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Past Seminars 2018

Date Location Time Visitor Title Host
Feb. 1 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Emily Dykhuizen, Purdue University The tumor suppressive role of Polybromo-1, a subunity of the PBAF chromatin remodeling complex Dr. Catherine Musselman
Feb. 8 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Didier Hodzic, Washington University School of Medicine Multiple isoforms of Nesprin1 are integral compnents of ciliary rootlets Dr. Sheila Baker
Feb. 22 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Edwin Antony, Marquette University ABCD-The Language of Replication Protein A Dr. Maria Spies
Mar. 1 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Sanjeevi Sivansankar, Iowa State University Biophysics of cadherin adhesion: How cells sense and respond to force Dr. Kris DeMali
Mar. 22 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Cancelled: Dr. Jerrold Turner, Harvard Medical School Mechanisms and impact of mucosal barrier regulation Dr. Ernesto Fuentes
March 29 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Ken Dill, Stony Brook University How cellular decisions are encoded in its proteome's physical chemistry Biochem Grad Students
Apr. 11 2117 MERF 1:00 PM Kyle Powers, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar Structure and function of the disordered tails in translesion synthesis DNA polymerases Mentor: Dr. Todd Washington
Apr. 12 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Bret D. Freudenthal, University of Kansas Medical Center From a Hawkeye to a Jayhawk: Studies of DNA damage and repair Drs. Maria Spies and Todd Washington
Apr. 13 2117 MERF 12:30 PM Mark Miller,Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar Use of osmotic coefficient measurements to validate and to correct the interaction thermodynamics of amino acids in molecular dynamics simulations Mentor: Dr. Adrian Elcock
Apr. 20 2117 MERF 12:00 PM Venkata Sanaboyana, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar Profess towards molecular simulations of plasmid segreagation in E. coli Mentor: Dr. Adrian Elcock
Apr. 26 4-403 BSB (Heath) 9:00 AM Dr. Xu Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University A Structural Perspective on Epigentic Regulation: Inhibitor Development and Gene Evolution Dr. Ernesto Fuentes
Apr. 26 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Vincenzo Venditti, Iowa State University Conformational dynamics-mediated self-regulatory mechanisms in large multi-domain enzymes Dr. Ernesto Fuentes
June 1 1117 MERF 11:00 AM Quinn Li, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar Elucidating Enzyme Catalytic Power and Protein-Ligand Dynamics  Mentor: Dr. Ashley Spies
June 11 2117 MERF 10:00 AM Emily Malcolm, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar Regulation of plasma tryclycerides by ANGPTL4 and GPIHBP1 Mentor: Dr. Brandon Davies
July 12 2117 MERF 1:00 PM Wesley Lay,  Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar Optimizing computer simulation models for carbohydrates and proteins at the atomistic and coarse-grained level Mentor: Dr. Adrian Elcock
July 13 2117 MERF 11:30 AM Arpit Sharma, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar Loss of the Skeletal Muscle Mitrochondrial Pyruvate Carrier Drives Cori Cycling and Whole-body Leanness Mentor: Dr. Eric Taylor
Sept. 6 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Chun Han, Cornell University Recognition of degenerating neurons and new CRISPR tools in Drosophila Dr. Lori Wallrath
Sept. 13 (Henry Bull Lecture) 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Dale Wigley, Imperial College London Structure and mechanism of INO80 and SWR1 chromatin remodeling complexes Dr. Maria Spies
Oct. 4 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Raluca Gordan, Duke University Transcription factor binding at damaged DNA sites and its potential role in mutagenesis Dr. Miles Pufall
Oct. 11 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Arthur Cooper, New York Medical College ω-Amidase: An Underappreciated, but Important Enzyme in L-Glutamine and L-Asparagine Metabolism Relevance to Sulfur and Nitrogen Metabolism, Tumor Biology and Hyperammonemic Disease Dr. Eric Taylor
Oct. 25 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Melanie Samuels, Baylor College of Medicine Genetic Modulators of neuronal resilience Dr. Sheila Baker
Nov. 8 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Jerrold Turner, Harvard University Stemming the tide: Mechanisms and impact of mucosal barrier regulation Dr. Ernesto Fuentes
Nov. 29 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. A. Joshua Wand, University of Pennsylvania The dark energy of proteins comes to light: Entropy in molecular recognition by proteins Dr. Ernesto Fuentes
Dec. 10 2117 MERF 1:00 PM Lalita Oonthonpan, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar Two Human Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier Mutations Reveal Distinct Mechanisms of Molecular Pathogenesis Mentor: Dr. Eric Taylor
Dec. 14 2117 MERF 1:00 PM Sean Tompkins, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar Mitochondrial Pyruvate Transport Regulates a Glutamine Switch Controlling Hepatocellular Tumorigenesis Mentor: Dr. Eric Taylor