Past Seminars
Review the archive of CBSD sponsored seminars.
Academic Year 2021-2022
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Oct. 25, 2021 - Seminar
Speaker:, Head, Laboratory of Molecular andCellular Biophysics,Department of Anatomy and StructuralBiology,Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center,Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Title:Single-Molecule Dissection of Cytoplasmic Dynein Motion and Force Generation
Location/Time:CHEM 212; 4:00 p.m.
Academic Year 2019-2020
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Nov. 8, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker:,Harvard Medical School
Title:Development of a Glycoproteomic Toolkit and its Application to Challenges in Urology(Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Skaggs 169, 11 a.m.
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Oct. 7, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker:,University of Wisconsin
Title:Structure of myeloid-derived growth factor (C19orf10)(Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Chemistry 212, 4 p.m.
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Sept. 30, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker:,University of New Mexico
Title:Dissecting mechanism of conformationally controlled electron transfer in nitric oxide synthases(Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Chemistry 212, 4 p.m.
Sept. 27, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker:,Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title:Genomics and comparative genomics of HIV-1 for vaccine evaluation(Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Academic Year 2018-2019
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April 19, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker:,Bose Institute
Title:Rare conformations involving proline
Location/Time:Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
April 5, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker:,University of California - San Francisco
Title:Friend or foe: the dual nature of tick-borne pathogens(Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
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Feb. 22, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker:,Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Title:Coactivator-nuclear receptorinteraction is synergisticallymodulated by ligand and DNA(Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Feb. 8, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker:,University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title:Leveraging MS-based metabolomics for natural products drug discovery(Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
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Nov. 5, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker:,MarquetteUniversity
Title:Characterization of Short-Lived Intermediates in the Reaction of Synthetic Dioxygenase Models with Dioxygen(Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Chemistry 212, 4:00 p.m.
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Oct. 26, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker:ViniciusM.Gadotti,University of Calgary
Title:Activation of Neuroimmune ResponsesMediateAnxiety-Related and Depressive-like Behaviors Following Acute Colitis (Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Oct. 5,2018- Seminar
Speaker:,North Carolina State University
Title:Incorporating disease data and Interlocus Gene Conversion into evolutionary inference (Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
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Sept. 14, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker:,University of Tokyo
Title:Finding genetic sequence rearrangements in evolution and disease(Hosted by theand)
Location/Time:Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Academic Year 2017-2018
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April 27, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker:,University of New Mexico
Title:Environmental toxicants affect vaccine efficacy: Is there a value in altering the route of immunization(Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Skaggs 169, 12:00 p.m.
April 20, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker:,University of Minnesota
Title:3D Printing Functional Materials & Devices(Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
April 13, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker:, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Title:Applications of multi-omics methods to aid in understanding protein function(Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
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March 5, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker:, University of Rochester
Title:Role of PR domain proteins in cancer: Potential targets for therapy?(Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Chemistry 212 at 4:00 p.m.
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Nov. 17, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker:, University of Delaware
Title:Regulatory roles of microRNAs in early development(Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Nov. 13, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker:,CarneigeMellon University
Title:Spectroscopic and kinetic studies of catalytically versatile nonheme iron enzymes(Hosted by the)
Location/Time:Chemistry 212, 4:00 p.m.
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Oct. 6, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: , University of Washington
Title: How an intracellular pathogen recognizes the host cytosol(Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
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Sept.1, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: ,University of Illinois - Chicago
Title:"Integrated Computational and Experimental Studies on the Structure and Function of Ion Channels"(Hosted by the )
Location:Skaggs 117, 12:00 p.m.
Academic Year 2016-2017
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May 1, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker:, Murray State University
Title:"From RNA-Protein Complexes to Germline Biology: Structure and Function of Germ Granule Nanoparticles inDrosophila"(Hosted by the)
Location:Chemistry 212, 12:00 p.m.
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April 21, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker:, University of Virginia
Title:"The HIV-1 Capsid: Assembly and Restriction by TRIM5alpha" (Hosted by the)
Location:Skaggs Building 169, 12:00 p.m.
April 17, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker:, Stanford University
Title:"Structural insights into herpesvirus entry and neutralization"(Hosted by the)
Location:Chemistry 212, 12:00 p.m.
April 3, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker:Brett Keiper, East Carolina University
Title:"Selective control of mRNA translation in gametes and embryos"(Hosted by the)
Location:Chemistry 212, 4:00 p.m.
