dec 3, 2016)
ADVANCES IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN GENETICS
“Opitz’ Fields and Prepatterns”
John M. Opitz, MD
Professor of Pediatrics (Medical Genetics), Human Genetics,
Pathology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology
Other Distinguished Speakers Include:
Maximilian Muenke, MD
NIH/NHGRI: Chief and Senior Investigator Medical Genetics Branch;
Head of Human Development Section, and incoming
Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Medical Genetics
Giovanni Neri, MD
Professor Emeritus
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
Anita Rauch, MD
Professor and Director, Institute of Medical Genetics
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Friday, December 2, 2016
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium (1st Floor)
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Juan Martin-Serrano, Ph.D.
Department of Infectious Diseases
King’s College London
Exploring the final events in eukaryotic cell division
Thursday, December 1, 2016
2:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Second Annual Conference
Frontiers in Precision Medicine II: Cancer, Big Data and the Public
Session topics will include Tackling Cancer with Precision Data; Precision Prevention; the Public and Precision Medicine; Patenting Precision Medicine; and Providers, Payers, and Laboratory Testing
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Christopher P. Austin
Director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
December 1 and 2, 2016
Please visit the event website to see a full agenda and to RSVP online.
The Biochemistry Seminar Series
John Boothroyd, Ph.D.
Burt and Marion Avery Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University
"The Challenge of Living in a Bubble: How the Intracellular parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, Communicates with its Host from Inside a Parasitophorous Vacuole"
Monday, November 28th, 2016
4:00 pm
HSEB 3515B
University of Utah Center for Evolution | Genetics | Genomics presents
2016 Molecular Evolution Symposium
Friday, November 18, 2016 1:00-5:00pm, poster session to follow, EIHG Auditorium
Please join us for an afternoon of evolutionary genetics and genomics featuring keynote presentations by:
Nadia Singh, Ph.D.
North Carolina State University / University of Oregon
“Causes and consequences of recombination rate variation”
John McCutcheon, Ph.D.
University of Montana
“Evolution of genome complexity in cicada endosymbionts: good, bad, or just ugly?"
Additional oral presentations by University of Utah trainees
Registration is FREE and strongly encouraged for logistical purposes (refreshments, etc.). Attendees are invited to present a poster - please sign up using the registration form.
Please register at the following link by November 9: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7638D9L
Symposium organizers:
Nels Elde (Human Genetics)
Gabrielle Kardon (Human Genetics)
Nitin Phadnis (Biology)
Mike Shapiro (Biology)
RNA Interest Group
J. Robert Hogg
National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute (NIH)
“Sequence-specific inhibitors of
nonsense-mediated mRNA decay”
Tuesday, November 15th @ 4pm
HSEB 1750
For more information, contact:
dan.reich@biochem.utah.edu
Diane Shakes
Department of Biology, College of William and Mary
"From cytoskeleton to sex ratio”
Monday November 7
4:00 pm
EIHG Eccles Auditorium
Faculty Candidate
Keriann Backus, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute
Chemical Tools to Expand the Ligandable Proteome
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
4:00 pm
HSEB 3515B
2016 PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS
Two Bioscience Faculty recognized - Congrats to Amy Barrios and Mike Shapiro!
This award honors the extraordinary research and academic efforts of early- to mid-career faculty members and provides them with financial backing to support their scholarly, teaching or research initiatives.
ANALYTICAL SEMINAR
Mark Hayes
Arizona State
THURSDAY-OCTOBER 27, 2016
4:00 pm in room 4630 TBBC
Host: Marc Porter
“Better Separations with Gradients: Enabled Diagnostics and New Research Tools”
2016-2017 Pace Lecture presents
Susan Taylor, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
PKA: Assembly and Localization of Dynamic Macromolecular Signaling Complexes
Monday, October 24, 2016
4:00 pm
HSEB 3515B
Host: Wes Sundquist, wes@biochem.utah.edu
INORGANIC SEMINAR
Leslie J. Murray
Assistant Professor
University of Florida
Department of Chemistry
TUESDAY-OCTOBER 18, 2016
10:45 am in room 4630 TBBC
Host: Matthew Kieber-Emmons, 7-3185
“Behind the veil of redox cooperativity: Trimetallic complexes & the activation of
strong bonds”
Genome Engineering Paves the Way for Sickle Cell Cure
A team of physicians and laboratory scientists, including Dana Carroll in the Department of Biochemistry, have taken a key step toward a cure for sickle cell disease, using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to fix the mutated gene responsible for the disease in stem cells from the blood of affected patients.
