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

Fall 2007

August 30
Ross Wilderman
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
"Investigating reactions catalyzed by terpene synthases in a novel model system"
Abstract

September 6
Amy Andreotti
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
"T cell signaling; insights from protein NMR spectroscopy"
Abstract

September 13
Don Dean
Ohio State University
"Molecular Design of Mosquitocidal Proteins"
Abstract

September 17 - Special Seminar
Dr. Carla Koehler
Department of Chemistry and BIochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
"Mitochondrial dysfunction and disease: Links with protein import and mitochondrial assembly"
References

September 20
Ravi Singh
Iowa State University
"Evolving concepts of alternative splicing in a model human disease"
Abstract

Wednesday, September 26
Jeff Hayes
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University
"Structure of the protein-DNA interactions within chromatin"
Abstract

September 27 - no seminar

Friday, September 28
Special Seminar in Conjunction with GDCB
Sten Stymne
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Svaloev, Sweeden
"Genetic Engineered Vegetable Oils for Bio-materials and Bio-fuels: What and When"
Abstract

October 4
Robert Thornburg
Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
"Development and function of the ornamental tobacco nectary”
Abstract

October 11
Tom Bobik
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
"B12 Metabolism in Salmonella"
Abstract

October 18
Sachdeve Sidhu
Genentech
"Phage peptide and antibody libraries in protein engineering and ligand selection"
Abstract

October 25
David Segal
University of California, Davis
"Editing and imaging genomes using engineered zinc finger proteins"
Abstract

November 1
Todd Yates
University of California, Los Angeles
"Piecing together the atomic structure of the carboxysome, a primitive bacterial organelle"
Abstract

Wednesday, November 7
Sharon Roth Dent
MD Anderson Cancer Center
"Role of chromatin and chromatin modifying proteins in regulating gene expression"
Abstract

November 8
Jianzhi George Zhang
University of Michigan
"Evolution of new functions for proteins"
Abstract


November 15
Yang Zhou
PhD Defense - Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
"Subunit Exhange Pathway for Recombinant Porcine Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase"
Abstract

November 22
Thanksgiving Break - no seminar

November 29
Sue Gibson
University of Minnesota
"How do soluble sugar levels help regulate plant development, carbon partitioning and gene expression?"
Abstract

December 6
TBA

December 13
Tentative Date - TBD

Previous Seminar Schedules:
Summer 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006