April 3, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker:, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
Title:"Uncovering the function of regulatory RNAs in E. coli and the Lyme disease spirochete"(Hosted by theof the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location:Chemistry 212, 12:00 p.m.
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Oct. 28, 2016
Speaker:, University of Colorado
Title:"Applications of Computational Modeling to Biomedical Research" (Hosted by the)
Location:Skaggs Building 169, 12:00 p.m.
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Sept. 26, 2016
Speaker:, Kansas University
Title:"Insights into Metalloenzyme Function from Bio-inspired Manganese Complexes"(Hosted by the)
Location:CHEM 212, 4:00 p.m.
Sept. 9, 2016
Speaker:, University of Oregon
Title:"Physical origins and evolutionary effects of high-order epistasis in genotype-phenotype maps"(Hosted by the)
Location:SB 169, 12:00 p.m.
Academic Year 2015-2016
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May 2, 2016
Speaker:, University of Illinois
Host:
Location:CHEM 212, 4:10 p.m.
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April 25, 2016
Speaker:, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Host:
Location:CHEM 212, 4:10 p.m.
Speaker:, University of Toronto
Host:of the Division of Biological Sciences
Location:ISB 110, 12:10 p.m.
April 18, 2016
Speaker:, University of Kansas
Host:of the Division of Biological Sciences
Location:ISB 110, 12:10 p.m.
April 11, 2016
Speaker:, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Host:of the Division of Biological Sciences
Location:ISB 110, 12:10 p.m.
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March 14, 2016
Speaker:, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Title:"Protein structure determination with solution X-ray scattering data: increasing the accuracy of model selection."(Hosted by the)
Location:CHEM 212, 4:10 p.m.
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Dec. 7, 2015
Speaker:, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title:"Evolution of Cellular Recombination Systems"(Hosted by theof the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location:ISB 110, 12:10 p.m.
Academic Year 2014-2015
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May 4, 2015
Speaker:, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Title:"Treponema denticola, complement dysregulation and periodontal disease" (Hosted by theof the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location:ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
May 1, 2015
Speaker:John Hepler, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology
Title:"RGS14 at the Interface of Hippocampal Signaling and Synaptic Plasticity"(Hosted by the)
Location:Skaggs Building 169 at 12:10 p.m.
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April 20, 2015
Speaker:Andy Borovik, University of California-Irvine, Department of Chemistry
Title:"Synthetic Chemistry as a Window into Biology"(Hosted by the)
Location:CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
April 17, 2015
Speaker:Jon Clardy, Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Title:"Aligning Chemical Ecology and Drug Discovery"(Hosted by the)
Location:Skaggs Building 169 at 12:10 p.m.
April 7, 2015 - President's Lecture Series
Speaker:David Baltimore,President Emeritus, Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology
Title:"Genes as Therapies"(co-sponsored by the Division of Biological Sciences and the Center for Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics)
Location:Dennison Theatre at 8:00 p.m.
Title:"MicroRNAs and Blood Cell Homeostasis"(co-sponsored by the Division of Biological Sciences and the Center for Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics)
Location:Gallagher Business Building 123 at 3:40 p.m.
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Feb. 26, 2015
Speaker:, University of Minnesota, Department of Chemistry
Title:"Peroxodiiron Intermediates of Oxygenases Involved in Cell Proliferation and Chloramphenicol Biosynthesis, and Related Synthetic Models"(Hosted by the)
Location:CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Feb. 2, 2015
Speaker:, University of South Carolina, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Title:"Generation and Reactivity of Transient Cytochrome P450 Oxygen-Containing Intermediates"(Hosted by the)
Location:CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Speaker:, HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Title:"Ultrasonic vocalizations reveal details of mouse social behavior"(Hosted by the& theof the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location:ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
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Jan. 26, 2015
Speaker:, 91Ԫ, Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Title:"Mining for microbial metabolites that inhibit enzyme pathways associated with inflammation and metastasis"(Sponsored bytheof the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location:ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
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Dec. 5, 2014
Speaker:Olga Boudker, Cornell University, Department of Physiology & Biophysics
Title:"Dance Lessons for Proteins: Structures, Dynamics, and Thermodynamics of a Glutamate Transporter Homologue"(Hosted by the)
Location:Skaggs Building 169 at 12:10 p.m.
