Past Formal Seminars
View the most recent 10 years of seminars
Spring 2024
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Speaker & Host |
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Jan 5 |
11:00 a.m. |
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Jan 12 |
11:00 a.m. |
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Jan 19 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Robert Tarran, Chief, new Division of Genetic, Environmental and Inhalational Disease in the Department of Internal Medicine invited by Dr. Chad Slawson. |
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In-person |
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Jan 26 |
11:00 a.m. |
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Feb 2 |
11:00 a.m. |
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Feb 9 |
11:00 a.m. |
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Feb 16 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Carlos Castañeda, Associate Professor |
UBQLN Phase Transitions in Protein Quality Control and Neurodegenerative Diseases |
In-Person |
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Feb 23 |
11:00 a.m. |
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March 1 |
11:00 a.m. |
Spencer Thompson, M.D./Ph.D. Student in the Freudenthal Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center invited by Dr. Christy Hagan
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Examining the protein scaffold XRCC1 in Base Excision Repair |
In-Person |
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March 8 |
11:00 a.m. |
No seminar due to Spring Break |
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March 15 |
11:00 a.m. |
No seminar due to Spring Break |
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March 22 |
11:00 a.m. |
No seminar due to Spring Break |
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March 29 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Gary Meints, Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Missouri State University, invited by Dr. Bret D. Freudenthal. |
Damage Perturbs DNA Backbone Energetics: A Role in Repair Enzyme Recognition? |
In-Person |
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April 5 |
No seminar |
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April 12 |
Student Research Forum |
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April 19 |
11:00 a.m. |
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April 26 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Julie Ostrander, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. |
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In-Person |
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May 3 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. David Ingham, Cryo-EM Specialist, Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Bret Freudenthal. |
Bringing Cryo-Electron Microscopy to KUMC |
In-Person |
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May 10 |
11:00 a.m. |
Alexandra Berkowicz, Graduate Student, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. |
Distinguishing Amyloid Variations with Innovative Biosensor Cells |
In-Person |
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May 17 |
11:00 a.m. |
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May 24 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Merlin Nithya Gnanapragasam Assistant Professor, Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease (GRHD), Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Cleveland State University, invited by Dr. Kenneth Peterson. |
In-Person |
Fall 2024
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Date |
Time |
Speaker & Host |
Title |
Format |
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August 23 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Ameya Mashruwala, Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research; invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. |
Quorum-sensing regulated |
In-Person |
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August 30 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Sam Myers, Assistant Professor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology; invited by Dr. Chad Slawson. |
On Death and Dying (without the O-GIcNAc Transferase) |
In-Person |
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September 6 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Paula D. Bos, Associate Professor of Pathology, Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth School of Medicine; invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. |
Mechanistic dissection of Treg cell contribution to breast cancer progression |
In-Person |
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September 13 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Maria Mills, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Missouri; invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse. |
Single molecular characterization of the activity of human XPD helicase |
In-Person |
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September 20 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Siva Sankari, Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research; invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. |
Host peptides control bacterial metabolism |
In-Person |
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September 27 |
