The CMB Program hosts a weekly seminar presented by current students about their dissertation research, including background, methods, results, and discussion. CMB students are expected to attend and participate while in the Program and students begin presenting in their second year. The CMB community provides an opportunity to discuss research and provide students with feedback on their seminar with an evaluation form.

Our seminars are open to all in the University community. If you would like to be included on our weekly seminar announcement email distribution list, please email us.

Summer 2024 to Spring 2025

Tuesdays, 11:30am - 12:30pm, Davis Auditorium

DatePresenter (Lab)Title
June 11Cameron Cordero
(Steven Roberts)
"Oxidation-induced mutational landscape in human cells"
June 18 - July 23- - - SUMMER BREAK - - -
July 30Jacob Dearborn
(Dev Majumdar)
"Exploring Functional Consequences of B Cell Receptor Expression Heterogeneity"
August 6Jayita Barua
(Dan Weiss)
"Effects of Mesenchymal Stromal Cell therapy on neutrophil infiltration during Acute Lung Injury"
August 13William Dowell
(Dev Majumdar)
"Defining Intramuscular Inflammatory Responses to mRNA/LNP Therapeutics"
August 20Jubilee Ajiboye
(Chris Huston)
"Combinative strategy to advance target-based anticryptosporidial drug discovery"
August 27

Vanessa Lopez
(Steven Roberts)

"Mechanism of TOP1-dependent mutations in human cancer”
September 3

Juliana Barbosa Torreao Dau (Yvonne Janssen-Heininger)
Israel Odekunle (Bebo Seward)
Joe Walzer (Vikas Anathy)

“The role of glutaredoxin in lung alveolar stem cells”
“Mapping the early cellular event in KRAS-driven Lung adenocarcinoma”
“The role of UPR at the intersection of asthma and influenza”
September 10Allison Racela (Bebo Seward)
Maggie Trout (James Stafford)
“Loss of STK11 in KRAS-driven Lung Adenocarcinoma causes NFκB-mediated Transcriptional Activation”
“Investigating and Overcoming Mechanisms of ONC201 Resistance in DMG"
September 17Jason Rengo (Mark Nelson)
Amila Semic (Jason Stumpff)

"The Heart of the Bladder"
"Investigating the Effects of Microenvironments on Cell Division"

September 24Justin Paluba (Chris Berger/Wen Ma)
Alexis Roberson (David Bernstein)
“AI-based structural predictions for intrinsically disordered proteins”
“Predictive Modeling of Microbial Growth within Infant Gut Microbiome”
October 1Tylar Kirch (Dev Majumdar)
James Lignos (Karen Glass)
Courtney Waytashek (Dimitry Krementsov)

“Identifying Regulators of the B Cell Receptor”
“Characterizing epigenetic regulation by a conserved bromodomain containing protein in apicomplexan parasites”
“Mouse-ters of Infection: Genetic mapping of superior gammaherpesvirus control”

October 8Randi Termos (Brian Cunniff)"Miro1-mediated mitochondrial positioning in the development and metastasis of breast cancer"
October 15No Seminar Scheduled
October 22Victoria Gibson (Brian Cunniff)“Peroxiredoxin 3 Supports, Mitochondrial Bioenergetics, Mesothelioma Tumor Growth and Metastatic Gene Expression”
October 29Bri Hilton (Jon Boyson)“Regulation of γδ T cell effector programming by the SLAM/SAP signaling pathway”
November 5ELECTION DAY
November 12Erin Gaston (Steve Roberts)"APOBEC3A Deamination of Transcription Loops"
November 19Program Meeting
November 26THANKSGIVING
December 3Sylvester Languon(Dev Majumdar)"Proximity proteomics identifies IFI16 as a host factor of coronavirus infection"
December 10Katherine Horrigan (Jon Boyson)"Stk11 loss is associated with an expansion of gamma delta T cells with pro-tumor and immunosuppressive potential"
December 17Zach Miller (Dev Majumdar)“Examining the role of PABPC1 in B cell Post-Transcriptional Regulation”
December 24WINTER BREAK
December 31WINTER BREAK
January 7Sarah-Catherine Paschall (Jason Stumpff)Investigating Mechanisms for Spatial and Temporal Control of Kinesin Motors"
January 14Ally Langley
January 21Mona Ruban
January 28No Seminar ScheduledCMB Interviews
February 2VACANT
Feburary 11Maurice Newton
February 18Regina Visconti
February 25Sebastian Duno Miranda
March 4TOWN MEETING DAY
March 11SPRING BREAK
March 18Emily Joyce
March 25Soyeon Gullickson
April 1Shae Weingart
April 8Gopika Nandagopal
April 15Aylssa Hurley
April 22Kiera Malone
April 29Alyssa Hurley
May 6Jacob Mackinder
May 14Shannon Prior
May 20Paola Pena
May 27Josh Victor
The Full Year PDF can be found here!