Biochemistry Formal Seminar History

Spring 2006

Date Time Speaker Title
Jan 13 11:00 am Gregory Petsko, Ph.D.
Brandeis University		 On the Origin of Enzymatic Species: How New Enzymes Evolve from Old Ones
Jan 20 11:00 am R. John Collier, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School		 Anthrax Toxin: Mechanism of Membrane Translocation
Jan 27 11:00 am Jay Vivian, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center		 Genetic Screens in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
Feb 3 11:00 am Paul E. Smith, Ph.D.
Kansas State University		 Computer Simulation of the Delta Opioid Receptor and Delta Opioid Receptor Selective Peptide Agonists
Feb 10 11:00 am Canceled
Feb 17 11:00 am Page Geiger, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center		 Exercise Training in the Prevention of Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes: A Cellular Approach
Feb 24 11:00 am Vincent J. Hilser, Ph.D.
University of Texas Medical Branch		 What's in a Protein Ensemble
Mar 3 11:00 am Dorothy Beckett, Ph.D.
University of Maryland		 Regulating the Regulators; Control of Transcription Repression Complex
Mar 10 11:00 am A. L. Burlingame, Ph.D.
University of California San Francisco		 The Challenge of Defining Protein Postranslational Complexity Using Mass Spectrometry
Mar 17 11:00 am John M. Tomich, Ph.D.
Kansas State University		 "Redesigning Nature: Studies on New Channel-Forming Sequences Derived from the Second Transmembrane Segment of the Glycine Receptor-Subunit"
Mar 24 11:00 am No Seminar - Spring Break
Mar 31 11:00 am Hao Zhu, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center		 "NCB5OR, Oxidative Stress and Diabetes"
Apr 7 11:00 am Roberto De Guzman, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence		 "NMR Studies of Proteins Involved in Bacterial and Viral Pathogenesis"
Apr 14
Lied Aud.
 11:00 am C. Robert Matthews, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Note change of location to Lied Auditorium		 "Are protein folding mechanisms better conserved than their amino acid sequences? The roles of topology and sequence in controlling the folding mechanisms of TIM barrel proteins" 
Apr 21 11:00 am Joyce A. Lloyd, Ph.D.
Virginia Commonwealth University		 "Globin Gene Regulation: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches"
Apr 28 11:00 am Malin M. Young, Ph.D.
Sandia National Laboratories		 "Protein Structural characterization using chemical cross-linking, mass spectrometry and modeling"
May 5 11:00 am Canceled
May 12 11:00 am Jackob Moskovitz, D.Sc.
University of Kansas - Lawrence		 "The methionine sulfoxide reductase system and its role in antioxidant defense and survival"
May 19 11:00 am Andrew D. Robertson, Ph.D.
University of Iowa		 "Structural Consequences of Insertions Among Ubiquitin-Like Proteins

