Date/Location | Host Division | Invited Speaker | Host Faculty |
Wed, Sept 3 | Grad Faculty Candidate | Dr. Louis Mansky, Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Minnesota HIV therapeutics: viral mutagenesis and novel drug targets. | BMBB Dept. |
Wed, Sept 10 | Grad Faculty Candidate | Dr. Edgar Arriaga, Chemistry Dept., University of Minnesota Investigating the roles of Giant | BMBB Dept. |
Wed, Sept 17 | RB | Dr. Paul Pilch, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA Adipocyte caveolae and lipid metabolism. | David Bernlohr |
Wed, Sept 24 | BMBB - P&T | Dr. Timothy Griffin, University of Minnesota New Discoveries in Cancer and Cellular Regulation Via Interdisciplinary Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics. | BMBB Dept. |
Wed, Oct 1 | MB | Dr. Anthony Schwacha, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA MCM2-7: A complicated helicase. | Anja Bielinsky |
Wed., Oct 8 | MB | Dr. Saba Valadkhan, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Probing into the Dark Matter of the Genome: Lessons from Spliceosome and Neurogenesis. | Reuben Harris |
Wed, Oct 15 | Dagley Lecture | Dr. Stephen Withers, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Sugars are good for you: their roles as therapeutics. | BMBB Dept. |
Thur, Oct 16 | Dagley Lecture | Dr. Stephen Withers, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Engineering and evolution of old enzymes for new tasks: glycoside assembly. | BMBB Dept. |
Wed, Oct 22 | SB | CANCELLED! Dr. Celia Schiffer, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA Combating Drug Resistance: Lessons from HIV-1 Protease. | Hiroshi Matsuo |
Wed, Oct 29 | MB | Dr. Scott Dehm, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota | Michel Sanders |
Tues, Nov 4
| Lerner Lecture | Dr. Bernhard Hering, Dept. Surgery, University of Minnesota | David Bernlohr |
Wed, Nov 12
| MB | No Seminar | |
Mon, Nov 17 | Henderson Lecture | Dr. Jose M. Ordovas Genome-guided nutrition: fact or fancy | FScN |
Wed, Nov 19 | SB | Dr. Yuri L. Lyubchenko, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE Molecular Mechanism of DNA Recombination. Insight from the Single Molecule Studies. | Hiroshi Matsuo |
Wed, Nov 26 | No Seminar | ||
Wed, Dec 3 | Grad Faculty Candidate | Dr. Zigang Dong, University of Minnesota, Hormel Institute, Austin, MN Molecular Mechanism of UV-Induced Skin Cancer. | BMBB |
Wed, Dec 10 | 2008 Boyer-Peter Award recipient | Dr. Nathaniel Traaseth (Veglia Lab) Membrane Protein Structure Determination by Solid-State NMR. | Gianluigi Veglia |
Wed, Dec 17 |
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Wed, Dec 24 |
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Wed, Dec 31 |
| No Seminar |
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Wed, Jan 7 |
| No Seminar |
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Wed, Jan 14 |
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Wed, Jan 21 | MBB | Dr. Maria Sunnerhagen, Linköping University, Sweden Ubiquitination and Antibody Binding in Sjögrens Disease: Molecular Regulation of E2-E3 Recognition. | David Bernlohr |
Wed, Jan 28 | RB | Dr. Mondira Kundu, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN Ulk1 and Autophagy in Mitocjondrial Clearance: Using Reticulocytes as a Model. | Do-Hyung Kim |
Wed, Feb 4 | SB | Dr. Mei Hong, Iowa State University, Ames, IA Structure and Dynamics of the Influenza M2 Protein in Lipid Bilayers from Solid-State NMR. | Gianluigi Veglia |
Wed., Feb 11 | Graduate Faculty Nominee | Dr. Meri Firpo, University of Minnesota | Anja-Katrin Bielinsky |
Wed, Feb 18 | MB | Dr. Marvin P. Wickens, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI mRNA Regulation Finding Partners and Making Memories. | Vivian Bardwell |
Wed, Feb 25 | Goldberg Lecture | Dr. Peter Roach, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN Glycogen, and old dog new trick? From multisite protein in phosphorylation to glycogen phosphorylation to Lafora disease. | Alex Lange |
Wed, Mar 4 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | 2008 Boyer-Peter Award Recipient | Dr. Elena Harjes (Matsuo Lab) Extended Structure of the APOBEC3G Catalytic Domain. | Hiroshi Matsuo |
Wed, Mar 18 | Spring Break | No Seminar |
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Wed, Mar 25 | SB | Dr. P. Andrew Karplus, Oregon State University, Corvillas, OR | Doug Ohlendorf |
Wed, Apr 1 | MB | Dr. John Petrini, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York City, NY Genetic Analysis of Chromosome Break Metabolism. | Eric Hendrickson |
Wed, Apr 8 | RB | Dr. Edwin Chapman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Nanomechanics of Ca2+-triggered Membrane Fusion. | Jim Ervasti |
Wed, Apr 15 | 2008 Boyer-Peter Award recipient | Dr. Naixia Zhang (Walters Lab) NMR Studies of Ubiquitin Receptors: S5a and Rpn13. | Kylie Walters |
Wed, Apr 22 |
| Dr. Andrej Sali, University of California, San Francisco, CA | Carrie Wilmot |
Wed, Apr 29 | MB | Professor Matthias Gotte, McGill University, Montreal, CA Counteracting Resistance to Nucleosiden Analogue Inhibitors of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase.
| Reuben Harris |
Wed, May 6 | Bollum Symposium | Dr. Brenda Bass, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Dr. Ronald Breaker, Yale University, New Haven, CT Dr. Simon Wain-Hobson, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France Dr. Michael Neuberger, university of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK | MB |