| Date | Speaker/Topic | Title |
| Dec. 2, 2024 | Research-in-Progress seminar: Colleen Kelly (Previs lab) | |
| Nov 11, 2024 | Research-in-Progress seminar: Emmaleigh Hancock, Caporizzo lab | |
| Nov 4, 2024 |
Magdalena Bezanilla, Dartmouth/Biological Sciences | “A NOVEL DOMINANT MYOSIN MUTANT INHIBITS POLARIZED GROWTH" |
| Oct 29, 2024 | Adam Helms, University of Michigan | Chalk talk: Membrane injury mechanisms in DSP cardiomyopathy" |
| Oct 28, 2024 | Adam Helms, University of Michigan | "MODELING GENETIC CARDIOMYOPATHY WITH IPSC-CARDIOMYOCYTES" |
| Tu Oct 15, 2024 | Dr. Brian Glancy, NIH/NHLBI | Chalk talk: "Regulation and Functional Implications of Non-Linear Contractile Structures within Striated Muscle Cells"
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| Oct 14, 2024 | Dr. Brian Glancy, NIH/NHLBI | SUSTAINING POWER: BUILDING ENERGY NETWORKS IN STRIATED MUSCLES.
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| Tu Oct 8, 2024 | Dr. Russell Composto, University of Pennsylvania/ MSE, BME | Chalk talk: "Functional Lipid Nanoparticles and Bilayers at Interfaces"
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| Oct 7, 2024 | Dr. Russell Composto, University of Pennsylvania/ MSE, BME
| Size-Selective Adsorption of Gold Nanoparticles to Polyelectrolyte Brushes.
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| Sept 30, 2024 | Dr. Shanna Hamilton, University of Arizona/Cellular and Molecular Medicine
| "LINKING RYANODINE RECEPTOR DYSFUNCTION WITH REMODELING OF MITOCHONDRIA
IN CARDIAC DISEASE"
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Tu Sept 10, 2024
| Dr. Weikang Ma, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL | Chalk talk: "Unanswered questions about thick filament regulation" |
Sept 9, 2024
| Dr. Weikang Ma, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL | Thick filament regulation mechanisms in healthy and diseased myocardium. |
May 13, 2024
| Bellana Driscoll (Salogiannis lab)
| Res-in-Progress seminar: |
Apr 22, 2024
| Sarah-Catherine Paschall (Stumpff lab) | Res-in-Progress seminar: |
Apr 15, 2024
| William Dowell (Majumdar lab) UVM – Surgery | Res-in-Progress seminar: |
Apr 8, 2024
| Dr. Kassandra Ori-McKenney, UC Davis | |
Feb 5, 2024
| Stavroula Mili, NIH NCE
| TAKING mRNAs TO THE CELL EDGE: HOW AND WHY |
Jan 29, 2024
| Dr. Morgan DeSantis, University of Michigan
| “Mechanisms of Dynein Regulation” |
| Nov. 13, 2023 | Ben Turk, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine | “Global and Targeted Analysis of Protein Kinase Substrate Specificity.” |
| Oct. 23, 2023 | Elias T. Spiliotis, PhD, Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine
| “Spatial control of membrane traffic by microtubule-associated septins.” |
| Oct. 9, 2023 | Dylan Burnette, Vanderbilt | "Building in vitro and in vivo models to understand cardiac development and disease” |
| Sept. 25, 2023 | Christopher Johnson, Mississippi State, Dept of Chemistry | "Challenging the Trimeric Model: Reinterpreting Ca2+ Regulation of NaV1.5 Cytoplasmic Domain in Solution" |
| Sept 18, 2023 | Colleen Kelly, Ph.D., Previs Lab, UVM | Mavacamten enhances myosin exchange by folding soluble myosin molecules. |
| Aug. 21, 2023 | Thesis Defense: Katie Queen | “Post-Translational Modifications in the Enzymatic Region of KIF18A Regulate Motor Localization and Function” |
| May 22, 2023 | Sarah Abeling - UVM | Res-in-Progress seminar |
| May 15, 2023 | Justin Paluba - UVM | Res-in-Progress seminar |
| May 8, 2023 | Dr. Matthew Gage, UMass, Lowell | Small changes with big effects: Lessons learned from the structure of titin. |
| May 1, 2023 | Dr. Brandon Bensel - UVM | Res-in-Progress seminar |
| April 17, 2023 | Dr. Amreen Mughal, UVM Pharmacology | Res-in-Progress seminar |
| March 13, 2023 | Dr. Michael Cianfrocco, Univ of Michigan | Pump the brakes: molecular mechanisms to turn off kinesin motors. |
| Feb. 14, 2023 | Dr. Kenneth B. Margulies, M.D., Perelman School of Medicine, Univ. Pennsylvania. | Human Heart Tissue as a Translational Research Platform. |
| Jan 30, 2023 | Dr. Yale Goldman, UPenn | Single molecule, multi-parameter confocal fluorescence spectroscopy shows that DEAD-box RNA helicases DDX3X and DDX3Y are smart, sex-dependent regulators of stress response and mRNA translation. |
| Jan 23, 2023 | Dr. Aikaterini “Katia” Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos,
University of Maryland
| Insights into the expanding MYBPC1-associated sarcomeric myopathy with tremor. |
| Jan 9, 2023 | Dr. Sam Walcott, WPI | Building mathematical models to connect molecular and cellular muscle measurements. |
| Dec. 12, 2022 | Sean Cleary, Loyola Univ. | Dynamic Control of the Cardiac Calcium Pump |
| Nov 28, 2022 | Sebastian Duno-Miranda - UVM | Res-in-Progress seminar |
| Nov 11, 2022 | Dr. Sam Reck-Peterson, UCSD | RNA recoding in squid tailors kinesin function for different ocean temperatures. |
| Nov. 10, 2022 | Dr. Ben Prosser, U Penn | “Cytoskeletal control of cardiac growth and mechanics” |
| Oct 24, 2022 | Dr. Deena Snoke - UVM | Res-in-Progress seminar |
| Sept. 19, 2022 | Dr. Luke Rice, UTSouthwestern | Looking under the hood of microtubule dynamics. |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Alisa Cario, Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Science Graduate Program. | Characterization of Tau Disease-Associated Mutation, R5L, on Microtubule BOund Tau Behavior and Function. |
| June 6, 2022 | Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Alex Thompson, Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Science Graduate Program. | Spatial and Temporal Control of the Kinesin Motors KIF11 and KIF22 in Mitosis. |
| May 9, 2022 | Dr. Colleen Kelly - UVM | Res-in-Progress seminar |
| April 18, 2022 | Dr. Grace Tang-Siegel - UVM | Res-in-Progress seminar |
| March 21, 2022 | Dr. Brandon Bensel - UVM | Res-in-Progress seminar |
| Feb. 14, 2022 | Alisa Cario - UVM | Res-in-Progress seminar |
| Jan 24, 2022 | Dr. Ahmet Yildiz, UC - Berkeley | The Mechanism and Regulation of Dynein Motility. |
| Dec. 6, 2021 | Dr. Marvin Bentley, RPI | Direct Delivery and Dendritic Degradation Maintain Axonal Polarity. |
| 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 |