Biophysics Seminars

The Department of Biophysics hosts a vibrant seminar series, where senior leaders and rising stars discuss their latest work and spend a day meeting with faculty, postdocs, and students.

Lectures are presently in person

This will be in person only

DateSpeaker and Seminar Title
2024-2025 Season
Host
Sept 12, 2024

Brandt Eichman, Ph.D. William R. Kenan Jr. Chair, Professor and Chair of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University

Title: "Structural mechanisms of DNA priming by polymerase a-primase"

ND8.218 at noon

Yunsun Nam, Ph.D.

Oct 3, 2024

Christopher Jaroniec, Ph.D.– Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University

Title: " Solid-State NMR Studies of DNA-Protein Complexes"
 
ND8.218 at noon
 
Kendra Frederick, Ph.D.
Nov 7, 2024

CANCELED Juli Feigon, Ph.D. Faculty and Distinguished Professor, UCLA

Title:  "TBD"

ND8.218 at noon

 

Yunsun Nam, Ph.D.

Seminar canceled

Dec 12, 2024

Z. Hong Zhou, Ph.D. – Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, UCLA

Title: "Fishing and resolving the Eukaryotic RNA-editing complexes"

ND8.218 at noon

Youxing Jiang, Ph.D. and Huabin Zhou, Ph.D.
Jan 16, 2025

Jin Zhang, Ph.D. – Professor, Pharmacology, UC San Diego

Title: “Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell"

ND8.218 at noon

Khuloud Jaqaman, Ph.D.
Feb 6, 2025

Kassandra Ori-McKenney, Ph.D. – Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Davis

Title:"TBD" 

ND8.218 at noon

Luke Rice, Ph.D.

 

Mar 6, 2025

Eunyong Park, Ph.D.- Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley

Title:"TBD" 

ND8.218 at noon

Blake Williams
Apr 3, 2025

Tanja Mittag, Ph.D. - Faculty Member, Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude's Research Hospital

Title:"TBD" 

ND8.218 at noon

Matthew Parker, Ph.D
May 1, 2025

David Lubensky, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Physics, University of Michigan

Title:"ATP-dependent remodeling of hexasomes, nucleosomes and chromatin condensates" 

ND8.218 at noon

Konstantin Doubrovinski, Ph.D.

Jun 5, 2025

Elizabeth Villa, Ph.D. – Professor of Molecular Biology, HHMI Investigator, UC San Diego

Title:"TBD"

ND8.218 at noon

Jeff Woodruff, Ph.D. and Michael Rosen, Ph.D