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Tom Smith
B.S., University of Minnesota
"Chemical diversification affords functionally distinct peptides in the symbiotic microbiota"
Friday, Oct 14th
3:00 pm
HSEB 2680
The Biochemistry Seminar Series
Heidi McBride, Ph.D.
Canada Research Chair in Mitochondrial Cell Biology
Professor at Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
New perspectives on mitochondrial signaling and cell biology
Monday, October 10, 2016
4:00 pm
HSEB 4100B
Host: Jared Rutter
rutter@biochem.utah.edu
The Neurobiology and Anatomy Department presents
Tom Blanpied, PhD
Department of Physiology
University of Maryland
“The single-molecule architecture that guides synapse function”
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
MONDAY, October 3, 2016
Benning Public Lecture
6:00 p.m.
Rice Eccles Stadium
Mary-Claire King, Ph.D.
American Cancer Society Professor
Departments of Medicine (Medical Genetics) and Genome Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine
“Genomic Analysis of Inherited Breast and Ovarian Cancer: From Gene Discovery to Precision Medicine and Public Health”
Host: Lynn Jorde, Human Genetics
Faculty Seminar by:
Gillian Stanfield, Ph.D.
“How Motility is Regulated: Signaling, Secretion, and Sex”
Host: Carl Thummel
Thursday, September 29th, 2016
2:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Annual Bioscience Symposium
Tuesday September 20, 2016
Marriott University Park Hotel
1:00 pm Welcome
7:00 pm Keynote and Dinner
BIO/ORG SEMINAR
Scott A. Showalter
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Penn State
THURSDAY-SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
10:45 am in room 4630 TBBC
Host: Bethany Buck-Koehntop
“Structural Biophysics of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins"
Pioneering Drug Researcher Named Dean of College of Pharmacy
Randall T. Peterson, Ph.D., a prominent Harvard chemical biologist who pioneered the use of zebrafish to discover new precision drug therapies for cardiovascular and nervous system disorders has been tapped to serve as dean of the University of Utah College of Pharmacy!
Tatiana K. Bronich, PhD
Parke-Davis Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Director, Nebraska Center for Nanomedicine
College of Pharmacy, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska
"Engineering Targeted Polymeric Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery"
Monday, October 3rd
HSEB 41008
4:00PM
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
School of Medicine Seminar Series
Eva Nogales, Ph.D.
HHMI Investigator
Professor of Molecular
and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
“Cryo-EM visualization of the eukaryotic transcription initiation process”
February 28, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics
Department of Human Genetics
Presents Thesis Defense By
Kelsey Cone
“Recombination-Mediated Mechanisms of Poxvirus Evolution”
Tuesday, February 28th
10:00 AM
Eccles Auditorium
Emily Troemel
Professor of Biological Sciences
University of California, San Diego
"Microsporidia infection in C. elegans: how an obligate intracellular parasite makes itself at home"
Monday, February 27, 2017
4:00 PM, Eccles Auditorium
Faculty Candidate
Long Li, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
Protein translocation channel in action
Monday, February 27, 2017
2:00 pm
HSEB 3515B
Learn How to Talk About Your Research @ This Week's CTLE Workshop
Explaining research to non-professionals doesn't have to be difficult. Come to this week's CTLE Workshop to learn strategies for speaking about your research in ways that are understandable and memorable.
