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Formal Seminars
SPRING 2019
all seminars in 1050 SON, 11 - 12 noon, unless otherwise noted* (location change)
(click on highlighted names to be directed to speaker's website)
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January 11 |
11:00 am |
Joshua Bembenek, Ph.D. University of Tennessee - Knoxville (hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse) |
"Investigating mechanisms of cytokinesis during embryo development" |
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January 18 |
11:00 am |
No Seminar |
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January 25 |
11:00 am |
Rebecca Wates, Ph.D. |
"Mitotic Kinesins as Therapeutic Targets in Cancer" |
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February 1 |
11:00 am |
Changwei Liu, Ph.D. |
"Investigating functions of deubiquitinases USP9X and USP35" |
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February 8 |
11:00 am |
Heng Du, Ph.D. |
"Molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease: Mitochondrial biochemistry, Ghrelin receptor and Microglia-neuron crosstalk" |
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February 15 |
11:00 am |
Blake Mertz, Ph.D. |
"Biophysics at the cellular interface: using simulations to understand an atypical membrane-active peptide" |
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February 22 |
11:00 am |
Jeroen Roelofs, Ph.D. |
"The Life Cycle of a Proteasome; from assembly to degradation" |
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March 1 |
11:00 am |
Erika R. Geisbrecht, Ph.D. |
"Metabolic defects promote pathogenesis in a muscular dystrophy model" |
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March 8 |
11:00 am |
Nicole Ellis |
"Dissecting the Numerous Functions of |
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March 15 |
11:00 am |
No Seminar - Spring Break |
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March 26 |
10:00 am |
Lejla Zubcevic, Ph.D. |
"Mechanisms of TRPV ion channel gating" |
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March 29 |
11:00 am |
Alan Tomkinson, Ph.D. |
"Insights into DNA ligase functions from small molecule inhibitors" |
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April 5 |
11:00 am |
Max Fairlamb |
"Investigations into the Step-toStep Coordination |
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April 12 |
11:00 am |
TBD |
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April 19 |
11:00 am |
Minae Mure, Ph.D. University of Kansas - Lawrence (hosted by Dr. Christy Hagan) |
"Post-translational modifications of lysyl oxidase-like 2 and their effects on catalytic activity" |
| April 26 | 11:00 am | Anthony W. G. Burgett, Ph.D. University of Oklahoma (hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton) |
"Novel Anti-Viral and Precision Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Development Through Targeting the Oxysterol-binding Proteins (OSBP/ORPs)" |
| April 30* (no seminar May 3rd) |
12:00 noon Wahl Hall West Auditorium |
Michael Overholtzer, Ph.D. Sloan Kettering Institute co-sponsored with Cancer Center (Biochemistry host Dr. Chad Slawson) |
"Cell Death in Development and Disease" |
FALL 2019
all seminars in 1025 Orr Major, 11 - 12 noon, unless otherwise noted* (location change)
(click on highlighted names to be directed to speaker's website)
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September 6 |
11:00 am |
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September 13 |
11:00 am |
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September 20 |
11:00 am |
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September 27 |
11:00 am |
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October 4 |
11:00 am |
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October 11 |
11:00 am |
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October 18 |
11:00 am |
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| October 25 |
11:00 am |
Kurt Piepenbrink, Ph.D. University of Nebraska (hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton) |
TBD |
| November 1 |
11:00 am |
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| November 8 |
11:00 am |
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| November 15 |
11:00 am |
No Seminar - Fisher Symposium | |
| November 22 |
11:00 am |
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| November 29 |
11:00 am |
No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| December 6 |
11:00 am |
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| December 13 |
11:00 am |