Dec. 1, 2014
Speaker:, Oregon State University, College of Pharmacy
Title:"Natural Products as Chemical Probes for the Study of Autophagy and Cell Death."(Hosted by the&the)
Location:CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
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Nov. 24, 2014
Speaker:P. Shing Ho, Colorado State University, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:"Halogen bonds: A new paradigm for molecular recognition."(Hosted by the)
Location:CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Nov. 3, 2014
Speaker:, University of British Columbia, Department of Cellular & PhysiologicalSciences
Title:"Identification and functional testing of BMP-dependent genomic enhancers in the Drosophila nervous system."(Hosted by theof the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location:ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
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Oct. 27, 2014
Speaker:Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title:"Genetic conflicts during meiosis and the evolution centromeres and species in Drosophila."(Hosted by theof the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location:ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
Summer 2014
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July 29, 2014
Speaker:Brian Weitzner, Johns Hopkins University
Title:"Next-generation modeling: using all of the above approaches to improve antibody structure prediction."
Location:ISB 110 at 12:00 p.m.
July 24, 2014
Speaker:,Virginia Commonwealth Univeristy, Medical Center
Title:"How Amphetamine Releases Dopamine: Current Models of Drug Abuse"(Hosted by the )
Location:Skaggs Building169 at 11:00 a.m.
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June 22-25, 2014
CBSD faculty led symposia at American Chemical Society: Northwest Regional Meeting (NORM):
Title:Bringing the Protein Structure Initiative to Your Laboratory
Symposia Leader:
Title:Protein Dynamics
Symposia Leader:
Title:Nanomaterials
Symposia Leader:Edward Rosenberg
Title:Bioinorganic
Symposia Leader:Valeriy Smirnov
Title:Physical and Computational, Electron-Transfer, Reactivity, and Relaxation
Symposia Leader:
Title:Organic, Small Forces, Mountainous Outcomes
Symposia Leader:
Spring 2014
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April 21, 2014
Speaker:, Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Title:"Calcium-Triggered Conformational Switching of Calmofulin on Ion Channels"(Hosted by the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Location:CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
April 14, 2014
Speaker:Richard Roller, Microbiology, University of Iowa
Title:"Deterinants of herpes simplex virus spread within the host"(Hosted by of Division of Biological Sciences)
Location:ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
April 11, 2014
Speaker:Dr. Bal Ram Singh, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Massachustts-Dartmouth
Title:"Role of Structure and Dynamics in the Unique Selectivity and Effectiveness of the Most Poisonous Poison - The Botulinum Neurotoxin"(Hosted by the )
Location:Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 a.m.
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March 24, 2014
Speaker:Dr. Wes Sundquist, Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah
Title:"The ESCRT pathway in HIV budding and cell division."(Hosted by of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location:ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
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Feb. 3, 2014
Speaker:Dr. Rohit Pappu, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
Title:"Biophysical complexities of polyglutamine aggregation and implications for Huntington's disease"(Hosted by )
Location:CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
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Jan. 9, 2014
Speaker:, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Tubingen
Title:"Regulating Adenylyl Cyclase activity by extracellular ligands."Special seminar hosted by CBSD.
Location:ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Fall 2013
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Nov. 25, 2013
Speaker:Dr. Fraser Hof, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria
Title:"The supramolecular and medicinal chemistry of post-translational modifications and epigenetics"(Hosted bythe)
Location:CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Nov. 4, 2013
Speaker:,Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Title:"Survival of the Most Cooperative"(Hosted by theof the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 12:10 p.m.
Nov. 1, 2013
Speaker:,Department of Neuroscience,University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title:"The simplest possible theory of allostery in the GABA-A receptor"(Hosted bythe,Co-sponsored bythe)
Location:Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 p.m.
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Oct. 4, 2013
Speaker:Dr. Roger Sunahara,Department of Pharmacology,University of Michigan
Title:"Allosteric modulation of hormone binding by G proteins: unraveling the mechanism underlying high affinity agonist binding"(Hosted by the)
Location:CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
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Sept. 30, 2013
Speaker:,Department of Microbiology,University of Manitoba
Title:"New Developments in the Pathogenesis of Legionnaires' Disease"(Hosted by theof the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location:ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
Sept. 23, 2013
Speaker:,Department of Microbiology,University of Manitoba
Title:"New access to complex glycoconjugates through engineering and evolution of glycosyltransferases and glycosynthases"-(Hosted by the)
Location:CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
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July 19, 2013
Speaker:Dr. Eric Gouaux,Howard Hughes Medical Institute,Vollum Institute
Title:"Molecular choreography of signaling at chemical synapses"(Co-sponsored by the)
Location:Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 a.m.
