Research excellence in the areas of Cellular Biochemistry, Structural Biology and Gene Expression

Seminar Schedule for Past Semesters


Speaker: Dr. Diego Krapf, Electrical & Computer Eng. & School of Biomedical Eng., CSU
Subject: "Channels and Pores in Nanoscale Biophysics"
When: Monday, May 4, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Eric Ross

Speaker: Dr. Scott Weed, West Virginia University
Subject: "Regulation of cytoskeletal signaling pathways in tumor cell invasion"
When: Monday, April 27, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jim Bamburg

Speaker: Dr. Craig Martens, Rocky Mountain Lab., NIAID, NIH
Subject: "The Application of Next Generation Sequencing to the Study of Human Pathogens"
When: Monday, April 20, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Laybourn

Speaker: Dr. Harinder Singh, University of Chicago
Subject: Gene Regulatory Networks & Large-scale Chromatin Dynamics Underlying Developmt. of Mammalian Immu...
When: Monday, April 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: P. Shing Ho

Speaker: Dr. Brandt Eichman, Vanderbilt University
Subject: "Structural basis for DNA binding by eukaryotic replication factor Mcm10"
When: Monday, April 6, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. P. Shing Ho

Speaker: Dr. Sheena D'Arcy, Postdoctoral Fellow, CSU Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Subject: "Structural characterisation-N-terminal a-helical region of essential mitotic ckpoint proteim BubR1
When: Monday, March 23, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Where: BMB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Gregory Amberg, CSU Dept. of Biomedical Sciences
Subject: "Regulation of Calcium Sparklets by Reactive Oxygen Species"
When: Monday, March 9, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Eric Ross

Speaker: Dr. Frank Bradke, Institute for Neurobiology, Munich
Subject: "Intracellular mechanisms of axonal growth and regeneration"
When: Monday, February 16, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. James Bamburg

Speaker: Dr. Gerhard H. Braus, Georg August University
Subject: "Control of protein degradation and fungal development"
When: Friday, January 9, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Jozsef Vigh, CSU Dept. of Biomedical Sciences
Subject: "Glutamate accumulation in synaptic vesicles"
When: Monday, December 15, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Eric Ross

Speaker: Dr. Andrea Terrell, AIT Laboratories
Subject: "Making the transition from scientist to corporate leader"
When: Monday, December 8, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Laybourn

Speaker: Dr. John M. Denu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Subject: "Histone modifications: Exploring mechanism and the histone code"
When: Monday, December 1, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Andrew Andrews

Speaker: Dr. Craig L. Peterson, Univ. of Massachusetts Med. School
Subject: "Chromatin dynamics and genome integrity"
When: Monday, November 10, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jeff Hansen

Speaker: Dr. Michael Bulger, Univ. of Rochester Med. Center
Subject: "Formation and Function of Hyperacetylated Chromatin Domains"
When: Monday, November 3, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Laybourn

Speaker: Dr. Gary Bokoch, The Scripps Research Institute
Subject: "Linking Rho GTPase signaling to leading edge actin dynamics"
When: Monday, October 27, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jim Bamburg

Speaker: Dr. Natalie Ahn, University of Colorado, Boulder
Subject: "Analyzing signal transduction using proteomics"
When: Monday, October 20, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. David Goldstrohm

Speaker: Tom Wolkow, Univ. of Colorado-Colorado Springs
Subject: "A fission yeast DNA checkpoint protein responds to microtubule stress and genomic stress by..."
When: Monday, October 13, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Laurie Stargell

Speaker: Dr. James Hagman, Integrated Dept. of Immunology - Nat'l. Jewish Health
Subject: "EBF: Epigenetic regulator of B cell development"
When: Monday, October 6, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Young-Mi Kim

Speaker: Dr. Robert Woody, Colorado State University Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Subject: "Adventures in Biophysical Chemistry" (Retirement reception immediately following)
When: Monday, September 29, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Where: TBA
Sponsor: Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Speaker: Dr. Susan Marriott, Baylor College of Medicine
Subject: "The HTLV-I Tax Oncoprotein Interferes w/ the DNA Damage Response: Possible Roles in Cell..."
When: Monday, September 8, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jennifer Nyborg

Speaker: Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England
Subject: What we have learned from structures of the ribosome
When: Monday, May 19, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: PHYS 103
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Hayes, University of Rochester Medical Center
Subject: Intra- and Inter-nucleosome Interactions of the Core Histone Tails
When: Monday, May 5, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jeff Hansen

