2011-2012 Archive

 

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

Dagley Lecture

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

Dagley Lecture

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
SBBDr. Rafael P. Brüschweiler, George Matthew Edgar Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Flordia State UniversityGianluigi 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

Bollum Symposium

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