 | Previous Speakers |
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2005
Dr. Albert Dahlberg, Department of Biochemistry,
Brown University,
Thermus thermophilus as a model system for
investigating ribosome structure and function,
April 21.
Dr. Juli Feigon, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Structural and Functional Studies of Human Telomerase and Yeast RNase III,
March 22.
- 2004
Dr. Martha Fedor, Department of Molecular Biology,
The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology,
The Scripps Research Institute, RNA assembly and catalysis:
Lessons learned from hairpin ribozymes,
December 2.- Dr. Chris Francklyn, Department of Biochemistry,
University of Vermont School of Medicine, "Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase paralogs:
The origins of amino acid biosynthesis
and the genetic code," April 22.
- Dr. Stephen Hajduk, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, "Why do trypanosomes edit mitochondrial mRNA?," February 12.
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2003
- Dr. Jennifer Hines, Ohio State University, "T Box Antiterminator RNA: Structural Biology and
Medicinal Chemistry of a Novel Antibacterial Drug Target," October 16.
- Dr. Gabriele Varani, University of Washington, "How RNA and protein recognize each other," April 3.
- Dr. Michael Yarus, University of Colorado at Boulder, "RNAs that bind phospholipid membranes," March 25.
- 2002
- Dr. Arlen Johnson, University of Texas, Austin, "Nuclear export of the ribosome", October 3.
- Dr. Jamie Cate, University of California - Berkeley, "Structural studies of the bacterial ribosome," May 2.
- Dr. Melissa Moore, Brandeis University, "Exploring connections between pre-mRNA splicing and mRNA metabolism", April 4.
- 2001
- Dr. Michael Brenowitz, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, "Following RNA folding one tertiary contact at a time", November 15.
- Dr. Daniel Reines, Emory University School of Medicine, "Transcription elongation factor SII and nucleotide metabolism in yeast", April 26.
- Dr. Uttam L. RajBhandary, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Transfer RNA - Protein Interactions in Translation Initiation", March 29.
- Dr. Lynne Maquat, University of Rochester, "Nonsense-mediated RNA decay in mammalian cells: A splicing-dependent means to down-regulate the levels of mRNAs that prematurely terminate translation", March 1 & 2.
- 2000
- Dr. Sarah A. Woodson, Johns Hopkins University, "Folding RNA: What a Group I Intron Can Tell Us", September 21.
- Dr. Alan Weiner, Yale University, "The CCA-adding Enzyme and the Genomic Tag Hypothesis: Modern Viruses as Molecular Fossils of Ancient Strategies for Genomic Replication", April 27.
- Dr. David Draper, Johns Hopkins University, "Protein Recognition of a Ribosomal RNA Tertiary Structure", March 30.
- Dr. Dieter Soll, Yale University, "Specificity in Protein Biosynthesis: The Adaptor Hypothesis Revisited", February 3.
- 1999
- Dr. Gerald Joyce, The Scripps Research Institute, "Continuous In Vitro Evolution of Ribozymes", April 22.
- Dr. Alan Lambowitz, University of Texas, Austin, "Group II Intron Mobility Via Reverse Splicing into DNA: Mechanism and practical applications", March 25.
- 1998
- Dr. Norman Pace, University of California at Berkeley, "Structure and Catalytic Function in Ribonuclease P, a Ribozyme", October 22.
- Dr. Chris Greer, University of California at Irvine, "Direct Role for an RNA Processing Enzyme in a Signal Transduction pathway: Regulated Splicing in the Unfolded Protein Response", May 21.
- Dr. Susan Berget, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, "How to Find an Exon", March 26.
- Dr. Michael Rosbash, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Genetics and Biochemistry of RNA Binding within Large Complexes", January 29.
- 1997
- Dr. Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Labs, "Structure and Function of Human Proteins Involved in mRNA Splicing", November 13.
- Dr. Olke Uhlenbeck, University of Colorado - Boulder, "Chemistry and Mechanism of the Hammerhead Ribozyme", March 27.
- Dr. Jeff Ross, University of Wisconsin - Madison, "Regulation of c-myc mRNA by an mRNA-Binding Protein", January 9.