Speaker: Paul Spearman, MD, Emory University
Subject: Multimerization and Intracellular Trafficking of the HIV-1 Gag Protein
When: Monday, April 21, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Scott Koster

Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Agar, Brandeis University
Subject: Protein Properties that Determine ALS Patient Survival
When: Monday, April 14, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Joint seminar with CSU Chemistry Department

Speaker: Dr. Raymond Reeves, Washington State University
Subject: HMGA Proteins, DNA Repair and Cancer
When: Monday, April 7, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Kristopher Hite

Speaker: Melissa May, PhD, Presidential Management Fellow, US Dept. of Defense - CANCELED
Subject: Structural & functional analysis of 2 Glutamate Racemase Isozymes from Bacillus anthracis & impl...
When: Monday, March 24, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marv Paule

Speaker: Dr. Ashby Morrison, MD Anderson Cancer Center - CANCELED
Subject: Activities of a Chromatin-Remodeling Complex during DNA Damage Responses
When: Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Search Candidate

Speaker: Dr. Kimberly McDermott, University of California-San Francisco
Subject: The Role of Primary Cilia in Branching Morphogenesis and Mammary Gland Development
When: Monday, March 3, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Search Candidate

Speaker: Dr. Chad Slawson, Johns Hopkins University
Subject: The Evolving Role of O-GlcNAc in Cell Cycle Control and mTOR Signaling
When: Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Search Candidate

Speaker: Dr. Tingting Yao, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Subject: Regulation of deubiquitination by the proteasome and INO80 chromatin remodeling complex
When: Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Search Candidate

Speaker: Dr. Carol Wilusz, MIP Department, Colorado State University
Subject: Creating, keeping and killing the messenger: the role of post-transcriptional control in disease
When: Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Search Candidate

Speaker: Dr. Santiago Di Pietro, University of California Los Angeles
Subject: Structure-function analysis of novel adaptor proteins involved in intracellular membrane traffic
When: Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Search Candidate

Speaker: Dr. Yamini Dalal, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Subject: How the Centromere Got Its Groove
When: Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Search Candidate

Speaker: Dr. Yongsheng Shi, Columbia University
Subject: Eukaryotic mRNA Processing: Proteomics, Structure, and Regulation
When: Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Search Candidate

Speaker: Dr. Douglas Chalker, Washington University
Subject: The Reader's Digest genome: programming the nucleus by extensive DNA rearrangements
When: Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Search Candidate

Speaker: Dr. David Bentley, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Subject: Co-transcriptional pre-mRNA metabolism: the rules of engagement
When: Monday, December 10, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. T.H. Bestor, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University
Subject: Biology and Biochemistry of Genomic Methylation Patterns
When: Monday, December 3, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jeff Hansen

Speaker: Dr. Mary Munson, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Subject: The Exocyst Complex: Molecular Architecture and Function in Exocytosis
When: Monday, November 26, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Olve Peersen

Speaker: Dr. Nevan Krogan, University of California, San Francisco
Subject: Unbiased Biology: Functional Insights from Genetic and Physical Interaction Maps
When: Monday, November 12, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Aiken, Vanderbilt University
Subject: HIV-1 Uncoating and Restriction by TRIM5alpha
When: Monday, November 5, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Chaoping Chen

Speaker: Dr. Jason Hoffert, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Subject: Phosphoproteomic Analysis of Vasopressin Signaling in Kidney Collecting Duct
When: Monday, October 15, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Norm Curthoys

Speaker: Dr. Deborah S. Wuttke, University of Colorado - Boulder
Subject: Tying up the Ends: Recognition of DNA at Telomeres
When: Monday, October 1, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Olve Peersen

Speaker: Dr. Peter D Adams, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Subject: Regulation of chromatin structure in senescent human cells - a novel role for Wnt signaling
When: Monday, September 17, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Laybourn

Speaker: Dr. Mark Simmons, Department of Biology, Colorado State University
Subject: Sequence Alignment for Molecular Phylogenetic Inference
When: Monday, September 10, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. P. Shing Ho

Speaker: Dr. Thomas Perkins, JILA, NIST & University of Colorado Boulder
Subject: Pulling on nucleic acids, nucleic acid structures and nucleic acid enzyme
When: Monday, August 27, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Jim Goodrich, University of Colorado at Boulder
Subject: Regulation of mammalian nRNA transcription
When: Monday, April 30, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jennifer Nyborg

