BMB Seminars 2012-2013
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2012
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Guest Speaker |
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Host |
| September 11 |
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| September 18 |
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| September 25 |
David Cliffel, Ph.D. |
Epitope Presentation Using Gold Nanoparticles for Immunoassay Development and In Vivo Studies |
Priyabrata Mukherjee, Ph.D. |
| October 2 |
Xuejun Wang, M.D., Ph.D. |
Proteasome Dysfunction in Pathogenesis |
Xiaolei Xu, Ph.D. |
| October 9 |
Mark Spaller, Ph.D. |
Discovery and Development of Peptides as Protein-Targeting Therapeutics: Applications to Cancer, Virology, and Iron Regulation |
Debabrata Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. |
| October 16 |
Zhaoxia Sun, Ph.D. |
Zebrafish as a Model Organism for Cilia Biology and Ciliopathy |
Nicholas F. LaRusso, M.D. and Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D. |
October 23
Cancelled |
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| October 30 |
Steven Fisher, M.D. |
Smooth Muscle Contractile Apparatus: Commonly Targeted, Poorly Understood |
Frank V. Brozovich, M.D., Ph.D. |
| November 5 (Special Seminar) |
Yangfang Liu, M.D. |
Structural Studies of the PA Subunit from the Influenza Virus and Mechanisms Underlying the Host Response upon Viral Infection |
Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D. |
| November 6 |
Ben Stanger, M.D., Ph.D. |
Reaching Escape Velocity: The Dynamics of Cellular Spread in Pancreatic Cancer |
Martin E. Fernandez-Zapico, M.D. |
| November 13 |
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| November 20 |
R. Scott McIvor, Ph.D. |
Advances in Developing the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System for Gene Therapy |
Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D. |
| November 27 |
Michael Botchan, Ph.D. — Frank Rusnak Named Lecture |
Starting S Phase – A Biochemist’s View |
Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D. |
| December 4 |
Songtao Jia |
RNAi and Heterochromatin Assembly |
Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D. |
| December 11 |
Jun Liu, M.D., Ph.D. |
Brake the Lipolysis Machine |
Yi Guo Ph.D. and Mark A. McNiven, Ph.D. |
| December 18 |
Keping Xie, M.D., Ph.D. |
Transcription Factors in Gastrointestinal Cancer Pathogenesis and Therapy |
Haojie Huang, Ph.D. |
2013
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Guest Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| January 8 |
Baoan Ji, M.D., Ph.D. |
New Insights into Oncogenic Ras in Tumorigenesis |
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| January 15 |
Witold Surewicz, Ph.D.
— Kendall-Mattox Named Lecture |
Prions: What Makes a Protein Infectious |
Frank V. Brozovich, M.D., Ph.D. |
| January 22 |
Xin Chen, Ph.D. |
Epigenetic Regulation in Drosophila Male Germline Stem Cell Lineage |
Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D. |
| January 29 |
Rashid Bashir Ph.D. |
Micro and Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine |
Priyabrata Mukherjee, Ph.D. |
| February 5 |
Jason Jessen, Ph.D. |
Regulation of Planar Cell Polarity during Vertebrate Morphogenesis |
Karl J. Clark, Ph.D. |
| February 12 |
Yi Guo, Ph.D. |
Lipid Droplets: From Obesity to Lipotoxicity |
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February 19
— Cancelled |
Christopher Burd, Ph.D. |
Protein Sorting in Endosomes |
David J. Katzmann, Ph.D. |
| February 26 |
Andrew Miranker, Ph.D. |
A physical chemical approach to understanding cellular dysfunction in type II diabetes |
Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D. |
| March 5 |
Gary Thomas, Ph.D. |
Connecting Membrane Traffic to Apoptosis and Cell Survival |
Gregory J. Gores, M.D. |
| March 12 |
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| March 19 |
Henk Granzier, Ph.D. |
Role of Titin in Cardiac Function and Disease |
Xiaolei Xu, Ph.D. |
| March 26 |
Tamara Alliston, Ph.D. |
TGF–beta Integration of Physical and Biochemical Cues in Skeletal Homeostasis |
Jennifer Jane Westendorf, Ph.D. |
| April 2 |
Philip Howe, Ph.D. |
Translational Regulation of Invasion and Migration |
Edward B. Leof, Ph.D. |
| April 9 |
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| April 16 |
Charles S. Abrams, M.D. |
The Role of Phosphoinositides in Primary Hemostasis and Inflammation |
Kun Ling, Ph.D. |
| April 23 |
Ali Shilatifard, Ph.D.;
Stowers Institute for Medical Research |
Chromosomal Translocations and Transcriptional Elongation Control in Epigenetics and Cancer |
Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D. |
| April 30 |
Xinbin Chen, CVM, Ph.D. |
The Role of the p53-RNPC1 Loop in Tumor Suppression and Longevity |
Haojie Huang, Ph.D. |
| May 7 |
Wei Guo, Ph.D. |
The Exocyst Complex in Exocystosis and Cell Migration |
Kun Ling, Ph.D. |
| May 14 |
Koichi Kawakami, Ph.D. |
The Transposon-Mediated Genetic Methods in Zebrafish and Their Application to the Study of Functional Neural Circuits |
Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D. |
| May 21 |
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