Past Seminars
Review the archive of CBSD sponsored seminars.
Academic Year 2021-2022
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Oct. 25, 2021 - Seminar
Speaker: , Head, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Title: Single-Molecule Dissection of Cytoplasmic Dynein Motion and Force Generation
Location/Time: CHEM 212; 4:00 p.m.
Academic Year 2019-2020
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Nov. 8, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: , Harvard Medical School
Title: Development of a Glycoproteomic Toolkit and its Application to Challenges in Urology (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11 a.m.
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Oct. 7, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: , University of Wisconsin
Title: Structure of myeloid-derived growth factor (C19orf10)(Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Chemistry 212, 4 p.m.
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Sept. 30, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: , University of New Mexico
Title: Dissecting mechanism of conformationally controlled electron transfer in nitric oxide synthases (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Chemistry 212, 4 p.m.
Sept. 27, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title: Genomics and comparative genomics of HIV-1 for vaccine evaluation (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Academic Year 2018-2019
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April 19, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: , Bose Institute
Title: Rare conformations involving proline
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
April 5, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: , University of California - San Francisco
Title: Friend or foe: the dual nature of tick-borne pathogens (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
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Feb. 22, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: , Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Title: Coactivator-nuclear receptor interaction is synergistically modulated by ligand and DNA (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Feb. 8, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: , University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title: Leveraging MS-based metabolomics for natural products drug discovery (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
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Nov. 5, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: , Marquette University
Title: Characterization of Short-Lived Intermediates in the Reaction of Synthetic Dioxygenase Models with Dioxygen (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Chemistry 212, 4:00 p.m.
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Oct. 26, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: Vinicius M. Gadotti, University of Calgary
Title: Activation of Neuroimmune Responses Mediate Anxiety-Related and Depressive-like Behaviors Following Acute Colitis (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Oct. 5, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: , North Carolina State University
Title: Incorporating disease data and Interlocus Gene Conversion into evolutionary inference (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
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Sept. 14, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: , University of Tokyo
Title: Finding genetic sequence rearrangements in evolution and disease (Hosted by the and )
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Academic Year 2017-2018
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April 27, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: , University of New Mexico
Title: Environmental toxicants affect vaccine efficacy: Is there a value in altering the route of immunization (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 12:00 p.m.
April 20, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: , University of Minnesota
Title: 3D Printing Functional Materials & Devices (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
April 13, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Title: Applications of multi-omics methods to aid in understanding protein function (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
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March 5, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: , University of Rochester
Title: Role of PR domain proteins in cancer: Potential targets for therapy? (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Chemistry 212 at 4:00 p.m.
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Nov. 17, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: , University of Delaware
Title: Regulatory roles of microRNAs in early development (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Nov. 13, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: , Carneige Mellon University
Title: Spectroscopic and kinetic studies of catalytically versatile nonheme iron enzymes (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Chemistry 212, 4:00 p.m.
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Oct. 6, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: , University of Washington
Title: How an intracellular pathogen recognizes the host cytosol (Hosted by the )
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
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Sept. 1, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: , University of Illinois - Chicago
Title: "Integrated Computational and Experimental Studies on the Structure and Function of Ion Channels" (Hosted by the )
Location: Skaggs 117, 12:00 p.m.
Academic Year 2016-2017
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May 1, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: , Murray State University
Title: "From RNA-Protein Complexes to Germline Biology: Structure and Function of Germ Granule Nanoparticles in Drosophila" (Hosted by the )
Location: Chemistry 212, 12:00 p.m.
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April 21, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: , University of Virginia
Title: "The HIV-1 Capsid: Assembly and Restriction by TRIM5alpha" (Hosted by the )
Location: Skaggs Building 169, 12:00 p.m.
April 17, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: , Stanford University
Title: "Structural insights into herpesvirus entry and neutralization" (Hosted by the )
Location: Chemistry 212, 12:00 p.m.
