Department of Biochemistry / UTHSCSA
Seminar Schedule  2006


2006
Fri., Jan. 20 We've been requested to leave this date open due to scheduled institutional workshops on tenure and promotion.
Fri., Jan. 27 Dr. Derek LeRoith, Chief,Div.of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, "IGFs and Cancer: Studies Using a Gene-Deletion Mouse Model", 12:00-1:00pm, Rm 409-410L, host: Dr. Martin Adamo
Fri., Feb. 3 We've been requested to leave this date open due to scheduled institutional workshops on tenure and promotion.
Tue., Feb. 7 Jianwen Jiang, dissertation defense. "Structural Basis of Clathrin Coated Vesicle Uncoating: How to open a C.A.N.", 12:00-1:00, Rm 409-410L.
Wed., Feb. 8 Dr. Gregory Payne, UCLA, "Synthetic-genetic and chemical-genetic analysis of clathrin-mediated traffic in yeast". 12:00 - 1:00, Rm 409-410L, host: Dr. Eileen Lafer
Fri., Feb. 10 Dr. Cecilia Lo, POSTPONED to Apr. 7
Fri., Feb 24 Dr. P. John Hart, Dept. of Biochemistry, UTHSCSA, "SOD1 and Fet3p: The Jekyll and Hyde of Copper Proteins", 12:00 - 1:00, Rm. 409-410L.
Fri. Mar. 3 Dr. Whitney Yin, Univ. of Texas at Austin, "De Novo RNA Synthesis by T7 RNA Polymerase", 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Rm. 409-410L, host: Dr. Rui Sousa
Fri., Mar. 24 Dr. Linda Partridge, Univ. College of London. JOINT SEMINAR with DEPT. PHYSIOLOGY. ""Death, Diet & Demography", 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Rm 209-210L, host: Dr. Martin Adamo
Thur., Mar. 30 Prof. Harald Schwalbe, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, "Conformational transitions in proteins and RNA by time resolved NMR-spectroscopy", 10:00 - 11:00 am, Rm. 444B, NOTE: UNUSUAL TIME AND PLACE, host: Dr. Jens Wohnert
Thur., Mar. 30 SPECIAL SEMINAR, Dr. Hashim al-Hashimi, Dept. Chemistry, Univ. of MIchigan, "A fresh look at RNA-dynamics by NMR-spectroscopy", (see Science 311 (2006) 653-656.), 2:00 - 3:00 pm, Room 4.110 - Allied Health Bldg. NOTE UNUSUAL TIME AND PLACE, host: Dr. Jens Wohnert
Fri., Mar. 31 Dr. Christopher Lima,  Structural Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute. "Insights into post-translational modification by SUMO, a small ubiquitin-like modifier", 12:00-1:00 pm, Rm 409-410L, host :Dr. Chongwoo Kim
Fri., Apr. 7 Dr. Cecilia Lo, Chief, Laboratory of Devel. Biol., Nat. Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst., NIH, Bethesda, MD, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Rm. 409-410L, Host: Dr. Jean X. Jiang 
Mon., Apr. 10 POSTDOCTORAL CANDIDATE: Dr. Jing Zhou, Univ. Maryland, "Structural Requirements of Rous Sarcoma Virus Genome Recognition", 12:00 - 12:50, Rm 2.104 Allied Health, Host: Dr. Hinck
Tue., Apr. 11 DISSERTATION PROPOSAL, Ahmad Galaleideen, "Biophysical Properties of Pathogenic Proteins Involved in ALS and Tularemia", 2:30 - 3:30 pm, Rm 4.434T. NOTE UNUSUAL TIME AND PLACE
Fri. Apr. 14 No Seminar scheduled. - Good Friday, may become a UTHSCSA 1/2 holiday
Fri. Apr. 21 SAN JACINTO DAY
Fri. May 5 Dr. Reto Asmis, Div. Nephrology, UTHSCSA, "The Role of Thiol Oxidative Stress in Macrophage Dysfunction", 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Rm 409L. host: Dr. Nicholson
Fri. June 2 DEPARTMENTAL RETREAT

