Biochemistry & Molecular Biology dept. Seminars 2007-2008

Seminar Listing for 2008-2009

Seminars are held Wednesdays at 4:00 pm in DRC 468 unless otherwise noted.


Date	Speaker	Title
	Wendell H. Griffith Memorial Lecture
Aug. 27, 2008	Jorge E. Galán, Ph.D. Professor Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine Yale University School of Medicine	"Interactions of Salmonella with its host cell"
Sep. 3, 2008	Philip Coffino, M.D., Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology University of California, San Francisco	"Proteasome Power and Processivity: Designer Substrates that Test the Limits"
Sep. 10, 2008	Rupak Datta, Ph.D. Dept. of Biochemistry & Mol. Biology Saint Louis University	"ER stress and apoptosis inducing properties of Carbonic anhydrase IV mutans implicated in autosomal dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa"
Sep. 17, 2008	Xianlin Han, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Internal Medicine Washington University	"A story of cardiolipin in diabetic cardiomyopathy told by shotgun lipidomics"
Sep. 24, 2008	Katherine Ponder, M.D. Professor Division of Hematology Dept. of Internal Medicine Washinton University	"The Pathogenesis of Aortic Disease in Mucopolysaccharidosis"
Oct. 1, 2008	L. Vijaya Mohan Rao, Ph.D. Professor of Biochemistry Center for Biomedical Research University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler	"Endothelial Cell Protein C Receptor: Receptor for Factor VIIa?"
Oct. 8, 2008	William A. Banks, M.D. Professor Dept. of Internal Medicine -- Geriatrics VA Hospital -- John Conchran Saint Louis University	"Enzyme Replacement: Overcoming the Blood-brain Barrier"
Oct. 13, 2008	Fernanda Laezza, M.D., Ph.D. Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology University of Texas Medical Branch	"Intracellular fibroblast growth factors are novel regulatorsof neuronal activity"
Oct. 15, 2008	Keith D. Wilkinson, Ph.D. Professor of Biochemistry Emory University School of Medicine	"Scope and Significance of Deubiquitination"
Oct. 22, 2008	Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D. Chairman & Professor Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology Albert Einstein College of Medicine	"Cryptococccus neoformans: a pathogen in black and white"
Oct. 29, 2008	David MacAlpine, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Duke University Medical Center	"Establishing the DNA replication program, where do I begin?"
Nov. 5, 2008	Jeffrey Milbrandt, M.D., Ph.D. Professor Pathology and Immunology Washington University School of Medicine	"Pds5 Mutations cause developmental abnormalities and CdLS"
Nov 12, 2008	James W. Kronstad, Ph.D. Director Michael Smith Laboratories University of British Columbia	"Iron and the regulation of virulence in the AIDS-associated pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans"
Nov 19, 2008	Frank Costantini, Ph.D. Dept. Genetics & Development Columbia University Medical Center	"Control of branching morphogenesis during kidney development"
Dec 3, 2008	Gerd Blobel, M.D., Ph.D. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	"Navigating through chromatin:regulation of hematopoietic development by transcription factor GATA-1"
Dec 10, 2008	Shivendra D. Shukla, Ph.D. Margaret Proctor Mulligan Professor Dept. of Medical Pharmacology & Physiology University of Missouri, Columbia	"Emerging role of epigenetics in the cellular actions of ethanol in liver"
Jan.21, 2009	Hartmut Weiler, Ph.D. Ziegler Family Chair for Research BloodCenter of Wisconsin Blood Research Institute Milwaukee, WI	"Blood Coagulation and Innate Immunity"
Jan.28, 2009	David Ornitz, M.D., Ph.D. Alumni Endowed Professor & Head Dept. of Developmental Biology Washington University School of Medicine	"Myocardial Development and Coronary Vasculogenesis: Regulation by FGF, HH and VEGF"
Feb. 4, 2009	Daniel Finley, Ph.D. Dept. of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School	"Regulation of Proteasome Activity"
Feb. 11, 2009	Cynthia M. Dupureur, Ph.D. Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Missouri, St. Louis	"Biophysical Approaches to Metallonuclease Mechanism"
Feb. 18, 2009	Henrik G. Dohlman, Ph.D. Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics University of North Carolina	"Mining the essential genome for novel regulators of G protein and MAPK signaling in yeast"
Feb. 25, 2009	Paul Glaser, M.D., Ph.D. Dept. of Pediatrics University of Kentucky, College of Medicine	"Subsecond Glutamate Recordings: Implications for ADHD"
March 4, 2009	Shaker Mousa, Ph.D., MBA, Professor of Pharmacology Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences	"Nutraceuticals-to-pharmaceuticals-to nanopharmaceuticals: A case study in angiogenesis modulation"
March 11, 2009	David Fushman, Ph.D. Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Maryland	"The polyubiquitin signal from the structural perspective: conformation, dynamics, and receptor recognition"
April 1, 2009	Maga Rowicka, Ph.D. Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX	"High-resolution timing of the cell cycle-regulated gene expression"
April 8, 2009	Yuri B. Schwartz, Ph.D. Dept. of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Rutgers University	"Genome programming by Polycomb and Trithorax Proteins"
April 15, 2009	Susan C. Bock, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Bioengineering and Medicinal Chemistry University of Utah	"A new antithrombin isoform with distinct mass transport properties facilitated the switch to double cirulatory systems in tetrapods."
April 29, 2009	William B. Rizzo, M.D. Professor Dept. of Pediatrics University of Nebraska Medical Center	"Molecular and biochemical pathogenesis of Sjogren-Larson Syndrome"
May 13, 2009	Daniel M. Raben, Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Biological Chemistry & Physiology & Oncology Johns Hopkins University	"TBA"
May 20, 2009	Victoria Brown-Kennerly, Ph.D. Department of Genetics Washington University	"TBA"
May 27, 2009	Umesh R. Desai, Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry Virginia Commonwealth University	"TBA"
	Robert E. Olson Lecture
June 29, 2009	Eric Olson, Ph.D. Professor & Chairman Dept. of Molecular Biology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX	"TBA"