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Events

Retreats

Seminar Calendars

Department Seminars

If you would like to speak with any of these people during their visit, or need additional information, please contact Stephanie Scoville.

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Mitochondrial Slick Potassium Channels And Heart Mitochondrial Function

Charles Smith - PhD Candidate

Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

The Science of Ultrathin Membrane Separations

Karl Smith - PhD Candidate

Dec 08, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619

Using a Log Linear Model to Study the Influence of Evolutionary Constraints on RNA Secondary Structures and Alignments

Yinghan Fu - PhD Candidate

Dec 01, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619

Regulation of membrane localization of type two voltage gated calcium channels

Mallory Scott - PhD Candidate

Nov 24, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Pairs of adjacent codons inhibit translation by different mechanisms

Christina Brule - PhD Candidate

Nov 17, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Translational control by initiation factor 2 and the class II preQ1 riboswitch

Clarence Ling - PhD Candidate

Nov 10, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

TBD

Rakesh Chatrikhi - PhD Candidate

Nov 03, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

TBD

Thomas Hilimire - PhD Candidate

Oct 27, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

The impact of oncogenic signaling on metabolic stress responses and human cytomegalovirus infection

Shihao Xu - PhD Candidate

Oct 06, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Nucleosome Linker DNA Directed Folding of the Linker Histone C-Terminal Domain

He Fang - PhD Candidate

Sep 29, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Inference of Systems-level Responses to Influenza Infections

Dr. Juliee Thakar - Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology & Biostatistics and Computational Biology

Jun 17, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Automating Comparative Sequence Analysis for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction: An Iterative Probabilistic "Turbo Decoding" Framework

Dr. Gaurav Sharma - Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jun 10, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Regulation of MicroRNA Biogenesis and Function

Javier F. Cáceres, Ph.D. - MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM), University of Edinburgh, Scotland

May 20, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Lynne Maquat

Towards RNA Structure/Function from Scratch

Rhiju Das, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

May 06, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: T32 Training Grant Graduate Students (Michael Sloma)

How RNA Structures 'Jiggle and Wiggle' at Atomic Resolution: Importance to Function and Drug Discovery

Hashim M. Al-Hashimi, Ph.D. - Director, Duke Center for RNA Biology; Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC

Apr 29, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Benjamin Miller

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Zhen Tan and Hong Zhu

Zhen Tan - PhD Candidate

Apr 28, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Zhen Tan and Hong Zhu

Hong Zhu - PhD Candidate

Apr 28, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Jiyu Wang and Leslie Salas Estrada

Jiyu Wang - PhD Candidate

Apr 21, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 1-7619 (Adolph Auditorium)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Jiyu Wang and Leslie Salas Estrada

Leslie Salas Estrada - PhD Candidate

Apr 21, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 1-7619 (Adolph Auditorium)

Mouse Models for Studying APOBEC3-mediated Restriction of Virus Infection

Susan Ross, Ph.D. - Interim Chair & Professor, Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania

Apr 15, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Drs. Harold Smith & Stephen Dewhurst

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Mohammad Kayedkhordeh and Lingfeng Luo

Mohammad Kayedkhordeh - PhD Candidate

Apr 14, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 1-7619 (Adolph Auditorium)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Mohammad Kayedkhordeh and Lingfeng Luo

Lingfeng Luo - PhD Candidate

Apr 14, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 1-7619 (Adolph Auditorium)

Peptides and Proteins in Lipid Bilayers

Régis Pomès, Ph.D. - Senior Scientist, Molecular Structure and Function, Hospital for Sick Children; Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto

Apr 08, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Alan Grossfield

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Steven Henderson and Debapratim Dutta

Steven Henderson - PhD Candidate

Apr 07, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Steven Henderson and Debapratim Dutta

Debapratim Dutta - PhD Candidate

Apr 07, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Monitoring Translation in Space and Time with Ribosome Profiling

Jonathan Weissman, Ph.D. - Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco

Apr 01, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | Class of '62 Auditorium (G-9425)

Host: Drs. Sina Ghaemmaghami & Lynne Maquat

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Shairy Danial and Christopher Goodwin

Shairy Danial - PhD Candidate

Mar 31, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Shairy Danial and Christopher Goodwin

Christopher Goodwin - PhD Candidate

Mar 31, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Molecular Cooperation in Gene Regulation and Genomic Stability

Evgeny Nudler, Ph.D. - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator; Julie Wilson Anderson Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

Mar 25, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Lu Han and Sierra Fox

Lu Han - PhD Candidate

Mar 24, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Lu Han and Sierra Fox

Sierra Fox - PhD Candidate

Mar 24, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Mechanisms to Regulate Gene Expression by Disrupting Protein Synthesis

Christine Dunham, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine

Mar 18, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Kyle Berger and Bronwyn Lucas

Bronwyn Lucas - PhD Candidate

Mar 17, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Kyle Berger and Bronwyn Lucas

Kyle Berger - PhD Candidate

Mar 17, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Antibiotic Resistance: Evolutionary Tales from the Protein Data Bank

Stephen Burley, M.D., D.Phil. - Director, RCSB Protein Data Bank; Director, Center for Integrative Proteomics Research; Member, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

Mar 11, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Joseph Wedekind

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Amber Cutter and Michael Sloma

Michael Sloma - PhD Candidate

Mar 10, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Amber Cutter and Michael Sloma

Amber Cutter - PhD Candidate

Mar 10, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Tumor Clonal Heterogeneity: Implications for Biology and Disease

Matthew Walter, M.D., Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Mar 04, 2015 @ 12:00 p.m.

Medical Center | Class of '62 Auditorium (G-9425)

Host: Drs. Clara Kielkopf & Richard Burack

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Owen Smith and Karl Smith

Karl Smith - PhD Candidate

Mar 03, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Owen Smith and Karl Smith

Owen Smith - PhD Candidate

Mar 03, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Structural Mechanisms of Sensing dsRNA Via Regulated RNA Decay in Human Cells

Alexei Korennykh, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Feb 25, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Drs. Dmitri Ermolenko & Lynne Maquat

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Mallory Scott and Matthew Payea

Christina Brule - PhD Candidate

Feb 24, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | Ryan Case Method Room (1-9576)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Mallory Scott and Matthew Payea

Mallory Scott - PhD Candidate

Feb 24, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | Ryan Case Method Room (1-9576)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Mallory Scott and Matthew Payea

Matthew Payea - PhD Candidate

Feb 24, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | Ryan Case Method Room (1-9576)

How Cells Integrate Transcription and Splicing to Accomplish Gene Expression on Time

Karla Neugebauer, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

Feb 18, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Lynne Maquat

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Morgan Monaghan and Thomas Hilimire

Morgan Managhan - PhD Candidate

Feb 17, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Morgan Monaghan and Thomas Hilimire

Thomas Hilimire - PhD Candidate

Feb 17, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Regulated mRNA Modification: A New Function for Ancient RNA-Modifying Enzymes

Wendy Gilbert, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Feb 11, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Yi-Tao Yu

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Rakesh Chatrikhi and Jerry Madukwe

Rakesh Chatrikhi - PhD Candidate

Feb 10, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Rakesh Chatrikhi and Jerry Madukwe

Jerry Madukwe - PhD Candidate

Feb 10, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Christina Brule and Clarence Ling

Clarence Ling - PhD Candidate

Feb 03, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 1-7619 (Adolph Auditorium)

Student Seminar (BCH 502/BPH 572) for Sarah Loerch

Sarah Loerch - PhD Candidate

Jan 27, 2015 @ 1:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)