Upcoming Events

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Seminar, Jessica Osterhout, PhD promotional image

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Seminar, Jessica Osterhout, PhD

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 9:30am to 10:30am
Bowen Science Building
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ACB Seminar Series - Jillian Williquett & Amelia Hurley-Novatny

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 9:30am to 10:30am
Bowen Science Building

Jillian Williquett, a Cell and Developmental Biology Student in the Sun Lab, will present a seminar titled “Cytoplasmic Dynein: A Key Mediator And Therapeutic Target in Diabetic Podocytopathy."

Amelia Hurley-Novatny, a Cell and Developmental Biology Student in the Li Lab, will present a seminar titled “Investigating the Role of FGF21 in Osteoclastogenesis in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy."

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Workshop, Alex Dou promotional image

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Workshop, Alex Dou

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Bowen Science Building
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Robert Eoff promotional image

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Robert Eoff

Thursday, March 12, 2026 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility

This event is open to the public.

Translesion Synthesis-Mediated Control of Persistent Single-Stranded DNA: Discovering New Partnerships that Minimize Genomic Vulnerability

Robert Eoff, PhD
Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Faculty Host: Maria Spies, PhD

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ACB Seminar Series - Dr. Daniel Tschumperlin

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 9:30am to 10:30am
Eckstein Medical Research Building

Dr. Daniel Tschumperlin, a Professor or Physiology & Biomedical Engineering from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, will present a seminar titled "Targeting Lung Mesenchyme for Repair and Regeneration."

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Michael Lagunoff

Thursday, April 9, 2026 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility

This event is open to the public.

Title TBA

Michael Lagunoff, PhD
MCB Graduate Program
University of Washington

Lagunoff Lab | https://faculty.washington.edu/lagunoff/#/

Faculty Co-Hosts: Miles Pufall, PhD and Jessica Tucker, PhD

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Cynthia Nau Cornelissen

Thursday, April 23, 2026 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility

This event is open to the public.

Urgent threat Neisseria gonorrhoeae utilizes human-specific protein receptors to overcome nutritional immunity

Cynthia Nau Cornelissen, PhD
Georgia State Washington

https://biomedical.gsu.edu/profile/cynthia-nau-cornelissen/

Faculty Co-Hosts: Miles Pufall, PhD and Jessica Tucker, PhD

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Rajat Rohatgi

Thursday, April 30, 2026 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility

This event is open to the public.

Title TBA

Rajat Rohatgi, MD, PhD
Stanford University

Rohatgi Lab | https://rohatgilab.stanford.edu/

Faculty Co-Hosts: Miles Pufall, PhD and Jessica Tucker, PhD

Latest News

Kevin Campbell, PhD

Kevin Campbell receives 2026 Watanabe Prize for muscular dystrophy research

Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Kevin P. Campbell, PhD, internationally recognized researcher in muscular dystrophy named the 2026 winner of the August M. Watanabe Prize in Translational Research.

UI research identifies new, targeted antifungal drug

Monday, November 17, 2025
Study selected for Nature Communications Editor’s Highlights page

Meet the Researcher: Cobey Donelson

Monday, June 2, 2025
Cobey Donelson joined the Smith Lab in May 2025. Read about his background and research here.

Meet the Researcher: Hannah Webber

Thursday, April 17, 2025
Hannah Webber joined the Gantz Lab in April 2025. We asked her a few questions about her research.

Meet the faculty and staff winners of the 2025 Discovery and Innovation awards

Friday, March 28, 2025
Stephanie Gantz, assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics in CCOM, is the 2025 Early Career Scholar of the Year.

4 UI faculty elected to latest class of AAAS fellows

Thursday, March 27, 2025
Robert Piper, chair and departmental executive officer of anatomy and cell biology, and professor of internal medicine and molecular physiology and biophysics in the Carver College of Medicine has been named 2024 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general-scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

Michael Katz’s LinkedIn Post

Thursday, October 31, 2024
Michael Katz's highlighted his visit at Iowa where he shared his breakthrough results on the decades-old question, "How does the Lassa virus enter and escape from human cells?" on LinkedIn.