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April Events

Biochemistry Workshop: Dr. Todd Washington

Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 12:30pm

"Modeling conformationally flexible proteins with X-ray scattering and molecular simulations" Dr. Todd Washington Professor Biochemistry  Radiation Oncology

Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture - Emery Brown, MD, PhD

Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

CANCELED:  Due to a conflict with the American Pain Society meeting, we will reschedule Dr. Brown's visit to Spring 2020. ...

Biochemistry Workshop: Dr. Lokesh Gakhar

Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 12:30pm

"A Tale of Two Cores" Dr. Lokesh Gakhar Director Protein and Crystallography Core Adjunct Associate Professor Biochemistry  

Structural Biology Interest Group

Thursday, April 11, 2019, 9:00am to 10:00am

The Structural Biology Interest Group meetings are biweekly at 9:00am in the Heath Conference Room (4-403A BSB) for Spring 2019.  The faculty director of the group is Dr. Miles Pufall.  To join the mailing list, please contact Sonya Housholder in the CCOM Office of Research. 

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Andrei Karginov

Thursday, April 11, 2019, 10:30am

"Synthetic Biology Approaches for Interrogation of Cell Signaling" Dr. Andrei Karginov Associate Professor Pharmacology The University of Illinois at Chicago

Biochemistry Workshop: Colleen Caldwell and Fletcher Bain

Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 12:30pm

"RPA Conformational Dynamics and the Recombination Mediator Mechanism" Colleen Caldwell Grad Student Biochemistry M. Spies Lab   "Unraveling the G-quadruplex: A novel approach to assessing bypass of DNA Secondary Structure" Fletcher Bain Grad Student Biochemistry M. Spies Lab  

BME Graduate Seminar - Dr. Jay Ponder

Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 3:30pm to 4:20pm

Department of Biomedical Engineering Graduate Seminar (BME:5010) Co-sponsored by the Department of Biochemistry Jay W. Ponder, PhD Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering Washington University in St. Louis Towards Accurate Binding Free Energy Calculations for Drug Design

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Daniel Starr

Thursday, April 18, 2019, 10:30am

"Moving nuclei through constricted spaces; how the nuclear envelope interacts with the cytoskeleton" Dr. Daniel Starr Molecular and Cellular Biology University of California Davis

Structural Biology Interest Group

Thursday, April 25, 2019, 9:00am to 10:00am

The Structural Biology Interest Group meetings are biweekly at 9:00am in the Heath Conference Room (4-403A BSB) for Spring 2019.  The faculty director of the group is Dr. Miles Pufall.  To join the mailing list, please contact Sonya Housholder in the CCOM Office of Research. 

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Erika Matunis

Thursday, April 25, 2019, 10:30am

"Stem cell dynamics in the Drosophila testis niche" Dr. Erika Matunis Professor Cell Biology Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

2019 Health Sciences Research Day

Saturday, April 27, 2019, 10:00am to 6:30pm

The 2019 Health Sciences Research Day will take place on Saturday, April 27, 2019 and will include a poster session, vendor/core facility fair, mini-symposia of trainee talks, and a keynote lecture by Dr. Christopher Austin, Director of NCATS (NIH).