11:00 a.m. |
Save for Faculty Recruitment |
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October 4 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Kamena Kostova, Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research; invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. |
Physiological and pathological changes in the ribosome composition |
In-Person |
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October 11 |
11:00 a.m. |
Save for Faculty Recruitment |
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October 18 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Neset Ozel, Assistant Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research; invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. |
From enhancers to circuits: Regulatory logic of neuronal diversity |
In-Person |
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October 25 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Prakash Kharel, Instructor, Medicine Immunochemistry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
Guanine Quadruplexes: From RNA Biology to Neuromuscular Disorders |
In-Person |
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November 1 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Alexandria Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa; invited by Dr. Lejla Zubcevic. |
The SARS-CoV-2 accessory protein Orf3a is not an ion channel, but does interact with trafficking proteins |
In-Person |
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November 8 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Russell A. DeBose-Boyd, Professor, Beatrice and Miguel Elias Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science, Department of Molecular Genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center. |
My 25-year fascination with cholesterol |
In-Person |
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November 15 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Kimberly Reynolds, Associate Professor, Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics/Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse. |
Mapping and modeling the "design specifications" of cellular systems |
In-Person |
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November 18 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Ning Tsao, Instructor, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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How RNA damage impacts genome integrity |
In-Person |
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November 22 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. George Makhatadze, Constellation Chair Professor in Biocomputation and Bioinformatics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; invited by Dr. Alexey Ladokhin. |
Effects of High Hydrostatic Pressure on the Stability and Function of Biomacromolecules |
In-Person |
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November 29 |
Thanksgiving-no seminar |
No seminar |
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December 6 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Niladri Sinha, Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse. |
Ribosomes function as critical sensors in cellular stress response |
In-Person |
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December 13 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Matt Schaich, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh; invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse. |
How do DNA repair proteins find their targets in a sea of undamaged DNA? Insights from single-molecule analysis. |
In-Person |
Spring 2023
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Time |
Speaker & Host |
Title |
Format |
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January 20 |
11:00 am |
Dr. Tonya Zeczycki, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eastern Carolina University, invited by Dr. Aron Fenton |
Bringing order to the chaos: understanding the roles intrinsic disorder, redox, and allostery have in regulating transglutaminase 2 |
Hybrid |
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January 27 |
12 noon |
J. Brad Pesavento |
Cryo-EM |
1001-1003 Beller |
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February 3 |
11:00 am |
Dr. Meridith Hartley, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Kansas, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan |
“Lipid dynamics during CNS myelin damage and repair” |
Hybrid |
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February 10 |
11:00 am |
Dr. Ann L. Wozniak, Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Motility, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Jeroen Roelofs. |
"Stress Granules and Cellular Trafficking" |
Hybrid |
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February 17 |
11:00 am |
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February 24 |
11:00 am |
Gabriel C. Lander, Scripps Research Institute |
"Do we still need crystallography? A case study in targeted protein degradation." Cryo-EM Seminar Series |
1001-1003 Beller |
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March 3 |
11:00 am |
Dr. Clarissa Durie, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri invited by Dr. Aron Fenton |
"Structure & Function of the Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm Type IV Secretion System" Cryo-EM Seminar Series |
