| Speaker | Affiliation | Speaking Date | Host | Title of Talk |
| TBA | Sept 4 | |||
| Dr. George Phillips | Univ of WI - Madison | Sept 11 | Dr. Leslie Kuhn | Dial up the heat! Engineering thermal stability in proteins. Abstract |
| Dr. Nicholas Provart | Univ of Toronto | Sept 18 | Dr. Susanne Hoffmann-Benning | Raising the BAR for Arabidopsis Research: Using large-scale data sets for hypothesis generation. Abstract |
| Dr. Doug Wallace | Univ of CA, Irvine WELLS LECTURESHIP |
Sept 25 | Dr. Shelagh Ferguson-Miller | A mitochondrial paradigm for metabolic and degenerative diseases, aging and cancer: Why do we still have a mitochondrial DNA? |
| Dr. Bonnie Bassler | Princeton Univ | Oct 2 | Dr. Lee Kroos | Quorum sensing in vibrio cholerae. |
| Dr. Jun Liu | Johns Hopkins Univ | Oct 9 | Dr. Honggao Yan | Chemical ligands as molecular probes in biology. |
| Dr. Karolin Luger | Colorado State Univ | Oct 16 | Dr. Min-Hao Kuo | Histone chaperones: Structure, function, regulation. |
| Dr. Charles Hoogstraten | Michigan State Univ | Oct 23 | Dr. Thomas Sharkey | The relationship between dynamics and function in RNA catalysis and recognition. |
| Dr. Andreas Ladurner | European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) | Oct 30 | Dr. David Arnosti | Deciphering the evolving language of chromatin biology. |
| Dr. Joe Chappell | Univ of Kentucky | Nov 6 | Dr. Christoph Benning | Unraveling the catalytic specificity of terpene biosynthetic enzymes and engineering the biosynthesis of novel terpenes in yeast and plants. Abstract |
| Dr. Tim Donohue | Univ of WI - Madison | Nov 13 | Dr. Eric Hegg | Coping with the stress of solar energy, a conserved bacterial response to the reactive oxygen species singlet oxygen (1O2). Abstract |
| TBA | Nov 20 | |||
Thanksgiving Break |
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| Dr. Joanne Stubbe | MIT | Dec 4 | Dr. Honggao Yan | TBA |