Department of BioMolecular Sciences
Spring 2021 Graduate Student and External Speaker Seminar Series
All graduate seminars and external speakers will be offered via Zoom on Tuesdays at 11am and Thursdays at 11am. If you would like an invitation to a talk, please let Dr. Zia Shariat-Madar know at madar@olemiss.edu.
Thanks for your understanding.
Titles will be posted as they become available.
Speaker | Title | Date |
Dr. Ziaeddin Shariat-Madar | Introduction: Syllabus | January 26, Tuesday |
Shukria Akbar | Predatory selection of mucoid, antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas putida phenotype by myxobacterium Cystobacter ferrugineus | February 2, Tuesday |
Hanan Albataineh | Solo acylhomoserine lactone synthase from the myxobacterium Archangium gephyra | February 9, Tuesday |
No Seminar | No Seminar | February 16, Tuesday |
Alysia Gonzales | NMR Structural Biology of Glucan and Galactan | February 18, Thursday |
Baharul Islam | A synthetic method to construct α,α-difluoro-β-amino-ketones | February 23, Tuesday |
Hayley Prescott | Botanical Aphrodisiacs for Women’s Health | February 25, Thursday |
Ibrahim Almarabi ORP |
Pre-clinical Study of Medicinal Plants Targeting Prehypertension Stage | February 26, Friday 2:00pm |
Alaa Qrareya | HIV-1 Tat Accelerates Age-Related Co-Morbidities In Aged Mice That Are Moderated By Aging Endocrine Status | March 2, Tuesday |
Selina Cheng | Analysis of Cation-Independent Mannose 6-Phosphate Receptor (CI-MPR) Domain 1-5 Conformational Change Through Protein-Protein Interaction by Using Fast Photochemical Oxidation of Protein (FPOP) Coupled with Mass Spectrometry (MS) | March 4, Thursday |
Amber Kennon | Calcified Conditioned Media Elicits Differential Signaling Responses of Primary Aortic Cells | March 9, Tuesday |
Md Imdadul Huque Khan | Design and Synthesis of Phenoxy-phenyl-naphthoquinone Compounds as Antimalarials and Allopregnanolone Analogues as Protective Agents for HIV-related Neurotoxicity | March 11, Thursday |
Tomayo Berida | Development of antibacterial agents targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other drug-resistant bacteria | March 16, Tuesday |
Salahuddin Mohammed | HIV-1 Tat Protein: Interaction with Opioids and the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis | March 18, Thursday |
Benjamin Sawyer | Design and Synthesis of Carbazole-Based Antimalarial Compounds | March 23, Tuesday |
Amena Begum | Hydrodefluorination of Trifluoromethylarenes with Translational Applicability to Drug Discovery | March 25, Thursday |
Mehjabeen Hossain | Microdosing: Designed release of 5HT2A agonist to treat depression |
March 30, Tuesday |
No Seminar | No Seminar | April 1, Thursday |
Michael Neal | Friends or foes? Emerging insights from fungal interactions with plants | April 6, Tuesday 11:00-11:30am |
Brayden Thomas | Impaired Glymphatic Function and Clearance of tau in an Alzheimer’s Disease Model | April 6, Tuesday 11:30-12:00pm |
Dr. Gregg Roman Professor, Department of BioMolecular Sciences University of Mississippi Guest Speaker |
Genetic Dissection of Alcohol Tolerance Formation in Drosophila | April 8, Thursday |
Nicholas Akins Dissertation Defense |
Development of Salvinorin-based Ligands for the Opioid Receptors | April 12, Monday 10:00am |
Stephanie Burr Dissertation Defense |
Rap1a overlaps the AGE/RAGE signaling cascade in type 2 diabetes mellitus | April 13, Tuesday 8:00am |
Cellas Hayes | Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 Promotes Cellular, Neurological, and Functional Outcomes in Models of Ischemic Stroke |
April 13, Tuesday 11:00-11:30am |
Emaya Moss | Role of HIV in PTSD: Comorbidities with Drugs of Abuse | April 13, Tuesday 11:30-12:00pm |
Alex Vinson | NMR strategies to support medicinal chemistry workflows for primary structure determination | April 15, Thursday 11:00-11:30am |
Cody Porter | Blockade of Renin-Angiotensin System Attenuates Advanced Glycation End Products-Mediated Signaling Pathways | April 15, Thursday 11:30-12:00pm |
Maali Alshammari ORP |
Exploring the Application of Squaramide as Bioisostere of Carboxylic Acid in Zinc Metalloenzymes | April 16, Friday 2:00pm |
Alysia Gonzales Thesis Defense |
NMR-Based Characterization of a Glucan Isolated from Ganoderma lucidum | April 20, Tuesday 9:00am |
Niloofar Abolhasani Khaje Dissertation Defense |
Towards a New Method of Determining Protein Structure | April 20, Tuesday 1:00pm |
Hamden Alrefaei | Light and organocatalysts in the syntheses of drug-like molecules | April 20, Tuesday 11:00-11:30am |
Mario Djugovski | Isoxazole ring as a useful scaffold in search of new therapeutic agents | April 20, Tuesday 11:30-12:00pm |
Shukria Akbar Dissertation Defense |
Responses of Predatory Myxobacteria to their Preys Signaling Molecules & Features of a Pseudomonas Prey Avoiding Predation | April 21, Wednesday 11:00am |
Maali Alshammari | Progress Toward the Synthesis of Metabolically Stable Difluoromethylated Glucosides | April 22, Thursday |
Barbara Adaikpoh Dissertation Defense |
Responses of Myxobacteria to Plant-Related Chemosignals Suggests Their Roles in the Rhizobiome | April 23, Friday 9:00am |
Amber Kennon Dissertation Defense |
Influence of RAGE Signaling on Cellular Communication in Diabetes-Mediated Vascular Calcification |
April 23, Friday 10:00am |