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 25, 2025
Stem Cells, Calcium, and Tissue Regeneration
Dr. Brij B Singh, UT Health San Antonio
Department Host: Dr. John McCarrey
September 8, 2025
Deciphering Mucosal Immunity: Mechanisms of Local Innate Responses to RSV Infection
Dr. Luan Vu, UTSA
Department Host: Dr. Hyoung-gon Lee
September 15, 2025
High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Our Instrumentation and Some Interesting Applications
Dr. Wendell Griffith, UTSA
Department Host: Dr. Jenny Hsieh
September 22, 2025
Homologous Recombination Licensing Role of the BRCA1-BARD1 Tumor Suppressor Complex
Dr. Patrick Sung, UT Health San Antonio
Department Host: Dr. Brian Hermann
September 29, 2025
Tau-related targets for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
Dr. Jessica Fortin, Purdue University
Department Host: Dr. George Perry
October 6, 2025
Intradental myelinated mechano-nociceptors serve as sentinels that prevent tooth damage
Dr. Joshua Emrick, University of Michigan
Department Host: Dr. Lindsey Macpherson
October 13, 2025
No seminar
Fall Break
October 20, 2025
Molecular understanding and evidences of amyloid cross-seeding
Dr. Jie Zheng, UTSA
Department Host: Dr. Jenny Hsieh
October 27, 2025
Ovarian allotransplantation to cure Turner Syndrome
Dr. Sherman Silber, The Infertility Center of St. Louis
Department Host: Drs. John McCarrey & Brian Hermann
November 3, 2025
CANCELED
November 10, 2025
Using Drosophila to discover and study new human disease-causing genes
Dr. Shinya Yamamoto, Baylor College of Medicine
Department Host: Dr. Jeffrey Vedanayagam
November 17, 2025
Universal principles of nucleosome recognition
Dr. Aleksandra Skrajna, University of California, Santa Cruz
Department Host: Dustin Fetch (PhD student) & Dr. Alexey Soshnev
November 24, 2025
Visual cycle proteins: Structure, function, and roles in human retinal disease
Dr. Andrew Tsin, UT Rio Grande Valley
Department Host: Dr. Richard LeBaron
December 1, 2025
The Role of Astrocyte TNFR2 signaling in the Pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis
Kyle Pressley (Ph.D. student), UTSA
Department Host: Dr. Thomas Forsthuber