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) 
December 17Zach Miller 
December 24WINTER BREAK 
December 31WINTER BREAK 
January 7Sarah-Catherine Paschall 
January 14Ally Langley 
January 21Mona Ruban 
January 28Alyssa Hurley 
February 2Anne Snyder 
Feburary 11Maurice Newton 
February 18Regina Visconti 
February 25Sebastian Duno Miranda 
March 4TOWN MEETING DAY 
March 11SPRING BREAK 
March 18Emily Joyce 
March 25Amanda Fastiggi 
April 1Shae Weingart 
April 8 Gopika Nandagopal 
April 15VACANT 
April 22Kiera Malone 
April 29Soyeon Gullickson 
May 6Jacob Mackinder 
May 14Shannon Prior 
May 20Paola Pena 
May 27Josh Victor 
  The Full Year PDF can be found here!