DRS Seminars
All DRS Seminars are held at noon (12pm) on the UTSA Main Campus in the Biosciences Building (BSB), Loeffler Room (3.03.02).
August 24, 2026
The METTL3-NUP93 Axis in Nuclear m6A RNA Export and Human Disease
Jihoon Lee, Ph.D., UT Health San Antonio
Department Host: Hyoung-gon Lee
August 31, 2026
Somatic control of germline homeostasis and regeneration
Kari Lenhart, Ph.D., Drexel University
Department Host: Lacy Barton
September 7, 2026
No Seminar
Labor Day
September 14, 2026
Understanding and targeting ribosome biogenesis in brain tumors
Luiz Penalva, Ph.D., UT Health San Antonio
Department Host: Jenny Hsieh
September 21, 2026
Primed & ready with nowhere to go: What happens when proteasomes get stuck with tau fibrils
Paul Seidler, Ph.D., University of Southern California
Department Host: Truman Gamblin
September 28, 2026
Targeting BRCA1-mutant cancer through protein homeostasis
Kimi Kong, Ph.D., UT Health San Antonio
Department Host: Brian Hermann
October 5, 2026
Mitochondria and Mitochondrial Cascades in Alzheimer’s Disease
Russell Swerdlow, M.D., University of Kansas
Department Host: Morgan McCrea
October 12, 2026
No Seminar
Fall Break
October 19, 2026
Recurrent Domestication of PIF/Harbinger Transposable Element Proteins in Insects
Esther Betran, Ph.D., UT Arlington
Department Host: Jeffrey Vedanayagam
October 26, 2026
Epigenetic Inheritance of Centromere Function by Chromatin Remodeling of Histone Variants
Rob Martienssen, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Department Host: John McCarrey
November 2, 2026
Towards solving the mysteries of pregnancy
Jenna Schmidt, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department Host: Brian Hermann
November 9, 2026
Flipping the Switch: How SNAI2 Turns from Silencer to Stem Cell Activator and Driver of Genomic Instability
Myron Ignatius, Ph.D., UT Health San Antonio
Department Host: Jenny Hsieh
November 16, 2026
TBA
Scott Rothbart, Ph.D., Van Andel Institute
Department Host: Alexey Soshnev
November 23, 2026
Chromatin Regulation and 3D Genome Architecture in Cell Fate
Yu Luan, Ph.D., UT Health San Antonio
Department Host: Brian Hermann
November 30, 2026
Targeting Pathological Adult-Born Granule Cells After TBI
Adebayo Adeyeye, DRS Ph.D. Student
Department Host: Jenny Hsieh
December 7, 2026
No Seminar
Final Exams