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
2006
Spring 2007
January 11
Phillip Selenko
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
"Peeking Into Eukaryotic Cells with High-Resolution in-cell NMR
Spectroscopy"
Abstract
January 18
Gaya Amarasinghe
Department of Biochemistry
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
"Modular Cooperatively and Regulation of the Vav Proto-Oncoprotein"
Abstract
January 25
Megan Macnaughtan
Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
University of Georgia
"NMR Structural Characterization of Carbohydrate Substrates Bound
to N-acetylglucosaminyltrasferase V(GnT-V)
Abstract
February 1
Assen Marintchev
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
"Molecular Mechanisms of Translation Initiation and its Regulation"
Abstract
February 8
Tatyana Igumenova
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Physics
Columbia University
"Calmodulin and Triosephosphate Isoamerase: Protein Dynamics in
Allostery and Catalysis"
Abstract
February 22
Judith Kimble
Department of Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin
"Controls of Germline Stem Cells in C. elegans
CANCELLED
March 1
Elizabeth Craig
Department of Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin
"Versatile Chaperone Machineries: Networks of Hsp70s and J-proteins"
Abstract
March 22
Sladjana Prisic
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
"Copalyl Diphosphate Synthase (CPS) - A Model Class II
Diterpene Cyclase"
Abstract
March 29
Yibin Xu
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
"Structural and Functional Studies on Membrane Fusion
Proteins - SNAREs"
Abstract
April 5
Benoit Smagghe
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
"Biophysical and Biochemical Characterization of Hexacoordinate
Hemoglobins"
Abstract
April 12
Jeff Lawrence
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
"How Bacterial Cell Biology Controls the Rate of Lateral
Gene Transfer"
April 19
Daniel Binkowski
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
"Kinetic Studies of Bacterial and Human SAICAR Synthetase"
Abstract
April 25 - Special BBMB Faculty Candidate Seminar
Ramesh Nair
Associate Scientist
Plant Sciences Institute
Iowa State University
"Recent Advances in the Biochemistry of Lignin and Phenolic acid Biosynthesis in Plants."
April 26
Xing Wang
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
"An HRas Internalization Pathway Mediated by Arf6-associated
Endosomes"
May 3
Justin Hines
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University
"Allosteric Regulation of Mammalian and Bacterial Fructose-1,
6-bisphosphatases"
