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, September 8, 2011

Jayne Raper, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences

Hunter College of CUNY

Title:  Pore Forming Antimicrobial High-density Lipoprotein:

           The Good Cholesterol?

 

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Gia Voeltz, Ph.D.

Asst. Professor, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

U. of Colorado - Boulder

Title:  How Interorganelle Contacts are Regulated by ER Shape and Dynamics

 

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Mark Lemmon, Ph.D.

Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics

U. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Title:  New Lessons in Regulation of the EGF Receptor Family

 

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Lois Weisman, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology

Research Professor in the Life Sciences

U. of Michigan

Title:  Roles of Phosphatidylinositol 3,5 Bis Phosphate,

           A Lipid with Unexpected Links to Neurodegenerative Disease

 

Thursday, December 1, 2011

David Zenisek, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Yale U. School of Medicine

Title:  Exploring Synaptic Transmission using Light:  Imaging and Photo-Destruction

          

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Samuel Hess, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Institute for Molecular Biophysics

U. of Maine

Title:   Localization-Based Superresolution Imaging of Biological Systems

 

Friday, December 16, 2011

Craig Blackstone, M.D., Ph.D.

Senior Investigator, Neurogenetics Branch, NINDS Director, NIH MD-PhD Partnership Training Program

NIH

Title:   Bent Out of Shape:  ER Network Defects in the Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias

 

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Ryan Hibbs, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science U.

Title:   Structure and Mechanism of an Inhibitory Neurotransmitter Receptor

 

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Mark Philips, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology & Pharmacology

Associate Director for Basic Science, NYU Cancer Institute

NYU School of Medicine

Title:  Ras Trafficking and Signaling

 

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Gilbert Di Paolo, Ph.D.

Asst. Professor, Dept. of Pathology & Cell Biology

Columbia

Title:  A Lipid-centric and Cell Biological View of Alzheimer's Disease:

           Lessons from Lipidomics

 

Friday, February 3, 2012

Yoav Henis, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology

Tel Aviv U.

Title:  TGF-ß and BMP Receptors:

            Distinct Modes of Oligomeric Interactions and Implications for Signaling

 

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Harold A. Scheraga, Ph.D.

Todd Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

Cornell U.

Title:  The Protein Folding Problem:

         Structure, Dynamics, Thermodynamics, and Folding Pathways

 

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Erik Jorgensen, Ph.D.

Investigator, HHMI Professor, Dept. of Biology

U. of Utah

Title:  Revisiting Heuser and Reese in the 21st Century

 

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Tom Kirchhausen, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology

Harvard Medical School/IDI

Title:  Dynamics of Endocytosis

 

Thursday, March 22, 2012

William Wickner, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry

Dartmouth Medical School

Title:  Membrane Fusion:

           5 lipids, 4 SNAREs, 3 chaperones, 2 nucleotides, and a Rab, Dancing in a Ring!

 

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Keith Weninger, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics

North Carolina State U.

Title:  Synaptic Protein Conformations and Dynamics Observed with Single Molecule FRET

 

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Edwin Chapman, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience

U. of Wisconsin

Generic Title:  Ca2+ Sensors for Neuronal Exocytosis

 

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Richard Cerione, Ph.D.

Goldwin Smith Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Cornell U.

Title:  Cdc42:  Some New and Unexpected Discoveries or A Tale of Two Biologies

 

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Daniel P. Raleigh, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Chemistry

SUNY @ Stony Brook

Title:  Amyloid Formation by Natively Unfolded Proteins

 

 

 

 

 

 

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, September 27, 2011

James Hurley, Ph.D.

Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Structural Biology & Cell Signaling Section

NIDDK, National Institute of Health

Title:  Nipped in the Bud:

        The Strange Ways that ESCRTs Sever Membranes

 

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

David Agard, Ph.D.

HHMI Investigator, Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics

U. of California, San Francisco

Title:  The Structure and Mechanism of the Hsp90 Molecular Chaperone:

           A Ubiquitous Facilitator of Cellular Signaling

 

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Nenad Ban, Ph.D.

Professor, Structural Molecular Biology

Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics, Switzerland

Title:  The Structure of the Eukaryotic Ribosome and Implications for the Regulation of Protein Synthesis

 

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Ronald Vale, Ph.D.

Professor & Vice-Chair, Dept. of Cellular Molecular Pharmacology

Investigator, HHMI

U. of California, San Francisco

Title:  Biophysical Mechanisms of T-Cell Receptor Signaling

 

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Wah Chiu, Ph.D.

Alvin Romansky Professor, Biochemistry

Baylor College of Medicine, Texas

Title:  Seeing Protein Folding Machines at Different Biochemical States by Cryo-EM

 

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Elena Conti, Ph.D.

Director, Dept. of Structural Cell Biology

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

Title:  Molecular Mechanisms of RNA Decay

 

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D.

Howard Hughes Investigator

Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

U. of California, Berkeley

Title:  Mechanisms of RNA-mediated Gene Regulation

 

TUESDAY DATE TO BE DETERMINED

Greg Winter, Ph.D.

Deputy Director, Laborataory of Molecular Biology

Medical Research Council, London

Title:  TBD