Department of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biophysics
FALL
2007
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DECEMBER
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2008
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NO SEMINAR
No SEMINAR
TBA
Christopher Janetopoulos, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
Asst. Prof. of Biological Sciences
"Cellular Polarity During Chemotaxis and Cytokinesis: A Conserved Mechanism"
Host. Eric Greene
Antoine Van Oijen, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
"Under the Hood of the Replisome: A Single-Molecule View of DNA Replication"
Jason Lieb, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Biology
"Chromatin and Transcription in Yeast, Worms, and Humans"
Dr. Stephen C. Blacklow
Harvard Medical School
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Pathology
TBA
NO SEMINAR
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Claudio O. Gualerzi
University of Camerino
Prof.of Molecular Biology, Department of Biology MCA
Binding, dissociation and conformational dynamics of ribosomal ligands during initiation of mRNA translation in bacteria
Host: Dr. Max Gottesmabn
Bruce Stillman, Ph.D.
President, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"Control of the chromosome cycle in human cells by the origin recognition complex"
Host:
NO SEMINAR
Ashby Morrison
Univ. of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
"Activities of a Chromatin-Remodeling Complex during DNA Damage Responses"
Host: Dr. Oliver Hobert
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Georg Seelig
California Institute of Technology
"Nucleic acid logic circuits for programming biology"
Host: Dr. Richard Mann
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Ivan Ahel
Cancer Research UK, Clare Hall Laboratories
"FHA domain proteins in DNA repair and checkpoint regulation"
Host: Dr. Richard Mann
Paul R. Selvin, Ph.D.
University of Illinoise
Prof., Physics and Biophysics
"FIONA on Kinesin, in vitro and in vivo"
Host: Dr. Eric Greene
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Yamini Dalal
Fred Hutchinson Research Center
Basic Science Division
"How the Centromere got its Groove"
Host: Dr. Richard Mann
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Cynthia Wolberger, Ph.D.
HHMI, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Prof., Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
"Regulation by Lysine Modification: Mechanisms of Sir2 Deacetylation and Polyubiquitin Chain Assembly"
Host: Dr. Eric Greene
Special Seminar - 12 Noon, 301 HHSC
Nizar Batada
Dept. of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
"Epigenetic noise in genome evolution"
Host: Dr. Richard Mann
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Gregory Gilmartin
Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
University of Vermont
"Poly(A) site recognition and alternative mRNA 3’ processing"
Host: Dr. Steve Goff
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Bing Li
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Senior Research Assoc.
"ReSETting Transcribed Chromatin: the Set2-Rpd3S pathway"
Host: Dr. Richard Mann
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Kenneth Marians, Ph.D.
Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Center
Program Chairman and Dean, Molecular Biology
"Mechanisms of Replication Restar"
Susan Lindquist
Professor of Biology,
Whitehead Institute, MIT
TBA
Host: Dr. Eric Greene
Siegfried Hekimi, PhD
Department of Biology
McGill University
"Testing theories of aging with worms and mice yields surprises"
Paul Modrich, Ph.D.
HHMI, Duke University
Prof., Biochemistry
"Human DNA mismatch repair: what we've learned about how it works"
Host: Dr. Eric Greene
Gebhard F X Schertler
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
"Structure of a Beta 1 Adrenergic Receptor:Progress in obtaining recombinant G protein Coupled Receptor Structures"
Host: Fillipo Mancia