2011 Fall Contemporary Biochemistry

Seminars at 3:30 p.m. in Ebling Symposium Center, MSB, 1550 Linden Drive, UW-Madison

Previous Years' Lecture Topics

 

Date

Speaker

Title

Host

Sep. 12

Michael Rosen
University of Texas SW

Regulation of Actin Assembly by WASP Family Proteins:  From Angstroms to Microns

Markley

Sep. 19

Todd Yeates
UCLA

The Structure and Function of Protein-Based Metabolic Organelles

Forest

Sep. 26

Bob Eisenberg
Rush University

Ions in Channels

Mitchell

Oct. 3

James Holton
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Why Don't My Crystals Diffract?  A Practical Guide to Solving Data-Quality Problems in Structural Biology

Keck


Oct. 10

Alfonso Mondragon
Northwestern

Type I DNA Topoisomerases

Butcher

Oct. 17

Russ Hille
University of California - Riverside

The Structural Basis of Catalytic Power in Xanthine Oxidase

Phillips

Oct. 24

Wes Sundquist
University of Utah

The ESCRT Pathway in HIV Budding and Cell Division

Markley

Oct. 31

Marius Schmidt
UW-Milwaukee

Five-Dimensional Macromolecular Crystallography
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Phillips

Nov. 7

James Chou
Harvard Medical School

An NMR View of Membrane Transporters:  Applications to Mitochondrial Carriers

Senes

Nov. 14

Chiwook Park
Purdue University

Mapping Transient Partial Unfolding in Proteins

Keck

Nov. 21

Natalie Strynadka
University of British Columbia

Structure Based   Analysis of the Type III Secretion Apparatus in Pathogenic Bacteria

Forest

Nov. 28

Gianluigi Veglia
University of Minnesota

Structural Analysis of Calcium Regulation in Muscle by NMR Spectroscopy:  from Understanding to Control

Senes

Dec. 5

Bil Clemons
Caltech

Higher Order Assemblies in a Novel Membrane Protein Targeting Pathway

Weibel

Dec. 12

Jeffrey Kieft
University of Colorado - Denver

Molecular Mimicry and Manipulation:  How Structured Viral RNAs can Fool Ribosomes

Butcher


The 2011 series is supported by the Departments of Biochemistry and Biomolecular Chemistry, the School of Pharmacy, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Molecular Biosciences Training Grant, Biotechnology Training Program, Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine Training Grant, Lucigen Corporation, Promega Corporation, and the UW Graduate School with income generated by patents filed through WARF

 

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