Seminar Archive

January 3

Mattias Buck
Case Western Reserve University
Physiology & Biophysics
"Using NMR to characterize interactions of a receptor with small GTPases.  The Rac1/Rnd1 binding domain of human plexin-B1 & its role in axon guidance"

Mark Foster

January 10
160 Meiling Hall

Ah-Lim Tsai
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
"Why does nitric oxide synthase need tetrahydrobioprotein for catalysis?"

Russ Hille

January 17

Gerard Wright
McMaster University
Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences
"Genomic Enzymology in Antibiotic Resistance and Discovery"

Dehua Pei

January 24
co-sponsored
OSBP/MCDB

Andrew Herr
University of Cincinnati
Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry & Microbiology
"Structural insights into signaling by members of the leukocyte receptor cluster"

Chuck Bell

January 31

Junghuei Chen
University of Delaware
Chemistry & Biochemistry
"The roles of Rad54 & p53 in human homologous recombination"

Zucai Suo

February 7

Joe Schoeniger
Sandia National Laboratory
Dept. of Biosystems Research
"Probing Membrane Protein Structure and Dynamics using Chemical Cross-linking & Mass Spectroscopy:  Progress Towards New Methods of Measuring Inter-residue Distance Distributions"

Kevin Fiala

February 14
co-sponsored
OSBP/MCDB

Carlo Croce
Ohio State University
Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics Human Cancer Genetics Program

Tien-Hsien Chang

February 21

Jun Qin
Baylor College of Medicine
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
"Industrializing Pathway Discovery with Proteomics"

Dongping Zhong

February 28

Zhong Yin Zhang
Indiana University School of Medicine
Chairman, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
"Chemical Biology and Protein Tyrosine Dephossphorylation"

George Wang

March 7

Bertrand Garcia-Moreno
Johns Hopkins University
Biophysics
"Electrostatic effects in the protein interior:  exposing the failures of structure-based calculations"

Dongping Zhong