Friday Faculty Lunch Talks

This series is restricted to faculty. Talks are on Fridays at noon, in J-412.

Fall Quarter, 2011
Date	Speaker	Title
October 21, 2011	James Hurley	“How do we keep our vision?”
October 28, 2011	Dominic Chung	“Fibrinogen in Trauma Induced Coagulopathy”
November 4, 2011	Muneesh Tewari	“Circulating microRNAs in health and disease”
November 18, 2011	Ted Young	“Multiple roles for the yeast AMP-activated protein kinase in transcription and metabolism”
December 2, 2011	Nancy Maizels	“Targeting gene therapy – without leaving footprints”
December 9, 2011	Vivian Mackay	“Ribosomes and translation are hot”
December 16, 2011	no meeting
Winter Quarter, 2012
Date	Speaker	Title
January 6, 2012	Richard Palmiter	“30 Years of Synthetic Biology”
January 13, 2012	Rong Tian	“Gamma2-AMPK signaling in the heart”
January 20, 2012	no meeting
January 27, 2012	David Eyre
February 3, 2012	Trisha Davis
February 10, 2012	Gabriele Varani
February 17, 2012	Earl Davie
February 24, 2012	John Glomset
March 2, 2012	Ethan Merritt
March 9, 2012	Larry Loeb
March 23, 2012	-cancelled-
March 30, 2012	Dave Morris
Spring Quarter, 2012
Date	Speaker	Title
April 6, 2012	Bill Parson	“Are We Beginning to Understand Tryptophan Fluorescence?”
April 13, 2012
April 20, 2012
April 27, 2012	Peter Brzovic	“Fuzzy complexes or Fuzzy thinking. Binding of Gcn4 intrinscally disordered transcriptional activation domains to the Gal11 subunit of the Mediator Complex”
May 4, 2012	Michael Gelb	“Worldwide newborn screening for lysosomal storage diseases”
May 11, 2012	Rachel Klevit	“Three Blind Mice? Why BRCA1 KO mouse studies have added to the confusion rather than clarify BRCA1′s function as a tumor suppressor”
May 18, 2012	Dana Miller	“Understanding how previous experiences inform responses to a changing environment”
May 25, 2012	Hannele Ruohola-Baker	“God Cop Bad Cop”
June 1, 2012	Susan Brockerhoff	“Photoreceptor Degeneration”
June 8, 2012	Christophe Verlinde

UW Department of Biochemistry

Friday Faculty Lunch Talks