Fall 2005

Date Time Speaker Title
Sept 9 11:00 am Jinxi Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Orthopedics, University of Kansas Medical Center		 Enhancement of Skeletal Repair by Biochemical & Molecular Means
Sept 16 11:00 am Henry Miziorko, Ph.D.
University of Missouri - Kansas City		 HMG-CoA Synthase: Functional Correlations and a Reversal of Expectations
Sept 23 11:00 am Michael Washburn, Ph.D.
Stowers Institute, Kansas City		 Quantitative Proteomic Analysis via MudPIT
Sept 30 11:00 am Li Wang, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center		 'Orphan' but not lonely: how much can nuclear receptor SHP do?
Oct 7 11:00 am No Seminar - SOM Faculty Retreat
Oct 14 11:00 am John Laity, Ph.D.
University of Missouri-Kansas City		 Are we full of Zinc? Binding and structural studies of metalloregulatory domains from MTF-1 and Zap1
Oct 21 11:00 am George Reed, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin		 Encolase. A Jewel in the Crown of Glycolysis
Oct 28 11:00 am T. Chris Gamblin, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence		 Modeling Neurodegenerative Tauopathies In Vitro
Nov 4 11:00 am David Toft, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic		 Chaperoning Cell Regulatory Proteins through Hsp90
Nov 11 11:00 am Yeon-Kyun Shin, Ph.D.
Iowa State University		 Intermediates in SNARE-Mediated 
Membrane Fusion
Nov 18 11:00 am Madeline A. Shea, Ph.D.
University of Iowas		 Calmodulin Regulation: A Tale of Two Domains
Nov 25 11:00 am No Seminar - Holiday
Dec 2 11:00 am Joseph Fontes, Ph.D.
Faculty Candidate		 The ZXD family: Novel regulators of MHC II transcription
Dec 5 8:30 - 10:00 a.m. Jeremy Sanford, Ph.D.
Faculty Candidate
note new location: Lied Auditorium		 Getting the message: RNA binding proteins and post-transcriptional gene expression
Dec 6 9:00 am
 Steve Patrick, Ph.D.
Faculty Candidate
note new location: 1014 Orr Major		 Biochemical Processing of Cisplatin-DNA Interstrand Cross-links (ICLs)
Dec 9 11:00 am Felix Koberling
PicoQuant, Berlin, Germany
Special Seminar		 Time-resolved Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy: Novel Technical Features and Applications for FLIM, FRET and FCS"
Dec 16 11:00 am Scott Warder, Ph.D.
Abbott Labs		 Discovery of Protein Markers for Pharmaceutical Drug Development

Spring 2005

Date Time Speaker Title
Jan 14 11:00 am Jonathan Silberg, Ph.D.
Rice University		 "On the conservative nature of protein recombination"
Jan 21 11:00 am Sue Jaspersen, Ph.D.
University of Colorado, Boulder		 "Yeast Centrosomes: Structure, Duplication and Function"
Jan 28 11:00 am Chris Lorson, Ph.D.
University of Missouri - Coloumbia		 "The Role of Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) in the Development of Spinal Muscular Atrophy"
Feb 4 11:00 am Michal Zolkiewski, Ph.D.
Kansas State University		 "Structure and Function of ClpB: a Protein-Disaggregating Molecular Chaperone"
Feb 11 11:00 am Emily Scott, Ph.D.
University of Kansas-Lawrence		 "Structure and Function of Cytochrome P450s involved in Xenobiotic Metabolism"
Feb 18 11:00 am Xiao-Qiang (Sean) Yu, Ph.D.
University of Missouri - Kansas City		 "Lectins in innate immune responses of an insect"
Feb 25 11:00 am Deborah S. Wuttke, Ph.D.
University of Colorado		 "Tying up the Ends: Recognition of Single-Stranded DNA at Telomeres"
Mar 11 11:00 am Mario Ernesto Rivera-Laos, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence		 "Heme Oxygenase in Pathogenic Bacteria: Insights from Magnetic Resonance Investigations of the Active Site"
Mar 18 11:00 am Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, Ph.D.
Dept of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics, KUMC		 "Functional Analysis of Retionoid X receptor alpha in Hepatocyte"
Apr 1 11:00 am Don G. Ennis, Ph.D.
University of Louisiana - Lafayette		 "Development of a Mutagenesis Assay in Transgenic Animals: Investigations of Chronic Infections and Carcinogenesis"
Apr 8 11:00 am Frederick Sachs, Ph.D.
Hughes Center for Single Molecule Biophysics		 "Mechanosensitive ion channels: from bench to bedside"
Apr 15 11:00 am Richard Honzatko, Ph.D.
Iowa State University		 "Ligand Cooperativity in Fructose-1,6-bishoshpatase"
Apr 22 11:00 am Philip J. Thomas, Ph.D.
UT Southwester Medical Center at Dallas		 "Cystic Fibrosis:  Disease of Altered Protein Folding"
Apr 29 11:00 am Thomas Nowak, Ph.D.
University of Notre Dame		 "Fundamental Steps in Pyruvate Kinase: Phosphoryl Transfer and Enolpyruvate Protonation"
May 6 11:00 am Patrick Loria, Ph.D.
Yale University		 "Conversation and Control of Enzyme Dynamics for Optimal Catalysis"
May 13 11:00 am Jill Trewhella, Ph.D.
Dept of Chemistry, University of Utah, 		 Structural Themes and Variations in Kinase Activation and Targeting

Fall 2004 

Date Time Speaker Title
Sept 10 11:00 am Liskin Swint-Kruse, PhD.
Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, KUMC		 "Tools to identify functionally relevant fine details in protein structure"
Sept 24 10:00 am

Lied Aud.

