BMB Seminar Series

The BMB Seminar series features presentations by students in the Senior Seminar course. Current students are actively conducting research with BMB faculty and will showcase their research experiences and findings at these Tuesday seminars from 12-1:15pm in Gottwald audorium, A001.

Fall 2024

October 1

  • Abigail Ali, Skromne Lab – Development and characterization of carbon nanodots-peptide conjugates for the treatment of bone disease
  • Yeseul Jun, Hamm Lab – OdGTP Insertion

October 8

  • Hannah Lwin, Dattelbaum Lab – Isolation and identification of compounds with antibiotic activity against ESKAPE pathogen relatives
  • Camryn Sung, Pollock Lab – Use of a Thermal Shift Assay to Identify Small Molecule Modulators of Staphylococcus aureus STK1

October 22

  • Esther Kim, Dattelbaum Lab – TBA
  • Holly Wemple, Leopold Lab – Fouling-Resistant Electrochemical Xylazine Sensors for Indirect Indication of Fentanyl and its Derivatives

October 29

  • Will Quackenbush, Hamm Lab – TBA
  • Katie Marchione, Downey Lab – One-pot enol silane formation-alkylation reactions of ketones and (diaryl)methyl acetates

November 5

  • Melody McAtee, Hilliker Lab – Role of GLP-1 on Immune Cells Response in Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Dusan Vukcevic – TBA

December 3

  • Teagan Holmes, Runyen-Janecky Lab – Microbiology and the characteristics of Staph. Equorum
  • Abby Bangs, Williams Lab - Antimicrobial work with biofilms

Spring 2025

January 21

  • Beza Mulatu, Jones Lab – Blindness and Schizophrenia
  • Peterson Haas, Goldstein Lab – Prostate Lineage-Specific Metabolism: Key Regulator of Luminal Differentiation and Response to Antiandrogen Treatment

January 28

  • Will Finegan, Johnson Lab – TBAJ
  • Sky Marsicano, Dattelbaum Lab – Characterization of putative periplasmic binding protein TM1135 from Thermotoga maritima

February 4

  • Ziang Fan, Pierce Lab – Analyzing Signal Reception of Agrobacterium Using VirA Mutations
  • Danna Aguilar – Genome sequencing to understand virulence and distribution of H. pylori

February 11

  • Olivia Day, Pierce Lab – Investigating the Agrobacterium tumefaciens VirA Linker Region for Phenol Interaction
  • Emma Lee Kane, Runyen-Janecky Lab – Investigating Phage-Antibiotic Synergy to Combat the Rise of Antibiotic Resistance

February 18

  • Anush Margaryan, Barber Lab – The Role of Intracellular pH (pHi) in Zebrafish Tail Regeneration
  • Auden Wilson, Pollock Lab – Photoactivated Chemotherapy

February 25

  • Torsten Boroswski, Johnson Lab – Preparation of 2-(phosphino)pyrroles
  • Lily Kaufman, Hamm Lab – Organic synthesis

March 4

  • Madeleine Rostad – Enabling SNP Detection via Isothermal Amplification Coupled with CRISPR Cas12a
  • Moriam Animashaun, Carpenter-Swanson Lab – Investigating epilepsy in zebrafish

March 18

  • Maaz Rao, Parish Lab – Quantum Mechanics and/or Molecular Dynamics
  • Alex Dagan, Hilliker Lab – Studying if methylation of RNA Helicase, DED-1, affects stress granule formation

March 25

  • Paige Embley, Nolin Lab – TBA
  • Martina Younan, Jones Lab – Effects of Biomass smoke on epithelial lung cells

April 1

  • Luis Montano, Carpenter-Swanson Lab – Investigating the role of Sigma and the 5HT2B receptor in Dravet Fish
  • Anna Shklyarevsky, O’Neal Lab – Investigation of Pyrrole Synthesis Under Zav'yalov Conditions

April 8

  • Kenza Hanouda, Pierce Lab – TBA
  • Jimmy Cheng, Norris Lab – Synthesis of a Ruthenium Complex capable of CO2 Reduction