Department of Biochemistry / UTHSCSA
Seminar Schedule 2004

Rev. 1-14-05


2004
Fri. Jan 16 Dr. Cunming Duan, Univ. of Michigan; "New Model Organism, New Function, and New Concept in the IGF Signaling Pathway". 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Rm 409-410L. hosts: Drs. Martin Adamo and John Lee
Wed. Feb 11 Patrizia Lemma-Gray, DISSERTATION PROPOSAL, "Binding of Cytochrome c and Cardiolipin to Cytochrome c Oxidase and Cytochrome bc1", 10:30-11:30am, Rm 409-411L. NOTE: UNUSUAL TIME AND DATE.
Fri. Feb. 13 Dr. Rod Levine, NIH; "Regulation of Protein Turnover by Oxidation", 12:00-1:00pm, Rm 409-410L, host: Dr. P. John Hart
Fri. Feb. 20 Dr. John C. Salerno, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. "Catalysis and Control in Nitric Oxide Synthase: Molecular Machines and Mechanic's Toolkits". 12:00-1:00pm, Rm 409-410L. host: Dr. Bettie Sue Masters
Fri. Feb. 27 Dr. Kenneth Walsh, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine. "Akt-mediated Growth Signals in Heart and Blood Vessels." 12:00-1:00pm, Rm 409-410L. hosts: Drs. Feng Liu and Manjeri Venkatachalam
Fri. Mar. 12 Dr. Paul D. Lampe, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center. "Regulation of Gap Junctional Commuication via Connexin Phosphorylation". 12:00-1:00pm, Rm 409-410L. host: Dr. Jean X. Jiang
Fri. Mar. 26 Dr. Gary Cecchini, V.A. Medical Center, San Francisco, CA. "Molecular Architecture of Respiratory Complex II (Succinate Dehydrogenase)". 12:00-1:00pm, Rm 409-410L. host: Dr. Neal C. Robinson
Fri. Apr. 16 Dr. Xiaohua Gong, School of Optometry, Univ. of California, Berkeley. "Mouse Eye - A Model for Functional Studies of Signaling Genes". 12:00-1:00pm, Rm 409-410L. host: Dr. Jean X. Jiang
Tue. Apr. 20 Jennifer Stine-Elam, Doctoral Dissertation Seminar, "Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase and Its Copper Chaperone: roles in Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis". 10:00-11:00 am, Room 409-410L.
Wed. Apr 21 Dr. Philip Wong, Johns Hopkins Univ., "Beta-site APP Cleaving-Enzyme (BACE) in Cognition and Alzheimer's Disease". 10:00-11:00 am, Room 209-210L.
Mon. Apr. 26 Dr. Jonathan Javitch, Columbia University, "The Structural Bases of G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Oligomerization: Conformational Changes at The Dimer Interface". 3:00-4:00 pm; room 309-310L
Tue. Apr. 27 DongSoo Kang, Doctoral Dissertation Seminar, "Molecular Mechanisms of B1 Bradykinin Receptor Activation", 10:00-11:00, Rm. 2.424T (Dental School). NOTE ROOM CHANGE.
Tue. Apr. 27 Dr. Judith S. Bond, The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, "Meprin Metalloproteases: Activities, Oligomerization and Gene Disruption" 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Rm. 2.424T (dental school). host: Dr. Bettie Sue Masters
Wed. Apr. 28 Satya Panda, Doctoral Dissertation Seminar, "Regulation of Catalysis of Constitutive Nitric Oxide Synthases". 10:00 - 11:00 am, Room 209-210L
Thur. Apr. 29 Xun Yu, Doctoral Dissertation Seminar, "Function of Lens Fiber Connexin 45.6 in Lens Cell Differentiation and Interaction with Major Intrinsic Protein", 9:30-10:30 am, Room 1.284T (Dental School).
Thur. Apr. 29 Dr. Ross G. Johnson, The University of Minnesota, "Gap Junctions, the Notochord and Vascular Development in Zebrafish or Let's Talk About What You'll Be When You Grow Up" 3:00 - 4:00 pm, Rm 4.434T (Dental school).
Fri. Apr. 30 Xu Lu, Doctoral Dissertation Seminar, "Molecular Dissection of Linker Histone C-terminal Tail Domain Function in Chromatin". 9:30-10:30 am, Rm 1.284T (Dental School)
Fri. Apr. 30 Dr. Roger W. Hendrix, Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute and Dept. of Biological Sciences, The Univ. of Pittsburgh. "Bacteriophgae Genomics: Evolution of the Majority". 12:00-1:00pm, Rm. 2.010 (Underneath the Medical Lecture Hall). host: Dr. Philip Serwer
Mon. May 3 Biochemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Thomas Weimbs, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, "SNAREs and Membrane Fusion in Epithelial Cell Polarity and Cytokinesis". 12:00-1:00, 309-310L.
