Tuesday, Dec 14, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Gerhard Giebisch, Sterling Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 
"Renal Potassium Channels: Function, Regulation and Structure"
Lecture Series on "Membrane Transport"

Thursday, Dec 9, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Seth Alper, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
"Chloride Bicarbonate Exchange"  
Lecture Series on "Membrane Transport"

Tuesday, Dec 7, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Nancy Carrasco, Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, AECOM, Bronx, NY
"From Molecule to Function and Pathophysiology: The Unveiling of the Iodide Transporter"
Lecture Series on "Membrane Transport"

Tuesday, Nov 30, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Jacqueline Gulbis, Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Molecular Neurobiology & Biophysics, Rockefeller University, New York, NY
"Structure of A Voltage-Dependent Potassium Channel Beta Subunit"  

Monday, Nov 22, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Yaoqi Zhou, Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
"Toward an Understanding of Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Protein Folding"

Thursday, Nov 18, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Simin Maleknia, Instructor, Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, AECOM
"Synchrotron Radiation and Mass Spectrometry: A Radical Approach to Probe Protein Structure on Millisecond Timescale"

Tuesday, Nov 16, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Peter Agre, Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 
"The Aquaporin Water Channels" 
Lecture Series on "Membrane Transport"

Thursday, Nov 11, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Ah-Lim Tsai, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas, Houston Medical School, Houston, TX
"Prostaglandin H Synthase; Self Activating and Sef-Inactivating Enzyme" 
Hosted by Dr. Gary Gerfen

Thursday, Oct 28, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Hoby Hetherington, Scientist, Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
"In vivo NMR Studies of Human Brain Metabolism and Function" 
Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Thursday, Oct 21, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Kelvin Chu, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
"Structures, Function and Dynamics: Crystal Structure of a New Ligand-Binding Intermediate in Carbonmonoxy-Myoglobin" 
Hosted by Dr. Joel Friedman

Friday, Aug 6, 1999 (10:30 am; Forchheimer Building, Cardiology Conference Room-G40)
Dr. John Pilbrow, Department of Physics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
"EPR Spectroscopy - What We Know, What We Don't Know and What We May Never Know!"
Hosted by Dr. Jack Peisach

Thursday,  Jun 21, 1999 (8:00 am to 5:00 pm; Riklis Auditorium)
Lecture Series on "From Molecules to Man"----Lasers and Biology---
Dr. M.A. El-Sayed, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; "What Really Happens Immediately after Light Absorption by Retinal in Bacteriarhodopsin"
Dr. C.J. Bustamante, Univ. of Cal. at Berkeley; "Following DNA Replication One Molecule at a Time"
Dr. H.B. Gray, Cal. Inst. of Tech.; "Laser Triggered Electron Tunneling in Proteins"
Dr. J. Greeve, Univ. of Twente; "Raman Microscopy of Lymphocytes"
Dr. M.S. Feld, Mass. Inst. of Tech.; "Spectral Diagnosis"
Dr. J.A. Parrish, Harvard Medcal School; "How will Laser Technology Influence Helth Care in the Future"
Introduced by Dr. Denis Rousseau and Moderated by Dr. Joel Friedman and Dr. M. Fried.
All are welcome

Thursday, May 27, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. David Chandler, Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
"Hydrophobicity on Small and Large Length Scale: Two Faces of Water"
Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

Wednesday, May 26, 1999 (10:30 am; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Peter Lansbury, Center for Neurological Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Boston, MA
"Ordered Protein Aggregation in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases"
Lecture Series on "Linear Polymers"
Discussion Group and Workshop at 1:00-2:00 pm in Dean's Conference Room, Students and Post-Docs Especially Invited
Hosted by Dr. Robin Briehl

Monday, May 24, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Masahiro Kono, Brandeis University, Department of Biochemistry, Waltham, MA
"Probing the Structure and Function of Visual Pigments"

Thursday,  May 20, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. George B. Richter-Addo, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
"Binding of NO and Organic Nitroso Compounds to Synthetic Metalloporphyrins"
Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Thursday, May 13, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. John Spudich, Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Medical School Health Science Center, Houston, TX
"The Two Rhodopsin Families in Nature"
Hosted by Dr. Shahid Khan

Monday, May 10, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Bettina Winckler, Yale University, Department of Cell Biology, New Haven, CT
"Maintaining Differential Membrane Protein Distribution in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons: A Diffusion Barrier at the Axonal Initial Segment"

Thursday, May 06, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Amy McGough, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry 
"Regulation of the Actin Cytoskeleton by ADF / Cofilin: A New Twist"

Thursday, Apr 29, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Robert B. Silver, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 
"How do Cells Make Decisions? Regulation of the Calcium Signal Essential for Nuclear Envelope Breakdown"
Hosted by Dr. Shahid Khan

Monday, Apr 26, 1999 (1:00 pm; Ullmann Building, Room 623)
Dr. Renate Lux, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 
"Time-Resolved Study of PTS-Mediated Chemotaxis Response"

Monday, Apr 22, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Ira Ropson, Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Biological Chemistry, Hershey, PA
"The Folding of Structurally Similar b-Sheet Proteins"
Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Monday, Apr 19, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Nils Walter, University of Vermont, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Burlington, VT
"Discreeting the Reaction Pathway of the Catalytic RNA, the Hairpin Ribozyme"

Tuesday, Apr 6, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Shinya Yoshikawa, Deaprtment of Life Science, Himeji Institute of Technology, Japan
"X-ray Structure and Reaction Mechanism of Bovine Heart Cytochrome c Oxidase"
Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Thursday, Mar 18, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. F. W. Dahlquist, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
"A Structural and Dynamic View of Signal Transduction in Bacteria"
Hosted by Dr. Shahid Khan

Thursday, Mar 11, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Martin Lawrence, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School
"The Crystal Structure of the Ectodomain of Human Transferrin Receptor: Insights in Receptor Mediated Endocytosis and Iron Transport"
Hosted by Dr. Phil Aisen

Thursday, Feb 25, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Daniel Peisach, Department of Biological Chemistry,  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
"Crystallographic Study of the Molecular Mechanism of D-amino Acid Aminotransferase"
Hosted by Dr. Beatrice Wittenberg

Thursday, Feb 18, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. John Feder, Progenitor, Inc. Menlo Park, CA
"The Hemochromatosis Gene Product, HFE and Celluar Ion Homeostasis"
Hosted by Dr. Phil Aisen

Thursday, Jan 28, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Hagan Bayley, Department of Medical Biochemistry & Genetics,  Colege Station, Texas
"Functional Membrane Proteins by Design"
Hosted by Dr. Alan Finkelstein

Thursday, Jan 21, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Myles Akabas, Department of Physiology,  Columbia University, New York
"The GABA-A Receptor Channel: Probing the Structural Bases for its Functional Properties"
Hosted by Dr. Alan Finkelstein

Thursday, Jan 14, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Paul M. Horowitz, Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas
"The Role of Hydrophobic Surfaces in Chaperonin Assistanted Protein Folding"
Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Thursday, Jan 7, 1999 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Michael A. Adams, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Department of Urology and Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario
"Alternate Roles for Nitric Oxide in Circulatory Hemodynamics"
Hosted by Dr. George Christ

Monday, Jan 4, 1999 (1:00 pm; 623 Ullmann Building)
Dr. Victor L. Schuster, Department of Medicine, Einstein / Montefiore Unified Division of Nephrology
"Alternate Roles for Nitric Oxide in Circulatory Hemodynamics"

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