1001-1003 Beller |
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March 10 |
11:00 am |
No seminar due to Spring Break |
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March 13 |
11:00 am |
Michael S. Chapman, University of Missouri |
AAV cell entry by cryo-Electron Microscopy Cryo-EM Seminar Series |
1001-1003 Beller |
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March 17 |
11:00 am |
No seminar due to Spring Break |
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March 24 |
11:00 am |
No seminar due to Spring Break |
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March 28 |
11:00 am |
Yong Yu, St. John's University |
Contributions of Cryo-EM in understanding structure and function of polycystin ion channels Cryo-EM Seminar Series |
1001-1003 Beller |
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March 31 |
11:00 am |
Lauryn Werner, M.D./Ph.D. student thesis defense |
Progesterone Promotes Immunomodulation and Impacts Tumor Growth in the Murine Mammary Gland |
Hybrid |
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April 7 |
11:00 am |
No Seminar - Student Research Forum |
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April 14 |
11:00 am |
Kaitlin Dehart, Biochemistry graduate student |
Hybrid |
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April 21 |
11:00 am |
Taylor Strope, Biochemistry graduate student |
Hybrid |
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April 24 |
TBD |
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April 28 |
11:00 am |
Kaspar P. Locher, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics |
High-resolution structure determination of membrane proteins using single-particle cryo-EM |
1001-1003 Beller |
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May 5 |
11:00 am |
Dr. Lezi E, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin invited by Dr. Hao Zhu |
Hybrid |
Fall 2023
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Date |
Time |
Speaker & Host |
Title |
Format |
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August 25 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Kristy A. Brown, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Metabolism and Cancer, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, KUMC; Co-Program Leader, Cancer Prevention and Control, University of Kansas Cancer Center, invited by Dr. Bret Freudenthal. |
Obesity and Breast Cancer: Hungry for a Cure |
Hybrid |
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Sept 1 |
11:00 a.m. |
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Sept 8 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Malay Busu, Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. |
Reading the book of life: the language of proteins |
Hybrid |
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Sept 15 |
11:00 a.m. |
Reserved |
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Sept 22 |
11:00 a.m. |
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Sept 29 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Vassilios Beglopoulos, Lecturer in Neuroscience |
Regulation of tau phosphorylation by the Alzheimer’s disease-implicated transcription factor REST in the adult mouse brain |
Zoom |
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Oct 6 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. L. Caetano M. Antunes, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. |
Modulation of enteric pathogen virulence by microbiome derived-small molecules |
In-Person |
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Oct 13 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Priyanka Verma, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Oncology Division, Molecular Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis invited by Dr. Bret Freudenthal. |
Uncovering the tricks to treat BRCA-mutant cancers with PARP inhibitors |
In-Person |
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Oct 20 |
11:00 a.m. |
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Oct 27 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Ryan Barnes, Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology, University of Kansas/Medical Center, invited by Dr. Bret Freudenthal. |
Oxidative and Replicative Stress at Telomeres and Beyond |
In-Person |
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Nov 3 |
11:00 a.m. |
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Nov 10 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Tamir Gonen, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Physiology and HHMI Investigator, University of California Los Angeles |
Quo Vadis MicroED |
In-Person |
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Nov 17 |
2:00 p.m. |
Benjamin Ryan, Ph.D. Candidate, Dissertation Defense |
DNA Polymerase β: Mechanisms of Nucleotide Insertion During DNA Repair |
In-Person, Wahl Hall West 1006 |
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Nov 24 |
Thanksgiving-no seminar |
No seminar |
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Dec 1 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Rosana Barreto Rocha Ferreira, Assistant Professor, Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. |
Searching for bioactive compounds produced by skin commensals |
In-Person |