Spring 2013
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May 2, 2013
Speaker:Dr. Ada Yonath,Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly,Weizmann Institute of Science(Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009)
Title:"The Fruits of Curiosity: the amazing ribosome and its tiny enemies"(Co-sponsored by the )
Location:ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Speaker:Dr. Katie Kindt,Oregon Hearing Research Center,Vollum Institute,Oregon Health & Science University
Title:"Using localized indicators to investigate discrete calcium signals during zebrafish hair-cell development"(Sponsored bythe: CSFNand CBSD)
Location:Skaggs Building 117 at 11:10 a.m.
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April 18, 2013
Speaker:Dr. John Gerdes,Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences,91Ԫ
Title:"Discovery and development of a tool box of PET imaging tracers for in life studies"
Location:ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
April 15, 2013
Speaker:Dr. Abhinav Nath,Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry,Yale University
Title:"Disease-related Self-Assembly of Disordered and Dynamic Proteins: Biophysical Characterization and Pharmacological Modulation"(Sponsored bythe: CSFNand CBSD)
Location:Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 a.m.
April 11, 2013
Speaker:,Department of Bacteriology,University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title:"6S RNA: a small RNA regulator of transcription in bacteria"
Location:ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Speaker:Dr. Kasper Hansen,Department of Pharmacology,Emory University
Title:"Modulation of NMDA receptor function by subunit-selective ligands"(Sponsored bythe: CSFNand CBSD)
Location:Skaggs Building 169 at 1:10 p.m.
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March 29, 2013
Speaker:Dr. Ken Mackie,Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,University of Indiana
Title:“Receptors Gone Wild:CB2 cannabinoid receptor functional selectivityand its implications”(Sponsored bythe)
Location:Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 a.m.
March 28, 2013
Speaker:,Graduate Student,Department of Chemistry,91Ԫ
Title:"Conformational Changes and Dynamics of the Alpha Subunit for Heterotrimeric G Proteins During Receptor Independent Cell Signaling"
Location:ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
March 21, 2013
Speaker:,Division of Biological Sciences,91Ԫ
Title:“Gene regulation in the Lyme disease spirochete”
Location:ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
March 7, 2013
Speaker:Dr. Celestine Thomas,Division of Biological Sciences,Center for Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics,,91Ԫ
Title:“Beauty in Disorder; Mechanism of Receptor independent G-protein activation”
Location:ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
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Feb. 28, 2013
Speaker:,Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering,Montana State University
Title:"Mechanobiology, modeling, and drug delivery for understanding and treating joint disease."
Location:ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Feb. 21, 2013
Speaker:,Department of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine,University of Colorado-Denver
Title:"The untold truth of protein motions and function as revealed by NMR."(Co-sponsored by the )
Location:ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Fall 2012
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Nov. 15, 2012
Speaker:, Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences, 91Ԫ
Title:"The use of enzyme inhibition assays to isolate compounds with anti-inflammatory and anticancer activity from symbiotic bacteria of the human gut."
Location:CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
Nov. 8, 2012
Speaker:Dr. Aseem Z. Ansari, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title:"Engineering Synthetic Gene Switches to Control Cell Fate" (Co-sponosored by - Division of Biological Sciences, 91Ԫ)
Location:CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
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Oct. 25, 2012
Speaker: , Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado - Denver
Title:"Molecular Insight into Epigenetic Regulation"(Co-sponsored by the , 91Ԫ)
Location:CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
Oct. 18, 2012
Speaker:Dr. Jose R. Tusell, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, 91Ԫ
Title:"DFT study of the catalytic core of mammalian adenylyl cyclase"
Location:CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
Oct. 4, 2012
Speaker:Dr. Michael Eck, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University
Title:"Toward development of mutant-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitors: Insights from structural and mechanistic studies of EGFR and Jak kinases"
Location:CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
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Sept. 20, 2012
Speaker:, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia
Title:"New Reactivities and Inhibitors for an Emerging Drug Target: Indoleamine 2,3– Dioxygenase" (Co-sponsored by the , 91Ԫ & the , Montana State University)
Location:CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.