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		Search Committee
Feb 23	Jennifer Deluca, Colorado State	Chromosome Segregation: Balancing Kinetochore-Microtubule Attachment and Release	Trisha Davis
Mar 1	Faculty Candidate: Doug Fowler		Search Committee
MON Mar 5 10:30am D-209	Faculty Candidate: Maya Capelson		Search Committee
Mar 8	Faculty Candidate: Maralice Sorelli		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		Dana Miller
Apr 17
Apr 24	Traci Tanaka Hall, NIEHS		Gabriele Varani
May 1
May 8	Lalita Ramakrishnan, UW Microbiology		David Kimelman
May 15
May 22
May 29	Jim Wells, UCSF		Grad Students