2005-2006 Archive | College of Biological Sciences

2005-2006 Archive

Date/Location	Host Division	Invited Speaker	Host Faculty
Wed., Sept. 7 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	SBB	Dr. David Fushman, University of Maryland Structure, dynamics, and ligand interactions of polyubiquitin chains. Clues to functional diversity of polyubiquitin.	Kylie Walters
Wed., Sept. 14 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	MBB	Dr. Patrick Higgins, University of Alabama, Birmingham Organization of Bacterial Chromosome Domains and their Re-Organization by Transcription	Arkady Khodursky
Wed., Sept. 21 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	RB	Dr. Xiaoli Chen, FScN, University of Minnesota Understanding the Endocrine Role of Adipose Cells in Metabolic Diseases.	David Bernlohr
Wed., Sept. 28 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	MB	Dr. Vinay Pathak, HIV Drug Resistance Program, CCR, NCI, Frederick, MD Mechanisms of HIV-1 Antiviral Drug Resistance and Host Restriction Factor APOBEC3G.	Reuben Harris & Louis Mansky (IMV)
Wed., Oct. 5 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	MBB	Dr. Daniel Bond, University of Minnesota Harnessing abilities of metal-reducing bacteria.	Larry Wackett
Wed., Oct. 12 105 Cargill 4-5 PM	Dagley Lecture	Dr. Perry Frey, University of Wisconsin, Madison A story of hydrogen bonding: The low-barrier hydrogen bond in chymotrypsin.	Larry Wackett
Thur., Oct. 13 105 Cargill 4-5 PM	Dagley Lecture	Dr. Perry Frey, University of Wisconsin, Madison Science and Antiscience.	Larry Wackett
Wed., Oct. 19 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	SBB	Dr. Donald M. Bers, Loyola University in Chicago Regulation of intracellular [Na]: Na/Ca Exchange, Na/K-ATPase and local control	David Thomas
Wed., Oct. 26 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	MB	Dr. Trevor Archer, NIH/DHHS Hormone induced transcription: Where chromatin remodeling and the proteasome meet.	Michel Sanders
Tues., Nov. 1 2-650 Moos Tower 12:20 PM	Lerner Lecture	Dr. Arnold W. Strauss, MD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Cancelled	David Bernlohr
Wed., Nov. 9 3-120 MCB 4:00-5:00 pm	RB	Dr. Jared Rutter, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City Regulated glucose partitioning by PAS kinase.	Do-Hyung Kim
Wed., Nov 16 105 Cargill 4:00-5:00 PM	Henderson Lecture	Dr. Samuel W. Cushman EDMNS, DB NIDDK NIH,Bethesda, MD	Bianca Conti-Fine (BMBB) and Dan Gallaher (FScN)
Wed., Nov. 23		No Seminar
Wed., Nov 30 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	SBB	Dr. Paul R. Carey, Case Western Reserve University The Molecular Basis of Drug Resistance in Beta-Lactamase Enzymes Determined by Raman Crystallography.	Carrie Wilmot
Wed., Dec. 7 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	MB/MBB	Dr. Susan M. Rosenberg, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Those are the breaks: new views of adaptive mutation and spontaneous DNA damage and repair.	Reuben Harris
Wed., Dec. 14 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	RB	Dr. James Ervasti, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dystrophin and utrophin: sequence homologues with distinct functional mechanisms.	David Thomas
Wed. Dec. 21		No Seminar
Wed., Dec 28		No Seminar
Wed., Jan 4		No Seminar
Wed., Jan 11 105 Cargill 12-1 PM	Faculty Search Seminar	Dr. Elizabeth Boon, University of California, Berkeley Ligand selectivity in the H-NOX family: from soluble guanylate cyclase to bacterial nitric oxide sensors	BMBB/BTI Faculty Candidate
Thurs., Jan 12 342 Gortner 9-10 AM	Chalk Talk	Dr. Elizabeth Boon, University of California, Berkeley
Wed., Jan 18 239 Gorther 4-5 PM	Faculty Search Seminar	Dr. Reza Ghiladi, Univertsity of California, San Francisco Mycobacterium tuberculosis Catalase-Peroxidase (KatG): Insights into Isoniazid Resistance Pathways in TB and the Role of the Met-Tyr-Trp Crosslink in Catalysis	BMBB/BTI Faculty Candidate
Thur., Jan 19 342 Gortner 9-10 AM	Chalk Talk	Dr. Reza Ghiladi, Univertsity of California, San Francisco
Wed., Jan 25		No Seminar
Mon., Jan 30 105 Cargill 4-5 PM	Faculty Search Seminar	Dr. Joseph Emerson, University of Minnesota Dioxgen Activation in Mn- and Fe-Dependent Extradiol Dioxygenase Enzymes	BMBB/BTI Faculty Candidate
Tues., Jan 31 342 Gortner 9-10 AM	Chalk Talk	Dr. Joseph Emerson, University of Minnesota
Wed., Feb 1 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	Faculty Search Seminar	Dr. Mark Morais, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Building a dsDNA Bacteriophage: the Pseudoatomic Structore of Phi29	SBB Faculty Candidate