 Carey Johnson, PhD
Dept of Chemistry
University of Kansas - Lawrence		 "Single-Molecule Spectroscopy of Calcium Signaling: Dynamics and Target Interactions of Calmodulin"
Oct 8 11:00 am David Mount, Ph.D.
University of Arizona		 "Cancer Bioinformatics: support for the discovery of new drugs and diagnostic tools"
Oct 15 11:00 am Rolf Jakobi, Ph.D.
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences		 "The Role of p21-Activated Protein Kinase2 in Cell Survival and Cell Death"
Oct 22 11:00 am Karen G. Fleming, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University		 "Membrane Protein Interactions: Thermodynamics in the Role of Sequence Motifs"
Oct 29 11:00 am Edith Chang, Ph.D.
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences		 "The Role of cyclooxygenase 2 in Cell Survival, Cell Motility and Colon Cancer Development"
Nov 5 11:00 am Anthony L. Fink, Ph.D.
University of California, Santa Cruz		 "The molecular basis for ß-synuclein fibrillation: Implications for Parkinson's Disease"
Nov 12 11:00 am Greg Reinhart, Ph.D.
Texas A&M		 "Using Fluctuation Spectroscopy to Study Protein-Protein Interactions"
Nov 19 11:00 am Art Johnson, Ph.D
Texas A&M		 "Maintenance of Membrane Integrity by Ribosomes, BiP, and Translocons during ER Protein Trafficking"
Nov 26 11:00 am No Seminar
Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec 3 11:00 am John Robertson, Ph.D.
Dept of Pharmacology & Toxicology, KUMC		 "Caspase-2-mediated engagement of the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway"
Dec 10 11:00 am Sarah Bondos, Ph.D.
Rice University		 "Integrating Information: Hox Proteins physically and genetically interact with proteins from an array of cellular systems"
Dec 17 11:00 am Audrey Lambs, Ph.D.
University of Kansas-Lawrence		 "Siderophore Biosynthesis by Pseudomonas aeruginosa"

Spring 2004 

Date Time Speaker Title
Jan 23 11:00 am Gerald J. Wyckoff, Ph.D.
University of Missouri-Kansas City		 "Conservation Does Not Equal Constraint"
Jan 30 11:00 am Chunying Du, Ph.D.
Stowers Institute, KCMO		 "To die or not to Die: Regulation of Apoptosis"
Feb 20 11:00 am William A. Cramer, Ph.D.
Purdue University		 "Searching the Caves inside an integral membrane transport protein: the cytochrome b6f complex of oxygenic photosynthesis"
Feb 27 11:00 am Ron Rubenstein, MD, Ph.D,
University of Pennsylvania		 "Tales from the Mutant CFTR Repair Shop"
Mar 5 11:00 am Bryan Copple, Ph.D,
Dept of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, KUMC		 "Hepatocellular Injury Produced by the Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid Plant Toxin Monocrotaline: a Potential Role for Hypoxia"
Mar 12 11:00 am Dennis Thiele, Ph.D.
Duke University Medical Center		 "Copper in Signaling, Growth and Development and Disease"
Mar 19 11:00 am Christophe Nicot 
Dept of  Microbiology, KUMC		 "HTLV-I regulatory proteins in viral persistence"
Apr 9 11:00 am Ajay Rana, Ph.D.
Texas A&M Univ. Health System		 "Role of Mixed Lineage Kinase 3 in JNK Activation and Beone"
Apr 16 11:00 am Nilofer Qureshi, Ph.D.
University of Missouri - Kansas City		 "The Proteasome, a central regulator of inflammation and macrophage function"
Apr 23 11:00 am Samson T. Jacob, Ph.D.
Ohio State University		 "Methylation and silencing of a novel candidate tumor suppressor gene in animal and human tumors: functional and clinical implications"
Apr 30 11:00 am D.A. Butterfield, Ph.D.
University of Kentucky		 "Oxidative Stress and Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease Brain: Central Role of Amyloid Beta-Peptide 1-42"
May 7 11:00 am Mona T. Norcum, Ph.D.
University of Mississippi Medical Center		 "Structure of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Complexes: Mapping of Enzyme Positions via Three-dimensional Electron Microsopy"