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Dec 8 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Mark Ranek, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions invited by Dr. Heather Wilkins. |
Chipping |
In-Person |
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Dec 15 |
11:00 a.m. |
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Spring 2022
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| January 21 | 11:00 am | Dr. Mark P. Farrell, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas, invited by Dr. Chad Slawson | Tackling the elephant in the immunotherapy room |
| January 28 | 11:00 am | Dr. Stefan Bossmann, Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse | The Evolution of Nanobiosensors for Protease Detection: Liquid Biopsies for Early Cancer Detection |
| February 4 | 11:00 am | Dr. Irina Tikhanovich, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan. | Gender-specific role of lysine demethylases in alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) |
| February 11 | 11:00 am | ||
| February 18 | 11:00 am | Dr. Zach Morris, Associate Professor, Dept. of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, invited by Lauryn Werner. | Immunomodulating the tumor microenvironment using targeted radionuclide therapies to enhance response to immunotherapies |
| February 25 | 11:00 am | ||
| March 4 | 11:00 am | ||
| March 11 | 11:00 am | No Seminar - Spring Break | |
| March 18 | 11:00 am | Dr. Shizhen Jeff Wang, Assistant Professor, UMKC School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, invited by Dr. Lejla Zubcevic | Ligand and voltage gating of a human proton channel hHv1 |
| March 25 | 11:00 am | Dr. Nir Ben-Tal, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, invited by Dr. Alexey Ladokhin. | Protein archeology: How proteins emerged and evolve? |
| April 1 | 11:00 am | ||
| April 8 | 11:00 am | No Seminar - Student Research Forum | |
| April 15 | 11:00 am | Ibtihal Alghusen, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student | Regulation of mitophagy and mitochondrial stress response by O‐GlcNAc in Alzheimer's disease |
| April 22 | 11:00 am | Thesis Defense - Nicole Hoitsma | Characterizing AP-Endonuclease 1 (APE1) Cleavage of Diverse Biological Substrates |
| April 29 | 11:00 am | Shwetha Sreenivasan, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student | |
| May 5 | 11:00 am | ||
| May 6 | 11:00 am | Dr. Emma Morrison, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, invited by Dr. Bret Freudenthal | Deciphering the dynamic language of histones |
| May 13 | 11:00 am | Sophiya John Ephrame, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Student | |
| May 20 | 11:00 am | Appolinaire Olou, Sr. Research Associate, KUMC Cancer Biology, invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse | Investigating mechanisms of cellular stressors and their implication for pancreatic cancer progression |
Fall 2022
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Speaker & Host |
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August 26 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Randal Halfmann, Associate Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research |
Protein self-assembly governs cell fate |
Hybrid |
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September 2 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Ren Dobson, School of Biological Sciences University of Canterbury, New Zealand invited by Dr. Aron Fenton |
TRAPped in an elevator: amino-sugar uptake and utilisation by bacteria |
Zoom |
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September 9 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. P. Hemachandra Reddy, Professor and Vice Chair Research of Basic and Translational Sciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, invited by Dr. Heather Wilkins. |
Oxidative Stress and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease: Focus on Mitophagy Enhancers |
Zoom |
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September 16 |
No Seminar |
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September 23 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Stephen D. Fried, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, invited by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse |
A Proteome-wide Map of Chaperone-Assisted Protein Refolding in the Cellular Milieu |
Hybrid |
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September 30 |
11:00 a.m. |
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October 7 |
11:00 a.m. |
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October 14 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Jared May, Assistant Professor, Division of Biological and Biomedical Systems, UMKC-School of Science and Engineering, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan |
Regulation of virus-host interactions by biomolecular condensates |
Hybrid |
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October 21 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Ross Marklein, Assistant Professor, School of Chemical, Materials, and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Georgia, invited by Dr. Heather Wilkins |
Development of advanced manufacturing approaches to understand and control mesenchymal stromal cell functional heterogeneity. |
Zoom |
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October 28 |
11:00 a.m. |