CTLE Workshop: 3MT
Friday, February 24, 9:30 - 11 am
Faculty Center, Marriott Library (MLIB 1705)
Faculty Candidate
Serkan Kir, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
"Cachexia and brown fat: a burning issue in cancer"
Thursday, February 23, 2017
2:00 pm
HSEB 2600
The Department of Anthropology
Alyssa Crittenden, PhD
Lincy Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"What the Hadza can tell us about the evolution of the human diet"
Thursday, February 23, 2017
2:15pm Stewart Bldg Room 205
Faculty Candidate
Alexander Kintzer, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San Francisco
Structure and Mechanism of Endolysosomal Ion Channels
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
4:00 pm, HSEB 4100B
-TEP Faculty Candidate Seminar-
Eva Nauman, Ph.D.,
Harvard University
“Brain-scale neural circuits for visual motion processing in zebrafish”
Tuesday, February 21
4:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
BIO/ORG SEMINAR
Amar H Flood
James F. Jackson Professor of Chemistry Luther Dana Waterman Professor
Indiana University Bloomington
“Recognition of Larger Anions with Shape-persistent Macrocycles”
THURSDAY-FEBRUARY 16, 2017
10:45 am 4630 TBBC
Stem Cell Affinity Group
Marius Wernig, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
HHMI Investigator
Stanford University
“How to make a neuron”
Wednesday 2/15/17 4:00 PM
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium
A series dedicated to help graduate students and post-docs explore their PhD career opportunities
Dr. Nitin Phadnis
Assistant Professor, Biology, University of Utah
Dr. Clement Chow
Assistant Professor, Human Genetics, University of Utah
Join us for a candid discussion about the path to becoming a tenure-track professor,
featuring two recent University of Utah hires.
Friday, February 10, 2017
11am Presentation and Discussion
HCI 3 South
The Department of Nutrition and Integrated Physiology
presents
Meagan McManus, Ph.D.
Faculty Candidate for NUIP
Research Associate at
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Mysteries of the heart explained
by mitochondrial DNA
Thursday, February 9th, 2017
12:00 pm
HSEB 4100 B
Renata D. Belfort De Aguiar, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Yale University
“Blood glucose levels influence brain response to food pictures”
TODAY, February 9, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 4100B
Combined Clinical-Microbiology Infectious Disease Conference:
Case Presentation & Discussion of Pathogenesis
Ana Beatriz de Paula e Silva, Ph.D. and Timothy Smith, D.O.
Thursday Feb. 9
4 PM
HSEB 5100B
Sponsored by the Microbial Pathogenesis Training Grant, the Division of Infectious Diseases, and the Pathology Department, U of Utah
Philipp E. Scherer, PhD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Gifford O. Touchstone Jr. and Randolph G. Touchstone Distinguished Chair in Diabetes
Research Director, Touchstone Diabetes Center University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center
“Diabetes, Obesity and the Central Role of the Adipocyte in Maintaining Systemic Lipid Homeostasis”
Thursday, February 2, 2017
4:00–5:00PM, HSEB 4100B
TEP Faculty Candidate Seminar
Thursday, February 2, 2017
4:00 PM
210 ASB
James Gagnon, Ph.D.
Harvard University
“Whole organism lineage tracing with genome editing”
Dawn Cornelison, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, University of Missouri
“Who Are you Calling Repulsive? Eph/Ephrin Signaling in Skeletal Muscle Patterning”
Friday, January 27, 2017
2:30 - 3:30 PM
HSEB 2680
Please join Recursion Pharmaceuticals for our
Women in Science and Technology Series
Thursday, January 26, 2017
5:00-6:00 PM
630 S Komas Drive Suite 300
"Key Lessons Learned"
Brandi Simpson, MBA, CEO of Navigen
Pharmacology and Toxicology Seminar
Dr. Robert E. Gerszten
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine Division
"Mining the blood for new cardiometabolic hormones (and drug targets)"
Date: Thursday, January 26, 2017
Place: EIHG Auditorium
Time: 1:00 pm
Chong Shin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Hepatopancreatic Programming/reprogramming in a Zebrafish Model System”
Thursday, January 12, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 1750
FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR
JIANSEN JIANG, PHD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES, CA
“CryoEM structure of Tetrahymena
telomerase: insights into functions and
interactions of the subunits”
Thursday, January 12
11 a.m.
Room 210 ASB
January 10, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Bing Ren, Ph.D.
