Spring 2008 Speakers:

Date

Speaker

Title

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Tu, Jan. 22

Bob Landick
UW-Madison

Tail wags dog: regulation of RNA polymerase by nascent RNA structures

RNA Maxi Group

Mon,
Jan. 28

Robert Powers
Univ. NE-Lincoln

Protein Functional Annotation using NMR Ligand Affinity Screens

Biochem
Colloquium

Mon,
Feb. 4

Sarah O’Connor
MIT

Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Madagascar Periwinkle

Biochem
Colloquium

Tu, Feb. 5

Matthias Hentze
EMBL- Heidelberg

CANCELLED

RNA Maxi Group

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

Biochem
Colloquium

Tu, Feb. 12

Tom Gingeras
Affymetrix Research Laboratories

Abundant transcription of the eukaryotic genome; microarrays

RNA Maxi Group

Mon,
Feb. 18

Alvin C. Powers
Vanderbilt Univ.

CANCELLED

Biochem
Colloquium

Mon,
Feb. 25

Milan Mrksich
Univ. of Chicago

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

Biochem
Colloquium

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

Biochem
Colloquium

Mon,
Mar. 10

Rebecca Heald
UC-Berkeley

Mechanisms of Mitotic Spindle Assembly and Function

Biochem
Colloquium

Tu, Mar. 11

Kathy Collins
UC-Berkeley

Telomerase and other Ribonucleoproteins

RNA Maxi Group

Mon,
Mar. 24

Oliver Hobert
Columbia Univ.

Gene Regulatory Mechanisms that Control Neuronal Diversification in C.elegans

Biochem
Colloquium

Weds, Mar. 26
2 pm

Tom Rapoport
Harvard Medical School

Student sponsored
Structure and Function of a Protein Conducting Channel

Biochem
Colloquium

Mon,
Mar. 31

Cathy Drennan
MIT

David E. Green Lecture
Crystallographic Snapshots of Natural Product Biosynthesis

Biochem
Colloquium

Mon,
Apr. 7

Howard Berg
Harvard Univ

Using Fluorescence to Study Bacterial Chemotaxis

Biochem
Colloquium

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

Biochem
Colloquium

Tr, Apr. 17

Jack Szostak
Harvard Medical School HHMI

Pre-biotic evolution; RNA activities and structures

RNA Maxi Group

Mon,
Apr. 21

Joanne Stubbe
MIT

Everson Lecture
Ribonucleotide Reductases: Something for Everyone

Biochem
Colloquium

Mon & Tues
Apr. 28 & 29

Frances Arnold
Caltech

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

Biochem
Colloquium

Tu, Apr. 29

Mariano Garcia-Blanco
Duke Univ.

Alternative splicing and its control

RNA Maxi Group

Mon,
May 5

Karen Oegema
UC-San Diego

CANCELLED

Biochem
Colloquium

Tr, May 8

Andrew Fire
Stanford

Mechanism and control of RNAi

RNA Maxi Group

 

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