Department of Biochemistry

Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talk

Adak -- From an eagle-killing cyanotoxin to skatole: A tale of two diiron biosynthetic enzymes

October 24, 2025

Friday, 10/24/2025 11:10 am-12:10 pm Gerstenzang 124
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Sanjoy Adak (Center For Marine Biotechnology And Biomedicine, Scripps, Institution of Oceanography)
"From an eagle-killing cyanotoxin to skatole: A tale of two diiron biosynthetic enzymes"
Host: Maria-Eirini Pandelia. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.

Kim -- Coordination between surface glycopolymer and cell wall biogenesis modulates envelope integrity and virulence in a bacterial pathogen

November 7, 2025

Friday, 11/7/2025 11:10 am-12:10 pm Gerstenzang 124
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Josué Flores Kim (Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, UMass Chan Medical School)
"Coordination between surface glycopolymer and cell wall biogenesis modulates envelope integrity and virulence in a bacterial pathogen"
Host: Alex Johnson. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.

Ploss -- What Lurks in the Shadows: Lessons from Emerging and Re-Emerging Flaviviruses

November 14, 2025

Friday, 11/14/2025 11:10 am-12:10 pm Gerstenzang 124
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Alexander Ploss (Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University)
"What Lurks in the Shadows: Lessons from Emerging and Re-Emerging Flaviviruses"
Host: Maria-Eirini Pandelia. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.

Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks

November 21, 2025

Friday, 11/21/2025 11:10 am-12:10 pm Gerstenzang 124
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks (Rotation Talks)
Host: Alex Johnson. Contact biochemistry@brandeis.edu for more information.