BMB SEMINAR SPEAKERS 2006 - 2007 Seminars of the Past: 2002 Fall / 2003 Spring / 2004 Spring / 2004 - 2005 / 2005-2006 CLICK ON TITLE FOR THE PDF PROMOTING SEMINAR 2006 | Date | Guest Speaker | Title | Host | | Sep 12 | Jonathan S. Wall, Ph.D. Dept. Human Biology and Cancer Center University of Texas Knoxville, TN | PET, SPECT, and CT Micro-Imaging of Peripheral Amyloid in Mice | Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D. | | Sep 19 | | | | | Sep 26 | Steven Henikoff, Ph.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, Washington | Histone Turnover and Epigenetics | Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D. | | Oct 3 | Jason D. Kahn, Ph.D. Dept. Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Maryland College Park, MD | Flexibility and Control of Protein-DNA Loops | James Maher, Ph.D. | | Oct 10 | Gary Nelsestuen, Ph.D. Dept Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN | Factor VII and Other Vitamin K-Dependent Proteins with Enhanced Function | Whyte Owen, Ph.D. | | Oct 17 | | | | | Oct 24 | Roya Khosravi-Far, Ph.D. Department of Pathology Harvard Medical School Boston, MA | Signal Transduction Pathways that Regulate Cell Fate in Normal and Cancer Cells | Dev Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. | | Oct 31 | Michail Sitkovsky | Hypoxia-Adenosinergic Regulation of Immune Response and Collateral Tissue Damage: Clinical Implications | Stanimir Vuk-Pavlovic, Ph.D. | | Nov 7 | Peter M.J. Burgers | Specialized Sliding Clamps in the DNA Damage Responses | Ziguo Zhang, Ph.D. | | Nov 14 | Gary Stein | Organization of Transcriptional Regulatory Machinery in Nuclear Microenvironments: Implications for Biological Control and Human Disease | Tom Spelsberg, Ph.D. | | Nov 28 | Dr. Igor Stagljar | Interactive Proteomics of Membrane Protein Assemblies – From Yeast to Human | Stanimir Vuk-Pavlovic, Ph.D. | | Dec 6 Wed. | Ciaran Morrison | How DNA Damage Signals to the Centrosome and Causes Mitotic Catastrophe | Fergus Couch, Ph.D. | | Dec 12 | David Rose | A Novel Inflammatory Pathway Regulating Nuclear Receptor Functions | Don Tindall, Ph.D. | 2007 Date | Guest Speaker | Title | Host | | Jan 16 | Michael Koob | Re-engineering te Mammalian Mitochondrial Genome | Grazia Isaya, M.D., Ph.D. | | Jan 23 | Alain Verreault | Histone Acetylation: The Pros and Cons of Exposing Your Chromosomes | Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D. | | Jan 30 | RECRUITMENT | | | | Feb 6 | Lynda Bonewald | Osteocytes are Multifunctional Cells | Tom Spelsberg, Ph.D. | | Feb 13 | RECRUITMENT | | | | Feb 20 | RECRUITMENT | | | | Feb 27 | RECRUITMENT | | | | Mar 6 | Mark Horowitz | Osteoimmunology: Regulation of Bone Cell Development and the Skeleton by the Immune System | Merry Jo Oursler, Ph.D. | | Mar 13 | Beatriz M.A. Fontoura | Regulation of Nucleocytoplasmic Transport by Viruses and Interferon | Jan van Deursen, Ph.D. | | Mar 20 | Sam W. Lee | | Dev Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. | | Mar 27 | Nicolas Cermakian | Molecular Mechanisms of the Central and Peripheral Clocks in Mammals | Georges Mer, Ph.D. | | Apr 3 | Rick Morimoto | The Stress of Misfolded Proteins in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease | Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D. | | Apr 10 | Danuta Szczesna-Cordary | "Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Mutations in Mice and Man” (The Role of the Myosin Regulatory Light Chains in Cardiac Muscle Contraction) | Tom Burghardt, Ph.D. | | Apr 17 | James McCarthy | Hyaluronan-Tumor Cell Receptor Interactions in Prostate Cancer Progression | Charles Young, Ph.D. | | Apr 24 | Maarten Fornerod | A View of Chromatin Structure and Function from the Nuclear Envelope | Jan van Deursen, Ph.D. | | May 1 | Myles Brown | Genome-wide Approaches to Hormone Action: Defining the Steroid Receptor Cistrome | Don Tindall, Ph.D. | | May 8 | Shaun R. Coughlin | Adventures in GPCR Signaling | Whyte Owen, Ph.D. | | May 15 | Rich Minshall | Phosphorylation-Dependence of Caveolae-Mediated Endocytosis and Trafficking In Endothelial Cells | Vijay Shah, Ph.D. | | May 22 | Henry Higgs | Formin-Mediated Actin Dynamics in Mammalian Cells: Roles in Assembly of Microvilli | Dan Billadeau, Ph.D. | |