Events
Fall/Winter 2024-2025 VICB Seminar Schedule
In-person seminars will be held on Wednesdays from 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm CT in Room 1220 MBR III.
If you have any questions or need more information, please contact Tia Patton at: tia.repscher@vanderbilt.edu
SPECIAL SEMINAR – August 21 (Add-to-Calendar): Berend Isermann, Institute of Laboratory Medicine at Leipzig University Hospital,“Tissue Factor and Interferon-Alpha Receptor-1 Interaction Constitutes a Thrombo-Inflammatory Switch”
September 4 (Add-to-Calendar): Patrick Griffin, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, “Structural Proteomics: Functional Dynamics of Nuclear Receptors”
September 11 (Add-to-Calendar): Daniel Nelson, University of Maryland College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, “Beyond Antibiotics: Endolysins As Targeted Antibacterial Agents”
September 18 (Add-to-Calendar): Emily Derbyshire, Duke University, “Interdisciplinary Approaches To Reveal Parasite Vulnerabilities”
September 25 (Add-to-Calendar): Ronald Raines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), “From Quantum Mechanics to the Clinic: Lessons from Collagen”
October 2 (Add-to-Calendar): Wade Harper, Harvard Medical School, “Proteomic Exploration of Organelle Quality Control Mechanisms”
October 9 (Add-to-Calendar): Jim Audia, FLARE Therapeutics, “Transcription Factor Drug Discovery: FX-909, a Potent, Selective PPARg Inverse Agonist for Muscle Invasive Urothelial Cancer”
October 23 (Add-to-Calendar): Andrew Goodman, Yale School of Medicine, “Microbiome Dynamics During Infection”
October 30 (Add-to-Calendar): Jane Aldrich, University of Florida, “Macrocyclic Tetrapeptides, Versatile Compounds for Potential Drug Development”
November 6: Sam Light, The University of Chicago, “Powering the Gut: How Microbial Bioenergetics Shape Bioactive Metabolite Production”
November 13: Tao Che, Washington University in St. Louis, “Structural Basis of Opioid Receptor Activation by Dissociative Hallucinogens”
November 20: Diane Mitrea, Dewpoint Therapeutics, Inc., “Leveraging biomolecular condensates to discover the next generation therapies”
December 4: Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Genome Mining for New Natural Products and New Chemistry”
2025 VICB Seminars
January 15: James Olzmann, University of California, Berkeley
January 22: Elizabeth Kellogg, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
January 29: Eric Skaar, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
February 5: Seth Rubin, University of California, Santa Cruz
February 12: Erin Calipari, Vanderbilt University
February 19: Sean Davies, Vanderbilt University
February 26: Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, Princeton University
March 5: Heedeok Hong, Michigan State University
March 19: Susan Zultanski, Merck & Co Inc.
March 26: Fleur Ferguson, University of California, San Diego
April 2: Carrie Jones, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
April 9: Dane Chetkovich, Vanderbilt University Medical Center