BMM Department Seminar series

2022 - 2024

April 11, 2024

Speaker: Wendong Huang, Ph.D., Beckman Research of Institute City of Hope National Medical Center

Title: “Bile Acids, Gut Microbiome, and Metabolic Regulation”


June 17, 2024

Speaker: Deepak Koirala, Ph.D., University of Maryland Baltimore County

Title: “Structural Biology of RNA-mediated viral Genome Replication and Translation”

March 14, 2023

Speaker: Alexander Stegh, Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis

Title: "Development of Multimodal Spherical Nucleic Acid Nanoarchitectures for Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance in Glioblastoma"

Host: Aiming Yu, Ph.D.


March 21, 2023

Speaker: Rajagopal Ramesh, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Title: "Translating Laboratory Cancer Research to the Clinic. An Academic Experience."

Host: Yuanpei Li,, Ph.D.


May 9, 2023

Speaker: Amanda Garner, Ph.D., University of Michigan

Title: "Enabling Technologies for Revealing Druggable Paths in RNA Biology"

Host: Aiming Yu, Ph.D.


December 7, 2023

Speaker: Damian W. Young, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine

Title: "DNA-Encoded Chemistry Technology to Enable Drug Discovery"

Host: Aiming Yu, Ph.D.

January 11, 2022

Speaker: Sarki A Abdulkadir, M.D., Ph.D., Vice Chair for Research, Department of Urology

Title: "Targeting the MYC Pathway in Cancer"

Hosts: Hongwu Chen, Ph.D. and Luis G. Carvajal-Carmona, Ph.D.


March 15, 2022

Speaker: Jin Zhang, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of California, San Diego

Title: "Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell"

Hosts: Lin Tian, Ph.D. and Fereydoun Hormozdiari, Ph.D.


May 10, 2022

Speaker: Kerry L. Burnstein, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Associate Director of Education and Training, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Health System

Title: "Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell"

Host: Hongwu Chen, Ph.D.


November 15, 2022

Speaker: Yi Xue, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis

Title: "High-throughput two-photon microscopy for mouse brain imaging"

Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D.


December 13, 2022

Speaker: Yiyang Gong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University

Title: "TBA"

Host: Lin Tian, Ph.D.