Speaker: Dr. Mary Ann Osley, University of New Mexico
Subject: Interplay Between H2B Ubiquitylation and Histone Chaperones During Transcription
When: Monday, April 9, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Nicholas Clark

Speaker: Dr. Craig Cameron, The Pennsylvania State University
Subject: RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (in)fidelity: Mechanisms, applications and consequences
When: Monday, April 2, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Olve Peersen

Speaker: Dr. Scott W. Morrical, University of Vermont
Subject: Assembly and Dynamics of DNA Double-strand Break Repair Machinery
When: Monday, March 26, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Hansen

Speaker: Wayne Lilyestrom, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, CSU
Subject: Understanding the Interactions between PARP-1, DNA and Nucleosomes
When: Monday, March 19, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Carlos Enrique Catalano, University of Washington, Seattle
Subject: Biochemical and Biophysical Studies of Virus Assembly
When: Friday, March 9, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Steven McBryant

Speaker: Dr. Stuart Lindsay, Arizona State University
Subject: Single Molecule Measurements on Biomolecular Complexes Using Scanning Probe Microscopy
When: Monday, March 5, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Peter Tompa, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Subject: Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins: From Structure to Function
When: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Hansen

Speaker: Dr. Thomas C. Terwilliger, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Subject: "Structural Genomics: Structures and Technologies for Biology and Medicine
When: Monday, February 26, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Olve Peersen

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Belmont, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Subject: Large-scale Chromatin Structure and Dynamics
When: Monday, February 5, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Hansen

Speaker: Dr. Borries Demeler, University of Texas Health Science Center
Subject: Characterization of Shape and Mass Distributions in Solution: New Approaches in Analytical Ultrace..
When: Monday, December 11, 2006 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Steven McBryant

Speaker: Dr. Brian Geiss, Microbiology Immunology & Pathology at CSU
Subject: Modeling the 5' Cap Methyltransferase: Using Structure to Identify Pan-Flaviviral Drugs
When: Monday, November 13, 2006 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Olve Peersen

Speaker: Dr. Dennis Stacey, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Subject: Just When You Started Feeling Comfortable With the Cell Cycle
When: Monday, November 6, 2006 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marv Paule & CMB Program

Speaker: Dr. P. Shing Ho, Oregon State University
Subject: 50+ Years of DNA structure: What have we learned?
When: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Chair Search Candidate

Speaker: Dr. Arno Greenleaf, Duke University Medical Center
Subject: Beyond Transcription: Multiple Functions Orchestrated by the PhosphoCTD of RNA Polymerase II
When: Monday, October 30, 2006 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Chair Search Candidate

Speaker: Dr. Jac Nickoloff, University of New Mexico
Subject: Chromatin Remodeling During DNA Double-Strand Break Repair
When: Monday, October 16, 2006 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Chair Search Candidate

Speaker: Dr. Andy Berglund, University of Oregon
Subject: Molecular Mechanisms of Myotonic Dystrophy a toxic RNA molecule
When: Monday, September 25, 2006 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Olve Peersen

Speaker: Dr. Richard Goodman, Oregon Health & Science Univ., Portland
Subject: Exploring the CREB regulon
When: Monday, September 11, 2006 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Julita Ramirez

Speaker: Dr. P. Shing Ho, Oregon State University
Subject: From Holliday Junctions to Halogen Bonds
When: Friday, September 8, 2006 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Hansen

Speaker: Dr. Jialin Zheng, Univ of Nebraska Medical Center
Subject: The Macrophage and Neuronal Interaction During HIV-1 Associated Dementia
When: Monday, May 1, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Norm Curthoys

Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Larson, USDA-ARS, Fort Collins
Subject: Proteomic studies of Plant Resistance
When: Monday, April 24, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Chaoping Chen

Speaker: Dr. Mark Zabel, Microbiology Immunology & Pathology CSU
Subject: Complementing Prion Pathogenesis
When: Monday, April 17, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Eric Ross

Speaker: Dr. Martin P. Horvath, University of Utah
Subject: Structure, Thermodynamics and Evolution of Telomere Ends
When: Monday, April 3, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Olve Peersen

Speaker: Dr. David S. Gilmour, Penn State University
Subject: Stalling and Derailing the Locomotive: Gene Regulation by Controlling RNA Polymerase II Elongation.
When: Monday, March 27, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: 123 MRB
Sponsor: Aaron Fletcher

Speaker: Dr. Vytas A. Bankaitis, Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Subject: The biochemistry and cell biology of the Sec14 phosphatidylinositol transfer proteins: Novel reg...
When: Monday, March 20, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Hansen and CU Boulder