Thur., Feb 2 6-135 Jackson 8:30-9:30 AM	Chalk Talk	Dr. Mark Morais, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Mon., Feb 6 2-137 Jackson 4-5 PM	Faculty Search Seminar	Dr. Gregory J. Miller, NIDDK, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD Specificity and Mechanism in Inositol Signaling: Insights from Structures of Inositol Polyphosphate Kinases.	SSB Faculty Candidate
Tues., Feb 7 6-135 Jackson 8:30-9:30 AM	Chalk Talk	Dr. Gregory J. Miller, NIDDK, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD
Wed., Feb 8 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	Graduate Student- Hosted Seminar	Dr. James J. Manfredi, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY	Laura Antos (Potter Lab)
Thur., Feb 9 2-137 Jackson 4-5 PM	Faculty Search Seminar	Dr. John Pascal, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Anatomy of a mammalian DNA ligase and structural insights into the DNA end-joining reaction.	SBB Faculty Candidate
Fri., Feb 10 6-135 Jackson 8:39-9:30 AM	Chalk Talk	Dr. John Pascal, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Mon., Feb 13 105 Cargill 4-5 PM	Faculty Search Seminar	Dr. Jamie Bacher, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA The Crucial Role of Ambiguity in Genetic Code Evolution.	BMBB/BTI Faculty Candidate
Tues., Feb 14 342 Gortner 9-10 AM	Chalk Talk	Dr. Jamie Bacher, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Wed., Feb 15 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	Goldberg Lecture	Dr. Christopher B. Newgard, Stedman Nutrition Center, Duke University Comprehensive metabolic analysis to identify mechanisms of diabetes and obesity.
Wed., Feb. 22 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	MB	Dr. Anindya Dutta, University of Virginia, School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA	Anja-Katrin Bielinsky
Thur., Feb 23 2-650 Moos 4-5 PM	Faculty Search Seminar	Dr. Roberto Dominguez, Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, MA	SBB Faculty Search
Fri, Feb 24 6-135 Jackson 8:30-9:30 AM	Chalk Talk	Dr. Roberto Dominguez, Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, MA
Wed, Mar 1 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	MB	Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, University of California, Davis Rad54: The Swiss Army Knife of Recombination?	Eric Hendrickson
Thur, Mar, 2 2-137 Jackson 4-5 PM	Faculty Search Seminar	Dr. Stevan Hubbard, Skirball Inst. Biomolecular Med., New York University School of Medicine, NY Structural Basis for Protein Recruitment to the Activated Insulin Receptor.	SSB Faculty Search
Fri, Mar 3 6-135 Jackson 8:30-9:30 AM	Chalk Talk	Dr. Stevan Hubbard, Skirball Inst. Biomolecular Med., New York University School of Medicine, NY
Wed, Mar 8 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	SBB	Dr. James Bardwell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Catalysis of Disulfide Bond Formation Cancelled	Vivian Bardwell
Thur., Mar., 9 2-137 Jackson 4-5 PM	Faculty Search Seminar	Dr. Cheryl Kerfeld, University of California, Los Angeles The Carboxysome: A Case Study in the Structure and Function of Prokaryotic Organelles.	SBB Faculty Search
Fri, Mar., 10 6-135 Jackson 8:30-9:30 AM	Chalk Talk	Dr. Cheryl Kerfeld, University of California, Los Angeles
Wed., Mar., 15		No Seminar
Wed., Mar., 22 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	RB	Dr. Sandra Lobo, BMBB (Bernlohr Lab), Boyer-Peter Award recipient (2005-6) Fatty Acid Influx in Adipocytes: Functional Analysis Using FATP1 Knockdown 3T3-L1 Adipocytes.	David Bernlohr
Wed., Mar. 29 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	MB	Dr. Ellen Fanning, Vanderbilt University/HHMI Choreographing DNA Replication: Structural Mechanisms of a Simple Replication Machine.	Anja-Katrin Bielinsky
Wed., Apr., 12 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	SBB	Dr. Michael Rossmann, Purdue University Tailed Bacteriophages: Structure, Function and Evolution.	Doug Ohlendorf
Wed., Apr., 19 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	MB	Dr. Peter Lansdorp, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Helicase-like Proteins Required to Maintain G-rich DNA in C. elegans and Mice.	Eric Hendrickson
Wed., Apr. 26 3-120 MCB 4-5 PM	RB	Dr. William Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	David Bernlohr
Wed., May 3 2-101 NHH 1:30-5 PM	Bollum Symposium	The Science of Aging Dr. Leonard P. Guarante, MIT, Boston Dr. Holly Van Remmen, University of Texas, San Antonio Dr. Richard A. Miller, University of Michigan Dr. Richard Weindruch, University of Wisconsin	BMBB Dept.