Seminar Series
Fall 2024 – Spring 2025
MMG Seminar Schedule
In the interest of the health and safety of all who may attend, seminars will be held remotely via Zoom or in a hybrid format (Zoom and in person) . Please review each date and email communications for more details. Email invitations containing a Zoom link, when applicable, will be sent out on or before the week of each seminar. Please contact AlySha Jones if you have any questions or would like to be added to (or removed from) the MMG Seminar Series mailing list.
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Thiago Souza Onofre, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
UTHealth Houston, McGovern Medical School
“The microtubule-severing enzyme Spastin is involved in spindle dynamics during cell cycle progression in Trypanosoma brucei”
10:30 AM
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Giuseppe Buda De Cesare, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
UTHealth Houston, McGovern Medical School
“Characterization of activity and mechanism of action of the Enterococcus faecalis bacteriosin EntV on fungal pathogens”
10:30 AM
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Hangjun Ke, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Drexel University College of Medicine
“Proton pumping and energy metabolism of malaria parasites”
10:30 AM
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Alejandro Aballay, PharmD, PhD
Dean and Professor of Genetics, MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Endowed Distinguished Professor, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics UTHealth Houston, McGovern Medical School
“Use of Caenorhabditis elegans as a model to study the neural-gut axis”
10:30 AM
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Robin Stanley, PhD
Senior Investigator, Department of Signal Transduction Laboratory
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
“Mechanisms of RNA Recognition and Cleavage by Ribonucleases”
10:30 AM
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Desponia Mavridou, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
“Protein Folding Elements Enable Genetic Innovation in Antibiotic Resistance Genes”
10:30 AM
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Brian Peters, PhD
Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Translational Science
University of Tennessee
“Starch adds a new wrinkle to the Candida-host interaction”
10:30 AM
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Jeffrey Withey, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology
Wayne State University School of Medicine
“Using Zebrafish to Understand the Vibrio cholerae Environmental Life Cycle”
10:30 AM
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Ethel Bayer-Santos, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
“Toxic cocktails used in (micro) biological conflicts”
10:30 AM
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Tiffany Zarrella, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Georgetown University
“Systematic identification of molecular mediators underlying polymicrobial sensing and responses in Pseudomonas aeruginosa”
10:30 AM
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Christopher Johnson, PhD
MD Anderson Cancer Center
“TBD”
10:30 AM
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Jason Rosch, PhD
St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital
“TBD”
10:30 AM
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Eleftherios Mylonakis, PhD
Methodist Hospital
“TBD”
10:30 AM
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Damian Krysan, PhD
University of Iowa
“TBD”
10:30 AM
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Susan Lehman, PhD
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA
“TBD”
10:30 AM
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Erin Goley, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
“TBD”
10:30 AM
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Erin Goley, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
“TBD”
10:30 AM