Join Us for the 2026 Molecular Medicine Program Keynote Speaker

The Molecular Medicine Program at Iowa is pleased to welcome our 2026 keynote speaker, Denisa D. Wagner, PhD—Edwin Cohn Professor of Pediatrics in the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Wagner will present her talk: “Neutrophil in the center of thromboinflammation and inflammatory disease dissemination”

📍 Bowen Science Building...

Neuro-Endocrine-Immune Crosstalk Driving Salt-Sensitive Hypertension

Annet Kirabo, DVM, MSc, PhD, FAHA
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology holds research workshops featuring internal speakers on Tuesdays, 12:30-1:20pm. For Spring 2026, these will occur in 2117 MERF. Presentation titles are not publicly available due to the use of unpublished research. Individuals interested in attending workshops or being added to the email list should contact the office at biochem@uiowa.edu.

Jan. 20: CANCELED

Jan. 27: Lori Wallrath, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Feb. 3...

Annie Rohl is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. Her research has been conducted in Dr. Jeremy Greenlee and Joel Berger's laboratory.

If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.

Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

Dr. Allyson O'Donnell, an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences from the University of Pittsburg, will present a seminar titled "In the Right Place, at the Right Time: Mechanisms of Selective Protein Targeting and Trafficking."