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2008-2009 Biological Chemistry Program's Journal Club

BSW 208, 12:30 pm, Thursdays (pizza at 12:15)

Sept 4 Matt Cordes CBC Recent Advances in NMR Analysis of Proteins
Sept 11 Mike Kimzey MED-CHEM Advanced glycation in diabetes- a new biomarker for glyco-oxidative stress?
Sept 18 Marty Pagel CHEM Detecting Enzyme Activities with Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Sept 25 Bill Montfort CBC Nitric Oxide Signaling: Old Chemistry, New Biology and Complex Membranes
Oct 2 CANCELLED
Oct 9 Dr. James Gillard CBC Cardiac Biomarkers and their Use in the Evaluate of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Oct 16 Rotation 1 Poster Session
Oct 23 Dr. Andy Hausrath CBC The Braidy Bunch: Unraveling the Hierarchical Structure of Adiponectin
Oct 30 Donna Zhang MED CHEM Acetylation of Nrf2 by p300/CBP Augments Promoter-Specific DNA Binding of Nrf2 During Antioxidant Response
Nov 6 Erin Johnson CHEM Affinity Capture Mass Spectrometry and Its Application to Biodefense
Nov 13 Zak Campbell CBC Excluding Solvent from the Active Center: Structure, Mutagenesis, and Dynamics of the Mobile Loop from Bacterial Luciferase
Nov 20 David Briggs CBC Understanding the Self-Oligomerization of HMW Adiponectin: Role of a Reducing Environment
Nov 27 Thanksgiving
Dec 4 Rotation 2 Poster Session
Dec 11 - Jan 13 Finals/Winter Session
Jan 22 Andy Hausrath CBC Biological Chemistry for Biofuel Production
Jan 29 Mike Cusanovich CBC Red and Blue States
Feb 5 Sam Jayakanthan CBC Structural and Functional Characterization of the Copper Transporting P1B-ATPase CopB from Archaeoglobus fulgidus
Feb 12 Carolyn Shomin CHEM Discovering Bivalent Ligands for Protein Kinases
Feb 19 Ben Jester CHEM A New Cell-Free, Split-Protein Based Method to Screen Protein Kinase Inhibitors for Target Selectivity
Feb 26 James Gillard CBC West Nile Virus Infections
Mar 5 Chris Cabello MED-CHEM Novel Cinnamoyl-based Michael Acceptors for Anti-cancer Intervention
Mar 12 Rotation 3 Poster Session
Mar 14 - 22 Spring break
Mar 26 David Harris CHEM New Nucleophilic Organocatalysts
Apr 2 Jamin Steffen MED-CHEM Working to Identify New Targets in Cancer Therapy
Apr 9 Swapna Aravind CBC The Role of the periplasmic sensor kinase CusS in Copper Homeostasis in E.coli
Apr 16 Brittany Perkins   The Use of Mass Spectrometric Techniques to Probe Protein-Protein Interactions and Gas-phase Ion Structure
Apr 23 Andrew Capaldi MCB Structure and Function of a Transcriptional Network Activated by the MAPK Hog1
Apr 30 Rotation 4 Poster Session
May 7 Finals/Summer Session

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