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November 4 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Wagner Dias, Visiting Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, invited by Dr. Chad Slawson | Is O-GlcNAcylation important for tumor biology? | Hybrid |
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November 11 |
11:00 a.m. |
HUB-seminar |
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November 18 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Andrea Mattevi, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universita Di Pavia, Italy, invited by Dr. Aron Fenton |
Structure and function of NADPH oxidases, the professional ROS generators |
Zoom |
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November 25 |
Thanksgiving - No seminar |
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December 2 |
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December 9 |
11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Anthony Fehr, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan |
ADP-ribosylation and its Impact on Coronavirus Infection |
Hybrid |
Spring 2021
| Date | Time | Speaker & Host | Title |
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| January 22 | 11:00 am |
Lance A. Johnson, Ph.D |
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| January 29 | 11:00 am | ||
| February 5 | 11:00 am | ||
| February 12 | 11:00 am | Olivia Veatch, Ph.D. University of Kansas Medical Center (hosted by Dr. Joseph Fontes) |
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| February 19 | 11:00 am | ||
| February 26 | 11:00 am | ||
| March 5 | 11:00 am | ||
| March 12 | 11:00 am | No Seminar - Spring Break | |
| March 19 | 11:00 am | Benjamin Ryan BMB Graduate Student |
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| March 26 | 11:00 am | Erin Young, Ph.D. Anesthesiology (hosted by Dr. Lejla Zubcevic) |
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| April 2 | 11:00 am | ||
| April 9 | 11:00 am | No Seminar - Student Research Forum | |
| April 16 | 11:00 am | Kyle Baumbauer, Ph.D Anatomy and Cell Biology (hosted by Dr. Lejla Zubcevic) |
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| April 23 | 11:00 am | Griffin Welfer BMB Graduate Student |
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| April 30 | 11:00 am | Lauryn Werner BMB Graduate Student |
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| May 7 | 11:00 am | Mandeep Kaur BMB Graduate Student |
Fall 2021
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title |
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| August 27 | 11:00 a.m. | Dr. Michael Washburn, Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Aron Fenton | Integrated Structural Modeling of Chromatin Remodeling Complexes and Networks. |
| Sept 3 | 11:00 a.m. | Dr. David M. Smith, Associate Professor West Virginia University, invited by Dr. Jeroen Roelofs | Impairment of protein degradation by pathological oligomers associated with neurodegenerative disease. |
| Sept 10 | 11:00 a.m. | Dr. Daniel Bauer, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, invited by Dr. Ken Peterson | Genome editing to understand and treat blood disorders. |
| Sept 17 | 11:00 a.m. | ||
| Sept 24 | 11:00 a.m. | Dr. Kristy A. Brown, Associate Professor, Biochemistry in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, invited by Dr. Christy Hagan | Hungry for a cure: Unacylated ghrelin inhibits the 3D growth of breast cancer cells. |
| Oct 1 | 11:00 a.m. | ||
| Oct 8 | 11:00 a.m. | Dr. Charles Sanders, Professor Vanderbilt University, Editor of Biochemistry, invited by Dr. Alexey Ladokhin | Ion Channel Super-Trafficking as A Disease Mechanism |
| Oct 15 | 11:00 a.m. | Dr. Long Zheng, Professor and Russell J. Eilers, MD Endowed Chair and Clinical Service Chief, Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Antonio Artigues | ADAMTS and human diseases |
| Oct 22 | 11:00 a.m. | Dr. Konstantine Halkidis, Assistant Professor, The Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, Internal Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, invited by Dr. Aron Fenton | The antibody-mediated pathophysiology of immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura |
| Oct 29 | 11:00 a.m. | Dr. Peng Mao, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Molecular Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences, invited by Dr. Bret Freudenthal | BER in Chromatin: Genome-wide Mapping of Alkylation Damage and Repair |
| Nov 5 | 11:00 a.m. | ||
| Nov 12 | 11:00 a.m. | HUB- seminar | |
| Nov 19 | 11:00 a.m. | Dr. Mihaela Sardiu, Ph.D. Associate Professor at KUMC, Department of Biostatistics & Data Science invited by Dr. Alexey Ladokhin. | Looking at the Proteins from the "Top" |
| Nov 26 | Thanksgiving-no seminar | No seminar | |
| Dec 3 | 11:00 a.m. | Thesis Defense-Pierce O'Neil presented via Blackboard |
Membrane-induced refolding of tetanus neurotoxin translocation domain |
| Dec 10 | 11:00 a.m. |
Spring 2020
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January 24 |
11:00 am |
Alexandria Cockrell, Graduate Student University of Kansas Medical Center |
"Exploring ribosomal DNA dynamics in fission yeast" |
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January 31 |
11:00 am |
Lynne Dieckman, Ph.D. |
"Structure and Function of Proteins that Regulate Replication-Coupled Nucleosome Assembly" |
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February 7 |
11:00 am |
