The Department of Molecular Medicine hosts seminars and research Work-in-Progress presentations throughout the year

Fall Seminar Series 2024
4:00 pm  (Mondays, Lecture Hall III, unless otherwise noted)

September 2024

• September 16
  Dr. Shernaz Bamji, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia
  The Role of Palmitoylating Enzymes in Brain Development and Disease
  (Hosted by Carrie Adler and Maurine Linder)

October 2024

• October 7
  Dr. Kapil Ramachandran, Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience, Columbia University
  A New Principle of Neuromodulation and Neuronal Proteostasis Links ApoE to Tau Aggregate Formation
  (Hosted by Richa Sardana)

Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 Department Work-In-Progress Series
4:00 pm Mondays, Lecture Hall III, unless noted otherwise

OCTOBER 2024

• October 21
  Derek Wei (Hollopeter Lab) - ASPPs multimerize protein phosphatase I

• October 28
  Matt Zanotelli  (Cerione Lab) - A Dock7-mTOR complex sustains AKt and S8K activity necessary for stress survival in cancer
  Jenn Roscoe (Sevier Lab) - How do cells use the unfolded protein response to manage ER over-oxidation?

NOVEMBER 2024

• November 4
  Rebecca Schmitt (Cerione Lab)  - Gliobastoma resilience through Doc7-mediated survival and plasticity
  Kuang-Tse Wang (Adler Lab)  - RoboA/Anos1 spacially restricts pharynx cell fates in planarians

• November 11 
  Jillian Breault (Sevier Lab) - Understanding the Hsp70 molecular chaperone cycle through structure-function studies of spontaneous suppressor mutations
  Bill Katt (Cerione Lab) - Oral cancer in four legged friends

• November 18
  Shun Enomoto (Cerione Lab) - Embryonic stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles delay cellular senescence by inhibiting oxidative stress
  Sumanth Mosale (Sardana Lab) - Loss of cystinosin promotes abnormal glycosylation

• November 25 - No WIP, Thanksgiving Break

DECEMBER 2024

• December 2
  Sarah Chan  (Kawate Lab) - Elucidating the biochemical role of the TTYH protein family in the nervous system
  Saul De La Penn (Cerione Lab) - Unraveling the biology and structure of the rhodopsin signaling pathway in the presence of native lipids

• December 9
  Justin Tapper  (Adler Lab) - Developing transgenic strategies in planaria
  Jessica Holchek (Cerione Lab) - Investigating the mechanism of phosphodiesterase-6 activation by electron spin resonance spectroscopy techniques

• December 16
  Libby Huang (Kurpios Lab) - The role of Pitx2 in villus smooth muscle-lymphatics complex
  Alexandra Hommer (Sevier Lab) - The role of sub cellular protein methionine oxidation and methionine sulfide reductase activities in aging

• December 23 - NO WIP, Winter Break

• December 30 - NO WIP, Winter Break

JANUARY 2025

• January 6
  Katie Crowther (Kawate Lab) - Elucidation of the mechanism and physiological function of TMEM94
  Jac Longstreth (Cerione Lab) - Targeting glutamine metabolism in virus infection

• January 13
  Jade Bowerman  (Sardana Lab) - Understanding function and cargo of the AP-1 sub-complexes in S. cerevisiae
  Yongsheng Wang (Cerione Lab) - Palmitoylation as a mechanism for regulating extracellular vesicle cargo and function

• January 20 - NO WIP, Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

• January 27 - NO WIP, BBS Recruitment

FEBRUARY 2025

• February 3
  Biswanath Shaw  (Cerione Lab) - Investigating the interaction between activated Cdc42 and Dock67DHR2 through structural studies
  Isabel Delo (Adler Lab) - Investigating the role of Smad4-2 in the regeneration of a neural feeding circuit

• February 10
  Jacob Neumann (Cerione Lab) - Survivin promotes the Warburg Effect in KRAS-dependent cancer cells by interacting with a key metabolic enzyme           
  Fu-Yu Tsai (Adler Lab) - Brains everywhere! Regulation of neurogenesis in planarians

• February 17
  Yangyang Liu (Cerione Lab) - Cancer-derived extracellular vesicles induce the formation of Cancer-associated-fibroblasts through AKT activation
  Julia Zhu  (Sardana Lab) - The solute transporter Ers1 regulates ER/Golgi redox in yeast

• February 24
  Kayleigh Morrison  (Hollopeter Lab) – Determining the function of the MLT-4 amphipathic helix
  Yifan Fang  (Cerione Lab) - SIRT5 regulates the degradation of glutaminase C in breast cancer

MARCH 2025

• March 3
  Trisha Bhattacharya  (Ichikawa Lab)