Basic Science Academic Department Seminars

December 2025

The basic science academic departments invite the Northwestern community to join us for upcoming events. 

Click on the event times for detailed information and updates.

For even more opportunities, explore our events page to find events hosted by our campus partners.

Tuesday, December 2

12:15 p.m. | Characterization of Virulence Factors in Shanghai Fever Isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Grayce Mores
DGP Student
Hauser Lab, Microbiology-Immunology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Host: Department of Microbiology-Immunology

Wednesday, December 3

Noon | Discovering the Long-Missing Decoder for Segmental Determination

Didar Saparov
DGP Student
Özbudak Lab, Cell and Developmental Biology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Host: Department of Cell and Developmental Biology

Thursday, December 4

10:00 a.m. | Centromere Genomics in the Pangenome Era

Karen Miga, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering
Director, UC Santa Cruz Sequencing Technology Center
Associate Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
University of California, Santa Cruz

Host: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Friday, December 5

Noon | Biomechanical and Neural Control of Hyolingual Kinematics

Callum Ross, PhD
Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
University of Chicago

Host: Department of Neuroscience

Tuesday, December 9

12:15 p.m. | Peptidoglycan Release by Borrelia burgdorferi: Driver of Pathogenesis and Biomarker in Lyme Disease

Osamudiamen Ebohon
Graduate Research Assistant
Jutras Lab, Microbiology-Immunology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Host: Department of Microbiology-Immunology

Thursday, December 11

10:00 a.m. | New Therapeutic Strategies for Small Cell Lung Cancer

Matthew Oser, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medical Oncology (Molecular and Cellular Oncology)
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School

Host: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Tuesday, December 16

12:15 p.m. | The Role of BB0323 in the Localization of FtsZ in Borrelia burgdorferi

Rebecca Trimble
DGP Student
Jutras Lab, Microbiology-Immunology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Host: Department of Microbiology-Immunology

Wednesday, December 17

CANCELLED - Noon | CDB Trainee Seminar 

Yuval Scher, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Goyal Lab, Cell and Developmental Biology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Host: Department of Cell and Developmental Biology

Thursday, December 18

10:00 a.m. | Profiling the Regulome with High-Throughput Proteomics to Enable Small-Molecule Therapeutics

Lindsay Pino, PhD
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Talus Bioscience, Inc.

Host: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics