FY 2001-2002 Seminar Schedule Seminars were held in Biosciences West room 208 at 4:00 p.m., unless otherwise indicated Seminar Date Speaker Topic Host Aug 20 Fall Semester 2001 Begins Special Seminar Aug. 21 Dr. Pedro L. Oliveira Departamento de Bioquimica Medica Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Time: 4:00 Place: BSW 237 Blood digestion and heme toxicity in blood-feeding animals Dr. Boris Dunkov Co-Sponsored by the Center for Insect Science Sept. 7 Dr. Michael Hogan Baylor College of Medicine Houston Advanced Microarray Technologies for Large-Scale Pharmacogenomics and Associated Therapeutic Development Dr. Thomas Baldwin Sept. 21 Dr. Vicki Wysocki Department of Chemistry University of Arizona Peptide and Protein Identification and Sequencing by Mass Spectrometry Dr. Thomas Baldwin Sept. 28 Dr. Neel Ghosh Department of Chemistry University of Arizona Approaches towards the Assembly and Disassembly of Protein Complexes Dr. Thomas Baldwin Oct. 5 BMCB Retreat - No Seminar Oct. 12 Dr. Jon Christopher Structural GenomiX San Diego The Structural GenomiX approach to high-throughput crystallography Dr. Thomas Baldwin Oct. 19 Dr. Richard Vaillancourt Pharmacology and Toxicology University of Arizona Regulation of MEKK3-A Protein Involved in MAP Kinase Signaling Dr. Roger Miesfeld Oct. 26 Dr. Gregory Tucker-Kellogg Millennium Pharmaceuticals Burlington, MA Discovering and understanding biomarkers for diagnostic and pharmacogenomic applications Dr. Matthew Cordes Nov. 2 Dr. Howard Ochman Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Arizona A Glimpse of E. coli Genome Evolution Dr. Matthew Cordes Nov. 9 Dr. Brian Kobilka Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology Stanford University The structural basis of G protein coupled receptor activation: Insights from adrenergic receptors Dr. Gordon Tollin Nov. 16 Dr. David Giedroc Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Texas A&M University (sabbatical 2001-2002, Scripps Research Institute) Prokaryotic Metal Sensor Proteins: Bioinorganic Chemistry and Allosteric Regulation Dr. Thomas Baldwin Nov. 23 Thanksgiving - No Seminar Nov. 30 Dr. Raymond Nagle Department of Pathology and Deputy Director, AHSC Cancer Center Extracellular Matrix Proteins in Prostate Cancer Dr. Roger Miesfeld Dec. 7 No Seminar  Dec. 14 Dr. John Osterhout Group Leader Protein Folding and Design Rowland Institute for Science Cambridge, MA A helical hairpin peptide of de novo design in protein folding and disease Dr. Thomas Baldwin Dec. 21 -Jan. 4 Winter Holidays - No Seminars Jan. 11 No Seminar Special Seminar Tuesday Jan. 15 Dr. Lynne Regan Depts. of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Chemistry Yale University Time: 3:00 pm Place: CBS 216 Proteins: Design and Disease Dr. Matthew Cordes Special Seminar Thursday Jan. 17 Dr. Robert Seckler Universitaet Potsdam Time: 12:30 pm Place: BSW 208 Mutants of a parallel beta-helix: protein stability, folding efficiency, and ligand binding affinity as competing evolutionary goals BCP Journal Club Jan. 18 Dr. Michael Maurizi Laboratory of Cell Biology National Cancer Institute, NIH Structure and mechanism of ClpA Dr. Elizabeth Vierling Jan. 25 Dr. Roland Strong Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle Just what does Neutrophil Gelatinase Associated Lipocalin Bind? Microbial nutrient depletion and the innate immune system Dr. Matthew Cordes Feb. 1 Dr. John Little Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology University of Arizona Crystal Structure of LexA: A Conformational Switch Controlling Specific Cleavage Dr. Matthew Cordes Special Seminar Feb. 7 Dr. Robert Wells Institute for Biosciences and Technology Texas A&M