Fall 2003 

Date Time Speaker Title
Aug 22 12 Noon Liskin Swint-Kruse, Ph.D
Rice University, Houston, TX		 "A multidisciplinary approach to the structure/function relationship of a genetic regulatory protein"
Sep 26 11:00 am Susan Martinez, Ph.D.
University of Houston		 "Leucyl-t RNA Synthetase-dependent Splicing and Amino Acid Editing by a Multi-functional tRNA Synthetase"
Oct 10 11:00 am Vadim N. Gladyshev, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry,
University of Nebraska		 "Identity and functions of selenium-containing proteins."
Oct 17 11:00 am Gary Ackers
Washington University		 "Surprising New Understanding of Hemoglobin Cooperativity"
Oct 24 11:00 am Kathi Glauner, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center		 "Control of  Nociception: Ellucidating the effect of channel modification:
Oct 31 11:00 am John Laity, Ph.D.
University of Missouri-Kansas City		 "New Paradigms for Zinc Finger Structure and Function"
Nov 14 11:00 am Peter Baumann, Ph.D.
Stowers Institute, KCMO		 "Chromosome Ends and Genome Stability"
Dec 5 11:00 am Jennifer Gerton, Ph.D.
Stowers Institute, KCMO		 "Genome-wide mapping of the cohesin complex in S. Cerevisiae"
Dec 12 11:00 am Huimin Jiang
University of Kansas Medical Center		 TBA

Spring 2003 Formal Seminars

Date Time Speaker Title
Apr 25 11:00 am Hermant K. Paudel, Ph.D. 
McGill University, Montreal, Canada		 Phosphorylation of microtubule-associate protein tau and neurofibrillary pathology of Alzheimer's disease
May 8 11:00 am Anthony Persechini, Ph.D.  
University of Missouri-Kansas City		 Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Signaling Through Calmodulin
May 16 11:00 am Stephen King, Ph.D.
University of Missouri-Kansas City		 Dynein and dynactin: interactions required for motility

Fall 2002 Formal Seminars
no seminars were held during fall semester, 2002

Spring 2002 Formal Seminars

Date Time Speaker Title
Friday, January 18, 2002 11:00 AM Roy Zent, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center "Integrin signaling in branching morphogenesis"
Friday, January 25, 2002  11:00 AM Susan M. Egan, Ph.D., University of Kansas-Lawrence "Transcription activation of the E.coli L-rhamnose genes"
Friday, February 1, 2002 11:00 AM Robert E. Palazzo, Ph.D., University of Kansas-Lawrence "Centrosome Assembly and Maturation: Boveri Revisited!"
Friday, February 8, 2002 11:00 AM Ting Xie, Ph.D., Stowers Institute for Medical Research "Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Germline Stem Cells in the Drosophila Ovary"
Friday, February 15 11:00 AM Robert Cohen, Ph.D., University of Kansas-Lawrence "Patterning the Fly egg: RNA localization, translational control and membrane trafficking"
Friday, February 22, 2002 11:00 AM Leonard Dobens, Jr., Ph.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City "The role of Drosophila 'bunched', a homologue of the mouse transcription factor YSC-22, in cell fate boundary formation"
Friday, March 8, 2002 11:00 AM Vytas Bankaitis, Ph.D., University of North Carolina "Phosphatidylinositol Transfer Protein Function and Neurodegenerative Disease in Mice"
Friday, March 29, 2002 11:00 AM G. Sullivan Read, Ph.D.,
University of Missouri - Kansas City		 "mRNA decay during herpesvirus infections:  Interactions between a viral mRNase and cellular translation factors"
Friday, April 12, 2002 11:00 AM Scott Falke
KUMC Doctoral Candidate		 "Two-Stroke Folding Machines: A review of allosteric mechanisms guiding chaperonin-facilitated protein folding"
Friday, April 19, 2002 11:00 AM William M. Atkins, Ph.D., University of Washington "Structure, Function, and Therapeutic Aspects of Glutathione S-transferases"
Friday, April 26, 2002 11:00 AM Jeffrey Urbauer, Ph.D., University of Kansas-Lawrence "Solution Structure and Function of the Anti-Sigma Factor AsiA"

