Spring 2008 Seminars

Tuesdays @ 11 am in 408 Mary Ellen Jones Building

January 15, 2008:  David Lawrence, PhD
"Chemical Sensors and Modifiers of Signaling Pathways"
 

January 22, 2008:  George Makhatadze, PhD
"Molecular Strategies for Designing Robust Proteins: Looking Deeper at the Surface"
 

February 5, 2008:  Sonke Johnsen, PhD
"From Magnets to Radical Pairs: the Biology, Physics, and Chemistry of Animal Magnetoreception"
 

February 12, 2008:  Sharon Campbell, PhD
"Palladin: a Molecular Architect of the Actin Cytoskeleton"
 

February 19, 2008: Jeffrey Kieft, PhD
"The Structural Basis for Tranlsation Initiation by a Viral IRES RNA: Eliminating the Need for Proteins" 

February 26, 2008:  Dorothy Erie, PhD
"AFM and Single-Molecule Fluorescence Studies of DNA Mismatch Repair, and Cool Things You Can Do with AFM"
 

March 4, 2008:  Alan Rein, PhD
"Putting the Pieces Together: Molecular Interactions in HIV-1 Particle Assembly" 

March 11, 2008:  Ed Egelman, PhD
"Polymorphic Perversity in Protein Polymers with Implications for Evolutionary Divergence" 

March 18, 2008:  John Perona, PhD
"A Rationally Engineered Misacylating Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase" 

March 25, 2008:  Cyrus Vaziri, PhD
 ***12 pm in the Pagano Conference Room of Lineberger***
"Regulation of DNA Replication by Checkpoint Signaling"
 

April 1, 2008:  Pilar Blancafort, PhD
"Re-programming Epigenetic Silencing in Tumor and Stem Cells with Artificial Transcription Factors (ATFs)" 

April 8, 2008:  Johannes Walter PhD
"Mechanism of DNA Replication and Repair" 

April 15, 2008:  Dirk Gillespie, PhD
"Modeling Ion Permeation and Selectivity in Calcium Channels" 

April 22, 2008:  Daniela Rhodes, PhD
"Structure of the 30nm Chromatin Fibre and the Regulation of Its Compaction" 
 

April 30, 2008:  Nicholas (Nick) Tonks, PhD
***Wednesday @3 pm in the Pagano Conference Room of Lineberger***
"Signal Transduction from a Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Perspective"

May 23, 2008:  Kit S. Lam, MD, PhD
***Friday @ 11:15 am in the Pagano Conference Room of Lineberger***
"From Combinatorial Chemistry to Cancer Targeting"

May 27, 2008:  Sam Hamdan, PhD
***2:15 pm in the Pagano Conference Room of Lineberger***
"Single Molecule View of DNA Replication"

May 29, 2008:  Steven Gross, PhD
***Thursday @ 3:00 pm in the Pagano Conference Room of Lineberger***
"Molecular-Motor Based Transport In Vivo and In Vitro: Can we link the two?"