Fri. May 7 Biochemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Tina M. Iverson, Imperial College of Science, Wolfson Laboratories, London. "Structure Function Relationships in Bioenergetic Membrane Proteins". 12:00-1:00 pm, Rm. 409-410L.
Fri. May 14 Dr. Kevin R. MacKenzie, Dept. of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice Univ. "Structure and Stability of Transmembrane Domain Interactiions of BNIP3, a Pro-apoptotic Member of the Bcl-2 Superfamily". 12:00-1:00pm, Rm. 409-410L. host: Dr. Andrew P. Hinck
Mon. May 24 Biochemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Jesse C. Hay, Dept. of Mol. Cell. and Devel. Biology, Univ. of Michigan, "SNARE Proteins in ER-to-Golgi Vesicle Transport and Neuronal Protein Targeting". 12:00-1:00 pm, Rm. 409-410L.
Thr. May 27 Biochemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Rieko Ishima, Nat. Inst. of Dental and Craniofacial Research, "Protein Structure and Dynamics Studies Using NMR". 12:00-1:00 pm, Rm. 409-410L.
Thr. June 3 Biochemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Francis I. Valiyaveetil, Rockefeller Univ., "Exploring Potassium Channels Using Chemistry and Biochemistry". 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Rm. 209-210L.
Tue. June 8 Biochemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Junji Iwahara, NIDDK/NIH,"NMR Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancement for Investigations of Protein-DNA Complexes". 12:00-1:00pm; Rm 409-410L
Thr. June 10 Biochemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Hye-Jeong Yeo, Washington Univ., "Unveiling Molecular Scaffolds of Bacterial Secretion Systems". 3:00-4:00pm, 409-410L
Mon. June 14 Biochemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Sudha K. Shenoy, Duke Univ. Med. Ctr., "Ubiquitinated-Beta-arrestin: A Molecular Chauffeur that Drives 7MSRs to Signaling Endosomes". 12:00-1:00 pm; Rm. 409-410L
Thr. June 17 Biochemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Chongwoo Kim, UCLA, "Polymeric SAM Domains of Transcriptional Repressors - A Hint at Higther Order Chromatin Structures". 12:00-1:00 pm, Rm 444-445B
Wed June 23 Dr. habil. Helmut Colfen, Max Planck Institute, Golm, Germany, "Analytical Ultracentrifugation and Field-Flow-Fractionation; First Steps Towards a Global Analysis of Complex Systems and Future Possibilities with Optimized Detectors." 11:00 -12:00 am, Rm 4.434T
Fri. June 25 Biochemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Hilal A. Lashuel, Harvard Med. School and Brigham & Womens Hospital. "Protein Fibrillogenesis in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Disease: From Biophysics to Therapeutic Strategies." 12:00-1:00 pm, Rm 409-410L.
Mon. June 28 Biochemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Motoshi Suzuki, Nat Inst. of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, "Structural Basis of Proteins Involved in Mitochondrial Regulation". 3:00-4:00 pm, Rm 409-410L.
Tue, July 6 Biochemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Jay C. Groppe, UTHSCSA, "Extracellular Regulation of Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling: Insights from Structures of Protein:Protein Complexes". 12:00-1:00 pm. Rm 409-410L.
Mon. July 26 Biochemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Ingolf Bach, Univ. of Hamburg, "Regulation of LIM Domain-Associated Protein Networks". 12:00-1:00 pm, Rm 409-410L.
Fri. Oct. 1 Dr. Katherine M. Howard, Dept. Biochemistry, UTHSCSA. "Signal Transduction and Transcriptional Regulation in Tissue Injury and Repair." 12:00-1:00 pm, Rm. 409-410L.
Fri. Oct 8 Dr. Michael Naski, Dept. of Pathology, UTHSCSA. "Signaling Pathways that Regulate Chondrogenesis: Calcium, Calcineurin, and NFAT". 12:00-1:00 pm. Rm. 409-410L.
Fri. Oct. 15 Dr. Jean X. Jiang, Dept of Biochemistry, UTHSCSA. "Gap Junctions, Hemichannels, and Prostaglandin E2 in Osteocyte Signaling Induced by Mechanical Strain". 12:00-1:00 pm, Rm. 409-410L.
