For a comprehensive schedule of all MBS seminars and Data Club meetings, please see the calendar here.
*Seminars will be exclusively over ZOOM (UM NetID Authentication Required)
Friday, January 15th, 2021
Title: "The Discovery and Development of Novel Adjuvants for a Universal Flu Vaccine" (MBS Grad Student Seminar/Data Club)
Speaker: Shelby Cole
Host: Jay Evans, PhD/CMMB
Location: Online - ZOOM Time: 11:00 - 11:50 AM
Friday, February 19th, 2021
Title: Informational Seminar (MBS Grad Student Seminar/Data Club)
Speaker: Jacob Leatherwood
Host: Philippe Diaz, PhD/BMED
Location: Online - ZOOM Time: 11:00 - 11:25 AM
Friday, February 21th, 2021
Title: "FXR" (MBS Grad Student Seminar/Data Club)
Speaker: Elizabeth Sather
Host: Travis Hughes, PhD/PSDD
Location: Online - ZOOM Time: 11:25 - 11:50 AM
Title: Informational Seminar (MBS Grad Student Seminar/Data Club)
Speaker: Elizabeth Arrigali
Host: Monica Serban, PhD/PSDD
Location: Online - ZOOM Time: 11:25 - 11:50 AM
Title: Research Update (MBS Grad Student Seminar/Data Club)
Speaker: Jack Staples
Host: Erica Woodahl, PhD/PSDD
Location: Online - ZOOM Time: 11:25 - 11:50 AM
Title: Research Update (MBS Grad Student Seminar/Data Club)
Speaker: Shayna Killam
Host: Erica Woodahl, PhD/PSDD
Location: Online - ZOOM Time: 11:25 - 11:50 AM
Friday, September 25th, 2020
Title: "Exploring PPARy Ligand Effects" (MBS Grad Student Seminar/Data Club)
Speaker: Mariah Rayl
Host: Travis Hughes, PhD
Location: Online - ZOOM Time: 11:00 - 11:50 AM
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Title: "There's an app for that? Cytomegalovirus' chemokines: the Uber app for dissemination" (MBS Grad Student Seminar/Data Club)
Speaker: Tim Sparer, PhD - University of Tennessee
Host: Brent Ryckman, PhD/CMMBLocation: Online - ZOOM Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Friday, October 16th, 2020
Title: "The Transcriptional Response to Oxidative Stress: Characterising the Roles of DNA Sequence and Accessibility"
Speaker: Sarah Lacher
, PhD - University of Minnesota
Host: Erica Woodahl
, PhD/PSDDLocation: Online - ZOOM Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Title: Informational Seminar (
MBS Grad Student Seminar/Data Club)
Speaker: Noah Powers
Host: David Burkhart, PhD/CTM and Grace Bagley/CMMB
Location: Online - ZOOM Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Friday, October 30th, 2020
Title: "HCMV Phenotypic Complementation During Cellular Coinfection"
Speaker: Chris Peterson
Host: Pat Secor, PhD/CMMB
Location: Online - ZOOM
Title: "FXR agonists induces distinct H-12 structural states"
Speaker: Vikash Kumar
Host: Travis Hughes, PhD/BCH
Location: Online - ZOOM
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Friday, November 6th, 2020
Title: "The 3Bs: Biofilms, Bacteriophages, and B-cells: A journey to developing the first phage vaccine"
Speaker: Valery Roman-Cruz
Host: Jay Evans, PhD/CMMB
Location: Online - ZOOM
Friday, January 17th, 2020
Title: "Neuromodulation: Sex, the Gut, and Aggression"
Speaker: Sarah Certel, PhD - Associate Professor, DBS, University of Montana
Host: Brent Ryckman, PhD/
CMMBLocation: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Friday, January 24th, 2020
Title: "Vaccines and antibody-based strategies to counteract opioid use disorders and fatal overdoses"
Speaker: Marco Pravetoni, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota
Host: Jay Evans, PhD/
CTMLocation: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Friday, February 21st, 2020
Title: "Interaction of COP9 Signalosome Components with Stem Cell Regulators FBF-1 and FBF-2" (Research Update - MBS Grad Student Seminar/Data Club)
Speaker: Emily Osterli
Location: Skaggs Building #169
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Title: Informational Seminar (MBS Grad Student Seminar/Data Club)
Speaker: Nirvan Rouzbeh
Host: Kasper Hansen, PhDLocation: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 12:00 - 12:50 PM
Title: "Rickettsia Parasites RAGE Against Reductive Genome Evolution"
Speaker: Joe Gillespie, PhD
Host: Brandon Cooper, PhD and Mike Minnick, PhD/CMMBLocation: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Title: Informational Seminar (MBS Grad Student Seminar/Data Club)
Speaker: Michelle Nemetchek
Host: Travis Hughes, PhDLocation: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 12:00 - 12:50 PM
Friday, September 6th, 2019
Title: "Contribution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Extracellular Polysaccharides to Chronic Cystic Fibrosis Airway Infections"
Speaker: Laura Jennings, PhD - Research Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana
Host: CMMB
Location: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Monday, September 16th, 2019
Title: Research Update Seminar (MBS Graduate Student Seminar/Data Club)
Speaker: Beth Cole, Toxicology
Host: Yoon Hee Cho, PhD
Location: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 12:00 - 12:50 PM
Friday, September 20th, 2019
Title: "How Characterization of a Novel Adherence Function Led to New Insight in Complement Resistance for Borrelia burgdorferi"
Speaker: Jon Skare, PhD - Texas A&M
Host: D. Scott Samuels, PhD/CBSD Sponsored CMMB Seminar
Location: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Monday, September 23rd, 2019
Title: Research Update Seminar (MBS Graduate Student Seminar/Data Club)
Speaker: Elizabeth Arrigali
Host: Monica Serban, PhD
Location: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 12:00 - 12:50 PM
Friday, September 27th, 2019
Title: "Genomics and Comparative Genomics of HIV-1 for Vaccine Evaluation"
Speaker: Paul Edlefsen, PhD - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Host: Travis Wheeler, PhD/CBSD
Location: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Friday, October 4th, 2019
Title: “Investigating Protein Dynamics Using Computational Methods”
Speaker: Dave Holley, PhD -
Molecular Computation Core Facility Manager, University of Montana
Host: BMED
Location: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Friday, November 1st, 2019
Title: "Drug Development for Enteric Infections: Lessons Learned from Preclinical and Clinical Studies"
Speaker: Sam Arnold, PhD - Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, University of Washington
Host: Erica Woodahl, PhD
Location: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Friday, November 8th, 2019
Title: "Development of a Glycoproteomic Toolkit and its Application to Challenges in Urology"
Speaker: John Froehlich, PhD - Harvard Medical School
Host: Oliver Serang, PhD/CBSDLocation: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Friday, November 15th, 2019
Title: “The Individual Human Scale of Herpes Simplex Virus Infection: How a Persistent Infection Lifestyle Impacts Viral Genomic Diversity and Evolution"
Speaker: Moriah Szpara
, PhD - Penn State University
Host: Brent Ryckman, PhD/CMMB
Location: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
Title: "Precision Medicine Under the Big Sky"
Speaker: Erica Woodahl, PhD - Associate Professor, Precision Medicine, University of Montana
Host: CMMB
Location: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
Friday, December 13th, 2019
Title: "Evolutionary Outcomes of CRISPR-anti-CRISPR Conflict"
Speaker: Blake Wiedenheft, PhD - Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology; Biotechnology, Montana State University
Host: John McCutcheon, PhD and Patrick Secor, PhD/CMMBLocation: Skaggs Building #169 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM
