Seminars 2011-12

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Biochemistry Seminar Series 2011-2012

Fall Quarter, 2011
Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m., in room K-069, except as noted.
Date	Speaker/Institute	Title	Host
Oct 4	Craig Pikaard, Indiana University	Roles of multisubunit RNA polymerases IV and V in RNA-directed DNA methylation and gene silencing	Alan Weiner
Oct 11	Harmit Malik, FHCRC	Genetic conflicts: the usual suspects and beyond	Dana Miller
Oct 18
Oct 25	Maitreya Dunham, Genome Sciences	Genomic Analysis of Genome Evolution in Yeasts	Dana Miller
Nov 1	Richard Gardner, UW Department of Pharmacology	How disorder prevents disaster in nuclear protein homeostasis	Rachel Klevit
Nov 8	Toshi Tsukiyama, FHCRC	Chromatin regulation for DNA replication	Dana Miller
Nov 15	Judith Frydman, Stanford	Molecular Origami: protein folding and misfolding in health and disease	Rachel Klevit
Nov 22	Joaquin Espinosa, CU Boulder	Understanding how gene networks control cell behavior: the p53 paradigm	Dana Miller
Nov 29	William Tansey, Vanderbilt University	Transcriptional control by the ubiquitin–proteasome system	Rachel Klevit
Dec 6	Michael Regnier, UW Department of Bioengineering	It Takes Two to Tango: Comparative Studies of Troponin and Myosin Crossbridge Contributions to Contractile Activation in Cardiac vs. Skeletal Muscle	Steve Hauschka
Winter Quarter, 2012
Seminars are held on Thursdays at 10:30 a.m., in room K-069, except as noted.
Date	Speaker/Institute	Title	Host
Jan 12	Mara Duncan, UNC Chapel Hill	Regulation of membrane traffic by metabolic signaling	Ted Young
Jan 19	Faculty Candidate: Timothy Street	POSTPONED (Rescheduled for Feb 9–see below)	Search Committee
Feb 2	Faculty Candidate: Daniel Jarosz	Protein Folding, Environmental Stress, and the Inheritance of New Phenotypes	Search Committee
Feb 9	Faculty Candidate: Timothy Street	Revealing the Functional Mechanism of the Hsp90 Molecular Chaperone	Search Committee
Feb 16	Faculty Candidate: Julie Law	Exploring the Protein Interactions Involved in RNA-directed DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana	Search Committee
TUES Feb 21 9:30am D-209	Faculty Candidate: Suzanne Hoppins	Mitochondrial Structure and Dynamics	Search Committee
Feb 23	Jennifer Deluca, Colorado State	Chromosome Segregation: Balancing Kinetochore-Microtubule Attachment and Release	Trisha Davis
Mar 1	Faculty Candidate: Doug Fowler	Deep Mutational Scanning to Analyze Protein Function	Search Committee
MON Mar 5 10:30am D-209	Faculty Candidate: Maya Capelson	The Roles of the Nuclear Pore Complex in Chromatin Organization and Gene Regulation	Search Committee
Mar 8	Faculty Candidate: Maralice Conacci-Sorell	Myc and Calpains: from Proliferation to Differentiation	Search Committee
Spring Quarter, 2012
Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m., in room K-069, except as noted.
Date	Speaker/Institute	Title	Host
Mar 27
Apr 3
Apr 10	Amy Wagers, Joslin Diabetes Center	Reversing dysfunction of aged progenitor cells to promote regeneration	Dana Miller
Apr 17	Sandra Encalada, The Scripps Research Institute	Regulating the Intracellular Transport of Prion Isoforms in Axons	Dana Miller
Apr 24	Thomas Kunkel, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences – NIH	The Asymmetry of Eukaryotic DNA Replication and Its Consequences	Larry Loeb
May 1	Jen Nemhauser, UW Biology	It’s not easy being green: how plants use small molecules to process complex information	Dana Miller
May 8	Lalita Ramakrishnan, UW Microbiology	A zebrafish’s guide to the biochemistry of tuberculosis	David Kimelman
May 15	Joachim Frank, Columbia University	The Mechanism of Protein Synthesis as Seen by Cryo-EM	Wim Hol
May 22	Wah Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine	Seeing chaperonins in different biochemical states	Wim Hol
May 29	Jim Wells, UCSF	Engineering Cells to Death	Grad Students