Date |
Location |
Time |
Visitor |
Title |
Host |
Jan. 25 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Dr. Daniel Minor, University of California San Francisco |
Ion channels that break and buckle in response to temperature and pressure |
Dr. Todd Washington |
Jan. 28 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Dr. Amy Keating, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Protein-peptide interactions that control apoptosis-Our adventures in Bh3 space |
Dr. Ernesto Fuentes |
Feb. 2 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Dr. Brian Volkman, Medical College of Wisconsin |
Structural basis for chemokine-receptor recognition and inhibition |
Dr. Todd Washington |
Feb. 4 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Dr. Haian Fu, Emory University |
Interrogating protein-protein interactions in cancer |
Dr. Meng Wu (Co-sponsored by HCCC and MNPC) |
Feb. 25 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Dr. Frank Fan, Promega Corporation, Madison |
Real time, live cell analysis using bioluminescence technologies |
Dr. Meng Wu (Co-sponsored by CBB and MNPC) |
Mar. 24 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Dr. Bernard Weissman, University of North Carolina |
De-BAFling the role of SWI/SNF complex loss in human tumor development |
Dr. Kris DeMali |
Mar. 31 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Dr. Janet Partridge, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
Dissecting chromatin function in fission yeast-from heterochromatin to disease pathogenesis |
Dr. Lori Wallrath |
Apr. 7 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Dr. Jeff Sekelsky, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |
How Bloom syndrome helicase both prevents and promotes recombination |
Dr. Pam Geyer |
Apr. 20 |
2117 MERF |
10:00 AM |
Zhen Xu, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar |
Autoinhibition of guanine nucleotide exchage factor TIAM1 |
Dr. Ernesto Fuentes |
Apr. 26 |
5-669 BSB |
2:00 PM |
Lata Symposium |
12th Annual Gene F. Lata Biochemistry Undergraduate Honors Symposium |
Department of Biochemistry |
Apr. 28 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Dr. Andrew B. Herr, Cincinnati Children's Hospital |
Biophysics of bugs: Molecular insights into intercellular adhesion in Staphylococcal biofilms |
Dr. Ernesto Fuentes |
May 3 |
1117 MERF |
9:00 AM |
Elizabeth Boehm, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar |
The regulation of translesion synthesis through the binding and activation of polymerases by PCNA |
Mentor: Dr. Todd Washington |
Sept. 1 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Kent Hill, University of California LA |
More than an oar: Propulsion and signaling function of the trypanosome cilium |
Dr. John Donelson |
Sept. 8 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Filip Van Petegem, University of British Columbia |
Channelopathies at High Resolution: Sodium- & Calcium-Selective Channels in Normal and Diseased States |
Dr. Madeline Shea |
Sept. 22 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Rafael Garcia-Mata, University of Toledo |
Regulation of RhoG signaling in focal adhesions, invadopodia and cell-cell junctions |
Dr. Kris DeMali |
Sept. 29 |
1289 CBRB |
4:00 PM |
Jasper Rine, University of California Berkeley |
Epigenetics, metabolism and gene silencing |
Dr. Brandon Davies (Co-sponsored by MCB) |
Oct. 20 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Sheila Baker, University of Iowa |
Interrogating bottlenecks and building problems for a pair of ion channels |
Department of Biochemistry |
Oct. 27 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Nick Fitzkee, Mississippi State University |
Developing a molecular understanding of gold nanopartical-protein interactions |
Dr. Ernesto Fuentes |
Nov. 3 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, University of California Davis |
Multi-invasion induced chromosomal rearrangements and chromothripsis |
Dr. Maria Spies |
Nov. 10 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Dr. Susan Strome, University of California Santa Cruz |
Transmitting an epigenetic "memory of germline" across generations and through development |
Biochemistry Graduate Students |
Dec. 1 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Dr. Sandra Gabelli, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
Calmodulation of voltage-gated sodium channels |
Dr. Madeline Shea |
Dec. 8 |
2117 MERF |
10:30 AM |
Dr. Michael Welte, University of Rochester |
As the fat flies: lipid droplets as modulations of histone metabolism |
Dr. Pamela Geyer and Dr. Tina Tootle (Co-sponsored by MCB & ACB) |