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
University of California,
San Diego School of Medicine
“Genomic Analysis of Gene Regulation in Human Cells”
Department of Biochemistry Presents
Faculty Candidate
Minna Roh-Johnson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Regulation of tumor cell behavior in vivo
Thursday, January 12th, 2017
2:00 pm
HSEB 4100B
Andrew Yoo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Developmental Biology
Washington University School of Medicine
“Generation of human neurons by direct conversion of fibroblasts and disease modeling”
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
1:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Department of Biochemistry presents
Faculty Candidate
Jessica Ridilla, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow of Biology
Brandeis University
"Actin-Microtubule Crosstalk Mediated by Formin, CLIP-170 and Friends"
Thursday, December 15, 2016
2:00 pm
HSEB 4100B
Lily Yang, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Radiology
Nancy Panzo Chair of Surgery in Cancer Research
Winship Cancer Institute
Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta Georgia
"Promises & Challenges in the Developtment of THeranostic Nanoparticles for Precision Oncology"
Thursday, December 15th
HSEB 2680
4:00 pm
STEM Career Talks Presents:
Dr. Ana María López,
M.D., M.P.H., FACP
Associate Vice President for Health Equity and Inclusion;
Director of Cancer Health Equity, Huntsman Cancer Institute;
Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine
University of Utah School of Medicine
“Lessons on tenure,
motherhood and leadership”
Wednesday December 14,
4 PM
HSEB 3515B
The Neurobiology and Anatomy Department presents
Raunak Basu
Doctoral Candidate
Dissertation Defense
“Role of cadherins in synapse specific plasticity”
Monday, December 12, 2016
1:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Faculty Candidate
Sarah Cohen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Organelle Biology
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
"Organelle dynamics and fatty acid trafficking"
Thursday, December 8, 2016
1:00 pm
HSEB 2110
Erik Jorgensen, Ph.D.
HHMI Investigator & Distinguished Professor
Department of Biology
University of Utah
“Ultrafast Endocytosis at Synapses”
Tuesday December 6, 2016
12:00 NOON
EIHG 1st floor Auditorium
Dr. Steven Reppert
Distinguished Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
“Neurogenetics of Monarch
Butterfly Migration”
Thursday, December 1st
4:00-5:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
The Neurobiology and Anatomy Department presents
Ali Sakawa Sharif
Doctoral Candidate
Dissertation Defense
“C8ORF37 is required for photoreceptor outer segment disc morphogenesis”
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
1:00 pm
HSEB 2600
Department of Biochemistry
Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Morgan Fetherolf
B.S., University of Utah
"Defining the Interplay Between Copper Transfer and Disulfide Oxidation in Copper Zinc Superoxide Dismutase"
Thursday November 17, 2016
10:00 a.m.
EIHG Auditorium
College of Pharmacy Seminar Series
Hosted by: Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Grzegorz Bulaj, PhD
Associate Professor
Medicinal Chemistry, U. of Utah
"Combining Digital Therapeutics and Pharmaceutical Drugs to Improve Therapy Outcomes for Epilepsy, Cancer and Other Chronic Disorders"
Thursday, November 17th
HSEB 2680
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Seminar Series Presents
Lynn Bohs, P.h.D.
Professor, Department of Biology,
University of Utah
“Getting a handle on hotness: systematics and phylogeny of the chili peppers and their
relatives"
Thursday, November 17, 2016
4:00 – 5:00 pm
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Biochemistry Seminar Series presents
Nancy Dahms, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
Medical College of Wisconsin
Deciphering the ZIP Codes of a Cell
Monday, November 14th, 2016
4:00 pm
HSEB 3515B
Host: Debbie Eckert
deckert@biochem.utah.edu
Career Perspectives Seminar Series
What are you going to do with your PhD?
Orly Ardon, Ph.D. MBA
ARUP Laboratories, University of Utah Dept. of Pathology
Marketing R&D Manager, International Business Manager
11am Presentation and Discussion
HCI 4 South
Coffee & Snacks Provided
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Membrane Trafficking Interest Group
Erhu Cao
November 8th, 2016 9:00am
1200 EEJMRB (Kjeldsberg Conference Room)
"Structure and Mechanism of the Polycystic Kidney Disease Channel PKD2"
School of Medicine Seminar Series
November 8, 2016
Tuesdays 4:00PM, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium
Tom Greene, Ph.D.
