2009 Summer Seminar Series

Date

Presenter and Seminar Titles

June 2

ANH NGUYEN  (Yi Zhang lab)
"DOT1L, the H3K79 Methyltransferase, Regulates Cardiovascular Development and Function"

RON JACAK (Brian Kuhlman lab)
“Designing protein-protein interfaces using multistate design”

June 9

Elizabeth Pollom  (Ron Swanstron lab)
"Investigating New Structural Motifs in Full-Length HIV-1 Gemomic RNA"

Susan Wu  (Yi Zhang lab)
“Regulation of Histone Demethylases by Phosphorylation”

June 16

Tamas Hegedus, Ph.D.  (John Riordan lab)
“Dynamics of transmembrane domains in ABC transporters”

Breia Williams  (Brian Strahl lab)
“Regulation of Cryptic Transcription by the Set2 Histone Methyltransferase.”

June 23

Yaxue Zheng  (Yue Xiong lab)
"Epigenetic regulation of ARF tumor suppressor by p53 constitutes a feedback
regulatory loop."

Yuan Cheng  (Matt Redinbo lab)
“TraI: a Multi-domain Helicase in E.coli Conjugation”

June 30

Srinivas Ramachandran  (Nikolay Dokholyan lab)
"The effect of conformational dynamics of cisplatin- and oxaliplatin-DNA Adducts on binding of DNA damage recognition proteins such as HMGB1"

Kate Gardner  (Brian Strahl lab)
“The Role of Histone H3 Lysine 36 Methylation in Transcriptional Control”.

July 7

Rob Dejournett, Ph.D.  (Xian Chen lab)
“Interactions of partners with the adapter protein Alix is regulated by T745 phosphorylation in mitosis”

Matt Torres, Ph.D.  (Henrik Dohlman lab)
“G protein mono-ubiquitination by the Rsp5 ubiquitin ligase”

July 14

Srikripa Chandrasekaran, Ph.D.  (Jean Cook lab)
“Regulation of the replication licensing protein, Cdt1, by the MAPK signaling pathway”

Rui Ye, Ph.D.  (Aziz Sancar lab)
“Biochemical Mechanism of Transcriptional Control of the Human Circadian Clock by Cryptochrome”

July 21

Ying Du, Ph.D.  (Xian Chen lab)
“Quantitative proteomic analysis of TLR signaling pathway for innate immune response”

Steve Fuchs, Ph.D.  (Brian Strahl lab)
“Regulation of Set2 Methyltransferase by RNA polymerase CTD phosphorylation"

July 28

YUAN CHENG (Matt Redinbo lab)
“TraI: a Multi-domain Helicase in E. coli Conjugation”

MINDY STEINIGER  (William Marzluff lab)
"A core complex of CPSF73, CPSF100, and Symplekin form two distinct cleavage factors for processing of poly(A) and histone mRNAs"