Fri. Oct 22 Dr. Stephen C. Hardies, Dept. of Biochemistry, UTHSCSA. "Bioinformatics of Bacteriophage Genomes". 12:00-1:00 pm., Rm. 409-410L
Fri. Oct 29 Dr. Bettie Sue Masters, Dept. of Biochemistry, UTHSCSA. "Who Says We Can't Say 'NO'? Intrinsic Regulation of Nitric Oxide Synthases". 12:00-1:00 pm, Rm. 409-410L.
Tue Nov 2 Dr. Bing Zhang, Section of Neurobiology, Univ. of Texas at Austin. "Recycling Synaptic Vesicle Proteins for Competent Exocytosis". 12:00-1:00 pm., Rm. 409-410L.
Wed Nov 3 Jianwen Jiang, Dissertation Proposal Seminar. "Structural Analysis of Clathrin Coat Disassembly". 12:00-1:00 pm., Rm 1.284 T (Dental School).
Mon. Nov. 8 Dr. Rieko Ishima, Faculty Candidate Chalk Talk. 12:00 - 1:30 pm., Rm 2.030 (under Medical lecture hall).
Wed. Nov 10 Jorge Zuniga, Dissertation Proposal Seminar. "Structural Studies of the 2:2:1 TbRI ED:TbRII ED:TGF-beta Complex". 2:00-3:00pm., 2.104, Allied Health Building.
Mon. Nov. 15 Paul Langlais, Dissertation Seminar. "Characterization of the Insulin Receptor Associated Protein Grb10". 10:30-11:30 am., rm 409-410L.
Tue, Nov 16 Dr. Jun-Lin Guan, Dept. of Mol. Medicine, Cornell Univ., "Focal Adhesion Kinase in Cell Migration and Angiogenesis". 11:00-12:00, Rm. 409-401L.
Thur, Nov 18 Huiran Yin, Dissertation Proposal Seminar. "Expression, Purification and Characterization of the Extracellular Domain of BMPR-II in Solution". 1:00-2:00pm., Rm. 1.284T
Fri, Nov 19 Dr. Holger Strauss, Research Inst. for Mol. Pharmacology, Dept. of NMR-assisted Structural Biology, Berlin, "Biophysical Investigations on Cyanobacterial Phytochrome 1", 12:00-1:00pm, Rm 309-310L.
Mon, Nov 29 Dr. Timothy J. King, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Ctr., Seattle, "Role of Connexins and Gap Junction Communication in Tumorigenesis". 12:00-1:00pm., Rm 309-310L
Tue, Nov 30 Chintan Kikani, Dissertation Proposal, "Understanding the Regulation of 3'-Phosphoinositide Dependent Kinase-1(PDK-1) in Insulin Signal Transduction". 12:00-1:00pm, Rm 409-410L
Thur. Dec 2 Dr. Chongwoo Kim, Dept. Biochemistry, UTHSCSA, 12:00-1:00pm, Rm 421B. Special session for incoming faculty member to meet with Biochemistry Graduate Students.
Fri, Dec 3 Masoud Toloue, Inst. for Lasers Photonics and Biophotonics, Univ. of Buffalo, "Perspectives in Biophotonics", 12:00-1:00pm, Rm 409-410L.
Mon., Dec 6 Dr. Tobias Ulmer, Biochemistry Faculty Candidate, from National Institutes of Health. "Recent NMR Developments Permit a Detailed View of Protein Structure and Dynamics". 12:00 - 1:00 pm., Rm 309-310L.
Tue, Dec 7 John Garza, Dissertation Proposal, "Structure Determination and Identification of Residues Required for Substrate Specificity of S. Pombe Aps1." 12:00-1:00pm, Rm. 409-410L
Fri, Dec 10 Patrick Joe, Dissertation Proposal, "The Roles of the Cysteins of the Mammalina Beta III-Isotype of Tubulin in Mediating Drug Resistance". 12:00-1:00pm, Rm 409-410L
Mon Dec 13 Dr. Konstantin V. Pervushin, Biochemistry Faculty Candidate, from Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology. "Protein/Protein and Protein/Ligand Interactions in Large and Dynamically Disordered Systems Studied by NMR in Solution". 12:00 - 1:00 pm., Rm. 1.284 T (Dental Building).
Wed, Dec 15 Lisa Whitson, Dissertation Proposal, "Structural and Biophysical Properties of Human Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase and its Pathogenic Mutants". 10:00-11:00pm, Rm. 2.424T (DTL)
Thur, Dec 16 Yogeet Kaur, Dissertation Proposal, "Cooperation of GroEL and the 20S Proteasome In Protein Degradation", 9:00-10:00am, Rm. 309-310L
Thur, Dec 16 Dr. Gabriela Perez-Alvardo, Biochemistry Faculty Candidate, Scripps Institute. "NMR Studies of Regulatory Factors in Cancer Biology". 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Rm 1.284T