Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminars
SPRING 2004

Guggenheim, South Hall
11 A.M.

January February March April May

January 6

Gianluigi Veglia
University of Minnesota

Dr. Slobodan Macura

Structural Details of CaATPase Regulation by Phospholamban in Cardiac Muscle

January 13

Dennis Voelker, Ph.D.
National Jewish Medical Research Center

Dr. Richard Pagano

Protein and Lipid Motifs Regulating Interorganelle Lipid Traffic in Membrane Biogenesis

January 20

Tso-Pang Yao, Ph.D.
Duke University

Dr. Junjie Chen

The Reversible Acetylation and Ubiquitination Connection: From Chemotaxis to Misfolded Protein-Induced Stress Response

January 28

Raymond J. Deshaies, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Dr. Amy Tang

Mechanism and Regulation of Protein Turnover in the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System

February 3

Dr. Brian F. Volkman
Medical College of Wisconsin

Dr. Slobodan Macura

NMR in Structural Genomics and Cell Signaling

February 9

Martin W. Berchtold, Ph.D.
Institute of Molecular Biology
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Dr. Emanuel Strehler

Towards the Function of the Apoptosis-Linked Protein ALG-2

February 10

Allen P. Minton, Ph.D.
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

Dr. Whyte Owen

Effects of Macromolecular Crowding on Protein Folding and Self Assembly

February 17

Dr. Brenda L. Bass
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Utah

Dr. Zhiguo Zhang

dsRNA Binding Proteins in RNA Editing and RNAi

February 24

Dr. Rohinton Kamakaka
National Institutes of Health

Dr. Zhiguo Zhang

Heterochromatin Barriers in Yeast

March 2

Dr. David Weber
University of Maryland at Baltimore

Dr. Jim Maher

The Calcium-Dependent Interaction Between S100B and p53

March 4

Anette Schneemann, Ph.D.
The Scripps Research Institute

Stephen J. Russell, M.D., Ph.D.

RNA-Protein Interactions Involved in Nodaviral Genome Recognition, Assembly and Structure

March 9

Nadrian C. Seeman, Ph.D.
New York University

Dr. Jim Maher

Structural DNA Nanotechnology

March 16

Wilma K. Olson, Ph.D.
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Dr. Jim Maher

Electrostatic Discrimination of DNA Sequence

March 23

James R. Williamson, Ph.D.
Stanford University

Dr. Jim Maher

Nuclear Orphan Receptors as the Body's Lipid Sensors

March 30

Jonathan A. Cooper, Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Dr. Amy Tang

Cellular and Developmental Roles of Disabled Related Adaptor Proteins

April 6

Mark Hochstrasser, Ph.D.
Yale University

Dr. David Katzmann
and
Dr. Marina Ramirez-Alvarado

A Transmembrane Ubiquitin Ligase of the ER/Nuclear Envelope and Its Role in Cell-Type Determination

April 13

Joyce J. Repa, Ph.D.
Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Bruce Horazdovsky

Nuclear Orphan Receptors as the Body's Lipid Sensors

April 20

Zhijian Chen, Ph.D.
The University of Texas
SouthwesternMedical Center

Dr. Bruce Horazdovsky

Ubiquitin Signaling in the NF-kappaB Pathway

April 27

Dr. Chris Burd
University of PA School of Medicine

Dr. David Katzmann

Functions of Arf-like GTPases in the Golgi

May 4

Philip J. Thomas, Ph.D.
The University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Bruce Horazdovsky

ABC Transporter Function and Dysfunction

May 11

Janice A. Fischer, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Amy Tang

Regulation of Cell-Cell Signaling in the Drosophila Eye by Deubiquitination and Endocytosis

May 14

Dr. Bi-Cheng Wang
Ramsey GRA Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology (X-ray Crystallography)

Dr. Emanuel Strehler

Structural Genomics and Protein Crystallography at SECSG

May 18

Dr. Elizabeth M. Meiering
University of Waterloo

Dr. Marina Ramirez-Alvarado

Protein Folding and Misfolding: Implications for Biology, Industry and Disease

May 25

Dr. N. Dennis Chasteen
University of New Hampshire

Dr. Grazia Isaya

Iron Storage and Detoxification Properties of the Ferritins