Chief, Division of Biostatistics, Dept. Population Health Science
Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine
University of Utah School of Medicine
“Evaluating the Validity and Utility of Surrogate Outcomes for Clinical Trials of Chronic Diseases”
Host: Alfred K. Cheung, Internal Medicine
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy presents
David McLean, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurobiology
Northwestern University
“Neural circuits for speed control”
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Olga J. Baker, DDS, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Dentistry, University of Utah
Monday, October 31st
HSEB 4100B
4:00 pm
"Novel Approaches for the Treatment of Salivary Gland Hypofunction"
ANALYTICAL/PHYSICAL SEMINAR
Lane Baker
James F. Jackson Associate Professor of Chemistry
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
MONDAY-OCTOBER 24, 2016
4:00 pm in room 4630 TBBC
Host: Henry White
“Unconventional Pipetting for Bioanalysis”
Department of Human Genetics
Presents Thesis Defense By
Daniel Ence
“The Far Out World of Trichomonad Genomics”
Thursday October 20, 2016
1:00 PM
Eccles Auditorium
ANALYTICAL COLLOQUIUM
Martin Zanni
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
MONDAY-OCTOBER 17, 2016
4:00 pm in room 4630 TBBC
Host: John Conboy, 5-7957
Refreshments will be served before Colloquium
"Energy transfer in solar cells made from semiconducting carbon nanotubes studied
using 2D White-Light Spectroscopy"
Department of Biochemistry
Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Jason Nielson
B.S., Brigham Young University
"Intramolecular Interactions and Lipid Signaling Regulate Mitochondrial Translocation Of Vms1"
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
10:00 a .m.
EIHG Auditorium
Dept of Neurobiology and Anatomy and the Developmental Biology Training Grant present
Soo-Kyung Lee, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Pape' Family Pediatric Research Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
“What does the FOX say? Gene regulatory networks in CNS development”
Friday, October 7, 2016
2:00 pm
HSEB 1730
Hosts: Joseph Yost (801-585-0384) jyost@genetics.utah.edu
and Jan Christian (801-581-5397) jan.christian@hsc.utah.edu
Faculty Seminar By:
Aaron Quinlan, Ph.D.
“Cryptogenomicon”
Host: Mark Yandell
Friday, October 7th, 2016
11:00 am
EIHG Auditorium
Department of Biology Seminar
Thursday, October 6
4:00-5:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Dr. William Brazelton, University of Utah
RPT Seminar
“Metagenomic approaches to studying microbial biogeography in ecosystems near and
far”
Melissa Wilson Sayres, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Genomics, Evolution, and Bioinformatics
School of Life Sciences, Center for Evolution and Medicine, The Biodesign Institute
Arizona State University
“Sex-Biased Genome Evolution””
Tuesday October 4, 2016
12:00 NOON
EIHG 1st floor Auditorium
Hosted by: Clement Chow
Tatiana K. Bronich, PhD
Parke-Davis Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Director, Nebraska Center for Nanomedicine
College of Pharmacy, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska
"Engineering Targeted Polymeric Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery"
Monday, October 3rd
HSEB 41008
4:00PM
Jonathan Pritchard
HHMI & Departments of Genetics and Biology, Stanford University
"Dissecting the functional and evolutionary consequences of human genetic variation"
Monday, October 3, 2016
4:00 PM, Eccles Auditorium,
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics
Researchers Discover DNA Similarities Between Zika And Other Deadly Viruses
Chemistry Professor and BCP Faculty Cynthia Burrows had a simple question about the Zika virus.
The Neurobiology and Anatomy Department presents
Yingxi Lin, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
MIT
“Transcribing Memories”
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
4:00 pm
SMBB Auditorium
HCI named one of the top 50 cancer hospitals!
Huntsman Cancer Institute One of the Top in the Nation; University of Utah Hospital Best in Utah, according to latest U.S. News & World Report Rankings
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2016-2017 Best Hospital Rankings and named University of Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI)
Membrane Trafficking Interest Group
Patrick Allaire
Jorgensen Lab
CAB-1 drives peptide hormones
to the cell surface
1200 EEJMRB (Kjeldsberg Conference Room)
The Neurobiology and Anatomy Department presents a special seminar with:
Valeria Cavalli, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Washington University, St. Louis
“Epigenetic mechanisms in axon regeneration”
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
2:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
Seminars in Metabolism Presents:
“Regulation of adult lipid homeostasis by Drosophila Estrogen-Related Receptor”
Katherine Beebe, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Human Genetics – Carl Thummel Lab
University of Utah
February 23, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 4100B
Center for Cell and Genome Science Seminar
Steven Block, Ph.D., Stanford University
“Optical Tweezers: Gene Regulation, Studied One Molecule at a Time”
Wednesday, February 22, 4:00 PM, 210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Thursday, February 16
4:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Audrey Gasch, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Exploiting the yeast stress-activated signaling network to inform on stress biology and disease signaling”
Joan Miller, M.D.
