FY 2004-2005 Seminar Schedule
Seminars were held in Biosciences West room 208 at 4:05 p.m., unless otherwise indicated
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Seminar Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27 | Dr.
Mario Rivera Department of Chemistry Kansas University |
Toward a molecular understanding of heme catabolism: NMR investigations of heme oxygenase | Dr. Boris Dunkov |
| Sept 3 | Dr.
Jaroslav Koca National Centre for Biomolecular Research Masaryk University |
Are force fields able to predict coordination number of metal ions in metalloproteins? | Dr. Nancy Horton |
| Sept 10 | Dr.
Robert Blankenship Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Arizona State University |
Genomic and biochemical analysis of the transition from an anaerobic to an aerobic world | Dr. Michael Cusanovich |
| Sept 17 | Dr. Kathleen Dixon Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology University of Arizona |
Protein Phosphorylation in Cellular Responses to DNA Damage | Dr. Thomas Baldwin |
| Sept 24 | No seminar - BMB/MCB Annual Graduate Research Retreat | ||
| Oct 1 | Dr.
Alexander Nevzorov Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry UC San Diego |
Towards Atomic-Resolution Structures of Membrane Proteins by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy | Dr. Michael Brown |
|
Special Seminar Oct 4 |
Dr. Karin Nienhaus Department of Biophysics University of Ulm Time: 11:00am Place: BSW 210 |
Ligand Migration and Binding in Heme Proteins | Dr. William Montfort |
|
Special Seminar Oct 11 |
Dr.
Doug Rees HHMI California Institute of Technology Time: 4:00pm Place: ILC 120 |
Structural studies of channels and transporters | Dr. Megan McEvoy Eminent Scholar Series |
| Oct 15 | Dr.
Frances Separovic School of Chemistry University of Melbourne |
NMR Structural Studies of Peptides in Lipid Membranes | Dr. Michael Brown |
| Oct 22 | Dr.
Koen Visscher Department of Physics University of Arizona |
mRNA mechanics: do ribosomes care? | Dr. Matt Cordes |
| Oct 29 | Dr.
Bruce Bowler Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Denver |
Non-native States of Proteins: Making Order out of Disorder | Dr. Matt Cordes |
| Nov 5 | Dr.
Amy Keating Department of Biology MIT |
Combinatorial interactions of the human bZIP transcription factors | Dr. Matt Cordes |
|
Special Seminar Nov 8 |
Dr.
Greg Petsko Department of Chemistry Brandeis University Time: 5:00pm Place: ILC 130 |
How Enzymes Work: The Role of Protein Dynamics in Enzymic Catalysis | Dr. Nancy Horton Eminent Scholar Series |
| Nov 12 | No Seminar | ||
| Nov 19 | Dr.
Richard Roberts Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering CalTech |
The protein synthesis machinery as tool and target | Dr. Matt Cordes |
| Nov 26 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| Dec 3 | Dr.
Michael Cusanovich Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics University of Arizona |
Protein Dynamics: Wiggles Work! | |
|
Special Seminar Dec 6 |
Dr.
Kendall N. Houk Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry UCLA Time: 5:00pm Place: ILC 130 |
Computational Modeling of Organic Reactions: Mechanisms, Dynamics, and Selectivities | Dr. Katrina Miranda Eminent Scholar Series |
| Dec 10-17 | Finals | ||
| Dec 18-Jan 11 | Winter Break/Winter Session | ||
| Jan 14 | Dr.
Kathleen Triman Department of Biology Franklin & Marshall College |
Mutational Analysis of the Ribosome | Dr. Megan McEvoy |
| Jan 21 | No Seminar | ||
| Jan 28 | Dr.
Tracey Rouault Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch NICHD |
Post-transcriptional regulation of mammalian iron metabolism | Dr. Carol Dieckmann |
| Feb 4 | Dr.
George DeMartino University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
Function and regulation of the ubiquitin-proteasome system of protein degradation | Dr. Marc Tischler |
| Feb 11 | Dr.
Gerald Joyce Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biology Scripps Research Institute |
It's a Wonderful Life: The in Vitro RNA World |
Dr. Howard Ochman (co-sponsored by LAPLACE) |
| Feb 18 | Dr. Brian Noland SGX (Structural GenomiX, Inc.) San Diego, California Time: 4:00 Place: PAS 201 |
Drug Discovery Using High-Throughput
Crystallography & Fragment-Based Chemistry |
Dr. Thomas Baldwin |
| Feb 25 | Dr.
Susan Marqusee Department of Molecular and Cell Biology UC Berkeley |
New tools to investigate and manipulate the protein energy landscape | Dr. Elizabeth Vierling |
| Mar 4 | Dr. Carlos Bustamente Department of Molecular and Cell Biology UC Berkeley |
Recent Advances in Single Molecular Biophysics |
Dr. Megan McEvoy |
|
Special Seminar Mar 7 |
Dr.
Curt Wittig Department of Chemistry University of Southern California Time: 5:00 Place: ILC 130 |
Molecular excitations in superfluid helium |
Dr. Andrei Sanov (Eminent Scholar Series) |
| Mar 11 | Dr.
Catherine Drennan Department of Chemistry MIT |
Crystallographic Snapshots of Metalloproteins | Dr. Vahe Bandarian |
|
Special Seminar Mar 17 |
Dr.
Hans-Dieter Arndt Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology Time: 12:30 Place: BSW 208 |
From DNA-Protein Dimerizers to Ribosomal Inhibitors | Dr. Bogdan Olenyuk |
| Mar 18 | Dr.
Erick Nibbering Ultrafast Molecular Structural Dynamics Application Laboratory Max Born Institute Time: 1:30 Place BSW 210 |
Direct
and Indirect Proton Transfer Dynamics in Acid-base Pairs in Water |
Dr. Michael Cusanovich |
| Mar 25 | Dr.
Alexander Raikhel Department of Entomology and the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology UC Riverside |
Gene Regulatory Pathways Linking Blood Feeding and Egg Maturation in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti | Dr. Michael Wells |
| Apr 1 | No Seminar - MCB-BIO5 symposium | ||
| Apr 8 | Dr.
Joyce Schroeder Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology University of Arizona |
A tale of two proteins: Understanding and inactivating breast cancer oncogenes |
Dr. Matt Cordes |
| Apr 15 | Dr.
Jose L. Soulages Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Oklahoma State University |
Structure and Function of Apolipoproteins | Dr. Michael Wells |
|
Special Seminar Apr 18 |
Dr.
Victor Hruby Department of Chemistry University of Arizona Time: 5:00 Place: ILC 130 |
Chemical Biology: FUNdamental Research at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology | Dr. Neel Ghosh Eminent Scholars Series |
| Apr 22 | Dr.
David Low Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology UC Santa Barbara |
Environmental control of an epigenetic switch | Dr. John Little |
June 20 BSW 208 |
Solution and Solid-State NMR Investigations of Energy Transduction Systems |
Dr. Michael Brown |
|
June 21 BSW 208 |
Color and Polarized Light Vision in Flies: From the Retina to the Brain |
Dr. Roger Miesfeld |
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