Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminars
SPRING 2003
Guggenheim, South Hall
11 A.M.
past seminars >  BMB Seminars, Fall - 2002

DATE

Name of Speaker & Affiliation

Host

Seminar Title and Publications of Interest

Jan. 7

Sam Butcher, Ph.D.

Slobodan Macura

The Structure and Function of U6 RNA
Jan. 14
 Brian Fox, Ph.D.
Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics:		 Slobodan Macura “Fatty Acid Desaturase Reactivity in Plants, Mice, and Mycobacteria”
Fox_abstract.pdf
Jan. 21
 John Markley, Ph.D.
http://www.nmrfam.wisc.edu		 Slobodan Macura NMR Investigations Of Hydrogen Bonding In Proteins
Jan. 28

Dr. Richard Pagano
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

 Ralf Janknecht Cell Biology of Sphingolipid and Cholesterol Storage Diseases

Feb. 4

Dr. Carole Lange
Dept. of Medicine and Univ. of Minnesota Cancer Center

Ralf Janknecht

MAP Kinases Couple Multiple Functions of Human Progesterone Receptors in Breast Cancer Cells

February
11 & 12

Dr. Michael Fried
The PA State University College of Medicine

 James Maher

2/11 - Good Times in Crowded Places
2/12 - Special Seminar in Gugg. 1093 - Shifty Science

Cancelled

Feb. 18

Dr. Lila Gierasch
Dept. of BMB, Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. of Massachusetts		 Marina Ramirez-Alvarado Local and Global Sequence Information in the Folding of a beta-Clam Protein
Feb. 25

Dr. Rolf Gruetter
Dept. Radiology and Neuroscience
Univ. of Minnesota, Center for MR Research

 Slobodan Macura Sugar and Your Brain: Carbohydrate and Neurotransmitter Metabolism by in vivo NMR Spectroscopy

Feb. 27

Dr. Boris Martinac
QEII Medical Center
The Univ. of Western Australia

 Stanimir Vuk-Pavlovic Physical Principles of Gating Mechanosensitive Channels by Bilayer Deformation Forces

Mar. 4

Dr. Jeffrey Kelly
The Skaggs Inst. for Chemical Biology
The Scripps, Research Institute

Marina Ramirez-Alvarado
and Roshini Abraham

Understanding the Energetics of Amyloidosis and Manipulating the Landscape with Small Molecules and Trans-Suppression to Prevent Disease
Mar. 11
 Dr. Andrew Robertson
Roy J. & Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
University of Iowa		 Slobodan Macura Conformational Dynamics in Proteins by Amide Hydrogen Exchange

Mar. 13

Dr. Xiao-Fan Wang
Dept. of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Duke University Medical Center		 Junjie Chen Acquired Expression of Mesenchyme-Specific Genes by Epithelial-Derived Human Cancers Promotes Tumor Progression
Mar. 18
 Peter Underhill
Department of Genetics
Stanford University Medical Center		 Stanimir Vuk-Pavlovic Y Chromosome Sequence Variation: A Portrait of Humankind

Mar. 19

Carla Koehler, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA

Grazia Isaya Deaf Yeast and Disabled Mitochondria: Consequences of a Defective Protein Import System
Mar. 25

Dr. Walter Chazin
Vanderbilt University

 Georges Mer Structural mechanisms of DNA replication and repair machines

Apr. 1

Dr. Anita Corbett
Emory University School of Medicine

Marina Ramirez-Alvarado

 Quality control in mRNA export from the nucleus
Apr. 8
 Dr. James Cowan
Evans Laboratory of Chemistry
Ohio State University		 Grazia Isaya Adventures with Cellular Iron. Exploration and Discoveries in Mitochondrial Fe-S Cluster Biosynthesis
Apr. 15
 Dr. Martin McIntosh
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center		 Nita Maihle Using Risk Factors and Tumor Biomarkers for Ovarian Cancer Screening and Diagnosis
Apr. 22
 Dr. Peter Gillespie
Oregon Hearing Research Center and Vollum Inst.
Oregon Health and Science University		 Emanuel Strehler The Molecules of Inner-Ear Mechanotransduction
Thursday
May 1
 Dr Carl June
University of PA School of Medicine		 Stanimir Vuk-Pavlovic Optimizing T Cell Costimulation for Adoptive Immunotherapy

May 6

Dr. Thomas Ludwig
Institute of Cancer Genetics
Columbia University

Junjie Chen

 Mutational Analysis of Mammary Tumor Suppressor Genes in Mice
May 13

Dr. Christopher Nicchitta
Department of Cell Biology
Duke University Medical Center

 David Toft and Sara Felts A Role for Cell Stress in the Regulation of GRP94/Hsp90 Function: Insights from Structural Biology
May 20
 Dr. Randy Hampton
Section of Cell and Develop. Biology
Univ. of CA-Sandiego, Division of Biology		 David Katzmann Protein Quality Control and Sterol Regulation
May 27
 Dr. Richard Cheney
Dept of Cell and Molecular Physiology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill		 Emanuel Strehler Myosin-X: An Unconventional Myosin that Undergoes a Novel Form of Motility in Filopodia

 

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