Seminar Series
Department of Biochemistry Fall 2024 Seminar Series
BCHM 5004
Monday at 3:00 PM ET at 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.
| 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 | No session / External Review. | ||||
| 10/14/2024 | TBD | ||||
| 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 |