Seminar Schedule

Spring, 2008

All seminars are held in the Biochemistry Seminar Room, 264 McDonnell Science (Medical School Campus) at 4 pm on Wednesday unless otherwise noted.

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*Monday, January 14, 2008 - Biochemistry Seminar Room (264 McDonnell Sciences)
	Dr. Rudi Fasan California Institute of Technology "Exploiting Engineered P450 Enzymes for Alternative Fuel Production and Synthetic Applications" Host: T. Ellenberger
*Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - Biochemistry Seminar Room (264 McDonnell Sciences)
	Dr. Lynette Cegelski Washington Unversity School of Medicine - St. Louis "On the Battleground Against Bacterial Pathogens: Where Solid-State NMR Joins Chemical Biology " Host: T. Ellenberger
*Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - Biochemistry Seminar Room (264 McDonnell Sciences) - 11:00 am
	Dr. Arne Gennerich University of California, San Francisco "Molecular Mechanism of Cytoplasmic Dynein" Host: T. Lohman
*Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - Biochemistry Seminar Room (264 McDonnell Sciences) - 11:00 am
	Dr. Guobin Luo Harvard University "Probing Protein Motions on Different Length Scales at the Single-Molecule Level" Host: N. Baker
*Thursday, February 7, 2008 - Biochemistry Seminar Room (264 McDonnell Sciences) - 11:00 am
	Dr. Gary Brouhard Max Planck Institute "The Yin and the Yang of Microtubules" Host: E. Di Cera
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
	Dr. Michael Shirts Computational Biology Columbia University "Towards Noncovalent Molecular Design:  Making Ligand Binding Predictions Quantitative" Host: J. Ponder
*Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - Biochemistry Seminar Room (264 McDonnell Sciences) - 11:00 am
	Dr. Eric Galburt Max Planck Institute "Backtracking and Beyond: Single Molecules of RNA Polymerase II" Host: R. Galletto
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
	Dr. Athan Kuliopulos Dept. of Medicine and Biochemistry Tufts - New England Medical Center "Protease Receptor Dimerization in Thrombin Signaling and Sepsis" Host: E. Di Cera
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
	Dr. Neil Lue Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology Weill Medical College - Cornell University "The Mechanisms and Evolution of Telomere Maintenance Machinery in Budding Yeast" Host: R. Galletto
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
	Dr. Klaus Schulten Dept. of Chemistry University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "How Directional Translocation is Regulated by a DNA Helicase Motor" Host: N. Baker
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
	Dr. Andreas Matouschek Dept. of Biochemistry, Mol. Biol. & Cell Biology Northwestern University, Evanston, IL "Protein Unfolding in the Cell" Host: R. Pappu
*Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 10:30 am*
	Dr. David Bostick Dept. of Chemistry University of Michigan - Ann Arbor "Statistical Determinants of Ionic Complexation: Implications for Selective Mechanisms in Ion Transport Proteins" Host: J. Ponder
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
	Dr. Johannes Walter Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Harvard University "The Eukaryotic Replisome: Genomic Copyist and Caretaker Extraordinaire" Host: P. Burgers
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
	Dr. Melanie Cobb Department of Pharmacology University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas "MAPKs - Nuclear Import and Transcriptional Regulation in Pancreatic Beta Cells" Host: G. Marshall
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
	Dr. Ann Stock UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine "Phosphorylation-Mediated Activation of Bacterial Response Regulator Transcription Factors" Host: G. Marshall
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
	Dr. Leslie Parise Dept. of Bochemistry and Biophysics University of North Carolina "CIB1 Signaling Networks in Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer " Host: W. Frazier
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
	Dr. Charles Esmon Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation "The Protein C Pathway in Health and Disease" Host: W. Frazier
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
	Dr. David D. Thomas Dept. of Biochem., Mol. Biol. & Biophys. University of Minnesota "Disorder-Order Transitions Regulate Muscle Contraction and Relaxation" Host: D. Sept

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