Henry Willard Williams Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School
“New Approaches to Treating Age Related Macular Degeneration”
February 14, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditiorium
Swapna Gudipaty
Jody Rosenblatt Lab
"Mechanisms controlling apoptotic extrusion in epithelia"
February 14th, 2017 9:00am
1200 EEJMRB (Kjeldsberg Conference Room)
Graduate Funding Success Workshop
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Faculty Center, Marriott Library (MLIB 1705)
Jason Shepherd
Arc Encodes a Repurposed
Retrotransposon Gag Protein that
Mediates Trans-cellular RNA Transfer
February 7th, 2017 9:00am
1200 EEJMRB (Kjeldsberg Conference Room)
Neurobiology & Anatomy Seminar Series
Takaki Komiyama, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
University of California, San Diego
“Imaging neural ensembles in mice during learning”
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditorium
University of Utah
Department of Biology TEP Faculty Candidate Seminar
James Gagnon, Ph.D.
Harvard University
“Whole organism lineage tracing with genome editing"
Thursday, February 2
4:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
ORGANIC COLLOQUIUM
Robert Williams
University Distinguished Professor
Colorado State University
THURSDAY-FEBRUARY 2, 2017
10:45 am 4630 TBBC
“Enantiomeric Natural Products: Synthesis, Biogenesis and Evolutionary Origins”
Faculty Candidate
Colleen T. Skau, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
National Institute of Health
“Novel Roles of Formin Actin Assembly Factors in Cell Adhesion and Migration"
Monday, January 30th, 2017
4:00 pm
HSEB 3515B
“β-cell-mimetic designer cells provide closed-loop glycemic control”
Maria Disotuar
Graduate Student
Department of Biochemistry – Chou Lab
University of Utah
Thursday, January 26, 2017
4:00 – 5:00PM, HSEB 4100B
Faculty Candidate
Megan Matthews, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Scripps Research Institute
"Chemoproteomic profiling and discovery of protein electrophiles in human cell"
Thursday, January 26th, 2017
12:00 pm
HSEB 1730
Craig C. Mello, PhD
Distinguished Professor
HHMI Investigator
RNA Therapeutics Institute
University of Massachusetts Medical School
“A worm’s tale: Secrets of Inheritance and Immortality”
January 24, 2017
4:00 pm
EIHG Auditiorium
Bruce Edgar
Department of Oncological Sciences
“Genetics of RAS signaling in cell growth and cancer: Perspective and Questions”
Please note 4:15pm time for 2016-2017
Monday, January 23, 2017
4:15 PM
Kjeldsberg Conference Room
Emma Eccles Jones Medical Research Building
Faculty Candidate
Candice E. Paulsen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology
University of California San Francisco
"Structures of the TRPA1 Ion Channel Suggest Regulatory Mechanisms"
Thursday, January 19th 2017
2:00 PM
EIHG Auditorium
Sungjin Park
Versatile Roles of GPI-anchorage:
From Local Signaling To ECM Formation
January 17th, 2017 9:00am
1200 EEJMRB (Kjeldsberg Conference Room)
Thursday, January 12th
4:00-5:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Morgan Beeby, Ph.D., Imperial College London
“Evolution of high-torque bacterial flagellar motors"
J. David Symons, PhD
Professor, Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah
Adjunct Professor, Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes
Investigator, Molecular Medicine Program
“A novel mechanism whereby disrupted endothelial cell autophagy limits nitric oxide generation”
Thursday, January 5, 2017
4:00-5:00 pm
HSEB 4100B
Congratulations to Maria Disotuar for one of the 2016 SACNAS Student Presentation Awards!
