Departmental Seminar 2004

Thursday, Dec 9, 2004  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Blanca Barquera, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
“Sodium Bioenergetics in Vibrio Cholerae: Studies on the Role and Mechanism of the NA+-Pumping NADH:Quinone Oxidoreductase” 
Hosted by Dr. Syun-Ru Yeh

Thursday, Dec 9, 2004  (3:00 pm; 322 Ullmann)
Dr. Andreas Hoenger, Professor, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
“Interactions of MAPs and Motors with Microtubules”  
Hosted by Dr. Hernando Sosa

Thursday, Nov 11, 2004  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Jack Freed, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University Ithaca, NY
"Modern ESR Methods in Studies of Membranes and Proteins" 
Hosted by Dr. Gary Gerfen

Monday, Nov 8, 2004  (12:00 am; 623 Ullmann)
Dr. Jonathan B. Wittenberg, Professor Emeritus, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, AECOM
"Biogenesis of Porphyrins and their Congeners, 1947 Revised"
Hosted by Physiology and Biophysics

Thursday, Oct 21, 2004  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Dahong Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
"Dissecting The Mechanics of Cell Division"
Hosted by Dr. David Sharp


Thursday, Sept 23, 2004  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)

Dr. Max Diem, Professor, Department of Chemistry, CUNY Hunter, New York, NY
"Toward Objective, Machine-Based Histopathology (Optical Diagnosis): Infrared Spectral Imaging of Human Cells and Tissue"
Hosted by Research Associates of the Physiology & Biophysics Department

Thursday, Jul 8, 2004  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, Board of Overseers)

Dr. Giulietta Smulevich, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
"Partly Folded States of Proteins by use of Limitted Proteolysis: a Spectroscopic Studies of Cytochrome c Fragments"
Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Thursday, May 20, 2004  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Michael Bowman, Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

"Motion, Structure and Function of Cytochrome bc1 and Other Enzymes"

Hosted by Dr. Gary Gerfen

Thursday, Apr 22, 2004 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Nicholas Geacintov, Professor and Chairman, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY

"Structure-Function Relationships in the Nucleotide Excision Repair of DNA Adducts"
Hosted by Dr. Laura Juszczak

Tuesday, Mar 30, 2004  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Alexei Stuchebrukhov, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
"Electron and Proton Transport and Biological Energy Transduction"
Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

Monday, Mar 22, 2004   (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Isao Morishima, Professor, Department of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
"Molecular Mechanism of P450cam Catalyzed Oxygenation Reaction Regulated by the Association with Putidaredoxin"
Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Thursday, Mar 11, 2004 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Haydn Ball, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, Dallas, TX
"Engineering the Prion Protein Using Chemical Synthesis and Expressed Protein Ligation"
Hosted by Mr. Eliah Aronoff-Spencer

Thursday, Feb 26, 2004 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Philippe Frank, Instructor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

"Role of Caveolin-1 in the Development of Atherosclerosis”
Hosted by Dr. Linda Jelicks

Thursday, Feb 12, 2004 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Giuseppe Legname, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

"Prion Protein: Function, Toxicity and Therapy"
Hosted by Mr. Eliah Aronoff-Spencer

Thursday, Feb 5, 2004 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. David Green, Research Associate, Biological Engineering Division & Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
"Computational Analysis and Design of Biomolecular Complexes"
Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

Thursday, Jan 22, 2004 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Jeffery G. Saven, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
"Computational Methods for Probabilistic Protein Design"
Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

Thursday, Jan 8, 2004 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Igor Kurnikov, Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

"Theoretical Studies of Biological Electron Transfer Toward Quantitative Description of Enzyme-Catalyzed Oxidation Reduction Reactions"

Hosted by Dr. Steve Schwartz

 

 

List of Seminars

** Other AECOM seminars are posted in the AECOM Calendar of Events

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