Speaker: Dr. Jessica Prenni, Macromolecular Resources CSU
Subject: Proteomics: An Overview of the Technology and Applications
When: Monday, March 6, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Norm Curthoys

Speaker: Dr. Songtao Jia, National Cancer Institute
Subject: RNAi and Epigenetic Control of the Genome
When: Monday, February 27, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Recruitment Seminar

Speaker: Patrick Shaw Stewart, co-Director of Douglas Instruments Ltd.
Subject: Topics in Automatic Protein Crystallization, Including Vapor Diffusion, Microbatch-under-oil and E..
When: Monday, February 13, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Britt A. Glaunsinger, Univ. of California-San Francisco
Subject: Host Shutoff During Lytic Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Infection: Evolution of a Novel...
When: Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Recruitment Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer G. DeLuca, Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Subject: Achieving Accurate Chromosome Segregation In Mitosis: The Role of the Ndc80 Complex in Kinetochore..
When: Monday, February 6, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Recruitment Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Steven G. Sligar, Univ. of Illinois
Subject: Self-Assembled Nanometer Scale Lipid Bilayers for Elucidating the Structure and Function of Membr...
When: Monday, January 30, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: 123 MRB
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Hansen & Biology Department

Speaker: Dr. David M. MacAlpine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Subject: The Coordination of Transcription and Replication Along a Eukaryotic Chromosome
When: Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Recruitment Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Zachary Burton, Michigan State University
Subject: NTP-driven translocation by human RNA polymerase II
When: Monday, January 23, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Pete Serbedzija

Speaker: Dr. Debra A. Bressan, Brandeis University
Subject: Spatial Arrangement and Dynamics of Yeast Chromosomes Prior to and During Recombinational DNA Repair
When: Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Recruitment Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Douglas Theobald, American Cancer Society
Subject: Integrated structural, biochemical, evolutionary, and bioinformatic analysis of nucleic acid-bind...
When: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 4:00 PM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Olve Peersen

Speaker: Dr. R. Iyer Vishwanath, Univ. of Texas at Austin
Subject: Genome-wide Transcriptional Regulatory Networks and Mechanisms in yeast and human
When: Monday, December 5, 2005 at 11:00 AM
Where: 123 MRB
Sponsor: Xu Chen

Speaker: Dr. Thomas C. Bishop, Tulane University
Subject: The Gross Structure of Nucleosomal DNA"
When: Monday, November 14, 2005 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Hansen

Speaker: Dr. Jon Bragi Bjarnason, Univ of Iceland, Reykjavik
Subject: From snake Venom to snake oil: penzyme, psychorphilic marine proteases/therapeutic & cosmetic app.
When: Friday, November 11, 2005 at 1:00 PM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marvin Paule

Speaker: Dr. Agusta Gudmundsdottir, U of Iceland, Reykjavik
Subject: Atlantic Cod Trypsins: From basic research to practical applications
When: Friday, November 11, 2005 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marvin Paule

Speaker: Dr. Xuetong Shen, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Subject: Chromatin, DNA Repair and Nuclear Actin
When: Monday, November 7, 2005 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Yunhe Bao

Speaker: Dr. Jim R. Davie, Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology
Subject: Nuclear organization and chromatin dynamics
When: Monday, October 31, 2005 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Mike Resch

Speaker: Dr. Barbara Morris, EMD Biosciences - Novagen
Subject: Improving Recombinant Protein Expression in Bacteria
When: Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Don Jarvis, University of Wyoming
Subject: Protein Glycosylation in the Baculovirus-Insect Cell System
When: Monday, October 24, 2005 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Olve Peersen

Speaker: Dr. Asa Ben-Hur, Computer Science Dept, CSU
Subject: Methods for predicting and filtering protein-protein interaction data
When: Monday, October 17, 2005 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marvin Paule

Speaker: Dr. Atul Goel, Agilent Technologies
Subject: "Molecular diagnostics, a semiconductor industry perspective"
When: Monday, October 3, 2005 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marvin Paule

Speaker: Dr. Ken Kaye, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Subject: KSHV LANA Encounters Chromosomes, a Tale of Two Histones
When: Monday, September 26, 2005 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Mara Miller, Univ of Texas at Dallas
Subject: "In vitro Analysis of Physarum Mitochondrial RNA Polymerase"
When: Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jennifer Nyborg, Dr. Paul Laybourn

