Department of

Biochemistry

BIOCHEMISTRY Seminar sERIES

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, November 11, 2010

Vlad Denic, Ph.D.

Asst. Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Harvard U.

Title:  TBA

 

Thursday, December 2, 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, December 9, 2010

Mei Hong, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Chemistry

Iowa State U.

Title:  Integrated Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins by Solid-State NMR:

           Beyond High-Resolution Structures

 

Thursday, December 16, 2010

David Zenisek, Ph.D.

Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Yale U. School of Medicine

Title:  TBA

 

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Shohei Koide, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

U. of Chicago

Title:  TBA

 

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Graeme Davis, Ph.D.

Albert BowersProfessor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics

U. of California, San Francisco

Title:  Balance in the Brain:

           Homeostatic Control of Neural Function

 

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Steven Smith, Ph.D.

Professor and Director, Dept. of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Stony Brook U.

Title:  Membrane Protein Folding and Misfolding:

           Structural Insights into Retinitis Pigmentosa and Alzheimer's Disease

 

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Samuel Hess, Ph.D.

Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

U. of Maine

Title:  TBA

 

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Briana Burton, Ph.D.

Asst. Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Harvard U.

Title:  TBA

 

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Michael Root, M.D., Ph.D.

Asst. Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Thomas Jefferson U.

Title:  TBA

 

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Judith Frydman, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Biology and BioX Program

Stanford U.

Title:  TBA

 

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Tom Rapoport, Ph.D.

Professor of Cell Biology and HHMI Investigator

Harvard Medical School

Title:  TBA

 

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Villu Maricq, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Biology and Neurology

U. of Utah

Title:  TBA

 

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Richard Cerione, Ph.D.

Goldwin Smith Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Cornell U.

Title:  TBA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 5, 2010

Edward Egelman, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

U. of Virginia

Title:  Polymorphic Protein Polymers:

        Implications for Evolutionary Divergence

 

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Youxing Jiang, Ph.D.

Dept. of Physiology

U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Title:  TBA

 

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Robert Stroud, Ph.D.

Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry

U. of California

Title:  To and Through the Biological Membrane

 

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Gerhard Wagner, Ph.D.

Elkan Blout Professor, Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Harvard Medical School

Title:  TBA

 

Monday, March 7, 2011

Chris Dobson, Ph.D.

Dept. of Chemistry

U. of Cambridge

Title:  TBA

 

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Elena Conti, Ph.D.

Director, Dept. of Structural Cell Biology

Max Planck Institute

Title:  TBA

 

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Tom Steitz, Ph.D.

Sterling Professor of MB&B and Professor of Chemistry

Yale U.

Title:  TBA

 

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Gabriel Waksman, Ph.D.

Courtauld Professor of Biochemistry and Professor of Structural Molecular Biology

Birkbeck College and University College, London

Title:  TBA