April 3, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: Brett Keiper, East Carolina University
Title: "Selective control of mRNA translation in gametes and embryos" (Hosted by the )
Location: Chemistry 212, 4:00 p.m.
April 3, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: , University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
Title: "Uncovering the function of regulatory RNAs in E. coli and the Lyme disease spirochete" (Hosted by the of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: Chemistry 212, 12:00 p.m.
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Oct. 28, 2016
Speaker: , University of Colorado
Title: "Applications of Computational Modeling to Biomedical Research" (Hosted by the )
Location: Skaggs Building 169, 12:00 p.m.
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Sept. 26, 2016
Speaker: , Kansas University
Title: "Insights into Metalloenzyme Function from Bio-inspired Manganese Complexes" (Hosted by the )
Location: CHEM 212, 4:00 p.m.
Sept. 9, 2016
Speaker: , University of Oregon
Title: "Physical origins and evolutionary effects of high-order epistasis in genotype-phenotype maps" (Hosted by the )
Location: SB 169, 12:00 p.m.
Academic Year 2015-2016
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May 2, 2016
Speaker: , University of Illinois
Host:
Location: CHEM 212, 4:10 p.m.
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April 25, 2016
Speaker: , University of Toronto, Mississauga
Host:
Location: CHEM 212, 4:10 p.m.
Speaker: , University of Toronto
Host: of the Division of Biological Sciences
Location: ISB 110, 12:10 p.m.
April 18, 2016
Speaker: , University of Kansas
Host: of the Division of Biological Sciences
Location: ISB 110, 12:10 p.m.
April 11, 2016
Speaker: , Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Host: of the Division of Biological Sciences
Location: ISB 110, 12:10 p.m.
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March 14, 2016
Speaker: , Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Title: "Protein structure determination with solution X-ray scattering data: increasing the accuracy of model selection." (Hosted by the )
Location: CHEM 212, 4:10 p.m.
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Dec. 7, 2015
Speaker: , University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: "Evolution of Cellular Recombination Systems" (Hosted by the of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110, 12:10 p.m.
Academic Year 2014-2015
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May 4, 2015
Speaker: , Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Title: "Treponema denticola, complement dysregulation and periodontal disease" (Hosted by the of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
May 1, 2015
Speaker: John Hepler, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology
Title: "RGS14 at the Interface of Hippocampal Signaling and Synaptic Plasticity" (Hosted by the )
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 12:10 p.m.
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April 20, 2015
Speaker: Andy Borovik, University of California-Irvine, Department of Chemistry
Title: "Synthetic Chemistry as a Window into Biology" (Hosted by the )
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
April 17, 2015
Speaker: Jon Clardy, Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Title: "Aligning Chemical Ecology and Drug Discovery" (Hosted by the )
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 12:10 p.m.
April 7, 2015 - President's Lecture Series
Speaker: David Baltimore, President Emeritus, Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology
Title: "Genes as Therapies" (co-sponsored by the Division of Biological Sciences and the Center for Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics)
Location: Dennison Theatre at 8:00 p.m.
Title: "MicroRNAs and Blood Cell Homeostasis" (co-sponsored by the Division of Biological Sciences and the Center for Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics)
Location: Gallagher Business Building 123 at 3:40 p.m.
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Feb. 26, 2015
Speaker: , University of Minnesota, Department of Chemistry
Title: "Peroxodiiron Intermediates of Oxygenases Involved in Cell Proliferation and Chloramphenicol Biosynthesis, and Related Synthetic Models" (Hosted by the )
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Feb. 2, 2015
Speaker: , University of South Carolina, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Title: "Generation and Reactivity of Transient Cytochrome P450 Oxygen-Containing Intermediates" (Hosted by the )
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Speaker: , HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Title: "Ultrasonic vocalizations reveal details of mouse social behavior" (Hosted by the & the of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
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Jan. 26, 2015
Speaker: , Ñý¼§Ö±²¥, Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Title: "Mining for microbial metabolites that inhibit enzyme pathways associated with inflammation and metastasis" (Sponsored by the of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
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Dec. 5, 2014
Speaker: Olga Boudker, Cornell University, Department of Physiology & Biophysics
Title: "Dance Lessons for Proteins: Structures, Dynamics, and Thermodynamics of a Glutamate Transporter Homologue" (Hosted by the )
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 12:10 p.m.
