Events
- Seminars this Week
- Biochemistry Seminar Series
- BMB Research Club Series
- Upcoming Ph.D. Defense
- Upcoming Masters Defense
- Prelims
Seminars this Week
Biochemistry Seminar Series
Fridays in CH 033 at 2:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted)
Fall 2009
| Sept 11 | Anindya Dutta (University of Virginia) Re-replication of the mammalian cell genome and links to genomic instability in cancers. Host: Ellison | |
| Sept 18 | Margaret Kielian (Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University) Mechanisms and Inhibition of Alphavirus and Flavivirus Membrane Fusion Proteins. Host:Tuli | |
| Sept 25 | Rachel Green (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) Quality control during protein synthesis Host: Charles Dann III | |
| Oct 2 | Inorganic Alumni Mini-Symposium (Chemistry Department) | |
| Oct 9 | ||
| Oct 16 | Wah Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine),Cryo-EM Structures from Protein Side-Chains to Cells Host: Zlotnick | |
| Oct 23 | Robert McKenna (University of Florida) Past, present and future structure-function studies of carbonic anhydrase. Host: Zlotnick | |
| Oct 30 | Rui Zhao (University of Colorado Medical School-Denver) Understand pre-mRNA splicing: structural and functional studies of Prp8 and Brr2. Host: Giedroc | |
| Nov 6 | ||
| Nov 13 | Michael May ( U Penn School of Veterinary Medicine) Non-Canonical NF-kB Signaling in Cancer Host: Danthi | |
| Nov 20 | Tanya Paull (University of Texas at Austin) Mechanisms of DNA resection coordinated by Mre11/Rad50 complexes. Host: Zolan | |
| Nov 27 | Thanksgiving Break | |
| Dec | (Hold dates for Faculty Recruiting) |
Spring 2010
| Jan 29 | Carol B. Post (Purdue University) Title: TBA Host: Zlotnick | |
| Feb 5 | ||
| Feb 12 | Anna Mapp (University of Michigan) Title: TBA Host: Carlson | |
| Feb 19 | ||
| Feb 26 | Douglas Lyles (Wake Forest University) Title: TBA Host: Danthi | |
| March 5 | ||
| March12 | Zhaohui Xu (University of Michigan) Title: TBA Host : Chen | |
| March19 | Spring Break | |
| March26 | Alan Leonard (Florida Institute of Technology) Titile: TBA Host: Brun | |
| April 2 | Peter Chivers (Washington University School of Medicine) Title: TBA Host: Giedroc | |
| April 9 | Youxing Jiang (UT-Southwestern) Title: TBA Host: Chen | |
| April 16 | Jennifer Kohler (UT-Southwestern) Title: TBA Host: Carlson | |
| April 23 | Mitchell Balish (University of Miami Ohio) Title: TBA Host: Nelson | |
| April 30 | Mark Foster (Ohio State University) Title: TBA Host: Giedroc |
BMB Research Club Series
Wednesdays at 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. in SI 001
Fall 2009
| Sept 23 | Melanie Marketon "Dissecting YopK, a Novel Regulator of the Type III Secretion System Involved in Plague Pathogenesis" | |
| Sept 30 | Soca Wibowo (Dann Lab) "Structural Analysis of the Human Folate Receptor and its Implications in Drug Discovery" | |
| Oct 7 | Richard DiMarchi "Chemical Biotechnology Applied to Endocrine Hormones" | |
| Oct 14 | Lingling Chen "Probing the Structural Evolution of GroEL for Chaperon Functioning" | |
| Oct 21 | Adam Johnson (Pratt Lab) "Water, Minerals, and the Search for Life on Mars: Why Would a Biochemist Play with Rocks?" | |
| Oct 28 | Junpeng Xiao (Tolbert Lab) "Modulation of Protein Properties and Functions through Site-Specific Protein Modification" | |
| Nov 4 | Sarah Katen (Zlotnick Lab) "Progress Toward Characterization of Propenamide Small Molecule Effectors of Hepatitis B Virus Capsid Assembly" | |
| Nov 11 | Jiang Wu (Bauer Lab) "Redox-sensing mechanism of RegB in Rhodobacter capsulatus" | |
| Nov 18 | Hermes Reyes-Caballero (Giedroc Lab) "Metalloregulation of transcription in opposite directions: Ni(II) de-repression by M. tuberculosis NmtR and Zn(II) co-repression by S. pneumoniae AdcR" | |
| Nov 25 | Thanksgiving Break | |
| Dec 2 | David Giedroc Title: TBA | |
| Dec 9 | Erin Carlson "Innovative Technologies for Natural Products Discovery" |
Spring 2010
| Jan 13 | Viola Ellison Title: TBA | |
| Jan 20 | Zach Kaur (DiMarchi Lab) Title: TBA | |
| Jan 27 | Manjari Mazumdar Title: TBA | |
| Feb 3 | Xiaoyun Guo (Brun Lab) Title: TBA | |
| Feb 10 | Nichole Stewart (Oakley Lab) Title: TBA | |
| Feb 17 | Vince Waldman (Oakley Lab) title: TBA | |
| Feb 24 | Fan Cheng (Tuli Lab) Title: TBA | |
| March 3 | Xi Rao (Nephew Lab) Title: TBA | |
| March 10 | Zhe Wan (Brun Lab) Title: TBA | |
| March 17 | Spring Break | |
| March 24 | Frederic Pontvianne (Pikkard Lab) Title: TBA | |
| March 31 | Chenguang Ouyang (DiMarchi Lab) Title: TBA | |
| April 7 | Mark Pawlicki (Tolbert Lab) Title: TBA | |
| April 14 | Sarah Katen (Zlotnick Lab) "Progress Toward Characterization of Propenamide Small Molecule Effectors of Hepatitis B Virus Capsid Assembly" | |
| April 21 | Malcom Winkler Title: TBA | |
| April 28 |
Upcoming Ph.D. Defense:
Upcoming Masters Defense:
Prelims:
| Nov 9 | 12:30pm SI 216A |
Rohini Kohli (Hardy Lab) "Understanding the host dependent outcome of Sindbis virus infection" |
| Nov 12 | 11:00am SI 001 |
Qian Dong (Bauer Lab) "cGMP signaling in Rhodospirillum centenum and Sinorhizobium meliloti" |
| Dec 10 | 3:00pm JH 009 |
Zhuo Cheng (Bauer Lab) "Regulatory Mechanisms of CrtJ, an Aerobic Repressor of Photosystem Gene Expression in Rhodobacter capsulatus" |