Michael VanSaun, Ph.D. |
"Understanding mechanisms of obesity associated with pancreatic cancer progression" |
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February 11 |
12 noon |
Malachi Griffith, Ph.D. |
"Immunogenomics approaches for development of cancer immunotherapies" |
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February 21 |
11:00 am |
Mark Hedglin, Ph.D. |
"Mechanistic Insights into Human DNA Damage Tolerance from Fluorescence-based Studies" |
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February 28 |
11:00 am |
Aaron R. Robert, Ph.D. |
"Mechanisms of Group II intron Splicing and Retrotransposition" |
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March 6 |
11:00 am |
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| March 13 |
11:00 am |
No Seminar - Spring Break |
Fall 2020
Fall 2020 seminars will be presented virtually
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| October 23 | 11:00 am |
Laurie Sanders, Ph.D. |
"Genome integrity in Parkinson's disease: From biomarker to mechanism" |
| October 30 | 11:00 am | ||
| November 6 | 11:00 am | Martin McCullagh, Ph.D. Oklahoma State University (hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton) |
"ATP Hydrolysis and Allostery in the Dengue Virus NS3" |
| November 13 | 11:00 am |
CANCELED |
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| November 20 | 11:00 am | Benjamin Weaver, Ph.D. UT Southwestern Medical Center (hosted by Dr. James Calvet) |
"LIFE or DEATH....Caspases, it's in the way you use them" |
| November 27 | 11:00 am | No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| December 4 | 11:00 am | Lauren Porter, Ph.D. NIH/NLM/NCBI (hosted by Dr. Liskin Swint-Kruse) |
"Surveying the sequence landscape of fold-switching proteins" |
| December 11 | 11:00 am | Levi Wood, Ph.D. Georgia Tech (hosted by Dr. Heather Wilkins) |
" Systems Analysis of Neural Immune Signaling in Neurodegenerative Diseases" |
Spring 2019
| Date | Time | Speaker & Host | Title |
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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
| Date | Time | Speaker & Host | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
|
September 20 |
11:00 am |
Heather Wilkins, Ph.D |
"Amyloid beta and bioenergetics" |
|
September 27* |
9:00 am |
Erica Golemis, Ph.D. |
"How studying PKD can provide insight into cancer biology" |
|
October 4 |
11:00 am |
Jeremy Schmit, Ph.D. |
"Biomolecule phase transitions: Universal behavior or specific functions" |
|
October 11 |
11:00 am |
S. Patricia Becerra, Ph.D. |
"A study of the biochemistry of proteins and its impact on medicine: PEDF and retina pathology" |
| October 25 |
11:00 am |
Kurt Piepenbrink, Ph.D. University of Nebraska (hosted by Dr. Aron Fenton) |
"Molecular Mechanisms of Motlility and Adhesion of Acinetobacter baumannii" |
| November 1 |
11:00 am |
Erik D. Holmstrom, Ph.D. University of Kansas - Lawrence (hosted by Dr. Christy Hagan) |
"Disordered RNA-folding chaperones promote nucleic acid conformational transitions via local charge screening" |
| November 22 |
11:00 am |
Brian Geisbrecht, Ph.D. |
"Evasion of the Complement/Neutrophil Axis by Staphylococcus aureus: A Biochemical Perspective" |
| December 13 |
11:00 am |
John Thyfault, Ph.D. University of Kansas Medical Center (hosted by Dr. Bret Freudenthal) |
"Pharmacotherapy and exercise interactions and implications for metabolic health" |
Spring 2018
| Date | Time | Speaker & Host | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Jan. 19 |
11:00 am |
Jeffrey Thompson, Ph.D. |
"Assessing equivalent and inverse change in genomic data from multiple experiments: a new approach to functional analysis" |
|
Jan 26 |
11:00 am |
Benjamin Corb, Director of Public Affairs |
"Science Policy: Perspective from the Front Lines" |
|
Feb 16 |
11:00 am |
Mallory Smith |
"Molecular Insight into How Guanine Base Damage is Handled by DNA Polymerase beta " |
|
Feb 23 |
11:00 am |
Peter Harris, Ph.D. |
"The importance of posttranslational processing of polycystin-1 and fibrocystin to localization and function" |
|
Mar 2 |
11:00 am |
A. J. Mellott, Ph.D. |
"Orchestrating the Extracellular Environment to Induce Stem Cell Differentiation and Tissue Repair" |
|
Mar 9 |
11:00 am |
Matthew Schaich |
"Telomerase - an untapped cancer target" |
|
Mar 16 |
11:00 am |
John A. Hanover, Ph.D. |
"A Little Sugar Goes a Long Way: |
|
Mar 23 |
11:00 am |
No Seminar - Spring Break |
|
|
Mar 30 |
11:00 am |
Phillip E. Klebba, Ph.D. |
"Antibiotic discovery by fluorescence spectroscopic analyses of membrane transport in CRE/ESKAPE bacterial pathogens" |
|
Apr 6 |
11:00 am |
David Wilson, Ph.D. |
"Repair Mechanisms for Endogenous DNA Damage" |
|
Apr 13 |
11:00 am |
E. Matthew Morris, Ph.D. |
"Is Reduced Liver Energy Metabolism Making Us Obese" |
|
Apr 20 |
11:00 am |
Roberta Leonardi, Ph.D. |
" Regulation of coenzyme A and metabolic flexibility" |
|
Apr 27 |
11:00 am |
David Johnson, Ph.D. |
" The Computational Chemical Biology Core: Computational approaches for screening and design of small-molecule inhibitors" |
|
May 4 |
11:00 am |
Matthew Parker |
"Fine Tuning Hemoglobin Switching: Mechanisms at the Molecular Level" |
|
May 10* |
12:00 Noon |
Gerald A. Dienel, Ph.D. |
"Aerobic glycolysis during brain activation" |
|
May 11 |
11:00 am |
Michael Marvin, Ph.D. |
"SR Protein Kinase Phosphorylation & Splicing of Suboptimal Introns in Fission Yeast" |