Maria Disotuar recently delivered at 2016 SACNAS: The National Diversity in STEM Conference in Long Beach, CA. At the conference, our judges recognized Maria Disotuar's work, titled "Sortase a - Mediated Synthesis of Insulin Fusion Derivatives from a New Insulin Precursor," as a standout among the student presentations, and selected Maria Disotuar to receive one of the 2016 SACNAS Student Presentation Awards.
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Seminar Series
Dr. Robert Tanguay
Distinguished Professor
Oregon State University
Using Multidimensional Zebrafish Data to Advance Environmental Health
Monday, December 19, 2016
HSEB 2680
9:00 am
-Graduate Student Invite-
Dr. Katie Hinde, Arizona State University
“The Behavioral Ecology of Infancy: Mother’s Milk and Early Life Organization"
Thursday, December 8th
4:00-5:00 PM
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Thursday, December 8, 3:30–5 p.m.
EIHG Auditorium
Vitae annually highlights investigators and their pioneering research programs. The
program seeds new collaborations
and development strategies by humanizing research through story.
Vitæ 2016 speakers: Adam Bress, Danny Chou, Tracy Frech, Michelle Mendoza, Adam Spivak, and K-T Varley, representing the departments of Population Health Sciences, Biochemistry, Internal Medicine, and Oncological Sciences.
Hikmet Budak
Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University
"Next-generation Plant Biology in the Post Genome Sequence Era"
Monday, December 5, 2016
4:00 PM
EIHG Auditorium
CALL FOR PRE-DOCTORAL DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY TRAINING GRANT APPLICATIONS
Contact Teresa Upton at tupton@genetics.utah.edu for details.
Application Deadline for Application and Supporting Letters:
December 2, 2016
College of Pharmacy Seminar Series
Hosted by the Department of Pharmaceutics
Shawn Owen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Utah
“Building Superior Biologics: Enhancing ADCs and Replacing ELISA”
Thursday, December 1, 2016
4:00pm
Genetics Bldg. - 1st Floor Auditorium
Department of Biochemistry
Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Ashot Sargsyan
Yerevan State University
Mitochondrial Pyruvate Metabolism Induces Pseudohypoxia and Mitophagy
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
1:00 p.m.
EIHG Auditorium
Final Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Benjamin J. Bruno
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular Pharmaceutics
University of Utah
“Modified Coiled-Coil Protein for the Treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia”
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
HSEB 5100B
11:00 AM
Ilya Zharov, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Utah
"Silica and Boron Nanoparticles Designed for Cancer Treatmenta and Imaging"
Monday, November 21, 2016 HSEB
HSEB 4100B
4:00 pm
Nicole Steinmetz, PhD
Associate Professor
Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine
From black-eyed peas to nanotechnology: plant virus-based contrast agents and therapeutics
Monday: November 21, 2016
11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology Building (SMBB) 2650 Auditorium
Ben Langmead
Dr. Langmead has developed many foundational methods for sequence alignment, the detection of genetic variation, and large-scale RNA-seq analysis.
"Unlocking sequence data archives with scalable software and resources"
Friday, November 11, 2016
1:00 PM
EIHG Auditorium
Department of Biochemistry and MBP faculty member Dr. Dana Carroll featured in KUTV Channel 2 news story on CRISPR!
