Seminars
Department of Biochemistry Fall 2025 Seminar Series
BCHM 5004
Location: Monday at 3:00 PM ET at Fralin Hall Auditorium
Coffee served at 2:45 at Fralin Hall Atrium
| Date | Speaker Name | Speaker Institution | Host | Host Email | Talk Title |
| 9/2/2024 | Labor Day - no classes | ||||
| 9/9/2024 | Dr. Austin Compton | Oxford Nanopore Technologies | Dr. Kylie Allen | kdallen@vt.edu | The transition from academia to industry: experiences from a recent VT Biochemistry alumnus |
| 9/16/2024 | Dr. Michael Klemba | Virginia Tech | Dr. Kylie Allen | kdallen@vt.edu | How the parasite that causes malaria fattens up |
| 9/23/2024 | Rotation Talks | Dr. Justin Lemkul | jalemkul@vt.edu | ||
| 9/30/2024 | Dr. Catherine Cotrupi | Virginia Tech | Laura Gil Pineda and Haley Michel | lgilpineda@vt.edu | From Awareness to Action: Confronting Microaggressions in Learning Environments |
| 10/7/2024 | |||||
| 10/14/2024 | |||||
| 10/21/2024 | Rotation Talks | Dr. Justin Lemkul | jalemkul@vt.edu | ||
| 10/28/2024 | Melanie Hempel | Virginia Tech | Dr. Jake Tu | jaketu@vt.edu | Conditional sex separation for Aedes aegypti mosquito population control |
| 11/4/2024 | Dr. Lori Maggie-Hall | International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. | Dr. Biswarup Mukhophadhyay | bmukhopa@vt.edu | Engineering fungi for small molecule and enzyme production". |
| 11/11/2024 | Dr. Adam Offenbacher | East Carolina University | Dr. Kylie Allen | kdallen@vt.edu | To Tunneling and Beyond! Investigations into the Oxidation of Fatty Acids by Lipoxygenases |
| 11/18/2024 | Laura I. Gil Pineda | Virginia Tech | Dr. Justin Lemkul | jalemkul@vt.edu | Embracing Chaos: The Struggle of Simulating Intrinsically Disordered Proteins |
| 11/25/2024 | Thanksgiving week - no classes | ||||
| 12/2/2024 | Rotation Talks | Dr. Justin Lemkul | jalemkul@vt.edu | ||
| 12/9/2024 | Dr. Lisa Baik | Yale University | Dr. Chloé Lahondère | lahonder@vt.edu | The taste of humans and nectar: gustation in the invasive Asian tiger mosquito. |