Speaker: Dr. Pamela David, Univ of Colorado Boulder
Subject: Effects of a Transition from Normoxia to Anoxia on the Yeast Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain
When: Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Borries Demeler, U of Texas Health Sci Center
Subject: Recent Advances in sedimentation velocity analysis of heterogeneous systems
When: Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Steven J. McBryant

Speaker: Dr. Jeff Wilusz, CSU Dept of Micro,Immun & Path
Subject: New Roles for three factors in mRNA 3' end formation and stability
When: Monday, May 2, 2005 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Norman Curthoys

Speaker: Dr. David Engelke, Univ of Michigan
Subject: Org. of (tRNA) Genes in Nuclei: Thinking outside the line
When: Monday, April 25, 2005 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marvin Paule

Speaker: Dr. Michael Ostrowski, Ohio State Univ
Subject: The microphthalmia transcription factor
When: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marvin Paule

Speaker: Dr. Michael J. Smerdon, Washington State Univ
Subject: DNA repair in chromatin: searching for the key to get in
When: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marvin Paule

Speaker: Dr. Hiroshi Sugiyama, Kyoto University
Subject: Chemistry that controls DNA structure and function
When: Monday, February 7, 2005 at 4:00 PM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Jessica Hammerman,Micro & Immunology, Univ of California
Subject: Regulation of toll-like receptor responses by DAP12
When: Monday, February 7, 2005 at 10:00 AM
Where: MB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marvin Paule

Speaker: Dr. Chaoping Chen, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Subject: Molecular and cellular mechanism of Lentivirus trafficking during its replication
When: Monday, January 31, 2005 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marvin Paule

Speaker: Dr. Douglas Lacount, Stanley Fields Genome Sciences, Univ of Washington
Subject: A Network of interacting proteins from plasmodium faiciparum
When: Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marvin Paule

Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Bonnano, Structural GenomiX
Subject: The NYSGXRC: An industrial/academic center for the NIIH protein structure
When: Monday, January 24, 2005 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Raji Endayathumangalam

Speaker: Dr. Michael Klemba, Molecular Microbiology, Washington University
Subject: Proteolytic Degradation of Hemoglobin in the food vacuole of the Malaria parasite
When: Monday, January 24, 2005 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marvin Paule

Speaker: Dr. Eric D. Ross, Reed-Wickner, Biochemistry and Genetics, NIH
Subject: What makes a protein a prion?
When: Thursday, January 20, 2005 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marvin Paule

Speaker: Dr. David Wassarman
Subject: Regulation of gene expression by and of the TFIID subunit TAF1
When: Monday, December 13, 2004 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Hansen

Speaker: Dr. Judy Teale, Univ of Texas Health Sciences Center
Subject: Neuroimmunology, neuropathology, parasitology
When: Monday, November 8, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Hansen

Speaker: Dr. Larry Parkhurst, Chemistry Dept, Univ of Nebraska, LIncoln
Subject: Why FRET?
When: Monday, November 1, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Laurie Stargell

Speaker: Dr. Bernard Rollin, Professor, Colorado State University, Dept. of Philosophy
Subject: Social Ethics, Animal suffering and the creation of transgenic models of human genetic disorders.
When: Monday, September 27, 2004 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jennifer Nyborg

Speaker: Dr. Richard J. Kuhn, Dept. Biological Sciences, Purdue University
Subject: Structure and Assembly of Flaviviruses
When: Thursday, August 12, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marvin Paule

Speaker: Dr. William J. Brown, Dept of Molecular Biology & genetics, Cornell University
Subject: New Mechanisms for Transporting Cargo in the Secretory and Endocytic Pathways
When: Monday, August 9, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marvin Paule

Speaker: Dr. Michael Kladde, Asst Prof, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Subject: Bidirectional propogation of chromatin remodeling during transcriptional activation
When: Friday, May 7, 2004 at 4:10 PM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Laybourn

Speaker: Dr. Michael Kladde, Assistant Professor, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX
Subject: Bidirectional propagation of chromatin remodeling during transcriptional activation
When: Friday, May 7, 2004 at 4:10 PM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Laybourn

Speaker: Dr. Homme Hellinga, Protein Biochemist, Duke
Subject: Computational design of biologically active receptors and enzymes
When: Thursday, May 6, 2004 at 9:00 AM
Where: Pathology 101
Sponsor: Dr. June Medford (Biology)

Speaker: Dr. Jonas Korlach, Cornell University
Subject: Seeing a Needle in a Haystack: Watching Single Molecules in Nanostructures
When: Monday, May 3, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Newgard, Duke - Durham NC
Subject: New insights into beta cell function and mechanisms of insulin resistance gained by
When: Wednesday, April 7, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Scott Summers

