The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at The University of Arizona

FY 1999-2000 Seminar Schedule

Seminars were held in Biosciences West room 208 at 4:00 p.m., unless otherwise indicated

Seminar Date	Speaker	Topic	Host
Aug. 27	Dr. Yair Shachar-Hill Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry New Mexico State Univ.	Studying Metabolism and Transport Using NMR Spectroscopy	Dr. Hans Bohnert
Sept. 17	Dr. Ana L. Moore Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry Arizona State University	Artificial Photosynthesis	Dr. Louise Canfield
Sept. 21 special seminar	Dr. Linda S. Powers National Center for the Design of Molecular Function Department of Electrical Engineering Utah State University	The Challenge of Microbe Detection and Capture	Dr. Michael Cusanovich
Oct. 1	Dr. Vicki Chandler Dept of Plant Sciences University of Arizona	Paramutation: An Allelic Interaction that Causes a Heritable Alteration in Transcription	Dr. John Law
Oct. 15	Dr. John Enemark Dept. of Chemistry University of Arizona	The Essence of Sulfite Oxidase: a Vital Molybdenum Enzyme	Dr. Marc Tischler
Oct. 22	Dr. Daniel C. Liebler Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology University of Arizona	Protein Targets of Environmental Chemicals: Applications of Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics to Adduct Detection	Dr. Louise Canfield
Oct. 29	Dr. Richard Jorgensen Dept. of Plant Sciences University of Arizona	Homology Based Cosuppression of Gene Expression in Transgenetic Plants	Dr. Elizabeth Vierling
Nov. 5	Dr. Jamie Williamson Dept. of Molecular Biology and Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology Scripps Research Institute	Ribosomal RNA-Protein Interactions and Ribosome Assembly	Dr. Carol Dieckmann
Nov. 12	Dr. Keith Yamamoto Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology Univ. of California - San Francisco	Building Transcriptional Regulatory Complexes - Signals and Surfaces	Dr. Roger Miesfeld
Nov. 19	Dr. Jeffery Kelly Department of Chemistry and Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology Scripps Research Institute	Understanding and Developing Therapeutic Strategies for Human Amyloid Diseases	Dr. Thomas Baldwin
Dec. 3	Dr. Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague Dept. of Chemistry University of Arizona	Targeting HIV: a Total Approach to Drug Design and Synthesis	Dr. Marc Tischler
Jan. 3	Dr. Yaoqi Zhou Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University	Toward an Understanding of the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Protein Folding	Dr. Thomas Baldwin
Jan. 10	Dr. Jiangpeng Ma Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University	The Dynamic Mechanism of the Molecular Chaperonin GroEL	Dr. Thomas Baldwin
Jan 14	Dr. Thomas L. Poulos Dept. of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry University of California - Irvine	Structure of Gas Generating enzymes: Heme Oxygenase and Nitric Oxide Synthase	Dr. William Montfort
Jan 21	Dr. Ted Weinert Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology University of Arizona	Genomic Instability in DNA damage checkpoint mutants	Dr. John Little
Jan. 24	Dr. Matthew Cordes Dept. of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Evolution of a Protein Fold in vitro	Dr. Thomas Baldwin
Jan. 28	Dr. M. Daniel Lane Dept. of Biological Chemistry The Johns Hopkins University	Transcriptional Regulation of Adipocyte Differentiation	Dr. Michael Wells
Feb. 2	Dr. John L. Battiste Dept. of Biochemistry University of Minnesota	Structural Studies of RNA-Protein Interactions: Post-transcriptional Control of Gene Expression	Dr. Thomas Baldwin
Feb. 4	Dr. Rowena Matthews Dept of Biological Chemistry University of Michigan	Cobalamin-Dependent Methionine Synthase: Dissection of a Modular Enzyme	Dr. John Law
Feb. 7	Dr. Megan McEvoy Dept. of Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Biology University of Oregon	Protein-Protein Interactions in the Bacterial Chemotaxis Signal Transduction Pathway	Dr. Thomas Baldwin
Feb 11	Dr. John Law Dept. of Biochemistry University of Arizona	The Rusty Fly Drosophila Meets Iron
Feb. 14	Dr. Jeffrey K. Myers Dept. of Biochemistry Duke University Medical Center	Sequence Determinants of Protein folding Mechanisms	Dr. Thomas Baldwin
Feb. 18	Dr. William Dowhan Dept. of Biochemistry University of Texas - Houston Medical School	Role of Lipochaperones in the Assembly of Membrane Proteins	Dr. Michael Wells
Feb. 24	Dr. Karen G. Fleming Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Yale University	Membrane Protein Folding: Probing the Energetics of Transmembrane Helix-Helix Interactions	Dr. Thomas Baldwin
Feb. 25	Dr. Rachel Klevit Dept. of Biochemistry Center for Biomolecular Structure University of Washington	Characterization of the RING-Finger Domain of the Breast Cancer Protein, BRCA-1	Dr. Thomas Baldwin
Feb. 29	Dr. Lingling Chen Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Yale University	The Structure of Peptide Bound GroEL - How Chaperones Begin Their Work	Dr. Thomas Baldwin
Mar. 3	Dr. Lila Gierasch Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology University of Massachusetts	Folding of a Predominantly Beta-Sheet Protein with an Internal Cavity	Dr. John Law
Mar. 20	Dr. Patrick J. Fleming Center for Structural Biology Yale University	Protein Packing: Calculation, Conservation and Prediction	Dr. Thomas Baldwin
Mar. 24	Dr. Elizabeth Vierling Dept. of Biochemistry University of Arizona	Molecular Chaperones in Plant Stress and Development	Dr William Montfort
Mar. 31	Dr. Axel Haase University of Wuerzburg Germany	NMR Microscopy: From Animals to Plants	Dr. Michael Brown
April 7	Dr. James P. Allen Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry Arizona State University	Crystallization Mechanisms of Membrane Proteins	Dr. William Montfort
April 14	Dr. Daniel Klessig Dept. of Molecular Biology Waksman Institute Rutgers University	Saliclic Acid- and Nitric Oxide-Mediated Signal Transduction in Plant Disease Resistance	Dr. Don Bourque
April 21	Dr. Vicki Chandler Dept. of Plant Sciences University of Arizona	Paramutation: an Allelic Interaction that Causes a Heritable Alteration in Transcription	Dr. John Law
April 28	Dr. Carol Dieckmann Dept. of Biochemistry University of Arizona	Mitochondrial mRNA Stability and Turnover
May 5	Dr. James Kadonaga Dept. of Biology University of California - San Diego	Role of Chromatin Structure and Assembly in the Regulation of Transcription by RNA Polymerase II	Dr. John Little
Tuesday May 16	Dr. Michel Frey Institut de Biologie Structurale Jean-Pierre Ebel CEA-CRNS	Interaction Between Two Electron-Transfer Partners Intervening in Photosynthesis: A Crystallographic View	Dr. Gordon Tollin
May 19	Dr. Paul Liebman Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Membrane Electrostatics and Signal Transduction Protein Interactions	Dr. Michael Brown