Formal Seminars

Sept 13

11:00 am

Bashkar Das, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Chemical Biology Approach to Identify Druggable Biomarkers and Develop Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics Agents"

Sept 20

11:00 am

Arindam Paul, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Atypical PKC  Signaling and Breast Cancer"

Sept 27

11:00 am

Oct 4

11:00 am

Jeremy Chien, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Chad Slawson)

"Forward and Reverse Genetics to Identify Altered Molecular Pathway in Ovarian Cancer"

Oct 11

11:00 am

Costa P. Georgopoulos, Ph.D.
University of Utah
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Regulation of the essential, universally-conserved GroEL/GroES (Hsp60/Hsp10) chaperone protein-folding machine"

Oct 18

11:00 am

David P. Giedroc, Ph.D.
Indiana University
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)

"A Double-Edged Sword: Transition Metal Chemistry at the Host-Microbial Pathogen Interface"

Oct 25

11:00 am

Xun Gu, Ph.D.
Iowa State University
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

"Functional divergence between duplicate genes"

Nov 1

11:00 am

T. Rajendra Kumar, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Genetics & Patho-physiology of Pituitary Null Cell Tumors" 

Nov 8

11:00 am

Terry Graham, Ph.D.
University of Guelph
(hosted by Dr. Gerald Carlson)

"Muscle glycogen: thoroughly studied but poorly understood"

Nov 15* 

2:00 p.m.
Lied Auditorium

Michael A. Marletta, Ph.D.
The Scripps Research Institute
(hosted by Dr. Gerald Carlson)

"Molecular Aspects of Gas Sensing"

Nov 22

11:00 am

Susan M. Egan, Ph.D.
University of Kansas - Lawrence
(hosted by Dr. Antonio Artigues)

"Mechanisms and Inhibition of AraC Family Regulators of Virulence and Carbon Metabolism"

Nov 29

11:00 am 

No seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday 

Dec 6

11:00 am

Joan Lewis-Wambi, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse

"Paradoxical action of estrogen in aromatase-inhibitor resistant breast cancer cells"

Dec 13

11:00 am 

Mukut Sharma, Ph.D.
VA Medical Center - Dept of Nephrology
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

"Cytokines of the IL-6 Family and Chronic Kidney Disease"

Jan 17

11:00 am

TBA

TBA 

Jan 24

11:00 am

William G. Gutheil, Ph.D.
University of Missouri - Kansas City
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)

TBA 

Jan 31

11:00 am

TBA 

TBA

Feb 7

11:00 am

TBA 

TBA

Feb 14

11:00 am

TBA 

TBA

Feb 21

11:00 am

TBA 

TBA

Feb 28

11:00 am

Rushi Trivedi, Graduate Student
University of Kansas Medical Center
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

TBA 

Mar 7

11:00 am

TBA 

TBA 

Mar 14

11:00 am

Steven J. Whitten, Ph.D.
Texas State University
(hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton)

TBA

Mar 21

11:00 am

No Seminar - Spring Break

Mar 28

11:00 am

Bradley L. Pentelute, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(hosted by Dr. Mark Fisher)

TBA

Apr 4

11:00 am

No Seminar - Student Research Forum

Apr 11

11:00 am

Tiangang Li, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
(hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse)

TBA

Apr 18

11:00 am

TBA 

TBA

Apr 25

11:00 am

TBA 

TBA

May 2

11:00 am

TBA

TBA

May 9

11:00 am

TBA 

TBA