May 12, 2026
Eileen Kennedy, PhD
Division Chair, Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry; Distinguished Professor
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Eshelman School of Pharmacy, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions with Constrained Peptides
May 5, 2026
Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb, PhD
Associate Professor of Chemistry
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University of Michigan
Design principles for Rieske Oxygenase Chemistry
Apr 28, 2026
Jeffrey Tabor, PhD
Professor of Bioengineering & BioSciences
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Rice University
Engineering bacteria to sense and treat disease
Apr 21, 2026
James Fraser, PhD
Chair and Ernest L. Prien Professor Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
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University of California, San Francisco
Statistical Structural Biology
Apr 14, 2026
Kamena Kostova, Phd
Assistant Investigator
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Stower's Institute for Medical Research
New Frontiers in Ribosome Biology: Surveillance Mechanisms and Functional Diversity
Apr 7, 2026
Vahe Bandarian, Phd
Professor and Associate Provost for Mission-Aligned Planning
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University of Utah
Leveraging radical enzymology towards novel peptide architectures
Mar 31, 2026
Hannah McMillan, PhD
NSF PRFB Postdoctoral Fellow | He Lab Department of Biology Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Duke University
Emergent properties of plant-microbiome interactions in a warming climate
Mar 10, 2026
Fitnat Yildiz, PhD
Associate Dean of Research & Research Impact, PBSci Division Distinguished Professor
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University of California - Santa Cruz
Molecular Circuits of c-di-GMP: Controlling Motility-Biofilm Transitions in Vibrio cholerae
Mar 3, 2026
POSTPONED - Ben Brown, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Vanderbilt University
A Generalizable Deep Learning Framework for Structure-Based Protein-Ligand Affinity Ranking
Feb 24, 2026
POSTPONED - Binyam Mogessie, PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
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Yale University
Synthetic oocyte aging reveals cytoskeletal and centromeric safeguards of chromosome segregation
Feb 17, 2026
POSTPONED - Scott Coyle, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry
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University of Wisconsin Madison
Feb 10, 2026
Kim McKim, PhD
Professor
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Rutgers University
Inside out - or how oocytes make spindles and segregate chromosomes
Feb 3, 2026
Dan Jarosz, PhD
Principal Investigator
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Stanford University
Jan 30, 2026
Christopher Lapointe, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Dynamic branchpoints regulate selection of translation start codons
Jan 27, 2026
Alexander Cartagena-Rivera, PhD
Investigator (Tenure-Track)
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National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Aberrant glycosylation regulates membrane surface architecture and viscoelasticity of pancreatic cancer cells
Jan 26, 2026
Natalie Jaeger (Harms lab), “Many mutations have different effects on different protein conformations”
Derek Epiney (Doe lab), “TBA”
Jan 20, 2026
Stefanie Redemann, PhD
Associate Professor
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University of Virginia
Jan 13, 2026
Sarah Clark, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
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Oregon State University
Lipid superhighways of the cell
Nov 4, 2025
Nick Pokorzynski, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Oregon State University
Salmonella promotes virulence gene transcription by reducing RNA polymerase amounts
Oct 28, 2025
Mike Harms, PhD
Associate Professor
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University of Oregon
Promotion Talk - A Biophysical Perspective on The Evolution of Multi-Conformation Proteins
Oct 21, 2025
Claire Richardson, PhD
Assistant Professor
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University of Wisconsin
Investigating mechanisms of neuronal maintenance: regulation of lysosomal capacity and synaptic vesicle protein turnover
Oct 14, 2025
Carole LaBonne, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Erastus O. Haven Professor of Life Sciences
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Northwestern
The Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks: A View From the Crest
Oct 7, 2025
POSTPONED Kamena Kostova, PhD
Assistant Investigator
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Stower's Institute for Medical Research
Response to Pathological and Physiological Changes in Ribosome Composition.