Fall Quarter 2008 |
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| September 25 |
Marvin Wickens
Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Regulating mRNAs:
PUFs, PAPs, and poly(A)
|
Alan Weiner |
| October 2 |
Eric Lai
Sloan Kettering
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Small Regulatory RNAs in Drosophila |
Hannele Ruohola-Baker |
| October 9 |
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
|
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October 16
|
Nancy L. Craig
Molecular Biology & Genetics
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Tales of Transposons
|
Alan Weiner |
| October 23 |
No Seminar: Biochemistry Program Review Oct 23-24
|
|
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| October 30 |
Ronald Wek
Indiana University
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Coping with Stress: eIF2 Kinases and Translational Control
|
Brian Kennedy |
November 6
| Celia Schiffer
Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
University of Massachusetts
Medical School
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Combating Drug
Resistance: Lessons
from HIV-1 Proteins
|
Rachel Klevit |
| November 13 |
Jack D. Griffith
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Visualization of
Telomere Loops and
Circles and the Role
of TRF2 and p53
|
Larry Loeb
|
| November 20 |
Biochemistry graduate student thesis seminar
Foege S060, 4-5 pm
|
|
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| November 27 |
NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING |
| December 4 |
Lina Dahlberg
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Biochemistry graduate student thesis seminar |
Kimelman Lab |
December 8-January 4 -- Winter Break |
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| January 15 |
Michael G. Rossmann
Hanley Professor of Biological Sciences
Purdue University
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Structural Properties that Determine the Life Cycle of Flaviviruses
|
Wim Hol |
| January 22 |
Kylie Walters
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, & Biophysics,
University of Minnesota
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
How Proteins are
Targeted for
Degradation in Cells
|
Rachel Klevit |
| January 29 |
Oliver Lichtarge
Molecular and Human Genetics,
Biochemistry, Molecular Biochemistry
Baylor College of Medicine
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Evolution: a Bridge from Systems Biology to Molecular Annotation and Redesign
|
Gabriele Varani
|
February
2
(Monday)
| Elizabeth Tran
Vanderbilt
K069, 4:30-5:30 pm |
Controlling the Message: The Role of DEAD-box Proteins in Nuclear mRNA Export
|
Alan Weiner |
February
5
| Eric Witze
University of Colorado, Boulder
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Regulation of receptor localization and cell polarity by Wnt5a |
Alan Weiner |
February
19 |
Jawdat Al-Bassam
Harvard Medical School
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Dissecting Mechanisms of Microtubule Polymerases in Microtubule Assembly: one tubulin dimer at a time
|
Alan Weiner |
February
23
(Monday)
| Megan King
Rockefeller
K069, 4:30-5:30 pm |
The nuclear envelope: where the cytoskeleton meets the genome |
Alan Weiner |
| February
26 |
David Guertin
MIT
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Defining the complex roles of mTOR signaling in development and cancer |
Alan Weiner |
March 2
(Monday)
| Jennifer Benanti
University of California, San Francisco
K069, 4:30-5:30 pm |
Regulation of Cellular Growth and Division by Ubiquitin-Mediated Proteolysis |
Alan Weiner |
March 4
(Wednesday)
| Justin Taraska
University of Washington
Foege N130, 12 - 1 pm
|
Imaging conformational dynamics in ion channels with FRET |
Alan Weiner |
March
5
| Christopher P. Hill
Department of Biochemistry
University of Utah
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Structural Studies of Proteasome Activation: Opening the Gate to Nature’s Molecule of Mass Destruction
|
Wim Hol |
March 9
(Monday)
| Mei Kong
University of Pennsylvania
K069, 4:30-5:30 pm |
Protein phosphatase 2A in cell survival and stress response |
Alan Weiner |
March
12 |
Shimon Schuldiner
Department of Biological Chemistry
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Foege S060, 4-5 pm
|
Evolution and Mechanism of Ion-coupled Transporters: EmrE as an Experimental Paradigm
|
Tamir Gonen |
March 16
(Monday)
| Yi Guo
University of California, San Francisco
Foege N130, 4:30-5:30 pm |
Functional Genomic Study of Lipid-droplet Biogenesis and
Mobilization
|
Alan Weiner |
March 20-March 30-- Spring Break |
| Spring Quarter 2009 |
Date |
Speaker/University |
Title |
Host |
| April 2 |
James A. McNew
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Rice University
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Regulation of
SNARE-mediated
Membrane Fusion
|
Alex Merz
|
April 9
|
Richard L. Huganir
Department of Neuroscience
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
McNall Lecture:
Receptors, Synapses
and Memories
|
Daniela Roethlisberger and Biochemistry Postdoctoral Fellows |
| April 16 |
Jason Brickner
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology,
& Cell Biology
Northwestern University
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
DNA Localization and
Transcriptional Regulation
|
Ted Young |
| April 23 |
No Seminar |
|
|
| April 30 |
Stephen Buratowski
Biological Chemistry
and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Coupling Transcription
with mRNA Processing
and Chromatin
|
Gabriele Varani
|
| May 7 |
No Seminar
|
|
|
| May 14 |
Andrej Sali
Biopharmaceutical Sciences &
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Integrating Diverse Data for Structure Determination
of Macromolecular Assemblies
|
David Baker |
| May 21 |
Lois S. Weisman
Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Michigan
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Phosphatidylinositol 3,5
Bis Phosphate: Using Yeast
As a Model to Study
Neurological Diseases
|
Alex Merz
|
| May 28 |
Marc Kirschner
Harvard Medical School
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Gordon Lecture
A quantitative look at old problems: cell growth and signaling
|
Biochemistry graduate students
|
| June 4 |
Christopher Dobson
University of Cambridge
Foege S060, 4-5 pm
|
Hans Neurath Lecture
|
Earl Davie, Ed Fisher and Alan Weiner
|
Special Summer Seminars 2009 |
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
August 17
(Monday) |
Joachim Wittbrodt
University of Heidelberg
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Foege S060, 4-5 pm
|
Seeing is Believing:
From Eye Morphogenesis
to the Digital Embryo
|
David Kimelman |
| August 20 |
John Collier
Department of Microbiology
and Molecular Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Foege S060, 4-5 pm |
Structure and Function
of the
Anthrax Toxin Pore
|
Earl Davie |
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