Seminar Series

Labor Day - no classes

Speaker: Dr. Charlie Najt, Virginia Tech - HNFE
Topic: "Lipid Droplet Signaling in Metabolic Health and Aging"
Host: Dr. Kylie Allen

Speaker: Dr. Tatiane Fernandes, Virginia Tech School of Animal Sciences
Topic: "Use of stable isotopes in ruminant nutrition and metabolism."
Host: Dr. Biswarup Mukhopadhyay

Speaker: First Year Graduate Student Rotation Talks
Topic: TBD
Host: Dr. Justin Lemkul

Speaker: Dr. Melanie Higgins, The University of Alabama
Topic: "Microbial Natural Product and Enzyme Discovery."
Host: Dr. Kylie Allen

Speaker:  Dr. Xiaofeng Wang, Virginia Tech- SPES
Topic:  "Protein, lipid, and membrane interactions in positive-strand RNA virus genomic replication."
Host:  Dr. Stefan Roberts

Speaker: Dr. Paula V. Welander, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University
Topic: "Discovery of unique membrane lipid biosynthesis proteins in Archaea.”
Host:  Dr. Biswarup Mukhopadhyay

Speaker: First Year Graduate Student Rotation Talks
Topic: TBD
Host: Dr. Justin Lemkul

Speaker: Dr. Yuan Zeng, Virginia Tech/Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Topic: "Soilborne pathogens: persistent threats and emerging management strategies"
Host: Dr. Biswarup Mukhopadhyay

Speaker: Dr. Rich Helm, Virginia Tech Biochemistry 
Topic: "Orders of Magnitude." 
Host: Dr. Kylie Allen 

Speaker: Dr. Joshua C. Drake, Virginia Tech HNFE
Topic: "Sensing energetic stress across space and time (age) in skeletal muscle."
Host: Dr. Justin Lemkul 

Speaker: Lan Lou, Virginia Tech, Biochemistry
Topic: "Synchronized rhythms in human body odor and mosquito olfactory behavior"
Host: Dr. Clément Vinauger

No Seminar - Thanksgiving Break

Speaker: First Year Graduate Student Rotation Talks
Topic: TBD
Host: Dr. Justin Lemkul

Speaker: Dr. Lijuan Yuan, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia Tech
Topic: "Developing therapeutics and vaccines against enteric pathogens"
Host: Dr. Soumi Ghosh