Biochemistry 850, Autumn
2007
Irina
Artsimovitch, Department of Microbiology, OSU
Shifting
RNA polymerase into overdrive
September
28
Birgit Alber,
Department of Microbiology, OSU
Enzymology of
the ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway
October 5
Patrice
Hamel, Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology, OSU
Mitochondrial
redox chemistry: A novel flavoprotein involved in cytochrome c maturation
October 12
Dennis Bong,
Department of Chemistry, OSU
Chemical
triggers for biological reactions: Peptide folding and membrane fusion
October
19: No seminar (RRM)
October 26
(Three
undergraduate SURP award recipient presentations: 12 min each)
1. M.
Cochran (PI: Suo): TBA
2. B.
Crowe (PI: Wu): How does Ets interact with Gfi-1 zinc finger domain?
3. L.
Pack (PI: Suo): TBA
November 2
(Two graduate
student presentations: 20 min each)
1. Jason
Lavinder, PhD candidate, OSBP (PI: Magliery): High-throughput
calorimetry: a general, rapid dye-binding screen for protein engineering
2. Xin
Li, PhD candidate, Biophysics (PI: Chan): Structure of the Nitrosomonas europaea Rh protein
November 9
(Two graduate
student presentations: 20 min each)
1. Wen
Yi, PhD candidate, OSBP (PI: Wang): Chemical approaches to understanding
polysaccharide biosynthesis
2. Manoj
Nair, PhD candidate, Biophysics (PI: Dean): Single
mutation in domain II of Cry1Ab blocks insertion of the toxin into the brush
border membrane
November
16
Paul
Gollnick, Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Buffalo (Host: Mark Foster)
RNA-protein
and protein-protein interactions involved in regulating the trp genes of Bacillus subtilis
November
23: No seminar (Thanksgiving)
November
30 (Two graduate
student presentations: 20 min each)
1. Jason
Fowler, PhD candidate, OSBP (PI: Suo): Mechanistic studies of the inhibitory
effect of Gemcitabine on human mitochondrial DNA synthesis
2. Carlos
Amero, PhD candidate, Biophysics (PI: Foster): Solution structure
and dynamics of Cre recombinase
Note: Seminars will be held in 157 Parks Hall (11:30
AM to 12:45 PM).