Events
FRONTIERS IN BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINARS
12:00 – 1:00 PM
2022
August 5: Alexandria Oviatt (Osheroff lab), Madison Adolph (Cortez lab), Pratibha Ghodke (Guengerich lab), Vanderbilt University
September 2: open
September 16: Susan Lovett, Brandeis University
October 7: tentatively Trudy Oliver, Duke University
October 21: Lawrence J. Marnett, Vanderbilt University “The Richard Armstrong Mentoring Lecture”
November 4: Wade Van Horn, Arizona State University
November 18: Nima Mosammaparast, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
December 2: Ori Avinoam, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2023
January 26: Christine A. Curcio, University of Alabama at Birmingham
January 20: Cigall Kadoch, Harvard “The Richard Armstrong Lecture”
March 9 THURSDAY: Yifan Cheng, UCSF “The Flexner Discovery Lecture”
April 7: Johannes Walter, Harvard
Dissertation Defense
July 20: Romell Gletten (Schey lab), “Aquaporin-5 expression, trafficking, and interacting partners in the bovine lens,”1:00 PM, 1220 MRB III
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.
March 9, 2023: Yifan Cheng, UCSF, The Flexner Discovery Lecture, live stream (Ren hosts)
STUDENT COLLOQUIUM
Summer/Fall 2022 12:00 PM CT
8/12/2022: In-Person (LH 208) & Zoom-Colloquium: Introductory Seminar
8/26/2022: In-Person (LH 214) & Zoom-Colloquium: Stacey Satchell