WUSM BMB

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Kristine Wylie who is a professor of Pediatrics & Infectious Disease at WashU "Uneasy Companions: Dynamic Interplay of the Virome and Host During Pregnancy" Hosted by Lizzy Draganova

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Tonight is the night! This semester's Biophysical Evenings seminar given by Yifan Dai in WashU's Biomedical Engineering department. "The electrochemistry of biomolecular condensates" In the Connor Auditorium from 4-5 PM

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Ben Schuler from the University of Zurich "Probing the Rapid Interaction Dynamics of Charged Disordered Proteins" Hosted by Andrea Soranno & Michael Greenberg

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Conor Caffrey from the University of California-San Diego "Phenotypic- and target-based approaches to neglected tropical disease drug discovery at UC San Diego" Hosted by Jim Janetka

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Susruta Majumdar from the WashU Department of Anesthesiology "Structure based design of GPCR Modulators" Hosted by Jim Janetka

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This semesters Biophysical Evening seminar will be given by Matthew Lew, Professor in Electrical & Systems Engineering at WashU "Single-Molecule Orientation-Localization Microscopy: New Challenges and Biophysical Insights" Thurs, March 20th 4-5 PM, Connor Auditorium

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Janice Pata from the University of Albany "Initiation of DNA synthesis in Gram-positive bacteria: the roles of DnaG, DnaE, and PolC" Hosted by the CEO Committee

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Martin McMahon from Huntsman Cancer Institute "Mechanisms of Progression and Maintenance in Preclinical Models of BRAF-driven Lung Tumorigenesis and NRAS-driven Melanoma" Hosted by Hema Adhikari

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Catherine Royer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "Sequence determinatnts of protein conformational landscapes" Hosted by Women's Group

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Shankar Mukherji from Washington University in St. Louis, Physics department "Building the cell from unreliable parts" Hosted by Janice Robertson

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Trevor GrandPre from Washington University in St. Louis, Physics department "Biophysical principles of biomolecular condensate formation in algal pyrenoids" Hosted by BMB Community Engagement & Outreach (CEO) Committee

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Kicking off our Fall 2025 seminar guests. Our next departmental seminar will be given by Cholsoon Jang from the University of California-Irvine "Inter-organ metabolic communications in aging and cardiovascular disease" Hosted by Gabor Egervari

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Jing Fan from the University of Wisconsin-Madison "Interconnected regulations drive temporally structured metabolic remodeling during immune cell response" Hosted by BMB Women's Group

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Jerelle Joseph from Princeton University "From molecules to networks to emergent behaviors: Probing biomolecular condensates across spatiotemporal scales" Hosted by Jeramia Ory

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Tomorrow our department's Research Round-up is being given by Carolina Bras Costa, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Garcia Lab "Initial insights into the disruption of epigenetic mechanisms of germline histone H3.3 mutations in a novel neurodevelopmental disorder"

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Laura Sanchez from the University of California-Santa Cruz "Mass spectrometry applications for studying ovarian cancer" Hosted by Ben Garcia

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Daisuke Kihara from Purdue University "AI-based structure modeling and validation tools for cryo-EM" Hosted by Alireza Ghanbarpour

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Today our department's Research Round-up is being given by Youmain Yan, Graduate Student in the Niemi Lab "Investigating the ability of presequences to influence mitochondrial protein import"

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Gabe Lander from Scripps Research Institute "CryoEM brings new mechanistic insights into double-stranded DNA break repair" Hosted by Alireza Ghanbarpour

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Rachel Klevit from the University of Washington "Not all disorder is created equal: Functional Disorder in Small Heat Shock Proteins" Hosted by Alex Holehouse

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Brad Nolen from the University of Oregon "Control of actin filament networks by Arp2/3 complex and its regulators" Hosted by John Cooper

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Lucas Sullivan from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center "Identifying metabolic constraints of cancer cell proliferation" Hosted by Student-Postdoc Liaison Committee

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by CArne Gennerich from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine "Mechanisms of Force Adaptation in Dynein-Based Transport" Hosted by Tim Lohman

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Today our department's Research Round-up is being given by Assistant Professor, Dr. Byoung-Kyu Cho "An advanced spatial multi-omics approach integrating MALDI-MSI and LCM-MS"

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Congratulations to our department chair Ben Garcia on his selection as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow! He is being honored for his contributions to the field of mass spectrometry and its application in epigenetic research Congrats @garcialabms.bsky.social

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Crystal Starbird from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill "The various roles of lipids in TAM receptor activation" Hosted by DEI Committee

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Our next departmental seminar will be given by Patricia Clark from the University of Notre Dame "Protein folding success depends on the direction and speed of polypeptide chain appearance" Hosted by Kathleen Hall

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