Dec. 1, 2014
Speaker: , Oregon State University, College of Pharmacy
Title: "Natural Products as Chemical Probes for the Study of Autophagy and Cell Death." (Hosted by the & the )
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
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Nov. 24, 2014
Speaker: P. Shing Ho, Colorado State University, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title: "Halogen bonds: A new paradigm for molecular recognition." (Hosted by the )
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Nov. 3, 2014
Speaker: , University of British Columbia, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Title: "Identification and functional testing of BMP-dependent genomic enhancers in the Drosophila nervous system." (Hosted by the of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
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Oct. 27, 2014
Speaker: Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title: "Genetic conflicts during meiosis and the evolution centromeres and species in Drosophila." (Hosted by the of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
Summer 2014
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July 29, 2014
Speaker: Brian Weitzner, Johns Hopkins University
Title: "Next-generation modeling: using all of the above approaches to improve antibody structure prediction."
Location: ISB 110 at 12:00 p.m.
July 24, 2014
Speaker: , Virginia Commonwealth Univeristy, Medical Center
Title: "How Amphetamine Releases Dopamine: Current Models of Drug Abuse" (Hosted by the )
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 11:00 a.m.
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June 22-25, 2014
CBSD faculty led symposia at American Chemical Society: Northwest Regional Meeting (NORM):
Title: Bringing the Protein Structure Initiative to Your Laboratory
Symposia Leader:
Title: Protein Dynamics
Symposia Leader:
Title: Nanomaterials
Symposia Leader: Edward Rosenberg
Title: Bioinorganic
Symposia Leader: Valeriy Smirnov
Title: Physical and Computational, Electron-Transfer, Reactivity, and Relaxation
Symposia Leader:
Title: Organic, Small Forces, Mountainous Outcomes
Symposia Leader:
Spring 2014
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April 21, 2014
Speaker: , Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Title: "Calcium-Triggered Conformational Switching of Calmofulin on Ion Channels" (Hosted by the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
April 14, 2014
Speaker: Richard Roller, Microbiology, University of Iowa
Title: "Deterinants of herpes simplex virus spread within the host" (Hosted by of Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
April 11, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Bal Ram Singh, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Massachustts-Dartmouth
Title: "Role of Structure and Dynamics in the Unique Selectivity and Effectiveness of the Most Poisonous Poison - The Botulinum Neurotoxin" (Hosted by the )
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 a.m.
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March 24, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Wes Sundquist, Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah
Title: "The ESCRT pathway in HIV budding and cell division." (Hosted by of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
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Feb. 3, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Rohit Pappu, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
Title:"Biophysical complexities of polyglutamine aggregation and implications for Huntington's disease" (Hosted by )
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
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Jan. 9, 2014
Speaker: , Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Tubingen
Title: "Regulating Adenylyl Cyclase activity by extracellular ligands." Special seminar hosted by CBSD.
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Fall 2013
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Nov. 25, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Fraser Hof, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria
Title: "The supramolecular and medicinal chemistry of post-translational modifications and epigenetics" (Hosted by the )
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Nov. 4, 2013
Speaker: , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Title: "Survival of the Most Cooperative" (Hosted by the of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 12:10 p.m.
Nov. 1, 2013
Speaker: , Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: "The simplest possible theory of allostery in the GABA-A receptor" (Hosted by the , Co-sponsored by the )
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 p.m.
