Thursday, Nov 16, 2000  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Donald M. Kurtz, JR., Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
"Bacterial Non-heme Iron Proteins and Oxidative Stress"   
Hosted by Dr. Joel Friedman

Thursday, Nov 2, 2000  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Steve Schwartz, Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, AECOM
"Enzyme-Simple Catalysts or Machines that do Chemistry"   

Tuesday, Oct 31, 2000  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Maurizio Brunori, Professor, Department of Science Biochemistry, University of Rome "La Sapienza"  Rome, Italy
"Packing Defects, Structural Dynamics and Reactivity in Myoglobin"   
Hosted by Dr. Joel Friedman

Friday, Oct 6, 2000 (11:00 am; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Marten Wikstrom, Professor, University of Helsinki, Institute of Biomedicine,
Finland
"Oxygen Activation and Energy Transduction by Respiratory Enzyme."
Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Monday, Oct 2, 2000 (11:00 am; Dean's Conference Room, Belfer 3rd Floor)
Mr. Rakesh Karmacharya, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, AECOM
"Quantum Mechanical Studies of Proton Transfer in Condensed Phase" 
Thesis Seminar (Advisor: Steven D. Schwartz)

Thursday, Sept 28, 2000  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Seiji Ogawa, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Biological Computation Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
"An Approach to Probe Some Neural Systems Interaction by f-MRI at Neural Time Scale Down to Milliseconds" 
Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Thursday, Aug 17, 2000  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Solomon Starvrov, Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Human Genetics & Molecular Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Band III as a Probe of Hemeprotein Structure and Dynamics"
Hosted by Dr. Joel Friedman

Thursday, Aug 10, 2000  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. William Jacobs, Professor, Deptartment of Microbiology, AECOM
"Mechanism of Isoniazid Resistance in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis "
Hosted by Caroline Lee

Thursday, May 18, 2000  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Sanford A. Asher, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
"UV Resonance Raman Studies of The First Steps in Protein Folding "
Hosted by Dr. Joel Friedman

Thursday, May 11, 2000  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Marie-Alda Gilles-Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Plant Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
"New Heme-Based Sensors in Bacteria and Archaea: Mechanistic and Evolutionary Implications"
Hosted by Dr. Beatrice Wittenberg

Thursday, Mar 30, 2000  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Andrea Mozzarelli, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemical Science, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
"T State Hemoglobin and Cooperativity, An Open Question?"
Hosted by Dr. Joel Friedman

Thursday, Mar 9, 2000  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Anthony D. J. Haymet, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, TX
"Fish 'Antifreeze' Proteins at he Ice / Water Interface"
Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

Monday, Feb 28, 2000  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Marten Wikstrom, Professor, Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland
"Proton Translocation by Respiratory Enzyme"
Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Thursday, Feb 24, 2000  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Murali Chandra, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
"The Unique Features of Cardiac Troponin Subunits"

Thursday, Jan 27, 2000  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Blake Hill, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, PA
"How Does Sequence Specify Structure? Using Protein Design to Study Protein Folding and Structure"

Monday, Jan 24, 2000  (1:30 pm; Belfer 809)
Dr. David Sharp, Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 
"Sliding Filament Mechanisms for Mitosis"

Thursday, Jan 20, 2000  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Judith Hirsch, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY
"Synaptic Intergration of Visual Information in the Cat Cortex in Vivo"

Tuesday, Jan 11, 2000 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Siegfried Musser, Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
"The Delta pH / Tat Machinery: anitiport Coupling of A Proton Gradient to Transport of Folded Proteins"

Thursday, Jan 6, 2000 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Francisco Bezanilla, Professor, Department of Physiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
"The Voltage Sensor in Voltage Dependent Ion Channels"
Lecture Series on "Membrane Transport"

Tuesday, Jan 4, 2000 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Steven A. Siegelbaum, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY
"The Gating of Ion Channels by Cyclic Nucleotides"
Lecture Series on "Membrane Transport"

List of Seminars