Fall 2006


Thur., July 6 Welch Chair Candidate, Dr. Gregg Fields, Prof. and Chair, Dept. of Chem. and Biochem., Florida Atlantic Univ., "Biochemical approaches for profiling the melanoma microenvironment, and implications for therapeutic intervention", 1:00-2:00 pm, Rm 209-210L, NOTE UNUSUAL TIME AND DAY.
Fri., July 13 Note: 409L not available this day.
Tue., July 25 Dr. Philip T. Lo Verde, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, "Sex and Schistosomes: A Novel Interplay Between the Male and Female", 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Rm 409-410L. host: Dr. Bruce Nicholson
Mon. Aug. 14 Welch Chair Candidate, Dr. Jian-Ting Zhang, Dept. Pharm. & Toxicology, Indiana Univ. School of Medicine. "Target Identification and Drug Discovery for Better Cancer Treatment Using Genomics, Proteomics, and Chemoinformatics", 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Rm 409-410L.
FALL 2006
Fri. Sept. 1 Dr. H. Peter Lu, Dept. of Chemistry, Bowling Green State Univ., "Exploring Single-Molecule Biophysics", 12:00-1:00pm, Rm 409-410L, host: Dr. Bruce Nicholson
Fri., Sept. 8 Wayne Matheny, Dissertation Proposal Defense, "Insulin-like Growth Factor I and Oxidative Stress in Skeletal Muscle", 12:00 - 1:00, Rm 409-410L.
Tue., Sept. 12 WELCH Chair Candidate, Dr. Christian Raetz, Duke Univ., "Assembly, Secretion and Function of Lipopolysaccharide Endotoxins: Potent Bacterial Activators of Innate Immunity". 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Rm 409-410L. Note unusual day and time
Mon. Sept. 25 Dr. Thomas F. J. Martin, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, "Regulation of SNARE Function in Membrane Fusion and Neurotransmitter Release", JOINT PHYSIOLOGY/BIOCHEMISTRY seminar, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Rm 409-410L, host: Dr. Eileen Lafer. Note unusual day
Fri. Sept. 29 Dr. Paul Fitzpatrick, Texas A&M University, "Mechanistic Studies of Tyrosine Hydroxylase and the Regulation of Catecholamine Biosynthesis", 12:00-1:00 pm, Rm 409L, host: Dr. Stephen C. Hardies
Fri. Oct. 13 Dr. Raymond F. Burk, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, "Roles of Selenoprotein P in Selenium Homeostasis", 12:00-1:00, Rm 409L, JOINT BIOCHEMISTRY/PATHOLOGY SEMINAR, host: Dr. Venkatachalam
Fri. Oct. 27 Emre Brookes, Dept. of Computer Science, UTSA., "An Interdisciplinary Collaboration with Results: Advancements in Analysis of AUC Sedimentation Velocity Experiments", host: Dr. Borries Demeler
Fri. Nov. 3 Dr. Elizabeth Craig, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, PAUL M. HOROWITZ MEMORIAL LECTURE, "Evolution of Molecular Chaperones: Generalist, Specialist and 'Degenerate' Hsp70s", 12:00 - 1:00pm, Rm 409L. 
Tue. Nov. 7 Dr. Dennis Winge, Depts. of Biochemistry and Medicine, Univ. of Utah, Rm 309-310L, 3:00 - 4:00 pm, host: Dr. John Hart; Note Unusual Time and Place
Fri. Nov. 10 Dr. Keith Baggerly, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, "Proteomics, Ovarian Cancer, and Experimental Design", 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Rm 409-410L, host: Dr. Susan Weintraub
Thur. Nov. 16 Gang Hu, DISSERTATION DEFENSE, "Investigation of the Importance and Structural Basis of Allosteric Regulation of Yeast NAD+-Specific Isocitrate Dehydrogenase", 11:00 am - 12:00 noon, Rm 2.424T Dental School.
Thur. Nov. 16 Dr. Mark J. Yeager, Prof., Dept. of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, "Clots, Congestion and Currents: Cryo-EM Insights into Structure and Function of Integrins, Aquaporins and Connexins in Cardiovascular Disease", 3:30-4:30pm, Rm 409-410L, host: Dr. Bruce Nicholson
Fri. Nov. 17 Dr. John J. Tanner, Dept. Chem., Univ. Missouri-Columbia, "Structures and functions of proline catabolic enzymes: catalysis, channeling and DNA-binding", 12:00 - 1:00, Rm 409-410L, host: Dr. John Hart
Fri. Dec. 1 Dr. Morris Birnbaum, Howard Hughes Medical Ctr., Penn Univ., "Regulation of Metabolism by AKT", 12:00-1:00, 409-410L, host: Dr. Feng Liu
Fri. Dec. 8 Dr. Mark W. Duncan, Univ. of Colorado Health Sci. Ctr., "A Pragmatic Approach to Proteomics Applied to Translational Research and Clinical Oncology", 12:00 - 1:00, Rm 409-410L, host: Dr. Susan Weintraub
Fri. Dec. 15 Anyonya Guntur, DISSERTATION PROPOSAL, "Role of PTEN and N-cadherin mediated adherens junctions during osteoblast differentiation, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Rm 409 - 410L.
Tue. Dec. 19 Sai Venkatesh Seetharaman, DISSERTATION PROPOSAL, "Probing the interactions of SOD1 and CCS: A link between SOD1 maturation and Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis". 10:00 - 11:00 am, Rm 409-410L.

Archive of past seminar schedules.