2008 Summer Seminar Series

Tuesdays @ 12 pm in 408 Mary Ellen Jones Building

~refreshments provided~

June 3, 2008

• Moriah Beck, PhD (Campbell Lab)
  "Partnering Palladin and alpha-Actinin in Cell Motility, Invasion, and Podosome Formation"

• Tamas Hegedus, PhD (Riordan Lab)
  "Dedoding CFTR regulation by experimental and computational methods"

June 10, 2008

• Andrew Hemmert (Redinbo Lab)
  "Novel Protein-Based Therapeutics for Nerve Agent Detoxification" 
• Erin Heenan (Dohlman Lab)
  "A candidate G beta/gamma protein pair involved in G protien signaling at the endosome" 

June 17, 2008

• Charles Davis (Berkowitz Lab)
  "A molecular dynamics study of Amyloid-Beta peptide interactions with anionic lipid bilayers"
• Elizabeth Dorn (Cook Lab)
  "The role of histone modifications in DNA replication."

June 24, 2008

• Ramesh Jha (Kuhlman Lab)
  "Designing novel proteins for biosensor affinity reagents" 
• Brett Weed (Ramsden Lab)
  "V(D)J Recombination and Genomic Instability: Understanding the Oncogenic Risk of Adaptive Immunity"

July 1, 2008:  HOLIDAY -- NO SEMINARS

July 8, 2008

• Sarah Jackson (Xiong Lab)
  "Genetic Analysis of VprBP, a WD40 protein associated with the DDB1-CUL4 ubiquitin ligase complex"
• Yen Bao Pham (Carter Lab)
  "Enzymological Characterization of the Tryptophanyl-tRNA Synthetase Minimal Catalytic Domain (TrpRS MCD)"
   

July 15, 2008

• Laura Lindsey-Boltz, PhD (Sancar Lab)
  "DNA Damage Checkpoint Proteins Regulate ATR Kinase in an In Vitro System"
• Steve Roberts (Ramsden Lab)
  "Getting in touch with your hidden enzyme: Ku is an AP Lyase"

July 22, 2008

• Lan Jiang, PhD (Crews Lab)
  "Control of Drosophila Tracheal Tube Formation by Dysfusion Gene" 
• Susan Wu (Zhang Lab)
  "Regulation of Histone Demethylases by Phosphorylation"

July 29, 2008

• Rachel Lerner, PhD (Marzluff Lab)
  "The role of SLIP1 in histone mRNA translation"