|
May 18 |
11:00 am |
Steven D. Hartson, Ph.D. |
"Proteomic Profiling of Anti-cancer Drug Mechanisms" |
Fall 2018
| Date | Time | Speaker & Host | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
|
September 7 |
11:00 am |
Ming Xu, Ph.D. |
"Targeting cellular senescence to alleviate |
|
September 14 |
11:00 am |
Catherine Musselman, Ph.D. |
"The effect of nucleosome conformation on reader domain binding" |
|
September 21 |
11:00 am |
Stephen D. O'Connor, Ph.D. |
"Entrepreneurship in the Biomedical Field" |
|
September 28 |
11:00 am |
Kristi Neufeld, Ph.D. |
"Structure function study of colon tumor suppressor APC" |
|
October 5 |
11:00 am |
Shizhen 'Jeff' Wang, Ph.D |
"Ion Selectivity and Pore Gating: Insights from a Potassium Channel in Motion" |
|
October 12 |
11:00 am |
No Seminar - Faculty Research Day |
|
|
October 19 |
11:00 am |
Laird Forrest, Ph.D. |
"Development of localized cancer therapeutics" |
|
October 26 |
11:00 am |
Mary Markiewicz, Ph.D. |
"The multifaceted roles of NKG2D in autoimmune diabetes and cancer" |
|
November 2 |
11:00 am |
Blake Peterson, Ph.D. |
"Chemical Tools for Studies of Biological Systems" |
|
November 9 |
11:00 am |
Jodi Nunnari, Ph.D. |
"Mitochondrial Behavior" |
|
November 16 |
11:00 am |
Ewud Agborbesong, Graduate Student |
"Molecular insight into epigenetic regulation of cytokinesis and ciliogensis in ADPKD" |
|
November 23 |
11:00 am |
No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday |
|
|
November 30 |
11:00 am |
C. Michael Crowder |
"Hypoxic Injury is a Protein Synthesis and Folding Problem |
SPECIAL SEMINAR: June 23rd, 11 am, Lied Auditorium
Miguel Machuqueiro, PhD, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
"Molecular Modeling pH effects in proteins: membrane interactions and drug binding"
SPRING 2017
| Date | Time | Speaker & Host | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
|
January 20 |
11:00 am |
Saurav Misra, Ph.D. |
"All that and a Bag of CHIPs - structure-function studies of cytoplasmic protein quality control" |
|
January 27 |
11:00 am |
Jay F. Storz, Ph.D. |
"Causes of parallel molecular adptation: insights from vertebrate hemoglobin" |
|
February 10 |
11:00 am |
Steven Roberts, Ph.D. |
"Landscape of APOBEC-induced mutation in Cancer" |
|
February 24 |
11:00 am |
Mario Rivera, Ph.D. |
"Bacterioferritin: Structure, dynamics and protein-protein interactions at play in iron storage and mobilization" |
|
March 3 |
11:00 am |
Kausik Si, Ph.D. |
"What memories are made of" |
|
March 10 |
11:00 am |
John J. Correia, Ph.D. |
"Biothermodynamics of Elastin-Like-Polypetides: the influence of drug labeling" |
|
March 17 |
11:00 am |
Joseph Fontes, Ph.D. |
"Modulation of the unfolded protein response by gap junctional coupling: hormetic mechanisms of neuronal death and survival" |
|
March 24 |
11:00 am |
No Seminar - Spring Break |
|
|
March 31 |
11:00 am |
Brian C. Freeman, Ph.D. |
"Molecular chaperones regulate the chromatin landscape. Is it time to move?" |
|
April 7 |
11:00 am |
No Seminar - Student Research Forum |
|
|
April 14 |
11:00 am |
Alexandra Machen, Graduate Student |
"Anthrax Toxin: the Unfolding Story of Structure and Function" |
|
April 21 |
11:00 am |
Luanne Peters, Ph.D. |
"Requirement for RASA3 in HSPC Differentiation: Studies in scat and Rasa3 cKO Models" |
|
April 28 |
11:00 am |
Danny R. Welch, Ph.D. |
"The forgotten genome: Surprising roles of mitochondriain cancer metastasis" |
|
May 5 |
11:00 am |
Shawn Burgess, Ph.D. |
"Fire and Ice: Mitochondrial Metabolism as a Mediator of Fatty Liver Disease" |
|
May 12 |
11:00 am |
John Thyfault, Ph.D. |
"Exercise, Aerobic Capacity, and impact on mitochondrial function in the liver" |
|
May 19 |
11:00 am |
Sarah Bondos, Ph.D. |
"Multiple structure-intrinsic disorder interactions regulate and coordinate Hox protein function" |
Fall 2017
| Date | Time | Speaker & Host | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Sept 1 |
11:00 am |
Pierce O'Neil |
"Tetanus Neurotoxin: Unfolding the Refolding and Translocation Mechanism" |
|
Sept 8 |
11:00 am |
Michael S. Wolfe, Ph.D. |
"Gamma-Secretase and the Mechanism of Alzheimer's Disease" |
|
Sept 15 |
11:00 am |
Robert A. Harris, Ph.D. |
"Role of the PDK isoenzymes in glucose homeostasis, hepatic steatosis, and adipose tissue inflammation" |
|
Sept 22 |
11:00 am |
Julie Christianson, Ph.D. |
"The painful consequences of stress" |
|
Sept 29 |
11:00 am |
David Andrews, Ph.D. |
"Bcl-2 proteins regulate cell death at on and in membranes" |
|
Oct 6 |
11:00 am |
Scott Lovell, Ph.D. |
"A Protein Structure Medley: From Functional Studies to Inhibitor Development" |
|
Oct 13 |
11:00 am |
Wonpil Im, Ph.D. |
"Bacterial Outer Membranes and Interactions with Membrane Proteins" |
|
Oct 20 |
11:00 am |
Byron Caughey, Ph.D. |
"Prions, Amyloids and the transmissibility of protein misfolding diseases" |
|
Oct 27 |
11:00 am |
Amy Whitaker, Ph.D. |
"APE1 Cleavage Mechanisms during DNA Repair" |
|
Nov 3 |
11:00 am |
Olof Lagerlof, Ph.D. |
"O-GlcNAc: a new mechanism for how the brain controls food intake" |
|
Nov 10 |
11:00 am |
Thomas A. Kunkel, Ph.D. |
"Recent studies of nuclear DNA replication fidelity in budding yeast" |
|
Nov 17 |
11:00 am |
Irfan Saadi, Ph.D. |
"Genetic Dissection of SPECC1L Function in Craniofacial Morphogenesis" |
|
Nov 24 |
11:00 am |
No Seminar -Thanksgiving Holiday |
|
|
Dec 1 |
11:00 am |
Carla Koehler, Ph.D. |