University Time: 4:00pm Place: BSW 301 DNA Structure, Triplet Repeats, and Hereditary Neurological Diseases Abstract Dr. Thomas Baldwin Feb. 8 No Seminar  Feb. 15 Dr. Michael Garwood Department of Radiology University of Minnesota Monitoring glucose metabolism in cancer patients using 13C-1H cross polarization spectroscopy at high fields Dr. Robert Gillies Feb. 22 Dr. Hazel Holden Department of Biochemistry University of Wisconsin Carbamoyl Phosphate Synthetase: A Tunnel Runs Through It Dr. Michael Cusanovich Mar. 1 Note slight delay: 4:15, refreshments at 4:00 Dr. Benoit Roux Department of Biochemistry Weill Medical College of Cornell University Computational Studies of the Potassium Channel Dr. Michael Brown Mar. 4 Dr. Margaret Black Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Washington State University Time: 12:30-1:30 Place: BSW 208 From Test Tube to Tumor: The Road to a More Effective Gene Therapy of Cancer Dr. Megan McEvoy Mar. 7 Dr. W. Brent Derry Dept. of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology University of California Time: 10:00-11:00 Place: AHSC 5403 Multiple Roles for C. elegans p53 in Apoptosis, Meiosis and Stress Resistance Dr. Michael Wells Mar. 8 Dr. John Glover Department of Biochemistry University of Toronto Mechanism of Hsp104 action Dr. Elizabeth Vierling Mar. 15 Spring Break - No Seminar Mar. 20 Dr. Tricia Serio Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Yale University Time: 10:00-11:00 am Place: AHSC 5403 Protein-only inheritance. Mechanistic insights from the yeast prion [PSI+] Dr. Nancy Horton Special Seminar Mar. 22 Dr. Avihai Danon Department of Plant Sciences Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel Time: 2:00-2:50 pm Place: Marley 230 Kinetic aspects of redox signaling Dr. Carol Dieckmann Co-Sponsored by the Department of Plant Sciences Mar. 22 Dr. Maarten Heyn Fachbereich Physik der Freien Universität Berlin Institut für Experimentalphysik Light-induced proton transfer in the photoreceptors phytochrome and photoactive yellow protein (PYP) Dr. Gordon Tollin Mar. 27 Dr. Alexei Kisselev Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School Time: 8:45-9:45 am Place: AHSC 3117 Mechanism of Protein Degradation by Proteasomes Dr. Marc Tischler Special Seminar Mar. 27 Dr. Maarten Koornneef Wageningen Agricultural University The Netherlands Time: 1:00pm Place: BSW 208 Natural variation, a tool for functional analysis of adaptive traits in Arabidopsis Dr. Elizabeth Vierling Co-Sponsored by the Department of Plant Sciences Mar. 29 Dr. S. James Remington Institute of Molecular Biology University of Oregon Measuring redox potential and pH in live cells with new GFP biosensors Dr. Megan McEvoy Special Seminar Apr. 2 Dr. Jeffrey D. Laney Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Yale University Time: 11:00-noon Place: Kiewit Auditorium, Arizona Cancer Center Clearing the Slate: Ubiquitin-Mediated Proteolysis and Cell Differentiation in the Yeast Mating-Type System Dr. Thomas Baldwin Apr. 5 Dr. Thomas C. Bruice Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Santa Barbara Ground States and Transition States in Enzyme Catalysis Dr. Nancy Horton Apr. 12 Dr. Jay Dunlap Department of Genetics Dartmouth Medical School Co-sponsored with Department of Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, University of Arizona Genetic and Molecular Dissection of a Simple Circadian System Dr. Thomas Baldwin and Dr. Chris Rensing, co-hosts Apr. 19 No Seminar Apr. 26 Dr. William Winder Zoology Department Brigham Young University Energy Sensing and Signaling by AMP-Activated Protein Kinase in Skeletal Muscle Dr. Marc Tischler
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