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Department Seminars

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Structural Insights into Novel Deoxysugar Biosynthesis in Bacteria

Hazel Holden, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Biochemistry; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dec 18, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Joseph Wedekind (Co-sponsored by Graduate Women in Science)

An Unforeseen Path to a Fortuitous End

Martha Fedor, Ph.D. - Editor in Chief, Journal of Biological Chemistry; Professor, Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

Nov 21, 2013 @ 3:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 1-9576 (Case Method Room)

Host: Dr. Lynne E. Maquat

Communicating Science in the 21st Century

Martha Fedor, Ph.D. - Editor in Chief, Journal of Biological Chemistry; Professor, Department of Chemical Physiology, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology; The Scripps Research Institute

Nov 21, 2013 @ 1:00 p.m.

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

Host: Dr. Lynne E. Maquat

RNA Sensors and Global Metabolic Regulation

Nov 20, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Lynne Maquat (Co-sponsored by Graduate Women in Science)

Test Driving the 60S Ribosomal Subunit

Arlen Johnson, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences; The University of Texas at Austin

Nov 06, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Eric Phizicky

When Chromatin Assembly Goes Awry

Jessica Tyler, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Oct 30, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Michael Bulger and Dr. Lata Balakrishnan

Using Computer Simulations to Investigate Dynamic Aspects of Inhibitor Binding and Potency

Carlos Simmerling, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Chemistry; SUNY Stony Brook

Oct 23, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. David Mathews

Identification of a New RNA Degradation Machine: A Bedside to Bench Story

Sandra Wolin, M.D.,Ph.D. - Professor of Cell Biology and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Vice Chair of the Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine

Oct 21, 2013 @ 3:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207 Aud)

Spliceosome Assembly and Activity

Andrew MacMillan, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Biochemistry; University of Alberta

Oct 16, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Clara Kielkopf

Clock Proteins: New Players in DNA-Damage Signaling

Carla Finkielstein, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences; Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Oct 09, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Mahin Maines

Normal and Unusual Decoding by the Ribosome

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Ph.D. - Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Cambridge Biomedical Campus; Cambridge, England

Oct 02, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

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

Host: Dr. Yi-Tao Yu (Co-sponsored by the RNA Structure and Function Cluster & Graduate Women in Science)

The Role of PARP-1 in Chromatin-Mediated Gene Regulation: Control of Cellular Signaling and Differentiation Programs

W. Lee Kraus, Ph.D. - Director, Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences; Professor and Vice Chair for Basic Science, Department of Ob/Gyn; Professor, Department of Pharmacology; Cecil H. and Ida Green Distinguished Chair in Reproductive Biology Sciences; UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Sep 25, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Michael Bulger (Co-Sponsored by the Department of Environmental Medicine)

Neurexins - Synaptic Organizers Implicated in Neurological Disease

Gabrielle Rudenko, Ph.D. - Research Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Institute; Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology; University of Michigan Medical School

Sep 23, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Jeffrey Hayes

The Importance of Being Modified: How Modified Nucleosides Influence Codon Usage

Paul Agris, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry; Director, The RNA Institute; SUNY Albany

Sep 18, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Joseph Wedekind (Co-Sponsored by the Clinical and Translational Science Institute & the RNA Structure and Function Cluster)

Trinucleotide Repeat Instability via DNA Base Lesion Repair

Yuan Liu, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry School of Integrated Science and Humanity Florida International University

Aug 07, 2013 @ 10:00 a.m.

Medical Center | 1-6823 (Neuman Conference Room)

Host: Dr. Jeffrey Hayes

Adapting to Stress: Lessons from a Model Organism

James R. Broach, Ph.D. - Director, Penn State Hershey Institute for Personalized Medicine, Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State Professor Emeritus of Princeton University

Jul 17, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Jeffrey Hayes

APOBEC3 Proteins: role in sexual transmission of retroviruses

Chioma Okeoma, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Molecular & Cellular Biology, The University of Iowa

Jul 15, 2013 @ 4:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Harold Smith

Controlling Biology By Protein Design

Shohei Koide, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago

May 29, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Jeffrey Hayes

Circadian Components as Modulators of Cell Cycle Signaling

Carla Finkielstein, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

May 22, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Mahin Maines

Structure and Dynamics of the Ribosome

Harry Noller, Ph.D. - Director, Center of Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California, Santa Cruz

May 08, 2013 @ 1:00 p.m.

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

Host: Drs. Lynne Maquat, Dmitri Ermolenko and Gloria Culver

The Structure and Viral Recognition Mechanisms of Surveillance Protein RIG-I

Anna Marie Pyle, Ph.D. - Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor, Departments of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and Department of Chemistry, Yale University

May 01, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: T32 Training Grant Graduate Students (Joseph Liberman)

Using Computer Simulations to Investigate Dynamic Aspects of Inhibitor Binding and Potency

Carlos Simmerling, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Chemistry, SUNY Stony Brook

Apr 24, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. David Mathews

Cryo-EM with Movies: Higher Resolution with Optimized Image Contrast

Nikolaus Grigorieff, Ph.D. - Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University

Apr 17, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko

Cancer Metabolism: Cell Biology and Translational Opportunities

Ralph DeBerardinis, M.D. Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Apr 10, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Joshua Munger

mRNA Surveillance is Driven by Translation

Rachel Green, Ph.D. - Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Apr 03, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko

The Role of MicroRNAs in Cancer: Cross-Talk with Antioxidant Genes

Jozef Dulak, Ph.D. D.Sc. - Professor and Head, Department of Medical Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Mar 27, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Mahin Maines

Modulation of Folding Energy Landscape by Charge-Charge Interactions: Linking Experiments with Computational Modeling

George Makhatadze, Ph.D. - Senior Constellation Chaired Professor in Biocomputation and Bioinformatics; Professor, Department of Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Mar 20, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Dimitri Ermolenko

Reversible DNA and RNA Methylation in Biological Regulation

Chuan He, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Chemistry; Director, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago

Mar 13, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Yi-Tao Yu

Assessing and Validating Simulation Approaches to Model Nucleic Acid Structure and RNA-Ligand Interactions

Thomas Cheatham, III, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Utah

Mar 07, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. David Mathews

Activation of the G Protein Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin: From Femtoseconds to Seconds

Oliver Ernst, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto

Feb 27, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Lynne Maquat

Assembly and Dynamics of Uber Complex RNPs

Melissa Moore, Ph.D. - Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Co-Director, RNA and Neuro Therapeutics Institutes; Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Feb 20, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.

Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Dr. Lynne Maquat (Co-sponsored by Graduate Women in Science)

Development of Next-Gen PCR Technologies

Phillip Belgrader, Ph.D. - R&D Manager, Bio-Rad (formerly QuantaLife)

Jan 17, 2013 @ 1:00 p.m.

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

Host: Dr. Lynne Maquat (Co-sponsored by Graduate Women in Science)