Structural Biology / Molecular Biophysics Seminar Series 2006/2007

 

For 2005/2006 Seminar Series Schedule click here.

Organized by Judith Klein-Seetharaman. For questions or comments, or to suggest a speaker, please contact her at judithks@cs.cmu.edu.

To schedule an appointment with a seminar speaker, please contact Janet Zambotti at zambotti@pitt.edu.


2006/2007 Seminar Series

December 21, 2006 at 11 am (Seminar Room 1015 BST3)

Bino John, Ph.D., Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Biogenesis and Function of microRNAs

Directions to the seminar room:
If you take the 5th Avenue entrance to the BST3, just turn right behind the entrance. The seminar room is on the left hand side. If you take the bridge from the BST, it leads to the 6th floor of the BST3 via the Victoria Building. Take elevator to 1st floor, turn right behind the elevators..


Scheduled Talks

S.No. Date & Time Venue Presenter
 1 August 31, 2006 at 11 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Ernest Maynard, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University
Title : HIV-1 Vif: Metal Binding, Conformational Flexibility and Biological Interactions
 - September 6, 2006 at 11:30 AM S123, Biomedical Science Tower South Roderic Eckenhoff, MD; Austin Lamont Professor of Anesthesia, Vice Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesia, University of Pennsylvania- School of Medicine
Title : "Interactions Between Anesthetics and the Protein Aggregating Disorders"
 2 September 7, 2006 at 11 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Patricia Opresko, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh
Title : "Mechanisms of telomere preservation: links between DNA helicases and premature aging"
 - September 12, 2006 at 11 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Dimiter S. Dimitrov, PhD, ScD , Senior Investigator, Protein Interactions, CCRNP, CCR, NCI-Frederick, National Institutes of Health
Title : "Human Monoclonal Antibodies Against Viruses and Cancer: Structural Biology and Biomedical Applications"
 3 September 14, 2006 at 11 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Michael Rossmann, Purdue University
Title : "Why are tailed bacteriophages far more successful than eukaryotic viruses?"
 - September 19, 2006 at 3:30 pm BSTWR S100A Dale B. Wigley, FRS, The London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, Clare Hall Laboratories
Title : "Structure and mechanism of RecBCD: a machine for processing DNA breaks" (Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry Fall 2006 Seminar Series)
 4 September 21, 2006 at 11 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Alison Barth, Department of Biology, Carnegie Mellon University
Title : "Reversal of an acquired channelopathy prevents seizures"
 5 September 28, 2006 at 11 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Timothy Mietzner, Department of Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Title : "Feeding the Beast: Structural analysis of the 'irony' of bacterial 'iron' assimilation by the causative agent of gonorrhea".
 - October 5, 2006 Auditorium 1018 BST3 No Seminar, Science 2006
 6 October 12, 2006 at 11 A.M. Auditorium 1018 BST3 William A. Eaton, National Institutes of Health
Title : Ultrafast Protein Folding
 6 October 12, 2006 at 3 P.M. Auditorium 1018 BST3 William A. Eaton, National Institutes of Health
Title : Searching for a cure for sickle cell disease
 7 October 19, 2006 at 11 A.M. Auditorium 1018 BST3 Rieko Ishima, Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Title : Protein dynamics studies using NMR
 8 October 26, 2006 at 11 A.M. Auditorium 1018 BST3 Chris Dealwis, University of Tennessee
Title : Understanding dNTP regulation by the enzyme Ribonucleotide reductase
 9 November 2, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Gianluigi Veglia, University of Minnesota
Title : Probing Membrane Protein-Protein Interactions by NMR Spectroscopy
 10 November 9, 2006 at 11:00 A.M. Auditorium 6014 BST3                 NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION Helen Berman, Rutgers Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department
Title : Enabling Understanding of Three Dimensional Biological Structure: The Protein Data Bank
 11 November 16, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Lillian Chong, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
Title : Exploring Protein Recognition Events Using Theory and Simulation
 - November 23, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 No Seminar (Thanksgiving)
 
 12 November 30, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Walter Chazin, Vanderbilt University
Title : Structural Dynamics of Multi-Protein Machines: Everything AND the Kitchen Sink
 13 December 7, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 David Kaplan, Tufts University
Title : Bioengineered Structural Proteins to Regulate Cell and Tissue Function
 - December 8, 2006 at 4:00 PM (NOTE DIFFERENT DATE AND TIME)
Cooper Pavilion, Classrooms B and C, Hillman Cancer Center, 5117 Centre Avenue (NOTE DIFFERENT PLACE)
 Gary Felsenfeld, NIH
Title : "Chromatin Boundaries, Chromatin Domains, and Epigenetic Regulation"
In: Pittsburgh Chromatin Club Minisymposium - for further details see symposium website http://www.pitt.edu/~biohome/Dept/Frame/pittsburghchromatinclub.htm
 14 December 14, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Peter Wipf, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
Title : Inverse Design of DSPase Inhibitors
 15 December 21, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Bino John, Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Title : Biogenesis and Function of microRNAs
 --- December 28, 2006 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 CANCELLED (Winter Recess)
Title :
 --- January 4, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 CANCELLED (Winter Recess)
Title :
 16 January 11, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Mike Cascio, Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Title : TBA
 17 January 18, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Neville Freeman, Farfield Scientific, Inc
Title : TBA
 17 January 23, 2007 at 11:00 AM      NOTE DIFFERENT DATE Auditorium 1018 BST3 Guillermo Alberto Calero, Stanford University
Title : TBA
 18 January 25, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Juliette Lecomte, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University
Title : TBA
 19 February 1, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Ron Montelaro, Department of Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Title : TBA
 20 February 8, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Juli Feigon, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles
Title : TBA
 21 February 15, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Naoko Mizuno, Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX
Title : TBA
 22 February 22, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Chris Langmead, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Title : TBA
 23 March 1, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Wayne Frasch, Faculty of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Title : TBA
 24 March 8, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 No Seminar (Spring Break University of Pittsburgh)
 
 25 March 15, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 No Seminar (Spring Break Carnegie Mellon University)
Title : TBA
 26 March 22, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Jianhua Fu, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University
Title : TBA
 27 March 29, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Kristina Woods, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University
Title : TBA
 28 April 5, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 John Rosenberg, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Title : TBA
 29 April 12, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Alasdair Steven, Chief of the Laboratory of Structural Biology Research (LSBR), NIAMS, NIH
Title : TBA
 30 April 19, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Catalina Achim, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
Title : TBA
 31 April 26, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 No Seminar (ENC Conference April 22-27, 2007)
 32 May 3, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Tina Lee, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Title : TBA
 33 May 9, 2007 at 4:00 PM TBA Paul Selvin, John Bardeen Professor of Physics & Biophysics, University of Illinois
Title : TBA (Cell Biology and Physiology Seminar Series)
 33 May 10, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Paul Selvin, John Bardeen Professor of Physics & Biophysics, University of Illinois
Title : TBA
 34 May 17, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Linda Peteanu, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
Title : TBA
 35 May 24, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Michael F. Summers, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland
Title : TBA
 36 May 31, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Alan Waggoner, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Title : TBA
 37 June 7, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 Mary Barkley, Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University
Title : TBA
 38 June 14, 2007 at 11:00 AM Auditorium 1018 BST3 TBA
Title : TBA
 - June 21-September 5, 2007 Summer break
No seminars during this time. Seminar Series begins September 12, 2007

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