Fall 2001 Formal Seminars

Date Time Speaker Title
Friday, September 14, 2001 11:00 AM Tim M. Townes, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham "Human Globin Gene Regulation and Genetic Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease"
Friday, September 21, 2001  11:00 AM No Seminar-Faculty Retreat
Friday, September 28, 2001 11:00 AM Linheng Li, Ph.D., Stowers Institute "Hematopietic Stem Cell Development"
Friday, October 19, 2001 11:00 AM James A. Coffman, Ph.D., Stowers Institute "Transcription factors that control cell proliferation and differentiation in the sea urchin embryo"
Friday, October 26, 2001 11:00 AM Patrice Delafontaine, M.D., KUMC "IGF-1 in Cardiovascular Disease"
Friday, November 16, 2001 11:00 AM Jeffrey Price, Ph.D., UMKC "The double-time protein kinase determines the duration of both the nuclear and cytoplasmic phases of a molecular circadian oscillator"
Friday, November 30, 2001 11:00 AM Patrick S. Stayton, Ph.D., University of Washington "Biomaterials That Talk and Listen"
Friday, December 7, 2001 11:00 AM Joan Conaway, Ph.D., Stowers Institute "Elongin BC-based ubiquitin ligases and transcriptional regulation?
Friday, December 14, 2001 11:00 AM Natalia Y. Kedishvili, Ph.D., UMKC


Spring 2001 Formal Seminars

Date Time Speaker Title
Friday, January 5, 2001 11:00 AM Saul M. Honigberg, Ph.D., UMKC "Cell Cycle and Glucose Repression Pathways converge in Transcriptional Control of Meiosis in Yeast"
Friday, January 12, 2001  11:00 AM Michael Herman, Ph.D.,  K-State University "Control of Cell Polarity and Cell Migration by Wnt Signaling in C. elegans"
Friday, January 19, 2001 11:00 AM Tom Menees, Ph.D.,  UMKC "Yeast Ty Retrotransposons as a Model for Studying Retroelement/Host Interactions in Eukaryotes"
Friday, January 26, 2001 11:00 AM Christian Schoneich, Ph.D.,  Univ. of Kansas "When Radicals React With Proteins: Theory, Aging and Pathology"
Friday, February 2, 2001 11:00 AM Joe Lutkenhaus, Ph.D., Microbiology - KUMC "Spatial Regulation of Cell Division in E. Coli"
Friday, February 16, 2001 11:00 AM Curtis D. Klaassen, Ph.D., Pharmacology - KUMC "Regulation of Xenobiotic Transporters in the Liver"
Friday, March 2, 2001 11:00 AM Peter C. Harris, Ph.D., Mayo Medical School "Genetic Studies of Polycycstic Kidney Disease"


