Date Presenter
1/30/23
101 BBE (Kollross)
Marc Freeman, PhD, Director and Senior Scientist
Oregon Health & Science University, Vollum Institue
“Neuronal remodeling in complex metazoans”
2/20/23 Quasar Padiath, MBBS, PhD, Associate Professor Human Genetics, and Department of
Neurobiology
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
“The role of the nuclear lamina in disease and development”
3/20/23 Elena Semina, PhD, Professor and Chair, Division of Developmental Biology
Medical College of Wisconsin
“Exploring Underlying Causes of Rare Developmental Phenotypes”
3/27/23
 
Mark Schultz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of Iowa
“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Proteostatic therapeutics for Niemann-Pick type C disease”
4/3/23 Seth Tomchik, PhD, Professor, Department of Neuroscience & Pharmacology
University of Iowa
“Nf1 Ras GAP effects on repetitive motor behaviors and metabolic alterations”
4/10/23 Cat Pinnaro, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of Iowa
Turner syndrome and Associated Phenotypes: The X chromosome and Beyond
4/17/23
Virtual
Lucy Bai, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Penn State University
“Binding Mechanism of Pioneer Factors”
4/24/23 Helen Jones, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Functional
Genomics
University of Florida

“In utero gene therapy; Targeting and improving placental development and function
for impact across the lifespan”

5/1/23
101 BBE (Kollross)
Laura Landweber, PhD, Professor, Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
and Biological Sciences, and Systems Biology.
Columbia University
RNA-Mediated Genome Rearrangements in the Ciliate Oxytricha