Each semester, we host the Biological Sciences Seminar Series sponsored in part by the Orrin Foster Lecture Fund. We invite you to attend our events in-person this semester.
THURSDAY SEMINARS, 3:45 p.m.
NSC 215, UB North Campus
January 25, 2024
Vincent Lynch
UB Biological Sciences
Evolutionary transcriptomics implicates new genes and pathways in human pregnancy
February 1, 2024
Melissa McCartney
UB Pharmacology & Toxicology
Cornerstone over Capstone: The case for structured career development opportunities early in the undergraduate Biology curriculum as a way to influence science and Biology identities
Host: Daniels
February 8, 2024
Research Showcase
Emily Mehle: C. elegans wild isolates reveal natural variation in avoidance behaviors (Lab: Ferkey)
Charikleia Karageorgiou: Ancient AMY1 gene duplications primed the amylase locus for adaptive evolution upon the onset of agriculture (Lab: Gokcumen)
February 15, 2024
NO SEMINAR
February 22, 2024
Alfredo Oliveros Amaya
UB Bological Sciences
Adenosine regulation of cognition and neuroinflammation in chemobrain
February 29, 2024
Veena Prahlad
Roswell Park, Dept. Cell Stress Biology
Neuronal control over cell stress response pathways in a metazoan
Host: Ferkey
March 7, 2024
Marcella Baiz
UB Biological Sciences
Genetic divergence among colorful wood warblers and consequences for gut microbiome
March 14, 2024
James Chappell
Rice University
Genetically engineering microbial consortia and non-model microbes using programmable RNA tools
Host: Strobel
March 21, 2024
NO SEMINAR (SPRING BREAK)
March 28, 2024
Bin He
University of Iowa
Tough and sticky: Evolution of stress response and adhesin gene family in pathogenic yeasts
Host: Rusche
April 4, 2024
Thomas Walz
Rockefeller University
Cryo-EM studies of membrane proteins in nanodiscs
Host: Rusche
April 11, 2024
Yeong Shin Yim
University of Pennsylvania
Exploring CD8+ T cells in non-pathological brain conditions
Host: J Lee & S Lee
April 18, 2024
Curt Sigmund
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The renin-angiotensin system in the brain: Regulation and role in blood pressure and fluid homeostasis
Host: Daniels
April 25, 2024
Alan Hinnebusch
NIH Distinguished Investigator
Direct and indirect mechanisms controlling translation initiation in vivo
Host: Walker
May 2, 2024
Josh Akey
Princeton University
Host: Gokcumen
GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
Postponed (from January 17, 2024)
THURSDAYS at 3:45 p.m.
COOKE HALL 121, UB North Campus
2/9/23 Angela Oliverio (Syracuse University)
Probing the eco-evolutionary dynamics of microbial systems.
2/16/23 Holly Justice (UB)
Overview of UB's resources for graduate student career planning.
3/2/23 Anne Stone (Arizona State University)
New Frontiers Distinguished Speaker
Tracking a Killer: Using ancient DNA to understand the evolutionary history of tuberculosis.
3/9/23 Research Showcase: Daniel Macguigan (Krabbenhoft)
and Jacob Bowman (Lynch)
Dan: Genomic architecture of ecological speciation.
Jacob: Relaxed selection of spermatogenesis genes of Gorilla gorilla gorilla and cell death pathway genes of elephant Loxodonta africana.
3/16/23 Reuben Peters (Iowa State University) From Angströms to Evolution and Agriculture with Diterpenoid Natural Products.
3/30/23 Todd Castoe (University of Texas, Arlington) Stress response pathways and the origins of novelty: how snakes regenerate organs and regulate venom.
4/6/23 Kathryn M. Kauffman (UB Oral Bio) Resolving phage-bacteria interactions: from the ocean to the oral microbiome.
4/13/23 Shinjae Chung (University of Pennsylvania) Neural circuits underlying sleep and emotional regulation.
4/20/23 Corey Krabbenhoft (UB BIO) Environmental characteristics regulating long-term decline of a freshwater game fish.
4/27/23 Seema Mattoo (Purdue University) From Bacteria to Humans - Fic Protein in Cellular Signaling.
5/4/23 Tamara Doering (Washington Univ Saint Louis) Tricks of the trade: virulence mechanisms of a pathogenic yeast.
5/11/23 Paul L. Boutz (University of Rochester Medical Center) Nuclear containment: countering the threat of oncogenic transcripts through RNA surveillance.
Thursdays at 4:00 p.m.
Natural Sciences Complex (NSC) 215, UB North Campus
September 8, 2022
Dr. Georg Jander, Cornell, Boyce Thompson Institute, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Glucosinolates and Cardiac Glycosides”
September 15, 2022
Dr. Derek Daniels, Professor and Chair, UB Biological Sciences, “Separate but overlapping glucagon-like peptide-1 circuits that control feeding and drinking"
September 22, 2022
Dr. David Heppner, UB Chemistry, “Overcoming drug resistance in EGFR mutant cancer: Molecular insights for modern drug design”
October 6, 2022
Graduate Research Showcase
-Beatriz Gonzales, “Regulation of Cdc42 Protein Levels Impacts a Cell Differentiation Program in Yeast”
-Emily Carroll, “Sterol cleaving enzyme identified in the foxglove plant”
October 13, 2022
Dr. David Shechner, University of Washington, “Meet the neighbors: A universal technology for probing RNA-interactions and RNA-scaffolded subcellular compartments in situ”
October 20, 2022
Dr. Xiuqian Mu, UB JSMBS, “Genetic and epigenetic control of retinal cell differentiation”
October 27, 2022
Dr. Ekin Atilla-Gokcumen, UB Chemistry, “Ceramide-1-phosphate regulates cellular senescence”
November 3, 2022
Dr. Nicole Martinez, Stanford, “Uncovering new functions of RNA modifications in mRNA processing”
November 10, 2022
Dr. Stephanie Gupton, UNC, “Coordinating Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Membrane Remodeling in Neuronal Morphogenesis”
November 17, 2022
Dr. Sarah Walker, UB Biological Sciences, “Translational control of gene expression: Unexpected mechanisms and consequences of eIF4 factor regulation”
December 1, 2022
Dr. Dave Toczyski, UCSF, “Regulation of the cell cycle and metabolism by the ubiquitin pathway (and visa versa)”
December 8, 2022
Dr. Adam Session, SUNY-Binghamton, “K-mer identification of allopolyploid subgenomes”