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Past Seminars 2019

Date Location Time Speaker Title Host
Feb. 7 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Anthony Kowalczyk, Emory Univeristy Cadherins as Modulators of Tissue Architecture in Development and Disease Dr. Kris DeMali
Feb. 14 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Alain Nicolas, Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, Paris, France Role of G-quadruplexes in genome instability and sequence evolution Dr. Maria Spies
Feb. 28 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Jacob Litman, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar Advanced optimization and sampling techniques for biomolecules using a polarizable force field Mentor: Dr. Michael Schnieders
Mar. 11 2117 MERF 9:00 AM Tyler Weaver, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar Regulation of polycomb repressive complexes by histone reader domains Mentor: Dr. Catherine Musselman
Mar. 14 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Natasha Snider, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Proteostasis of intermediate filaments: Disease models, tools and mechanisms Dr. Lori Wallrath
Apr. 11 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Andrei Karginov, University of Illinois at Chicago Sythetic Biology Approaches for Interrogation of Cell Signaling Dr. Kris DeMali
Apr. 18 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Daniel Starr, University of California Davis Moving nuclei through constructed spaces; how the nuclear envelope interacts with the cytoskeleton Dr. Lori Wallrath
Apr. 23 2117 MERF 1:00 PM Lata Symposium 15th Annual Gene F. Lata Biochemistry Undergraduate Honors Symposium Department of Biochemistry
Apr. 25 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Erika Matunis, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Stem cell dynamics in the Drosophila testis niche Dr. Pamela Geyer
May 14 2189 MERF 12:30 PM Dr. Thomas Magin, Universitat Leipzig Intermediate filament proteins as integrators of tissue organization and metabolism Dr. Lori Wallrath
June 18 2117 MERF 9:00 AM Hannah Campbell, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar Mechanisms of E-cadherin force transmission Mentor: Dr. Kris DeMali
Sept. 12 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Vadim Gaponenko, University of Illinois at Chicago Biased Antagonism of G-protein Coupled Receptors Dr. Maria Spies
Sept. 26 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Erika Geisbrecht, Kansas State University  Through thick and thin: the path towards muscle proteostasis Dr. Lori Wallrath
Oct. 3 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Robin Dowell, University of Colorado Boulder Unlocking transcription factor activity from nascent transcription Dr. Miles Pufall
Oct. 24 2189 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Jeffrey Hayes, University of Rochester  Histone H1- A nexus for chromatin regulation  Biochemistry Graduate Students
Nov. 6 2189 MERF 12:00 PM Julio Sanchez, Biochemistry, Thesis Defense Seminar Characterization of the DNA binding activity of the BRG1-AT-hook-bromodomain Mentor: Dr. Catherine Musselman
Nov. 7 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Megan King, Yale University  Mechanotransduction through the LINC complex: From integrins to the nuclear lamina Dr. Lori Wallrath 
Nov. 14 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Sandra K. Weller, University of Connecticut New insights into the mechanism of Herpes Simplex Virus DNA replication: Role of viral nuclease and a DNA binding protein that promotes annealing  Dr. Maria Spies 
Nov. 21 2117 MERF 10:30 AM Dr. Jill Dowen, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill DNA loop structures important for gene expression and cellular identity  Dr. Pamela Geyer
Dec. 12 1117 MERF 1:00 PM Melissa Gildenberg, MSTP, Thesis Defense Seminar The structure and function of fork remodeling helicase Rad5 Mentor: Dr. Todd Washington