NOVEMBER 10, 2011

• MEHMET KESIMER, PHD - Research Assistant Professor
  "Macromolecular organization of airway mucosal protection: mucins and their partners"

DECEMBER 8, 2011

• THOMAS CHARPENTIER, PHD - Postdoctoral Fellow (John Sondek lab)
  "Controlling signaling by Galpha-q in uveal melanoma"
• KAREN CHERKIS - Graduate Student (John Sondek/Jeff Dangl labs)
  "Exposing the function of TTSS effectors from P. syringae  through structural biology"

JANUARY 12, 2012

• FENG DING, PHD - Research Assistant Professor (Nikolay Dokholyan lab)
  "Multiscale modeling of protein folding, misfolding, and aggregation-toward understanding ALS etiology"

JANUARY 26, 2012

• ELIZABETH PROCTOR - Graduate Student (Nikolay Dokholyan lab)
  "Glutathionylation promotes misfolding of superoxide dismutase in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis"
• PRADEEP KOTA - Graduate Student (Nikolay Dokholyan lab)
  "Oligomerization state as a modulator of ion channel function"

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

• LESLIE PARISE, PHD - Professor and THOMAS C. FREEMAN, PHD - Postdoctoral Fellow
  "CIB1 binding to new integrin partners: the expanding role of CIB1 in integrin biology"

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

• LAUREN MITCHELL - Graduate Student (Sharon Campbell lab)
  "Redox Regulation of Rac1"

MARCH 8, 2012

• LUCIA STEFANINI, PHD - Research Assistant Professor (Wolfgang Bergmeier lab)
  "The C1-like domain of CalDAG-GEFI integrates stimulatory and inhibitory signaling pathways in platelets"
• YACINE BOULAFTALI, PHD - Postdoctoral Fellow (Wolfgang Bergmeier lab)
  "Platelet signaling in the maintenance of vascular integrity during inflammation"

MARCH 22, 2012

• SHOBHAN GADDAMEEDHI, PHD - Postdoctoral Fellow (Aziz Sancar lab)
• RUI YE, PHD - Postdoctoral Fellow (Aziz Sancar lab)

APRIL 12, 2012 **4 PM at Top of the Hill (the Great Room)**

• AARON HOBBS - Graduate Student (Sharon Campbell lab)
  "Altered cysteine pKa in RhoA leads to increased redox reactivity
• PETER THOMPSON - Graduate Student (Sharon Campbell lab)
  "Dynamics of the Vinculin tail in F-actin binding and bundling"

MAY 10, 2012

• MARK POTEMPA - Graduate Student (Ron Swanstrom lab)
  "Regulation of HIV-1 protease-mediated processing of the Gag and Gag-Pro-Pol polyproteins"
• SOOK-KYUNG LEE, PHD - Postdoctoral Fellow (Ron Swanstrom lab)
  "A novel assay for screening drugs blocking HIV-1 MA/CA cleavage site"

MAY 24, 2012

• MICHAEL LAFFERTY - Research Technician (Saskia Neher lab)
  "New insights into the molecular mechanism of Lipoprotein Lipase inhibition"
• JOSEPH FONTANA, PHD - Postdoctoral Fellow (Steve Crews lab)
  "Using RNA-seq to study neuronal diversity and differentiation"

Organizing Committee:

Stephen Crews, faculty (steve_crews@unc.edu)
Bryan Der, student (bder@email.unc.edu)
Joseph Fontana, postdoctoral fellow (jfontana@med.unc.edu)

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