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

*On a separate note, please scroll down for the listing of the Tri-Institutional Structural Biology Seminar Series.*

 

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Peter Juo, Ph.D.

Asst. Professor, Dept. of Physiology

Tufts Medical School

Title:  Regulation of Glutamate Receptor Trafficking in C. elegans by the Ubiquitin Signaling System

 

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Mark von Zastrow, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry

U. of California, San Francisco

Title:  Regulation of Signaling Receptors by Endocytic Membrane Traffic

 

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Gary Schwartz, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Medicine & Neuroscience

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva U.

Title:  Central Nutrient Sensing in the Control of Energy Balance

 

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Jia-huai Wang, Ph.D.

Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Medical Oncology & Cancer Biology

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Harvard Medical School

Title:  Some Unique Features of Protein-protein Interactions on Opposing Cell Surface

 

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Derek Toomre, Ph.D.

Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology

Yale U. School of Medicine

Title:  Multiple Steps of Insulin Action on Glut4 Vesicle Exocytosis

 

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Jonathan Dworkin, Ph.D.

Asst. Professor, Dept. of Microbiology

Columbia University

Title:  Characterization of a Bacterial Flippase

 

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Ramanujan Hegde, M.D., Ph.D.

Sr. Investigataor, Cell Biology and Metabolism Program

NIH

Title:  Regulation of Secretory and Membrane Protein Biosynthesis

 

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Blake Hill, Ph.D.

Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Biology & Chemistry

The Johns Hopkins U.

Title:  Getting Mitochondria in Shape:

A Lethal Mutation in the Mechanoenzyme Drp1 affects its Recruitment and Assembly

 

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Howard Hang, Ph.D.

Asst. Professor, Dept. of Chemical Biology & Microbial Pathogenesis

Rockefeller U.

Title:  Chemical Reporters for Interrogating Lipidated Proteins at the Host-pathogen Interface

 

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Peter Espenshade, Ph.D.

Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology

The Johns Hopkins U. School of Medicine

Title:  SREBP Controls Adaptation to Hypoxia in Fungi

 

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Mark Bowen, Ph.D.

Asst. Professor, Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics

Stony Brook U.

Title:  Single Molecule Approaches to Synaptic Proteins:

A Role for Disorder at the Synapse

 

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Rohit Pappu, Ph.D.

Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Director, Center for Computational Biology

Washington U. in St. Louis

Title:  Biophysical Studies of Polyglutamine Aggregation

 

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Christopher Ross, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology & Neuroscience

Director, Div. of Neurobiology

The Johns Hopkins U.

Title:  Pathogenesis of Neurodegenerative Diseases

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRI-INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES

 

Unless noted, all seminars are held in the Weill Auditorium, 2nd Fl., Rm. C200 at 4p.  All are welcome!

 

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Peter Wright, Ph.D.

Chm. & Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology

Cecil H. & Ida M. Green Investigator

The Scripps Research Institute

Title:  Promiscuous Proteins:  Folding and Interactions of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

 

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Timothy Springer, Ph.D.

Latham Fa. Professor of Pathology

Harvard Medical School

Title:  The Traction Force Model for Integrin Activation

 

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Stephen Harrison, Ph.D.

Giovanni Armenise - Harvard Professor of Basic Biomedical Science

Harvard Medical School

Title:  Pieces of a Yeast Kinetochore

 

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Michael Levitt, Ph.D.

Chm. & Professor, Dept. of Structural Biology

Stanford U.

Title:  The Nature of the Protein Universe

 

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Ning Zheng, Ph.D.

Dept. of Pharmacology

U. of Washington

Title:  Ubiquitin Ligase & Deubiquitinase Machinery in Eukaryotic Biology

 

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - Location:  A250

John Walker, Ph.D.

Medical Research Council

Cambridge, UK

Title:  TBA

 

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Stephen Cusack, Ph.D.

Group Leader & Sr. Scientist

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Grenoble Outstation, France

Title:  TBA