January 20
Steve Whitham — Iowa State University
Topic: Effects of increasing atmospheric CO2 on crop-pathogen interaction
Host: Dior Kelley
February 3
Dipa Sashital — Iowa State University
Topic: Bacterial anti-phage defense systems
Host: Jeff Essner
February 10
Aishwarya Pawar — Iowa State University
Topic: From differentiable splines to digital twins in biomedical applications
Host: Jeff Essner
February 17
Alberto Ciccia — Columbia University Medical Center
Topic: Characterization of DNA damage response factors
Host: Tessa Bierbaum
February 24
Andrey Parkhitko — University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Topic: Targeting age-related metabolic dysfunction to extend healthspan
Host: Ping Kang
March 3
Kostandin Pajcini — University of Illinois at Chicago
Topic: To be announced (TBA)
Hosts: Clyde Campbell and Raquel Espin Palazon
March 10
Christina Camell — University of Minnesota
Topic: TBA
Host: Jacinta Correia
March 24
Amit Joshi — University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Topic: ER and organelle biogenesis
Host: Hua Bai
March 31
Adrienne Roeder — Cornell University
Topic: Plant morphogenesis: moss leaves, Arabidopsis sepals, and bio-inspired designs
Host: Josh Strable
April 7
Rolf Turk — Integrated DNA Technologies
Topic: Genomic medicine and gene editing therapies
Host: Josh Strable
April 14
Kathrin Schrick — Kansas State University
Topic: Lipid binding transcriptional regulators of cell expansion and glucosinolate biosynthesis in the plant epidermis
Host: Michelle Guo
April 21
Xinnian Dong — Duke University
Topic: Searching for messages carried by messenger RNAs
Host: Michelle Guo
April 28
Jesus Lacal Romero — University of Salamanca, Spain
Topic: Functional characterization of rare diseases-associated variants
Hosts: Clyde Campbell and Raquel Espin Palazon