August 26
Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado — Stowers Institute, HHMI
Topic: Understanding the sources of regenerative capacity in animals
Host: Anurag Das
September 2
Raquel Espin Palazon — Iowa State University
Topic: Inflammatory signaling to make blood: who, when and why?
Host: Yanhai Yin
September 9
Keisuke Ito — Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Topic: Mitochondrial contributions to hematopoietic homeostasis and the pathogenesis of hematological disorders
Hosts: Raquel Espin Palazon and Clyde Campbell
September 16
Jiajie Diao — University of Cincinnati
Topic: Super resolution imaging
Host: Hua Bai
September 19 (Friday at 4 p.m.)
Hua Bai — Iowa State University
Topic: Metabolic regulation of aging
Host: Yanhai Yin
September 23
Toby Kellogg — Danforth Plant Science Center
Topic: Comparative plant development
Host: Josh Strable
September 26 (Friday at 4 p.m.)
Marna Yandeau-Nelson — Iowa State University
Topic: Metabolic pathways, genetics and function of protective plant cuticle
Host: Yanhai Yin
September 30
Dan Voytas — University of Minnesota
Topic: From lab to field: Realizing the promise of plant gene editing at scale
Host: Jeff Essner
October 7
D’Juan Farmer — University of California, Los Angeles
Topic: Molecular basis of craniofacial development
Host: Marna Yandeau-Nelson
October 14
Wu-Min Deng — Tulane University
Topic: Development and cancer
Host: Ping Kang
October 21
Walter Suza — Iowa State University
Topic: Plant sterols
Host: Dior Kelley
October 28
Brian Dilkes — Purdue University
Topic: Maize genetics
Host: Dior Kelley
November 4
Yunde Zhao — University of California, San Diego
Topic: Arabidopsis knock-in technology reveals how auxin controls flower initiation
Host: Michelle Guo
November 11
Pamela Wenzel — University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Topic: Impact of biophysical cues in stem cell behavior
Hosts: Clyde Campbell and Raquel Espin Palazon
November 18
Balaji Narasimhan — Iowa State University
Topic: Particle-based vaccines: A new paradigm
Host: Jeff Essner
December 2
Anna Stepanova — North Carolina State University
Topic: Tinkering with plant hormones
Host: Michelle Guo
December 9
Josh Vermaas — Michigan State University
Topic: Computing renewable solutions through molecular modeling
Host: Joe Aung