Dr. Michael Hecht, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University

Synthetic Biology: From Protein Design to Artificial Genomes

Burckhard Seelig

Dr. Lewis Kay, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto

Seeing the Invisible by Solution NMR Spectroscopy

Ian Armitage

Dr. Ivaylo Nikolaev Ivanov, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University

Integrative Modeling of Protein/DNA Complexes at the Replication Fork

Dr. David Millar, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute

Assembly and Conformational Dynamics of Nucleic Acid-Protein Complexes Probed at the Single-Molecule Level

Dr. Daniel Harki, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota

Reactive Natural Products and Small Molecule Analogues with Interesting Biochemical Applications

 Reuben Harris

Dr. Yong Xiong, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

HIV Suppression by Host Restriction Factors and Viral Immune Evasion

 Reuben Harris

Dagley Seminar

Dr. Frances Arnold, Professor, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Design by evolution: engineering biology in the 21st century

Claudia Schmidt-Dannert

Dagley Seminar

Dr. Frances Arnold, Professor, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Enzyme Engineering by Structure-guided Recombination

Claudia Schmidt-Dannert

Dr. Gustavo Caetano-Anolles, Professor, Department of Crop Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

Burckhard Seelig

Dr. David Kwiatkowski, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: Clinical Features, Genes, Mouse Models, and Cancer

 Do-Hyung Kim

Dr. Gia Voeltz, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder

The Role of ER Shape and Dynamics in Regulating Inter-organelle Contacts

 Kylie Walters

Dr. P. Darrell Neufer, Professor, Departments of Physiology & Kinesiology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University

Insulin Sensitivity from a Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Redox Biology Perspective

 David Bernlohr

 David Bernlohr

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Dr. Bryan Fonslow, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

Affinity-based approaches to uncover biological significance with gunshot proteomics

Faculty Candidate Chalk Talk

Dr. Bryan Fonslow, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Dr. Jason Held, The Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA

Redox analysis and targeted PTM characterization: An integrated mass spectrometric and biological approach

Faculty Candidate Chalk Talk

Dr. Jason Held, The Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Dr. Laurie Parker, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Biosensors for biomarkers--measuring kinase activity using chemical biology

Faculty Candidate Chalk Talk

Dr. Laurie Parker, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Dr. Erin Green, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Expanding the methylome: Defining novel lysine methylation events in epigenetic and cellular signaling pathways

Faculty Candidate Chalk Talk

Dr. Erin Green, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Graduate Faculty Nominee

Dr. Hinh Ly, Associate Professor, Veterinary Bioscience, University of Minnesota

Structure-function analysis of Lassa viral nucleoprotein involved in virus replication and host immune evasion

Dr. Rahul Kohli, Assistant Professor, Medicine and Biochemistry & Biophysics, Perleman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Immunologic and Epigenetic Diversity Accessed Through Targeted DNA Modifying Enzymes

 Reuben Harris

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Dr. Yue Chen, University of Chicago, IL

Discovery and Proteomic Characterization of Protein Posttranslational Modification Pathways

 Dept.

Faculty Candidate Chalk Talk

Dr. Yue Chen, University of Chicago, IL

Dr. Rafael Brüschweiler, George Matthew Edgar Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry & NHMFL, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

From Protein Dynamics to Function by NMR and Computation

 Gianluigi Veglia

Goldberg Lecture

Dr. Sheila Collins, Professor, Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, Diabetes and Obesity Research Center

Converging cyclic nucleotide second messengers regulate fat metabolism

 David Bernlohr

Dr. Jane Tao, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University. Houston TX

Orthomyxovirus Ribonucleoprotein Complex

Dr. Josh Baker, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, School of Medicine, Reno, NV

Muscle Contraction and Regulation: From Single Molecules to Cells

 David Thomas

Dr. Richard Baxter, Assistant Professor in Chemistry, Yale University

Immunity and fertility in Anopheles gambiae: new molecular targets for malaria control

 Gianluigi Veglia

Dr. Neil Hunter, Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis

Roles of ubiquitin-like proteins in the designation and implementation of crossover recombination during mammalian meiosis

 Eric Hendrickson

Dr. Brandt Eichman, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University

Structural biology of Mcm10, an essential component of the eukaryotic DNA replisome

 Anja Bielinsky

Dr. Rommie E. Amaro, Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, Irvine

Enabling Chemical Discovery through the Lens of a Computational Microscope

 Reuben Harris

11:00 am- 5:00 pm

Bollum Symposium