"Hopes, benefits of cut-and-paste DNA bring ethical questions, fears"
Fernando A Escobedo
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Marjorie L. Hart Professor of Engineering
Cornell University
MONDAY-NOVEMBER 7, 2016
4:00 pm in room 4630 TBBC
Host: Michael Gruenwald, 1-8023
Refreshments will be served before Lecture
"Engineering Entropy in Nanomaterials: The bad, the ugly, and the good"
Dr. Sharon Strauss
Professor, Departments of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis
“Combining historical phylogenetic and
ecological approaches to understand
niche evolution and defense in a clade
of native mustards”
Thursday, November 3, 2016
4:00 – 5:00 pm
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
Host: Lissy Coley (801)581-7088
Rudi Fasan
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology
University of Rochester
"Engineered Metalloprotein Catalysts for Selective Group Transfer Reactions"
THURSDAY-NOVEMBER 3, 2016
10:45 am in room 4630 TBBC
Host: Matt Sigman, 5-0774
Scientific Product Show
Wednesday, Nov 2nd
11am-1pm
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics
1st Floor Atrium
Refreshments Provided
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Seminar Series Presents
Dr. Baldomero Olivera
Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, University of Utah
“Linking Biodiversity to Chemical Biology and Neuroscience: Carnivorous Marine Snails, a Case Study”
Thursday, October 27, 2016
4:00 – 5:00 pm
210 Aline Skaggs Biology Building
School of Medicine Seminar Series
October 25, 2016
Tuesdays 4:00PM, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium
Andrew S. Weyrich, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research
Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Utah School of Medicine
“The Evolving Role of Anucleate Platelets in Health and Disease”
Host: Guy Zimmerman, Internal Medicine
HSC Calendar LinkSpecial Lecture
Date: Friday, October 14, 2016
Time: 8:30am
Location: Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Health Sciences Education Building Alumni Hall
2120
Michael J. Welsh, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine and
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Presents:
“Origins of Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease”
Host: Department of Internal Medicine
BIO/ORG SEMINAR
David Bergbreiter
Professor
Texas A&M
THURSDAY-OCTOBER 20, 2016
10:45 am in room 4630 TBBC
Host: Peter Stang
“Using Polymers as Solutes and Solvents in Synthesis”
PHCEU Fall 2016 Seminar Series
Globalization of Pharmaceutics Education Network (GPEN) Students:
Julian Knerr, Uwe Lichtenberg, Björn ter Mors
- Knerr “Can Re-engineered Tumor Suppressor p53 Overcome an Aggregation Mutant in Ovarian Cancer?”
- Litchenberg “Concept of Enzymatic Degassing in RAFT Polymerization for Large Scale Production”
- ter Mors “Target Engaged Complementation For Monitoring EGFR-HER2 Heterodimerization”
Monday, October 17, 2016
HSEB 4100B
4:00 PM
A Center for Iron and Heme Disorders and Metal Interest Group Talk
Faculty Candidate: Division Chief Neonatology Special Seminar
9:00-10:00 AM
Thursday, October, 13th 2016
HSEB 2680
“Iron-Regulatory Pathways to Hepcidin”
Presented by:
Dr. Robert E. Fleming, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and the Edward A. Doisy
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Saint
Louis University of School of Medicine.
President, International BioIron Society
INORGANIC SEMINAR
Matthew D. Liptak
Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry
University of Vermont
“Novel Functions Derived from Dynamic Motions”
TUESDAY-OCTOBER 11, 2016
10:45 am room 4630 TBBC
Host: Matthew Kieber-Emmons
Congratulations to Jonathan Van Vranken, a senior graduate student in Jared Rutter’s lab, for the first annual Marjorie Riches Gunn Award for Excellence in the Department of Biochemistry!
University of Utah Health Care Ranks No. 1 Nationally in Quality, Accountability After 6 Years in Top 10!
Biochemistry Seminar Speaker
Monday September 26
4:00 pm, HSEB 3515B
Stephen Young, Ph.D., UCLA
"An endothelial cell protein for plasma triglyceride metabolism"
Host: Claudio Villanueva
Seminars
Departmental Seminar Series
The Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Human Genetics, Medicinal Chemistry and Neurobiology & Anatomy Departments all sponsor numerous seminars that are of interest to members of the Bioscience community
HCI Seminar Series
The Huntsman Cancer Institute seminar series features presentations by many prominent biochemists
School of Medicine Seminar Series
This seminar series features many seminars by prominent scientists whose work is of broad interest to biochemists and other investigators at the University of Utah
Genetics Interest Group (GIG)
Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series (MPSS)
Neuroscience Program Seminar Series
Journal Clubs
All of the participating departments and many of the individual labs hold weekly journal clubs. Additionally, Interest Groups offer journal clubs for the first-year and upper level graduate students.
Research in Progress
Most departments hold weekly research in progress presentations.
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
Over the past five years, few public research universities have risen in stature as quickly for both academic excellence and the creation of life-changing technological and medical innovation than the University of Utah.
The University of Utah is on a remarkable upward trajectory, growing in both size and notoriety. It leads the nation in technology transfer endeavors due to, in large part, the Utah Science, Technology, and Research (USTAR) initiative and it has also produced Utah’s first Nobel Prize winner in 2007.