August 25
Speaker: Brian Kvitko — University of Georgia
Topic: Peeling back the layers of thiosulfate resistance in onion-pathogenic bacteria
Host: Joe Aung
September 1
Speaker: Crystal Rogers — University of California, Davis
Topic: Tubulin β-III drives neural crest cell state changes during EMT
Host: Dior Kelley
September 8
Speaker: Marta Derecka — St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Topic: Transcriptional control of bone marrow niche in normal and pre-malignant hematopoiesis
Hosts: Clyde Campbell/Raquel Espin Palazon
September 15
Speaker: Shijiao Huang — Kansas State University
Topic: Neural and metabolic regulation of stress resistance and longevity
Host: Hua Bai
September 22
Speaker: David Mendoza — University of Missouri
Topic: The knowns and unknowns of iron homeostasis in plants
Host: Michelle Guo
October 6
Speaker: Alan Myers — Iowa State University Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics nad Molecular Biology
Topic: Evolution of starch biosynthesis from primordial glycogen systems
Host: Josh Strable
October 13
Speaker: Caren Chang — University of Maryland
Topic: EIN2 Function and/or ethylene-independent functions of ACC
Host: Josh Strable
October 20
Speaker: Fengrong Wang — Iowa State University Department of Biomedical Sciences
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of toxoplasma infection
Host: Dior Kelley
October 27
Speaker: Louis Cohen — Icahn Mount Sinai
Topic: Understanding hematopoietic dysfunction in Crohn's disease
Hosts: Clyde Campbell/Raquel Espin Palazon
November 3
Speaker: Jeong Hee Kim — Iowa State University Department of Mechanical Engineering
Topic: AI-powered quantitative optical interrogation of cells
Hosts: Jo Anne Powell-Coffman/Jeff Essner
November 10
Speaker: Kathrin Schrick — Kansas State University
Topic: Lipid binding transcriptional regulators of cell expansion and glucosinolate biosynthesis in the plant epidermis
Host: Michelle Guo
November 17
Speaker: Yan Zhou — Iowa State University Plant Sciences Institute
Topic: Unraveling pleiotropic effects of genes that regulate canopy and root system architecture and their responses to planting densities in maize
Host: Josh Strable
December 1
Speaker: Alan Culbertson, Iowa State University Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of plant vacuolar transport and detoxification
Host: Joe Aung