Past Events

2026

• GDCB Graduate Student and Postdoc Organization Seminar: The role of EZH2 in trophoblast cells

  Oct 14, 2026 - 12:00 PM

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  Location

  1102 Molecular Biology Building

  Speaker: Amanda Kirk, graduate research assistant in the Tuteja Lab

  Title: "The role of EZH2 in trophoblast cells"

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• GDCB seminar: Insights into ethylene biology: Reevaluating the precursor ACC as an independent signal and  revealing a novel function of EIN2 in Arabidopsis

  Oct 13, 2026 - 1:00 PM

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  Location

  1414 Molecular Biology Building

  Speaker: Caren Chang, University of Maryland professor in the Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics

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• GDCB seminar: Evolution of starch biosynthesis from primordial glycogen systems

  Oct 6, 2026 - 1:00 PM

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  Location

  1414 Molecular Biology Building

  Speaker: Alan Myers, professor in the Iowa State University Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology (BBMB) 

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• GDCB seminar: The knowns and unknowns of iron homeostasis in plants

  Sep 22, 2026 - 1:00 PM

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  Location

  1414 Molecular Biology Building

  Speaker: David Mendoza-Cózatl, University of Missouri Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center professor of plant science and technology

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• GDCB seminar: Neural and metabolic regulation of stress resistance and longevity

  Sep 15, 2026 - 1:00 PM

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  Location

  1414 Molecular Biology Building

  Speaker: Shijiao Huang, Kansas State University assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

  Title: Neural and metabolic regulation of stress resistance and longevity

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• GDCB seminar: Transcriptional control of bone marrow niche in normal and pre-malignant hematopoiesis

  Sep 8, 2026 - 1:00 PM

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  Location

  1414 Molecular Biology Building

  Speaker: Marta Derecka, assistant member (St. Jude faculty, hematology), St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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• University holiday, Labor Day 2026

  Sep 7, 2026 - 12:00 AM

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• GDCB seminar: Tubulin β-III drives neural crest cell state changes during EMT

  Sep 1, 2026 - 1:00 PM

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  Location

  1414 Molecular Biology Building

  Speaker: Crystal Rogers, University of California, Davis, associate professor in anatomy, physiology and cell biology

  Title: Tubulin β-III drives neural crest cell state changes during EMT

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• GDCB seminar: Peeling back the layers of thiosulfate resistance in onion-pathogenic bacteria

  Aug 25, 2026 - 1:00 PM

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  Location

  1414 Molecular Biology Building

  Speaker: Brian Kvitko, University of Georgia Department of Plant Pathology associate professor of molecular plant bacteriology

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• Fall Semester 2026 begins

  Aug 24, 2026 - 12:00 AM

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• Summer Session 2026 ends

  Aug 7, 2026 - 12:00 AM

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• University holiday, Independence Day

  Jul 3, 2026 - 12:00 PM

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• University holiday, Memorial Day

  May 25, 2026 - 12:00 AM

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• 2026 Walter E. & Helen Parke Loomis Distinguished Lecture and IPB Mini-Symposium: Engineering Plants for the Future

  May 18, 2026 - 8:30 AM

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  Location

  Molecular Biology Building, Iowa State University

  The 2026 Walter E. and Helen Parke Loomis Distinguished Lecture and Interdepartmental Plant Biology (IPB) Graduate Program Mini Symposium begins at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, May 18, in the Molecular Biology Building. Invited speakers are Dr.

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• Summer Session 2026 begins

  May 18, 2026 - 12:00 AM

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• Spring 2026 University Undergraduate Commencement Ceremonies

  May 16, 2026 - 9:00 AM

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  Location

  Hilton Coliseum

  Graduation and Commencement page

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• Spring Semester 2026 ends

  May 15, 2026 - 11:59 PM

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  Spring Semester 2026 ends on Friday, May 15, 2026. For additional information, see the Academic Calendar on the Registrar's Office page.

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• Spring 2026 Graduate College University Commencement Ceremony

  May 14, 2026 - 7:00 PM

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  Location

  Hilton Coliseum

  Please visit the Graduation and Commencement page for complete information.

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• GDCB Seminar: Functional characterization of rare diseases-associated variants

  Apr 28, 2026 - 1:00 PM

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  Location

  1414 Molecular Biology Building

  Speaker: Jesus Lacal, professor of genetics at the University of Salamanca, Spain (principal investigator of the Group Biomedicine of Rare Diseases); Fulbright Visiting Scholar

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• Ph.D. Thesis Defense (Saiful Islam): Using artificial intelligence to study plasmodesmata and plant immune responses

  Apr 23, 2026 - 12:00 PM

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  Location

  Advanced Teaching and Research Building, Room 3023

  Speaker: Saiful Islam, graduate student in the lab of Kyaw (Joe) Aung, genetics, development and cell biology associate professor

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