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 2025

October 7

  • Christine Kuykendall, Skromne Lab - Functional Analysis of Retinoic Acid Receptors in the Embryonic Development of Zebrafish
  • Cat Jalbert, Downey Lab - Alkylation of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Amides with Allyl Propionates

October 28

  • Joe Sheridan, Johnson Lab - 2-phosphino-1H-pyrroles
  • Phoebe Rubio, Shugrue Lab - Development of a small-molecule inhibitor for USP48

December 2

  • Paxton Mills, Pollock Lab - Interaction of MEMO1 mutants with ERalpha peptides
  • Leila Lin - TBD

Spring 2026

February 3

  • Zack Ruighaver, Shugrue Lab - Development of a benzothiazole sulfone tool for peptide modification and cleavage
  • Sai Dulam, Downey Lab - The Cyclization of Congested Aldol Products

February 10

  • Gavin Clausen, Shugrue Lab - Cleavable Linkers
  • Charlotte Rose - Nonmuscle myosin 2A and the MYL6B light chain

February 17

  • Simran Gupta, Hamm Lab - hPol Iota and its Incorporation opposite OdG
  • Vu Phan, Quintero Lab - Regulation of Myosin 3a

February 24

  • Aine MacDermott, Yang Lab - Elucidating the presence, strength, and timing of positive selection on ADH1B in worldwide human populations
  • Remi Graff, Downey Lab - One-pot synthetic organic chemistry utilizing TMSOTf

March 3, 2026

  • Lily Strauss, Johnson Lab - Comparative Study of dppbz in Nickel-Catalyzed C-N Cross-Coupling
  • Mike Lansing - TBD

March 17

  • Natalie Stuart, Shugrue Lab - Synthesis and Oxidative Linearization of Cyclic Peptides for Therapeutic Identification

March 24

  • Amanda Green, O’Neal Lab - TBD
  • Julia Krichev, Coppage Lab - "Pretty in Pinks"- Using Chromium and Tin Oxide to achieve a pink ceramic glaze

April 14

  • Hana Bedada, Jones Lab - Investigating the ability of capsaicin to attenuate the pro-inflammatory and pro-oxidant effects of biomass smoke in human airway epithelial cells