Departmental Seminar 2005

Thursday, Dec 1, 2005 (10:00 am; Forchheimer Building 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. David Pellman, Associate Professor Dana Farber Cancer Institute Department of Pediatrics Boston, MA  
"Cytokinesis, Centrosomes and Cancer"
Hosted by Dr. David Sharp

Thursday, Nov 17, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. David Reeves, Research Associate AECOM Department of Physiology & Biophysics
"Dissecting the Molecular Physiology of the Plasmodium Falciparum Chloroquine Resistance Transporter"

Thursday, Nov 3, 2005 (10:00 am; Forchheimer Building 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Eva Nogales, Associate Professor HHMI/UC Berkeley Department of Molecular & Cell Biology Berkeley, CA 
"The How and Why of Microtubule Dynamic Instability"
Hosted by Dr. Hernando Sosa

Thursday, Nov 3, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Richard L. Ehman, Professor Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Department of Radiology Rochester, MN
"Magnetic Resonance Elastography by Direct Visualization of Propagating Acoustic Shear Waves"
Hosted by Dr. Linda Jelicks

Thursday, Oct 27, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Kristen Johansen, Professor Iowa State University Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology Ames, IA 
"The JIL-1 Kinase Regulates Chromosome Structure in drosophila"
Hosted by Dr. David Sharp

Thursday, Oct 6, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Zahi A. Fayad, Associate Professor Mount Sinai School of Medicine Radiology and Medicine New York, NY 
"Atherosclerotic Plaque Using MRI: Potential Targets and Lipid Based Nanoparticulates as Contrast Carriers"
Hosted by Dr. Linda Jelicks

Thursday, Sept 22, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Neil Theise, Professor  Division of Digestive Diseases, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
"Updates in Stem Cell Research"
Hosted by Dr. Linda Jelicks

Thursday, Sept 15, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Thomas Walz, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology Boston, Harvard Medical School, MA
"Structure of the Aquaporin-O Mediated Membrane Junction"
Hosted by Dr. Olga Zak

Thursday, Sept 8, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Steven S. Rosenfeld, Professor, Division of Neuro-Oncology, Columbia University New York, NY
"What Kinesin Can Teach Us About Myosin, and vice versa"
Hosted by Dr. Hernando Sosa

Wednesday, Aug 17, 2005 (3:00 pm; Ullmann 322)
Dr. Jiang Shoulei, University of Mississippi Medical Center Department of Biochemistry Jackson, MS
"The Valyl-tRNA Synthetase / Elongation Factor 1H Complex: an Example of How a Particle's Personality Affects Isolation and Structural Analysis"
Hosted by Dr. Hernando Sosa

Thursday, Aug 11, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Linda Wordeman, Associate Professor,  Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"The Mechanism, Regulation and Mitotic Function of Microtubule Depolymerizing Kinesins"
Hosted by Dr. David Sharp

Monday, July 18, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Orly Reiner, Associate Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Molecular Genetics Rehovot, Israel
"The Evolving Doublecortin Network"
Hosted by Dr. David Sharp

Friday, Jun 17, 2005  (11:00 am; Ull 919)
Dr. Zhiguo Su, Director, National Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
"Blood Substitutes Research in China"

Hosted by Dr. Belur Manjula

Thursday, Jun 16, 2005  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. David Lefer, Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology,  Louisiana State University
"Endothelian Nitric Oxide Synthase and Nitric Oxide in Ischemia Reperfusion Injury"

Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Thursday, May 26, 2005  (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Hiroshi Matsui, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Hunter College – City University of New York, New York, NY
"Bionanotechnology Approach in Material Synthesis and Device Fabrication by Applying Peptide/Protein Assemblies"

Hosted by Dr. Camille Roche

Tuesday, May 24, 2005  (2:15 pm; 713 Ullmann)
Dr. Paul Slensinger, Assistant Professor, Department of Peptide Biology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA
"Journey Through the Potassium Channel: From Crystals to Drug Addition"
Hosted by Dr. Myles Akabas

Thursday, May 19, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Frank McNally, Associate Professor, University of California, Davis, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Davis, CA
"Mechanisms Driving Asymmetric Cell Division During Female Meiosis"
Hosted by Dr. David Sharp

Thursday, May 12, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Anna Kashina, Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
"Protein Arginylation: A Lifeline to Cell Motility and Embryonic Development"
Hosted by Dr. David Sharp

Thursday, Apr 28, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Ethan Will Taylor, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
"Hidden Genes in RNA Viruses, from HIV to the SARS Coronavirus: Is there a Link to Selenium?"
Hosted by Dr. Linda Jelicks / Dr. Fernando Commodari

Wednesday, Apr 27, 2005 (3:00 pm; 322 Ullmann)
Dr. Jianyong Tang, Department of Physics, Cornell University, New York, NY
"Probing Protein Dynamics and Protein-DNA Interactions by Single Molelcule Fluorescene Detection and Optical Trap Manipulation"
Hosted by Dr. Hernando Sosa

Thursday, Apr 21, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Nico Reyes, Department of Cardiac and Membrane Physiology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY
"Physical Properties of the Na+/K+ ATPase Ion Pathway Revealed by Palytoxin”
Hosted by Dr. Alan Finkelstein

Wednesday,  Apr 20, 2005  (10:30 am; Forchheimer Building, Board of Overseers Room)
Shi Zhong, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, AECOM
"Sub-Millisecond Studies of Protein Folding "
Thesis Seminar (Mentored by Dr. Syun-Ru Yeh and Dr. Denis Rousseau)

Monday, Apr 18, 2005  (10:30 am; Forchheimer Building, 1st Floor Lecture Hall)

Hong Ji, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, AECOM
"Structural Studies of Cytochrome c Oxidase"
Thesis Seminar (Mentored by Dr. Denis Rousseau)

Thursday, Mar 24, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Ronald Birke, Professor, Department of Chemistry, The City College of New York, New York, NY  "The Chemistry of Vitamin B12 Compounds, Nitric Oxide, and the Activation and Deactivation of Methionine Synthase"
Hosted by Dr. Laura Juszczak

Wednesday, Mar 23, 2005 (3:00 pm; 322 Ullmann)
Mariana Gomez Ferreria, Department of Molecular Biology, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
"FOXJ2 and Thyroid Hormone Receptors: A Junior and Two Senior Transcription Factors"
Hosted by Dr. David Sharp

Thursday, Mar 10, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Steve Hagen, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
"Approaching the Diffusion Limit in Fast Protein Folding"
Hosted by Dr. Dan Buster

Thursday, Mar 3, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Yi Lu, Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Chemistry, Urbana, IL
"Designing a Cytochrome c Oxidase: Structural and Kinetic Study of CuA and Heme-CuB Model Proteins"
Hosted by Dr. Denis Rousseau

Thursday, Feb 17, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Uttama Rath, Iowa State University, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Program, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Ames, IA
"A Nuclear Complex of Proteins Reorganize to Form the “Spindle Matrix” during Mitosis"
Hosted by Dr. David Sharp

Thursday, Jan 27, 2005 (1:30 pm; Forchheimer Building, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall)
Dr. Steve Schwartz
“Catalysis in Enzymes-Chemistry in a Really Complicated Condensed Phase, or Dynamic, Evolutionarily Crafted Protein Machines?"  
Hosted by the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, AECOM

 

List of Seminars

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

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