Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Danish Khan
Topic: "Determinants and Consequences of mRNA-independent Protein Synthesis."
Host: Dr. Biswarup Mukhopadhyay

Speaker: Dr. Lijuan Yuan, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia Tech
Topic: "Studies of therapeutics and vaccines against human enteric viruses using gnotobiotic pig models and human intestinal enteroids."
Host: Dr. Soumi Ghosh

Speaker: Dr. Shabnam Hematian, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech
Topic: "Nature's Solutions to Selective Oxidation: Lessons from Copper Enzymes."
Host: Dr. Kylie Allen

Speaker: Dr. James H. Westwood, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech
Topic: "Messages, lies, and manipulation: A peek inside the drama of parasitic plant-host interactions."
Host: Biswarup Mukhopadhyay

Speaker:  Dr. Danish Khan & Junxing “Geoffrey”Chen, Erin Drolet Virginia Tech Biochemistry Department 

Topic: 
Dr. Danish Khan, “Determinants and Consequences of mRNA-independent Protein Synthesis."
Junxing “Geoffrey” Chen, "Controlling Protein-target Interactions Through Precise Crosslinking.”
Erin Drolet, "Innovations and Perspectives in Current Biochemistry Pedagogy."

Host:  Biochemistry Community Committee

No Seminar Spring Break 

Speaker: Dr. Jessica Swanson, University of Utah
Topic: TBD
Host: Dr. Justin Lemkul

Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Mugridge, University of Delaware
Topic: "Metals & messages: how metalloenzymes modify RNA to regulate gene expression."
Host: Dr. Kylie Allen

Speaker: Dr. Ira Blader
Topic: "Toxoplasma Oxygen Sensing: Does it Really Take a PHD to Grow a Parasite?"
Host: Dr. Biswarup Mukhopadhyay

Speaker: Dr. Dwi Susanti
Topic: "Harnessing Rumen Microbiome to Mitigate Enteric Methane Emissions and Enhance Livestock Productivity."
Host: Dr. Biswarup Mukhopadhyay and Dr. Kylie Allen

Speaker: Pierson Rucker, Virginia Tech Biochemistry 
Topic: "One Ring to bind them (or One to bind the Ring): Frontiers in studying F430, the key cofactor in anaerobic methane metabolism."
Host: Dr. Kylie Allen

Speaker: Dr. Mike Klemba Dr. Kris Hite & Joseph Warren, Ph.D. Student, VT Biochemistry Department 

Topic: 
Dr. Mike Klemba, "The Center for Drug Discovery Screening Lab." 
Dr. Kris Hite, "The Toxic Fragment Lives On! Whittling Down a DNA fragment of Bacteriophage Lambda that can kill Escherichia coli."
Joseph Warren, “Exploiting Sex-Specific Myosin Genes to Selectively Eliminate Flight in Aedes aegypti” 

Host: Biochemistry Community Committee

Speaker: Dr. Valérie de Crécy-Lagard, Microbiology & Cell Science University of Florida 
Topic: "From Genes to Function Discovering Enzymes and Chemistries in the Post-Genomic Landscape."
Host: Dr. Kylie Allen 

Speaker: Abhinav Krishnan, Virginia Tech  Biochemistry Graduate Student
Topic: “Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase (eNOS) integrates Bone Marrow - Kidney Responses following Acute Exercise." 
Host: Dr. Siobhan Craige