| Date | Speaker/Topic | Title |
| Nov. 15, 2021 | Dr. Charlotte Scarff, Univ. of Leeds | The interacting-heads motif of myosin. |
| Nov. 8, 2021 | Dr. Pradeep Luther, imperial College London | Cryo-electron tomography of intact cardiac
muscle reveals myosin binding protein-C linking myosin and actin filaments |
| Nov 1, 2021 | Dr. Xin Xiang, Uniformed Services Univ of Health Sci. Bethesda, MD | Function and regulation of cytoplasmic dynein - insights from fungal cells. |
| Oct 4, 2021 | Dr. Lucie Carrier, Univ. Medical Center, Hamburgh | Targeting the proteolytic system in cardiomyopathies. |
| Sept 20, 2021 | Dr. Jonathan Kirk, Loyola Univ. | Cardiac Sarcomere Protein Quality control and BAG3: Repairing the engine with stopping the car. |
| Sept 13, 2021 | Dr. Judith Montag, Hannover
Medical School, Germany | Burst-like transcription of sarcomeric genes and cell-to-cell allelic and contractile imbalance in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. |
Aug 17, 2021
| Leslie Sepaniac, Ph.D. Thesis Defense
| CMB Thesis Defense: Maintenance of Genomic Stability: Impacts of the loss of KIF18A. |
| May 24, 2021 | Katie Queen, UVM | Phosphorylation of KIF18A alters its localization and mitotic function. |
| May 17, 2021 | Dr. Karyn Esser, Univ. Florida | The muscle circadian clock: a daily regulator of muscle structure and function. |
| May 10, 2021 | Dr. Katherine Schutt, UVM | Investigating KIFBP inhibition of KIF18A across cell cycle stages and cell types. |
| May 3, 2021 | Dr. Sarah Heissler, Ohio State Univ. | Various Themes of Myosin-2 Regulation. |
| April 26, 2021 | Dr. Christina Gurnett, Washington Univ. | Modeling disease variant to solve the "variant of uncertain significance" problem |
| March 22, 2021 | Alex Thompson, UVM | Can't Stop, Won't Stop: Mutations in KIF22 Disrupt Anaphase Chromosome Segregation |
| March 15, 2021 | Brad Palmer, UVM | Inorganic Phosphate Accelerates Cardiac Myofilament Relaxation in Response to Lengthening. |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Dr. Roger Craig, UMass | Cryo-EM structure of myosin II: how interactions between myosin’s heads and tail relax muscle and switch off cell motility. |
| Dec 7, 2020 | Dr. Jason Botten, Med-Immunology | Virus-host interactions. |
| Nov 2, 2020 | Dr. Lillian Fritz-Laylin, UMass-Amherst | Chytrid fungi and our evolving view of cell motility. |
| Oct. 26, 2020 | Sebastian Duno-Miranda | Slow-type Myosin Binding Protein-C: a muscle contraction modulator and beyond. |
| Oct 19, 2020 | Sarah Vandal, UVM | A novel role for Kntc1 in hedgehog signaling during gonadal and bone development |
| Oct 12, 2020 | Tae (TJ) Song, Univ. of Cincinnati | Fast Myosin Binding Protein-C (fMyBP-C): its expression and function in skeletal muscle. |
| Oct 5, 2020 | Jordan Beach, Loyola University | Building Contractility: How non-muscle cells generate contractile forces. |
| Sept 28, 2020 | Brian Cunniff, UVM Pathology & Lab Sciences | Real time monitoring of H2O2 levels dependent on sub-cellular mitochondrial dynamics. |
| Sept 21, 2020 | Coen Elemans, Univ. of Southern Denmark | All singing, all-dancing: The embodied motor control of vocal behavior. |
| Sept. 14, 2020 | Alisa Cario, UVM
| Understanding the Totaulity of the R5L Mutation on Tau:Microtubule Interactions |
| May 18, 2020 | M. Yusuf Ali | Single-molecule approaches to probe the regulation of kinesin and dynein-driven cargo transport by adapter protein BicD |
| May 4, 2020 | Carolyn Marquis | KIF18A as a Potential Target for Exploiting Chromosomal Instability in Cancer Cells |
| April 20, 2020 | Brandon Bensel | Journal Club: Recent publication from the Gelfand and Sellars groups titled, "Competition between kinesin-1 and myosin-V defines Drosophila posterior determination." |
| March 9, 2020 | Thesis Defense: Dominique Lessard | Novel Pausing Behavior of the Kinesin-3 Family Member KIF1A is Regulated by Tau. |
| February 10, 2020 | Dr. Shashank Skekhar Brandeis University | Multicomponent molecular mechanisms regulating cellular rates of actin dynamics |
| January 27, 2020 | Alex Thompson Research-in-Progress | Journal Club: How do small frogs make small mitotic spindles while large frogs make large spindles? |
| November 25, 2019 | Kristina Godek, Ph.D. Dartmouth College | Causes and Consequences of Aneuploidy and Chromosomal Instability |
| Thurs. November 21, 2019 | Chip Asbury, Ph.D. University of Washington | Building Kinetochores de novo: Biophysical Investigations of Kinetochore Assembly and Function |
| Mon. November 4, 2019 | Andrea Stavoe University of Pennsylvania | Dynamics of Neuronal Autophagy During Aging and Neurodegeneration |
| Mon. October 14, 2019 | Adam Hendricks, Ph.D. McGill University | Interacellular Traffic Control by the Microtubule Cytoskeleton |
| Mon. September 30, 2019 | David Barefield, Ph.D. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine | The Role of Myosin Binding Protein H-Like in Cardiomyopathy and Arrhythmia |