2010-2011 Archive

Date/Location

HostDivision

Invited Speaker

Host Faculty

Wed, Sept. 8
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
RB

Dr. Steven Kliewer, University of Texas, Dallas Texas

Nuclear Receptors and Endocrine FGFs: From Feast to Famine.

Michel Sanders

Wed, Sept. 15
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
Dagley Lecture

Dr. John Roth, University of California, Davis, CA

A molecular view of natural selection: Understanding high-speed adaptation.

Jeff Gralnick & Claudia Schmidt-Dannert

*Thurs, Sept. 16
*105 Cargill
*St. Paul
4-5 PM
Dagley Lecture

Dr. John Roth, University of California, Davis, CA

Pathways of genetic change: Three stories about gene copy number changes.
-- Origin of gene duplications, origins of new genetic functions, origins of cancer.

Jeff Gralnick & Claudia Schmidt-Dannert

Wed, Sept. 22
 

 No Seminar

BMBB

Wed, Sept. 29
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
Graduate Faculty Nominee

Dr. Clay Carter, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Department of Biology

Towards an understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying nectar synthesis and secretion.

BMBB

Wed, Oct. 6
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
Graduate Faculty Nominee

Dr. Kirill Martemyanov, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Department of Pharmacology

Regulation of G protein Signaling in Neurons.

BMBB

Wed, Oct. 13
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
MB

Dr. David Russell, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Gene Targeting with AAV Vectors.

Eric Hendrickson

Wed, Oct. 20
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
MBB

Dr. Andrei Kuzminov, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

How to kill a cell without it even noticing: the mystery of thymine starvation.

Arkady Khodursky

Wed, Oct. 27
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
SBB

Dr. A. Joshua Wand, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

The dark energy of proteins: Conformational entropy and its contribution to molecular recognition by proteins.

Gianluigi Veglia

Wed, Nov. 3
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM

RB

Dr. Sergio Lavandero, University of Chile

Search of new actions and signaling mechanisms for insulin and IGF-1 in the heart.

David Bernlohr

Wed, Nov. 10
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
MBB

Dr. Ameeta Kelekar, University of Minnesota, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

  Kylie Walters

 

Wed, Nov. 17
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
MB

Dr. Stuart LeGrice, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD

Examining the Dynamics of Reverse Transcription by Single Molecule Spectroscopy.

Reuben Harris

Wed, Nov. 24
 

No Seminar

 
Wed, Dec. 1
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
SBB

Dr. Seth Robia. Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL

The Motions and Interactions of Ion Pumps in Living Cells.

David Thomas

Wed, Dec. 8
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
RB

Dr. David Chan, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Mitochondrial dynamics and mtDNA stablity.

Do-Hyung Kim

Wed, Dec. 15
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM

Faculty Candidate

Seminar

Dr. David Good, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Development of Quantitative Pathway Analysis and its Application to Drug Target and Biomarker Identification and Characterization.

 BMBB Dept.
Thurs, Dec 16
6-135 Jackson Hall
9 AM

Faculty Candidate

Chalk Talk

Dr. David Good, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

BMBB Dept.

Wed, Dec. 22
 

No Seminar

 
Wed, Dec. 29
 

No Seminar

 
Wed, Jan. 5
 

No Seminar

 
Wed, Jan. 12
   
Wed, Jan. 19
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM

Faculty Candidate

Seminar

Dr. Jeongsik Yong, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Global profiling of RNA-protein interaction networks: from Spinal Muscular Atrophy to Apoptosis.

BMBB Dept.

Thur, Jan 20
6-101 Nils Hasselmo Hall
9 AM

Faculty Candidate

Chalk Talk

Dr. Jeongsik Yong, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

BMBB Dept.

Wed, Jan. 26
2-137 Jackson Hall
4- 5 PM

Faculty Candidate

Seminar

Dr. Nicola Neretti, Brown University, Providence, RI

A systems biology approach to the study of aging.

BMBB Dept.
Thurs, Jan. 27
6-101 Nils Hasselmo Hall
9 AM

Faculty Candidate

Chalk Talk

Dr. Nicola Neretti, Brown University, Providence, RI

BMBB Dept.
Wed, Feb. 2
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM

Faculty Candidate

Seminar

Dr. Rosemary Braun, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD

Spectral Clustering for Pathway Analysis of Gene Expression Data.

BMBB Dept.
Thurs, Feb.3
6-101 Nils Hasselmo Hall
9 AM

Faculty Candidate

Chalk Talk

Dr. Rosemary Braun, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD

BMBB Dept.
Wed, Feb. 9
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM

Faculty Candidate

Seminar

Dr. Sina Ghaemmaghami, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Proteome Dynamics: Global Analysis of Protein Translation and Turnover

BMBB Dept.
Thurs, Feb. 10
6-101 Nils Hasselmo Hall
9 AM

Faculty Candidate

Chalk Talk

Dr. Sina Ghaemmaghami, University of California, San Francisco, CA

BMBB Dept.
Wed, Feb. 16
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
SBB

Dr. Philip Anfinrud, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Watching proteins as they function with ultrashort x-ray pulses.

Carrie Wilmot

Wed, Feb. 23
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
Goldberg Lecture

Dr. Pere Puigserver, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Signaling Control of Mitochondrial Bioenergetics Through the PGC1 Pathway.

David Bernlohr

Wed, March 2
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
MB

Dr. Fred Perrino, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

Managing DNA and RNA to prevent autoimmune disease.

Reuben Harris

Wed, March 9
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
MB

Dr. Polina Shcherbakova, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE

Mutator DNA polymerases, genome instability and cancer.

Anja-Katrin Bielinsky

Wed, March 16
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
SBB

Dr. Enrique De La Cruz, Yale University, New Haven, CT

How cofilin severs an actin filament: Insights from biochemistry and mechanics.

David Thomas

Wed, March 23
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
SBB

Dr. Amy Rosenzweig, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Biological methane oxidation

Carrie Wilmot

Wed, March 30
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
 

Dr. Robert Bambara, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY

RNA Structures Directing Recombination that Evolves HIV-1.

Lou Mansky

Wed, April 6
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
MB

Dr. Dorothy Shippen, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX

A tale of two telomerases: duplication of RNP components and novel modes of enzyme regulation in Arabidopsis.

Eric Hendrickson

Wed, April 13
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
 

Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Deborah Ferrington

Wed, April 20
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
2010 Boyer-Peter Award Recipient

Dr. Larry Masterson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

2010 Boyer-Peter Award Recipient

BMBB Dept.

 

Wed, April 27
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
MBB

Dr. David Rudner, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Remodeling the cell envelope during growth and differentiation.

Arkady Khodursky

Wed, May 4
2-137 Jackson Hall
4-5 PM
MB

Dr. Xiaolan Zhao, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

SUMO, heavy weight guardian of the genome.

Anja-Katrin Bielinsky

Fri, May 13
Mayo Auditorium
1-5 PM

Poster

Bollum Symposium

Dr. Michael Fried, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Dr. Ioulia Rouzina, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Dr. Mark C. Williams, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

David Bernlohr