Date

Speaker

Title

Host

Mon,
Jan. 28

Robert Powers
Univ. NE-Lincoln

Protein Functional Annotation using NMR Ligand Affinity Screens

John Markley

Mon,
Feb. 4

Sarah O’Connor
MIT

Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Madagascar Periwinkle

Laura Kiessling

Mon,
Feb. 11

Rohit Kulkarni
Harvard Medical School

Role of Insulin and Leptin Signaling in Islets – Implications for the Pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity-Associated Diabetes

Alan Attie

Mon,
Feb. 18

Alvin C. Powers
Vanderbilt Univ.

Pancreatic Islets: Vascularization, Revascularization, and Regeneration

Alan Attie

Mon,
Feb. 25

Milan Mrksich
Univ. of Chicago

Label-Free Detection of Protein-Protein Interactions on Bio Chips

Doug Weibel

Mon,
Mar. 3

Christian Raetz
Univ. of CO-Boulder

Everson Lecture
Structure and Inhibition of Enzymes that Assemble Bacterial Endotoxins: Potent Lipid Activators of Innate Immunity

Brian Fox

Mon,
Mar. 10

Rebecca Heald
UC-Berkeley

Mechanisms of Mitotic Spindle Assembly and Function

Chris Wiese

Mon,
Mar. 24

Oliver Hobert
Columbia Univ.

Gene Regulatory Mechanisms that Control Neuronal Diversification in C.elegans

Judith Kimble

Weds, Mar. 26
2 pm

Tom Rapoport
Harvard Medical School

Student sponsored
Structure and Function of a Protein Conducting Channel

Greg Kabachinski

Mon,
Mar. 31

Cathy Drennan
MIT

David E. Green Lecture
Crystallographic Snapshots of Natural Product Biosynthesis

Ron Raines

Mon,
Apr. 7

Howard Berg
Harvard Univ

Using Fluorescence to Study Bacterial Chemotaxis

Doug Weibel

Mon & Tues
Apr. 14 & 15

Peter G. Schultz
Scripps Research Inst.

Steenbock Lecture
Lecture 1: An Expanding Genetic Code
Lecture 2: Chemical Approaches to Stem Cell Biology

Aseem Ansari

Mon,
Apr. 21

Joanne Stubbe
MIT

Everson Lecture
Ribonucleotide Reductases: Something for Everyone

Laura Kiessling

Mon & Tues
Apr. 28 & 29

Frances Arnold
Caltech

Steenbock Lecture
Lecture 1: Engineering by Evolution
Lecture 2: Synthetic Protein Families by Structure-Guided Recombination

Doug Weibel

Mon,
May 5

Karen Oegema
UC-San Diego

CANCELLED

Judith Kimble