Seminar Date

Speaker

Topic

Host

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

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

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