Weill Cornell Department of Biochemistry

Unless noted, all seminars are held in the Biochemistry Library, Rm. E115 at noon.
All are welcome!

Thursday, September 18, 2008
Alexander Sorkin, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center @ Fitz
Title: Endocytosis of EGF Receptor and Dopamine Transporter:
Biological Functions and Unexpected Similarity of Mechanisms

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Reid Gilmore, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Title: Distinct Roles for Mammalian Oligosaccharyltransferase Isoforms in N-glycosylation of Proteins

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Gabriel H. Travis, M.D.

Professor, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Biological Chemistry

Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA School of Medicine

Title: New Insights into the Retinoid Cycle for Regenerating Opsin Visual Pigments

Thursday, October 23, 2008

James R. Goldenring, M.D., Ph.D.

Paul W. Sanger Professor of Surgery

Professor, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology

Vanderbilt University

Title: Regulation of Membrane Recycling by Rabs and Class V Myosins

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Sergio Grinstein, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist, Dept. of Cell Biology

The Hospital for Sick Children

Title: Signaling Phagocytosis: Lipid Metabolism and Surface Charge

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Stuart Kornfeld, M.D.

Professor of Medicine

Washington University Medical School

Title: New Insights into the Man-6-P Lysosomal Enzyme Targeting System from Mouse Models

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Mark Donowitz, M.D.

LeBoff Professor of Medicine

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Title: Regulation of the Brush Border Na/H Exchanger NHE3: How a Transporter Works, a Story of Regulatory Complexes and Cytoskeleton

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Gilbert Di Paolo, Ph.D.

Asst. Professor, Dept. of Pathology & Cell Biology

Columbia University Medical Center

Title: PIP2 Signaling at the Neuronal Synapse:

From Normal Physiology to Pathology

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Vinzenz Unger, Ph.D.

Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry

Yale University

Title: Mechanism of Membrane Remodeling by F-BAR Domains

PAST SEMINARS
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Carlos B. Hirschberg, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Boston University Medical Center
Title: Novel Regulation of Posttranslational Modifications
in the Golgi Apparatus: From Basic Science to Diseases
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Anthony Bretscher, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology
Associate Director, Cornell Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology
Cornell University - ITHACA
Title: Regulation of the Cell Cortex by ERM Proteins and Their Friends
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Mani Ramaswami, Ph.D.
Professor and Science Foundation of Ireland Investigator
Smurfit Institute of Genetics &
Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience
Title: Gene Expression in Synapse and Circuit Plasticity
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Patrick Loria, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry
Yale University
Title: Biophysical Characterization of Functional Enzyme Motions
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Sandra K. Lemmon, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Title: Dynamics of Clathrin-dependent Endocytosis
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Arun Radhakrishnan, Ph.D.
SPECIAL SEMINAR
Dept. of Molecular Genetics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Title: Protein Sensors for Membrane Sterols
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Linton Traub, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology & Physiology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Title: Why Does AP-2 Bind So Many Partners?
Making Sense of the Endocytic Clathrin Interaction Network
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Peter Scheiffele, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
Title: Mechanisms of Neuronal Synapse Formation

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Pietro De Camilli, M.D.
The Nina W. Werblow Visiting Lecturer
Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology
Investigator, HHMI
Yale University School of Medicine
Title: Endocytosis and Phosphoinositide Signaling
Sponsored by: The Nina W. Werblow Charitable Trust
The Weill Auditorium, C200, 4p
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Scott D. Emr, Ph.D.
Director, Cornell Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology
Cornell - ITHACA
Title: Sorting Out Receptor Downregulation:
Getting To Know Your ESCRTs
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Julie Forman-Kay, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Molecular Structure and Function
Hospital for Sick Children
Title: Probing the Structural and Binding Properties
of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins by NMR
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Kevan M. Shokat, Ph.D.
The Alton Meister Lectureship
Professor and Vice-Chair, Dept. of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
University of California, San Francisco
Title: Chemical Genetic Analysis of Kinase Signaling Pathways
The Weill Auditorium, C200, 4p
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Todd R. Graham, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences
Vanderbilt University
Title: Flippases and Vesicle-mediated Protein Transport
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Sonia M. Najjar, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Diabetes & Endocrine Research (CeDER)
University of Toledo College of Medicine
Title: Cellular Basis of Diet-induced Obesity
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Dennis J. Thiele, Ph.D.
George Barth Geller Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Duke University Medical Center
Title: Moving Copper Across Membranes in Growth,
Development and Signaling
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Homme Hellinga, Ph.D.
Dept. of Biochemistry
Duke University Medical Center
Title: Computational Protein Design
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Prof. Roger Schneiter
Dept. of Medicine Unit for Biochemistry
University of Fribourg
Title: Sterol Homeostasis in Yeast