BBMB Seminar Series

Thursdays at 4:10 pm (unless otherwise noted) in 1414 Molecular Biology Building.
Coffee and refreshments served in the Atrium, Molecular Biology Building at 3:45 pm

Spring 2008

January 31
Yaping Feng
Iowa State University
“New protein potentials for improved threading”

February 14
Dr. John Koland
University of Iowa
“ Conformation and dynamics of the EGF receptor C-terminal phosphorylation domain revealed by fluorescence spectroscopy"

February 21
Dr. Anne Simon
University of Maryland
“Plant virus RNA structure and translation/replication”

March 6
Lie Min
Iowa State University
“Tyrosine kinase substrate recognition in T cell signaling"
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March 13
Nathaniel Ginder
Iowa State University
"The structure and enzymatic properties of SAICAR synthetase"
Abstract

March 20
Spring break – no seminar

March 27
Dr. Wonhwa Cho
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Spatio-temporal regulation of protein networks by lipids and lipid-binding proteins: Proteomics and single-molecule studies"
Abstract

April 14
Dr. Rajesh Ramachandran
The Scripps Research Institute
“Dynamics of Dynamin-membrane Interactions in Clathrin-mediated Endocytosis"
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April 17
Dr. Leonid Chernomordik
National Institutes of Health
“Membrane Fusion: Diverse and Conserved"
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April 21
Dr. Scott Nelson
Pennsylvania State University
“A Signaling Mechanism for Lagging Strand Polymerase Recycling During Bacteriophage T4 DNA Replication"
Abstract

April 24
Dr. Eduardo Perozo
University of Chicago
“Structural Mechanisms for Activation and Inactivation Gating in K+ Channels"
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April 28
Dr. Wei Cheng
University of California, Berkeley
“Peeking into the Private Life of Helicase Proteins, One by One"
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May 1
Dr. Eran Pichersky
University of Michigan
“How Plants Evolve To Make So Many Scent Compounds”
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May 7
Dr. Mishtu Dey
University of Michigan Medical School
“A Structural, Spectroscopic and Kinetic Approach Towards Understanding the Mechanism of Biological Methane Formation"
4:40 p.m.
Abstract

May 15
Dr. Joe Noel
Salk Institute
“Quantitative exploration of the catalytic landscape separating divergent plant sesquiterpene synthases”z
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Previous Seminar Schedules:
Fall 2007
Summer 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006