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Oct. 4, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Roger Sunahara, Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan
Title: "Allosteric modulation of hormone binding by G proteins: unraveling the mechanism underlying high affinity agonist binding" (Hosted by the )
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
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Sept. 30, 2013
Speaker: , Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba
Title: "New Developments in the Pathogenesis of Legionnaires' Disease" (Hosted by the of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
Sept. 23, 2013
Speaker: , Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba
Title: "New access to complex glycoconjugates through engineering and evolution of glycosyltransferases and glycosynthases" - (Hosted by the )
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
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July 19, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Eric Gouaux, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Vollum Institute
Title: "Molecular choreography of signaling at chemical synapses" (Co-sponsored by the )
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 a.m.
Spring 2013
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May 2, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Ada Yonath, Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly, Weizmann Institute of Science (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009)
Title: "The Fruits of Curiosity: the amazing ribosome and its tiny enemies" (Co-sponsored by the )
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Katie Kindt, Oregon Hearing Research Center, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
Title: "Using localized indicators to investigate discrete calcium signals during zebrafish hair-cell development" (Sponsored by the : CSFN and CBSD)
Location: Skaggs Building 117 at 11:10 a.m.
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April 18, 2013
Speaker: Dr. John Gerdes, Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥
Title: "Discovery and development of a tool box of PET imaging tracers for in life studies"
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
April 15, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Abhinav Nath, Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University
Title: "Disease-related Self-Assembly of Disordered and Dynamic Proteins: Biophysical Characterization and Pharmacological Modulation" (Sponsored by the : CSFN and CBSD)
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 a.m.
April 11, 2013
Speaker: , Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: "6S RNA: a small RNA regulator of transcription in bacteria"
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Kasper Hansen, Department of Pharmacology, Emory University
Title: "Modulation of NMDA receptor function by subunit-selective ligands" (Sponsored by the : CSFN and CBSD)
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 1:10 p.m.
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March 29, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Ken Mackie, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Indiana
Title: “Receptors Gone Wild: CB2 cannabinoid receptor functional selectivity and its implications” (Sponsored by the )
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 a.m.
March 28, 2013
Speaker: , Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥
Title: "Conformational Changes and Dynamics of the Alpha Subunit for Heterotrimeric G Proteins During Receptor Independent Cell Signaling"
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
March 21, 2013
Speaker: , Division of Biological Sciences, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥
Title: “Gene regulation in the Lyme disease spirochete”
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
March 7, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Celestine Thomas, Division of Biological Sciences, Center for Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics,, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥
Title: “Beauty in Disorder; Mechanism of Receptor independent G-protein activation”
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
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Feb. 28, 2013
Speaker: , Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Montana State University
Title: "Mechanobiology, modeling, and drug delivery for understanding and treating joint disease."
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Feb. 21, 2013
Speaker: , Department of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado-Denver
Title: "The untold truth of protein motions and function as revealed by NMR." (Co-sponsored by the )
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Fall 2012
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Nov. 15, 2012
Speaker: , Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥
Title: "The use of enzyme inhibition assays to isolate compounds with anti-inflammatory and anticancer activity from symbiotic bacteria of the human gut."
Location: CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
Nov. 8, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Aseem Z. Ansari, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: "Engineering Synthetic Gene Switches to Control Cell Fate" (Co-sponosored by - Division of Biological Sciences, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥)
Location: CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
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Oct. 25, 2012
Speaker: , Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado - Denver
Title: "Molecular Insight into Epigenetic Regulation" (Co-sponsored by the , Ñý¼§Ö±²¥)
Location: CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
Oct. 18, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Jose R. Tusell, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥
Title: "DFT study of the catalytic core of mammalian adenylyl cyclase"
Location: CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
Oct. 4, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Michael Eck, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University
Title: "Toward development of mutant-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitors: Insights from structural and mechanistic studies of EGFR and Jak kinases"
Location: CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
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Sept. 20, 2012
Speaker: , Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia
Title: "New Reactivities and Inhibitors for an Emerging Drug Target: Indoleamine 2,3– Dioxygenase" (Co-sponsored by the , Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ & the , Montana State University)
Location: CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.