Events
Winter/Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule
In-person seminars will be held on Wednesdays from 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm CT in Room 1220 MBR III.
Zoom meeting information will be sent to VICB and CBAS members one week prior to a seminar date. If you have any questions or need more information, please contact Tia Patton at: tia.repscher@vanderbilt.edu
January 25: Marcetta Darensbourg – Texas A&M, “Repurposing Bioinspired Molecular Mimics of Enzyme Active Sites for Broader Applications”
February 1: Kabirul Islam – University of Pittsburgh, “An Integrated Chemical Biology Approach to Probe Chromatin-Modifying Enzymes”
February 8: Ege Kavalalı – Vanderbilt University, “Functional Nano-Organization of Central Synapses” In-Person-Only Seminar
February 22: Brandon Garcia – East Carolina University, “Halting the cascade: The unusual complement evasion strategies of the Lyme disease spirochete” In-Person-Only Seminar
March 1: Christina Lamers – Leipzig University In-Person-Only Seminar, “The Development of cyclic peptides to therapeutically target host defense pathways”
March 15: Smita Krishnaswamy – Yale University, “Deep Geometric and Topological Representations for Extracting Insights from Biomedical Data” (Zoom Only)
March 22: Aseem Ansari – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, “Crafting Chemical Keys to Unlock the Genome” In-Person-Only Seminar
March 29: Rima Al-awar – Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, “WD Repeat Proteins: An exciting family for novel cancer therapeutics” In-Person-Only Seminar
April 12: Olivia Rossanese – Institute of Cancer Research, London, “Exploring Monovalent Degraders for Cancer Therapeutics” In-Person-Only Seminar
April 19: Bryan Dickinson – University of Chicago, “Synthetic Biology Approaches to Study and Exploit RNA Regulation” In-Person-Only Seminar
April 26: Doug Kojetin – Vanderbilt University, “Structural Pharmacology Defines Molecular Mechanism of Ligand-induced PPARγ Function” In-Person-Only Seminar