Fall 2000 Formal Seminars

Date Time Speaker Title Sponsor
Friday, September 8, 2000 11:00 am Harvey Fisher, Ph.D., VA Medical Center, KUMC "A close-packed four-atom square motife serves as a variable-pathway mechanistic switching device in enzymatic catalysis"  
Friday, September 15, 2000 11:00 am Chi-Chung Chan, Ph.D., Merck "Discovery of the Selective COX-2 Inhibitor Rofecoxib" Dr. Milton Noelkin
Friday, September 22, 2000 11:00 am Jim Karam, Ph.D., Tulane University Health Sciences Center "Regulation of pol-alpha DNA polymerase by RNA" Dr. Billy G. Hudson
Friday, September 29, 2000 11:00 am Bruce Roe, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma "The Human Genome Project: The complete sequence of the first of 23 human chromosome pairs, human chromosome 22" Dr. Allen Rawitch
Friday, October 6, 2000 11:00 am Edward Eisenstein, Ph.D., University of Maryland Biotech Inst. "A Structural Approach for Determining the Biological Roles of Proteins of Unknown Function: Problems and Prospects"  
Friday, October 13, 2000 11:00 am Robert C. DeLisle, Ph.D., Anatomy and Cell Biology, KUMC "Posttranslational processing and intracellular trafficking of pro-Muclin, a putative Golgi cargo receptor"  
Friday, October 20, 2000 11:00 am Ethan Taylor, Ph.D., University of Georgia "HIV-1 encodes a sequence with functional glutathioneperoxidase activity: implicatioons for mechanisms of HIV pathogenesis" Dr. Wilfred Arnold
Friday, October 27, 2000 11:00 am Francois Baneyx, Ph.D., University of Washington "Chaperone-assisted protein folding in the cytoplasm of E. coli" Dr. Mark Fisher
Friday, November 3, 2000 11:00 am Masahiko Sato, Ph.D., Laval University, Canada "Functional roles of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase in cellular damage responses"  
Friday, November 10, 2000 11:00 am No Seminar - Holiday    
Friday, November 17, 2000 11:00 am Scott C. Stodd, Ph.D., K-State University "The Regulations of Cell Adhesion and Migration by Tetraspanins"  
Friday, November 24, 2000 11:00 am No Seminar - Holiday    
Friday, December 1, 2000 11:00 am Phil Hanawalt, Ph.D., Stanford University "Regulation of Excision Repair of DNA in Mammalian Cells" Dr. Hiroaki Sewizawa
Friday, December 8, 2000 11:00 am Paul F. Terranova, Ph.D., Physiology, KUMC "Mechanisms of Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibition of Ovarian Steroidogenesis"  
Friday, December 15, 2000 11:00 am Rollie J. Clem, Ph.D., K-State University "Regulation of Apoptosis by Baculoviruses"  


Spring 2000 Formal Seminars

Date Time Speaker Title Faculty Sponsor
Friday, January 7, 2000 11:00 AM Michelle David
University of Kansas Medical Center		 Identification of critical Amino Acid Residues Comprising the Goodpasture Epitope Billy G. Hudson, Ph.D.
Friday, January 28, 2000 11:00 AM

Ali Shilatifard, Ph.D.       St. Louis University School of Medicine        

The RNA Polymerase II Regulating Factors, Their Roles in Mammalian Cells and in Human Cancer Hiroaki Serizawa, Ph.D.
Friday, February 4, 2000 11:00 AM Tohru Kozasa, Ph.D.
The University of Illinois at Chicago		 RGS proteins:key regulators of G-protein signaling pathways Hiroaki Serizawa, Ph.D.
Friday, February 11, 2000 11:00 AM Doug Wright, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center		 Trophic Therapies for Neuropathic Sensory Neurons Hiroaki Serizawa, Ph.D.
Friday, February 18, 2000 11:00 AM Michael P. Sarras, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center		 Role of Cell/Extracellular Matrix Interactions during Pattern Formation and Morphogenesis Hiroaki Serizawa, Ph.D.
Friday, February 25, 2000 11:00 AM Opendra Narayan, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center		 Progress in Development of a Vaccine Against HIV Hiroaki Serizawa, Ph.D.
Friday, March 3, 2000 11:00 AM Leonidas Tsiokas, Ph.D.
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center		 Molecular mechanisms in polysystic kidney disease James Calvet, Ph.D.
Friday, March 10, 2000 11:00 AM Sudhansu K. Dey, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center		 Molecular signaling in embryo implantation Hiroaki Serizawa, Ph.D.
Friday, March 17, 2000 11:00 AM Richard Silverstein, Ph.D. University of Kansas Medical Center Beyond the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction: involvement of TNF Robin Maser, Ph.D.
Friday, March 24, 2000 11:00 AM No Seminar-          SPRING BREAK No Seminar No Seminar
Friday, March 31, 2000 11:00 AM Jing Zhou, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard Institutes of Medicine		 How to identify functions of orphan genes, a lesson from polycystic kidney disease research Billy G. Hudson, Ph.D.
Friday, April 7, 2000 11:00 AM Stanely B. Prusiner, M.D.
Nobel Prize Winner
University of California, San Francisco		 Prion Biology and Diseases-In Quest of Therapeutics Graduate Students
Friday, April 14, 2000 11:00 AM Harvey Fisher, Ph.D.
VA Medical Center		 Close-packed four-atom square motif serves as a variable-pathway mechanistic switching device in enzymatic catalysis Hiroaki Serizawa, Ph.D.
Friday, April 21, 2000 11:00 AM James Cowan, Ph.D.  Ohio State University of Columbus Inorganic Nucleases.  New Chemistry for Antiviral Drug Design R. Padmanabhan, Ph.D.
Friday, April 28, 2000 11:00 AM No seminar scheduled No seminar scheduled No seminar scheduled
Friday, May 5, 2000 11:00 AM Tom Roche, Ph.D.    Kansas State University Regulation of Human Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex:  Predominant Impact of the Dihydrolipoyl Acetyltransferase on Kinase Isoform and Phosphatase Isoform 1 Activities Mark Fisher, Ph.D.
Friday, May 12, 2000 11:00 AM Thomas V. O'Halloran, Ph.D.
Northwestern University		 Intracellular Transition Metal Receptors in Trafficking and Gene Regulation Glen Andrews, Ph.D.
Friday, May 19, 2000 11:00 AM Thomas L. Poulos, Ph.D. University of California at Irvine TBA M. Sundarmoorthy, Ph.D.
Friday, May 26, 2000 11:00 AM Jeff Minor, Ph.D.    Washington University TBA Dr. Mike Sarras-co-sponsored with Department of Anatomy


