Date/Location | HostDivision | Invited Speaker | Host Faculty |
Wed, Sept. 7 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | RB | Dr. Michael Kyba, Lillehei Heart Institute, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Stem cell self-renewal in development, disease and therapy. | Do-Hyung Kim |
Wed, Sept. 14 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | MB | Dr. John Trainer, Dept. of Molecular Biology and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, La Jolla, CA | Reuben Harris |
Wed, Sept. 21 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | 2011 Boyer/Peter Award Recipient | Dr. Tata Gopinath, Veglia Lab, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Methodological Developments in Solid State NMR: Application to Membrane Proteins. | Dept. |
Wed, Sept. 28 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | SBB | Dr. Wei Yang, Lab of Molecular Biology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD DNA Repair: from human disease to molecular mechanism. | Hideki Aihara |
Wed, Oct. 5 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | RB
| Dr. James Ntambi, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI Role for Skin Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase -1 in Obesity and Diabetes. | David Bernlohr |
Wed, Oct. 12 Mayo Auditorium 4-5 PM | Dr. Jack Szostak, Simches Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA The Origin of Cellular Life. | Burckhard Seelig | |
Thurs, Oct. 13 105 Cargill, St. Paul 4-5 PM | Dr. Jack Szostak, Simches Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Towards Self-Replicating Genetic Polymers. | Burckhard Seelig | |
Wed, Oct. 19 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | MB | Dr. Lorraine Symington, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY Mechanism and regulation of DNA double-strand break processing. | Eric Hendrickson |
Wed, Oct. 26 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | SBB | Dr. John Gross, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA Host factors that whip HIV Vif into shape and promote viral infectivity. | Hiroshi Matsuo |
Wed, Nov. 9 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | MB | Dr. Karlene Cimprich, Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA Mechanisms for Maintaining Genome Stability. | Alex Sobeck |
Wed, Nov. 16 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | RB | Dr. William Brieher, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois Biochemical dissection of cadherin-actin interactions. | Jim Ervasti |
Wed, Nov. 30 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | SBB | Dr. Diane Lidke, SOM Pathology Department, University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Albuquerque, NM Diffusion, dimerization and domains: sinlge quantum dot tracking to correlate membrane receptor dynamics with signaling. | David Thomas |
Wed, Dec. 7 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | RB | Dr. Diane Fingar, Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI Regulation of mTORC1 signaling via site-specific phosphorylation of mTOR and raptor. | Do-Hyung Kim |
Wed, Dec. 14 105 Cargill, St. Paul 4-5 PM | Dr. William Blaner, Department of Nutritional Medicine, Columbia University Retinoid Storage and Signaling: Biology and Pathobiology in Liver and Pancreas. | Dept. | |
Wed, Jan. 18 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | RB | Dr. Daniel D. Billadeau, Department of Immunology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Division of Oncology Research and Developmental Experiments Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Retrieve-Reuse-Recycle-Repeat: Retromer-Dependent Receptor Trafficking is Coordinated by the WASH Regulatory Complex | Do-Hyung Kim |
Wed, Jan. 25 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | MB | Dr. Supriya Prasanth, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 'ORC' anization on chromation: linking DNA replication to chromatin organization | Anja Bielinsky |
Wed, Feb. 1 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | RB | Dr. Yingming Zhao, The Ben May Department for Cancer Research, University of Chicago, IL Discovery and characterization of protein modifications pathways using proteomics approaches | Tim Griffin |
Wed, Feb. 8 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | 2011 Boyer/Peter Award Recipient | Dr. Benjamin Perrin, Ervasti Lab, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Actin and fascin isoforms in cellular aging. | Dept. |
Wed, Feb. 15 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | MB | Dr. Mark Bayfield, Dept. of Biology, York University, Toronto, ON Canada La and La-Related Proteins: An Emerging Class of RNA Chaperones | Eric Hendrickson |
Wed, Feb. 22 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | SBB | Dr. Vadim Gaponenko, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL Farnesyl post-translational modification of proteins. To insert into the membrane or to dimerize: that is the question | Gianluigi Veglia |
Wed, Feb. 29 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | Dr. Jackie Corbin, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN Exploring Cyclic Nucleotide Action: Cyclic GMP, Penile Erection, & Viagra | Lincoln Potter | |
Wed, March 7 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | RB | Dr. Jayanta Debnath, Dept. of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, CA Novel Functions for Autophagy During Oncongenic Ras Transformation | Do-Hyung Kim |
Wed, March 21 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | SBB | Dr. Rafael P. Brüschweiler, George Matthew Edgar Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Flordia State University | Gianluigi Veglia |
Wed, March 28 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | MB | Dr. Susan Smith, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY Telomere cohesion and telomerase in human disease | Eric Hendrickson |
Wed, April 4 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | RB | Dr. Reuben Shaw, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA A Moleculat Clock for Timing Movement of DNA Repair Enzymes on DNA | David Bernlohr |
Wed, April 11 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | MB | Dr. James Stivers, John Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD | Reuben Harris |
Wed, April 18 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | MB | Dr. Grant Brown, University of Toronto, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada A Genome-wide View of Protein Dynamics During DNA Replication Stress in S. cerevisiae | Anja Bielinsky |
Wed, April 25 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | SBB | Dr. Tom Hollis | Hiroshi Matsuo |
Wed, May 9 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | RB | Dr. Mitch Lazar, Sylvan H. Eisman Professor of Medicine, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelipha, PA Ups and Downs of the Epigenomic Regulation of Metabolism | David Bernlohr |
Wed, May 16 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM | MB | Dr. Peter Beal, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA | Reuben Harris |
Wed, May 23 Mayo Auditorium 11:00 am- 5:00 pm | Structure, Motion Biomarkers: Discovery through NMR | Dr. Gerhard Wagner, Harvard University Dr. Dorothee Kern, Brandeis University Dr. Jeremy K. Nicholson, Imperial College, London Dr. Chad M. Reinstra, University of Illinois | SBB |