Seminar Series
Department of Biochemistry
BCHM 5004
Seminar Series Spring 2025
Monday at 3:00 PM ET
Fralin Hall Auditorium
Most of our seminars will be presented in person. The Biochemistry Seminar Series is in the Fralin Hall Auditorium, where you can learn something new! All seminars will be available via Zoom. To attend the seminar via Zoom, you must be a member of our weekly seminar Canvas site. All biochemistry members have been added to the site. For those outside of biochemistry, please email Lisa Jones to be added. Once added to our Canvas site, you will have access to all seminar links for the semester. We encourage you to join us every Monday 2:30 for coffee at Fralin Hall foyer and
3:00 PM ET at Fralin Hall Auditorium for BCHM 5004 Seminar.
Speaker: Dr. Siobhan Craige, Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech
Topic: "Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) signaling in skeletal muscle adaptation to exercise."
Host: Dr. Stefan Roberts
Speaker: Dr. Ashleigh "Bing" Bingham, Virginia Tech
Topic: "Effective Allyship and Resources You Should Know About"
Host: Dr. Chloé Lahondère and VT Biochemistry Graduate Student Thuc Anh “Avery” Dinh
Speaker: Dr. Max Scott, NC State University
Topic: "Leveraging Insect Sex Determination Systems for Genetic Biocontrol of Pests."
Host: Dr. Jake Tu
Speaker: Dr. Megan Fritz, University of Maryland
Topic: "Genetic, behavioral, and ecological divergence associated with urban habitat use in Culex Vectors of West Nile Virus.”
Host: Dr. Chloé Lahondère
Speaker: Dr. Jingqiu Liao, Virginia Tech, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Topic: "Impact of environmental factors on genomic variation in Listeria species."
Host: Dr. Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
Speaker: Dr. Soumi Ghosh, Virginia Tech Biochemistry
Topic: "Sweet Talk with Microbes Crafting and Catching Their Sugars."
Host: Dr. Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
Speaker: Dr. Chevon Thorpe, Virginia Tech
Topic: Reframing the Work in BCHM: Continuing Amid Volatile Times
Host: Dr. Chloé Lahondère
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Flynn, Case Biosciences LLC
Topic: "Developing Cryopreservation Media for Human Cells."
Host: Dr. Kristopher Hite
Speaker: Dr. David Xie, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: "Decoding Brain Development and Aging: Insights from Spatial and Single-Cell Multi-Omics."
Host: Dr. Jinsong Zhu
Speaker: Dr. Christopher J. Marx, University of Idaho
Topic: "Interplay between epigenetic and genetic evolution in bacteria."
Host: Dr. Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
Speaker: Thuc-Anh (Avery) Dinh, Virginia Tech Biochemistry Graduate Student
Topic: "From metal to methane: investigating nickel metallochaperones in methanogens."
Host: Dr. Kylie Allen
Speaker: Dr. Brandy Salmon, Virginia Tech Associate Vice President for Innovation and Partnerships
Topic: "The Alchemy of innovation and partnerships in a changing landscape."
Host: Dr. Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
Speaker: Erin Drolet, Biochemistry, Ph.D. Candidate
Topic: "Evaluating Strategies to Improve Content Retention, Engagement, and Stress in an Undergraduate Biochemistry Laboratory Course."
Host: Dr. Anne Brown