Fall 1999 Formal Seminars

Date Time Speaker Title Faculty Sponsor
Friday, August 13, 1999
Lied Auditorium		 11:00 AM Karl Tryggvason, M.D., Ph.D. Structure of Matrix Metalloproteinase-2: a target for rational drug design for cancer therapy Billy G. Hudson
Friday, September 17, 1999
1023 Orr Major		 11:00 AM Yoshifumi Ninomiya, M.D., Ph.D. Expression of basement membrane collagen IV genes and their roles in human disorders Billy G. Hudson
Friday, September 24, 1999 1023 Orr Major 11:00 AM

 

 James H. Strauss, Ph.D. The Replication of Sindbis Virus Stephen Parnell
Friday, October 1, 1999
1023 Orr Major		 11:00 AM Ana Zolkiewska, Ph.D. ADAM 12 and myoblast fusion  
Friday, October 8, 1999
1023 Orr Major		 11:00 AM Tony Blau, M.D. Gene Therapy in Sickle Cell Anemia Ken Peterson
Friday, October 15, 1999
1023 Orr Major		 11:00 AM Thomas Squier, Ph.D. Oxidative modifications to CaM and age related alterations in calcium regulation  
Friday, October 22, 1999
1023 Orr Major		 11:00 AM Jian Q. Feng, M.D., Ph.D. Transgenic mouse models are used to study function of Bmp4 and its regulation in vivo  
Friday, October 29, 1999
1023 Orr Major		 11:00 AM Alfred Esser, Ph.D. The Membrane Attack Complex of Complement:  Or how to kill a bug without committing suicide  
Friday, November 5, 1999
1023 Orr Major		 11:00 AM William B. Pratt, Ph.D. Regulation of Steroid Receptors and Signaling Protein Kinases by the Multiprotein Hsp90-Based Chaperone System  
Friday, November 19, 1999 1023 Orr Major 11:00 AM Michael R. Kanost, Ph.D. Biochemistry of Blue Blood:  insect plasma proteins and innate immune responses  
Friday, November 26, 1999
1023 Orr Major		 11:00 AM NO SEMINAR NO SEMINAR DUE TO THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY  
Friday, December 3, 1999
1023 Orr Major		 11:00 AM Dr. Keiko Ozato TBA Hiroaki Serizawa
Friday, December 10, 1999
1023 Orr Major		 11:00 AM Dudley K. Strickland, Ph.D. Role of LDL Receptor Family Members in Health and Disease Billy G. Hudson

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