Seminars in Year 2003

Thursday, Dec 11, 2003  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Paul Carey, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
"Raman Crystallography"
Hosted by Dr. Syun-Ru Yeh

Thursday, Dec 4, 2003  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Eileen Jaffe, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Biomolecular Structure and Function, Philadelphia, PA
"A Novel Structural Basis for Allosteric Regulation by Magnesium" 
Hosted by Dr. Jack Peisach

Thursday, Nov 20, 2003  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Hans Schelvis, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY
"The Effect of UV-damaged DNA Binding to Photolyase on the Electronic Properties of the Active Site and on Electron Transfer Reactions" 
Hosted by Dr. Laura Juszczak

Thursday, Sept 4th, 2003  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Elizabeth C. Theil, Senior Scientist, CHORI, Oakland, CA
"Protein Pore Unfolding and mRNA Combinations in Ferritin - More New Twists" 
Hosted by Dr. Phil Aisen

Thursday, July 17, 2003  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, Board of Overseers)
Dr. Robert Poole, Professor, the University of Sheffield, Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Sheffield, UK
"The Hydra-like Functions of Bacterial Hemoglobins" 
Hosted by Dr. Syun-Ru Yeh

Thursday, Jun 12, 2003  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Thomas Walz, Assistant Professor, Harvard University, Department of Cell Biology, Boston, MA
"The Structure of the Transferrin Receptor - Transferrin Complex as Determined by Single Particle Electron Microscopy" 
Hosted by Dr. Philip Aisen

Thursday, May 22, 2003  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Brian Crane, Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Ithaca, NY
"Structure and Activity of Bacterial Nitric Oxide Synthase" 
Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Thursday, May 15, 2003  (1:30 pm; Dean's Conference Room)
Dr. Juan Lopez-Garriga, Professor, University of Puerto Rico, Department of Chemistry, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
"Structural Events and Technological Applications of Hemoglobins Ligand Complexes from Lucina Pectinata" 
Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Thursday, May 8, 2003  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, Board of Overseers)
Dr. Jonathan Scholey, Professor, University of California at Davis, Department of Cell Biology, Davis, CA
"Microtubule-based Motility during Mitosis" 
Hosted by Dr. David Sharp

Thursday, March 20, 2003  (10:00 am; Forchheimer Building, Board of Overseers)
Dr. Larry Tobacman, Professor, University of Iowa, Internal Medicine and Biochemistry, Iowa City, IA
"Thin Filament Structure and the Regulation of Cradiac Contraction" 
Hosted by Dr. Jil Tardiff

Thursday, March 20, 2003  (10:00 am; Forchheimer Building, Board of Overseers)
Dr. Claudio Margulis, Research Associate, Columbia University, Department of Chemistry, New York, NY 
"Ground and Excited State Dynamics in Biology: the Condense Phase and Clusters" 
Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

Monday, March 17, 2003  (10:00 am; Ullmann 322)
Dr. George Kaminsky, Associate Professor, Central Michigan University, Department of Chemistry, Mt. Pleasant, MI 
"A Robust Way of Simulating Proteins and Predicting Acidity Constants with Polarizable Force Fields Derived from Quantum Mechanical Data" 
Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

Friday, March 14, 2003  (10:00 am; Ullmann 322)
Dr. Alfredo Cardenas, Research Associate, Cornell University, Department of Computer Science, Ithaca, NY 
"Kinetics of Cytochrome c Folding: Atomically Detailed Simulations" 
Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

Monday, March 10, 2003  (10:00 am; Ullmann 322)
Dr. Ruxandra Dima, Research Associate, University of Maryland, Institute of Physical Sciences & Technology, College Park, MD
"Surprising Instabilities in Proteins Associated with Mad Cow Disease: Evidence from NMR Structures and Sequence Alignments" 
Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

Friday, March 7, 2003  (10:00 am; Ullmann 322)
Dr. Victor Guallar, Research Associate, Columbia University, Department of Chemistry, New York, NY 
"Active Site Biochemistry: The Importance of the Environment"  
Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

Thursday, March 6, 2003 (1:30 pm; Dean's Conference Room)
Dr. Stan Burgess, Research Associate, University of Leeds, School of Biomedical Sciences, Leeds, UK 
"Dynein Structure and Power Stroke"  
Hosted by Dr. Hernando Sosa

Thursday, Jan 23, 2003  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, Board of Overseers)
Dr. Barbara Ehrlich, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Yale University, New Haven, CT
"Intracellular Calcium Regulation of the InsP3 Receptor from both Sides"  
Hosted by Dr. Alan Finkelstein

 

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