"Pathways of RNA and protein import into mitochondria" |
|
Dec 8 |
11:00 am |
Joann Sweasy, Ph.D. |
"Base Excision Repair and Lupus" |
|
Dec 15 |
11:00 am |
Blaine Mooers, Ph.D. |
"Structural studies of RNA editing in trypanosomes" |
Spring 2016
| Date | Time | Speaker & Host | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Jan 22 |
11:00 am |
Emad Tajkhorshid, Ph.D. |
"Visualizing Fuctional Motions of Biological Membranes and Membrane Proteins at Full Atomic Resolution Using Advanced Simulation Technologies |
|
Jan 29 |
11:00 am |
Qi Chen, Ph.D. |
"Vitamin C in cancer treatment: An unpaved journey" |
|
Feb 5 |
11:00 am |
Josephine Chandler, Ph.D. |
"Making friends to make war: bacterial quorum sensing, cooperation and interspecies competition" |
|
Feb 12 |
11:00 am |
Miles Pufall, Ph.D. |
"The androgen and glucocorticoid receptors use the same interface to bind functionally distinct DNA sequences" |
|
Feb 19 |
11:00 am |
Maria Kalamvoki, Ph.D. |
"Extracellular vesicles during Herpes Simplex Virus Infection" |
|
Feb 26 |
11:00 am |
Rick T. Dobrowsky, Ph.D. |
"Modulating the Chaperone to Treat Peripheral Neuropathies" |
|
Mar 4 |
11:00 am |
Patricia L. Opresko, Ph.D. |
"The impact of oxidative DNA damage on telomere maintenance and telomerase activity" |
|
Mar 11 |
11:00 am |
Sufi Thomas, Ph.D. |
"Targeting Tumor-stroma metabolic symbiosis for cancer therapy" |
|
Mar 25 |
11:00 am |
William E. Royer, Ph.D |
"regulation of Biological Activity through Protein Assembly: Conventional and Time-resolved Crystallographic Analyses of Cooperative Invertebrate Hemoglobins" |
|
Apr 8 |
11:00 am |
Katie Mitchell-Koch, Ph.D. |
"What can we learn about biomolecules with a little computational sleuthing?" |
|
Apr 15 |
11:00 am |
Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D. |
"Light chain amyloidosis: Biophysics in the test tube and in the cell" |
|
Apr 22 |
11:00 am |
Marie Spies, Ph.D. |
"Single-molecule studies of FeS DNA helicases: kinetics, confrmation dynamics and molecular mechanisms" |
|
Apr 29 |
11:00 am |
Ilya Vakser, Ph.D. |
"Structural modeling of interactome" |
|
May 13 |
11:00 am |
Michael D. Brenowitz, Ph.D. |
"A new method of oxidative mapping of molecular interfaces" |
Fall 2016
| Date | Time | Speaker & Host | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
|
September 9 |
11:00 am |
Christopher J. Roberts, Ph.D |
"Mechanisms and Molecular Driving Forces for Aggregation of Therapeutic Proteins" |
|
September 23 |
11:00 am |
Todd Washington, Ph.D. |
"PCNA tool belts and polymerase bridges form during translation synthesis" |
|
October 7 |
11:00 am |
Hiroshi Nishimune, Ph.D. |
" Dual-color STED microscopy reveals synaptic structures of adult and aged mice" |
|
October 14 |
11:00 am |
Mathias Lösche, Ph.D |
" Regulation of the PTEN Tumor Suppressor: Insights from Scattering and MD studies" |
|
October 21 |
11:00 am |
Audrey Lamb, Ph.D. |
"Pyochelin biosynthesis: the enzymes from A to G" |
|
October 28 |
11:00 am |
Christopher Stipp, Ph.D. University of Iowa (hosted by Dr. Chad Slawson) |
"Alpha3 Beta1 Integrin is Abl to Help Hippo Inhibit Prostate Cancer Metastasis" |
|
November 4 |
11:00 am |
Grant Bullock, M.D., Ph.D., |
"The Role of Iron and Mitochondrial Metabolism in Erythropoiesis" |
|
Novermber 11 |
11:00 am |
Susan S. Taylor, Ph.D. |
"PKA: Assembly and Localization of Dynamic Macromolecular Signaling Complexes" |
|
November 18 |
11:00 am |
Victor Vasquez Montes, Graduate Student |
"Lipid-Dependent Modulation of Protein-Membrane Interactions" |
|
December 2 |
11:00 am |
Sefika Ozkan, Ph.D. |
"Allostery and Protein Dynamics in Evolution and Disease" |
|
December 9 |
11:00 am |
Ariel Bazzini, Ph.D. |
"Found in Translation |
|
December 16 |
11:00 am |
Randal Halfmann, Ph.D. |
"Quantitative Prion Biology" |
Fall 2015
| Date | Time | Speaker & Host | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Sept 11 |
11:00 am |
Bryan Krantz, Ph.D. |
"Peptide and Proton Driven Allosteric Clamps Catalyze Anthrax Toxin Translocation across Membranes" |
|
Sept 18 |
11:00 am |
Christian Ray, Ph.D. |
"Lineage space and the propensity of cells to undergo growth transtions" |
|
Sept 25 |
11:00 am |
TBA |
TBA |
|
Oct 2 |
11:00 am |
CANCELED |
|
|
Oct 9 |
11:00 am |
TBA |
TBA |
|
Oct 16 |
11:00 am |
Ryan S. Funk, Pharm.D., Ph.D. |
"Identification of Biochemical Markers of Methotrexate Response in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis" |
|
Oct 23 |
11:00 am |
Prachee Avasthi, Ph.D. |
"Regulating the cell's antenna: novel trafficking and signaling mechanisms for ciliary assembly" |
|
Oct 30 |
11:00 am |
TBA |
TBA |
|
Nov 6 |
11:00 am |
Matt Cuneo, Ph.D. |
"A second allosteric switch in periplasmic binding protein mediated ABC transport" |
|
Nov 13* |
11:00 am |
James A. Wells, Ph.D |
"Drug Discovery at Challenging Targets: Reaching for High Hanging Fruit" |
|
Nov 20 |
11:00 am |
Laurie Steiner, MD |
"The histone methyltransferase Setd8 is critical for erythroblast survival and maturation" |
|
Nov 27 |
11:00 am |
No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday |
TBA |
|
Dec 4 |
11:00 am |
Jackie Thompson |
"The One-of-a-Kind Interaction between Phosphorylase Kinase and Its Substrate Glycogen Phosphorylase" |
|
Dec 11 |
11:00 am |
Ee Tan |
"The Sweet Side of Mitochondrial Regulation" |
|
Dec 18 |
11:00 am |
Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, Ph.D. |
"The Three Tenors: Electrical, Chemical, and Mixed Synapses" |