Events
FRONTIERS IN BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINARS
12:00 – 1:00 PM in Light Hall
2024
August 16, 202 Light Hall, Gabriel Lander, The Scripps Research Institute San Diego, “CryoEM brings new mechanistic insights into double-stranded DNA break repair”
September 13, 202 Light Hall, Squire Booker, Penn State University, “A Radical Solution for C(sp3)–C(sp3) Bond Formation during the Biosynthesis of Macrocyclic Membrane Lipids”
September 27, 202 Light Hall, Alberto Ciccia, Columbia University, “Dissecting the DNA damage response network”
October 11, 202 Light Hall, The Lubomir S. Hnilica Lecture, Anjana Rao, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, “The TET-DNMT-ASXL1-OGT axis: regulation of DNA and histone methylation,
clonal haematopoiesis and cancer”
October 25 – 202 Light Hall, Rohit V. Pappu, Washington University, St. Louis
Wednesday, October 30, 202 Light Hall, 2:00 PM, APEX Lecture, Agnel Sfeir, Sloan Kettering Institute
November 8, 202 Light Hall, Karla Neugebauer, Yale University
November 22, 214 Light Hall, Francisco Barrera, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2025
Wednesday, January 15, 1220 MRBIII, 2:00 PM, APEX Lecture, David Bartel, MIT
January 31, Minglei Zhao, University of Chicago
February 14, The Richard Armstrong Mentoring Lecture, Scott Hiebert, Vanderbilt University
February 28, Allan Drummond, University of Chicago
March 28, John Petrini, Sloan Kettering Institute
April 4, Blanton Tolbert, University of Pennsylvania
April 11, Kathleen Collins, University of California, Berkeley
May 2, The Richard Armstrong Lecture, Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego
May 16, Josh Coon, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Dissertation Defense
BIOCHEMISTRY DISCOVERY/FLEXNER LECTURE
4:00 – 5:00 PM, 208 Light Hall
The next scheduled Biochemistry Flexner Discovery Lecture is TBD. Please check back here for updates.
In recent years, the Department of Biochemistry has hosted such illustrious speakers as: Jennifer Doudna, Peter Agre, Karl Deisseroth, Joan Steitz, NIDA Director Nora Volkow, Nancy Andrews, and several Nobel Prize winners (Sydney Brenner, Tom Cech, Andrew Fire, Bengt Samuelsson, Kurt Wuthrich, Sir Paul Nurse, and in 2017 Eric Kandel). View a full listing of all Vanderbilt Flexner Discovery Lectures, past and present. Lectures are recorded and may be viewed online.
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