FY 2007-2008 Seminar Schedule Seminars were held in Biosciences West room 208 at 4:05 p.m., unless otherwise indicated Seminar Date Speaker Topic Host Aug 31 Dr. Nancy Horton Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics University of Arizona Flexibility at the Protein-DNA Interface   Sept 7 Dr. Raymond Jacobson Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology University of Texas Structural Characterization of the General Transcription Factor TFIID Dr. Andrew Hausrath Sept 14 Dr. Marcia Levitus Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Arizona State University Measuring Conformational Dynamics in Nucleic Acids: A New FCS-FRET Approach Dr. Florence Tama Sept 21 Dr. Helen Zgurskaya Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Oklahoma Function of membrane fusion proteins in transport across two membranes Dr. Megan McEvoy Sept 28 Dr. Mary Wirth Department of Chemistry University of Arizona Silica colloidal crystals for biological analysis Dr. Florence Tama Special Seminar Oct 1 Dr. S. James Remington Institute of Molecular Biology University of Oregon Time: 1:00 pm Place: USGS 253 Molecular Mechanism of a Fluorescent Protein Photoswitch Dr. William Montfort Oct 5 No Seminar - BMB/MCB Research Retreat Special Seminar Oct 8 Dr. Joachim Frank Howard Hughes Medical Institute HRI Wadsworth Center Time: 5:00 pm Place: ILC 140 The Mechanism of mRNA-tRNA Translocation as Inferred by Cryo-EM Eminent Scholar Series Dr. Florence Tama Oct 12 Dr. Julie Leary Department of Chemistry UC Davis Probing Chemokine- Glycosaminoglycan interactions using Mass Spectrometry: Implications for inflammation BMB Graduate Students Oct 19 No Seminar - Family Weekend Special Seminar Oct 25 Dr. Donald Voet Department of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania The Biochemistry Content Crisis and the New Focus on Interactive Teaching Techniques: The Makings of a Perfect Storm - a Two Part Series Undergraduate Biochemistry Club Oct 26 Dr. Judith Voet Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Swarthmore College The Biochemistry Content Crisis and the New Focus on Interactive Teaching Techniques: The Makings of a Perfect Storm - a Two Part Series Undergrad Biochem Club Nov 2 Dr. Indraneel Ghosh Department of Chemistry University of Arizona New methodologies for targeting and detecting protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions Dr. Florence Tama Nov 9 Dr. David Roberts Biochemical Pathology Section NIH/ NCI Thrombospondin-1: Keeping Nitric Oxide on a Short Leash Dr. William Montfort Nov 16 Dr. Chris Rensing Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science University of Arizona Love hurts: holding hands with copper Dr. Florence Tama Nov 23 Thanksgiving Nov 30 Dr. Magdalene So Department of Immunobiology University of Arizona Type IV pili: Stress-induced signaling and biodynamics of infection Dr. Thomas Baldwin Dec 7-14 Finals Dec21 - Jan 8 Winter Session Jan 25 Dr. Shiladitya DasSarma Center of Marine Biotechnology University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute Life at the Extremes: Post-Genomic Biology of a Model Archaeon Dr. Nancy Horton Feb 1 Dr. Wayne Frasch School of Life Sciences Arizona State University Single Molecule Studies to Investigate the Rotary Mechanism of the F1Fo Molecular Motor Dr. Andrew Hausrath Feb 8 Dr. Elizabeth Trimmer Department of Chemistry Grinnell College Mechanistic Studies of the Flavin-containing Enzyme Methyl- enetetrahydrofolate Reductase from Escherichia coli Dr. Vahe Bandarian Feb 15 Graduate Student Recruitment - No Seminar Feb 22 Dr. Scot Wolfe Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology University of Massachusetts Medical School Exploring & Engineering DNA-binding Specificity using a Bacterial One-hybrid System Dr. Matt Cordes Feb 29 Dr. Angel Garcia Department of Physics, Applied Physics, & Astronomy Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Pressure folding/unfolding thermodynamics of proteins and nucleic acids Dr. Osamu Miyashita Mar 7 Dr. Robert Renthal Department of Biology University of Texas, San Antonio Why do membrane proteins fold into compact structures? Dr. John Hildebrand Special Seminar Mar 13 Dr. Andrew Hausrath Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics University of Arizona Time: 11:00am Place: USGS 253 Mechanical Roles of Coiled-coils in the ATP Synthase   Special Seminar Mar 25 Dr. Scott Landfear Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Oregon Health & Science University Time: 11:00 am Place: ENRB 253 An Essential Role for Glucose Transporters in the Life Cycle of the Leishmania Parasites Dr. Bill Montfort Mar 28 Dr. Sabeeha Merchant Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry UCLA Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Trace Element Homeostasis in Chlamydomonas Dr. Carol Dieckmann Apr 4 Dr._Emmanuelle_Meuillet Department of Nutritional Science University of Arizona Development of Novel AKT Inhibitors Dr. Marc Tischler Apr 11 Dr. Hans Bohnert Department of Plant Biology University of Illinois Predictive Gene Networks Dr. Roger Miesfeld Special Seminar Apr 18 Dr. Sidney Cox Department of Biology California Institute of Technology Time: Noon Place: LSS 440 Programming gene expression with combinatorial promoters Dr. John Little Apr 18 Dr._Kevin_Sanbonmatsu Los Alamos National  Laboratory Large-scale simulations of decoding by the ribosome Dr. Florence Tama Apr 25 Dr. Craig Stump College of Medicine University of Arizona The Renin-Angiotensin System and Oxidative Stress in the Metabolic Syndrome Dr. Tsu-Shuen Tsao May 2 Dr. David Lee Department of Chemistry Tufts University Design and Characterization of Macromolecular Complexes: Linear Viral Arrays and Adiponectin Dr. Tsu-Shuen Tsao
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