Speaker: Dr. A-Young Woody, Senior Research Scientist - Colorado State University
Subject: A Biochemist's Journey
When: Monday, April 5, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Norman Curthoys

Speaker: Dr. Tom Moss
Subject: Growth and the ribosomal genes; a story of transcriptional bottlenecks
When: Monday, March 29, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marv Paule

Speaker: Dr. Eva Nogales, UC Berkeley
Subject: Visualizing complexity in microtubule regulation and gene expression
When: Monday, March 22, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Raji Edayathumangalam

Speaker: Dr. Karla Kirkegaard, Stanford University School of Medicine
Subject: Poliovirus RNA replication: catalytic lattices on pirated membranes
When: Monday, March 8, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Olve Peersen

Speaker: Dr. Steven Bratman
Subject: Alternative Medicine: Realities and Illusions
When: Monday, March 1, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jennifer Nyborg

Speaker: Dr. Daniel R. Bush, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Biology, CSU
Subject: Life without a heart: Defining the role of plant sugar and amino acid transporters
When: Monday, February 16, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Norm Curthoys

Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Warner, Professor & Chair,Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx New York
Subject: Ribosome biosynthesis
When: Monday, February 9, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marv Paule

Speaker: Dr. Christopher W. Akey, Assoc. Professor, Boston University School of Medicine
Subject: Histone chaperones in the Nucleoplasmin family: structure and function
When: Monday, February 2, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Seth Darst, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Subject: Structural studies of bacterial transcription
When: Monday, January 26, 2004 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Raji Edayathumangalam

Speaker: Dr. Jef Boeke, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Subject: Transcriptional silencing and beyond: role of nucleosomes and sirtuins
When: Monday, December 8, 2003 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Uma Muthurajan

Speaker: Dr. David Auble, Virginia Medical School
Subject: Snf2/Swi2-Related ATPase Function in Transcription and DNA Repair
When: Monday, November 17, 2003 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Laurie Stargell and Gayatri Yatherajam

Speaker: Dr. Gerhard Gstraunthaler - University of Innsbruck
Subject: Signaling in renal acid-base adaptation. A role for TGF-β?
When: Monday, November 10, 2003 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Norm Curthoys

Speaker: Dr. Gareth R. Eaton, Professor, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Denver
Subject: Chemical and Biological Insights from Spin Physics
When: Monday, November 3, 2003 at 4:10 PM
Where: Hammond Auditorium , Eng. A120
Sponsor: Dr. Marv Paule - Joint seminar with Physics

Speaker: Dr. Blaine Bartholomew, University of Southern Illinois
Subject: What is Nucleosome Remodeling
When: Monday, November 3, 2003 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Raji Edayathumangalam

Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Bogan, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
Subject: TBD
When: Monday, October 20, 2003 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Scott Summers

Speaker: Dr. Sharon Dent, Assoc. Professor,U.T. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Subject: TBD
When: Monday, September 15, 2003 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. John Hart
Subject: TBD
When: Monday, September 8, 2003 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jeff Hansen

Speaker: Dr. Laszlo Tora, Institute of Genetics & Cell & Molecular Biology, Strasbourg, France
Subject: Diversity in the components of the pre-initiation complexes
When: Tuesday, September 2, 2003 at 4:10 PM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. George Clark
Subject: TBD
When: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 at 4:10 PM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Sumy T. Mathew, State Univ. of New York
Subject: "Nished, a repressor protein, mediates tissue restricted expression of MLC-2V gene"
When: Monday, May 19, 2003 at 4:10 PM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Uma Muthurajan

Speaker: Dr. Pichumani Balagurumoorthy - Vanderbilit Univ. Medical Center
Subject: "Understanding the DNA binding specificity of the tumor suppressor protein p53"
When: Monday, May 5, 2003 at 4:10 PM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Noreen Reist - Colorado State University - Biomedical Sciences
Subject: TBD
When: Monday, May 5, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Craig Schenck

Speaker: Dr. Robert Williams - CSU, Dept. of Chemistry
Subject: TBD
When: Monday, April 28, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Craig Schenck

Speaker: Dr. Xiaojiang Chen - University of Colorado School of Medicine - Denver
Subject: The structures of SV40 large T antigen and MCM complex:hexameric helicases and replication licensing
When: Monday, April 14, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Gabriel Baverel - Lab of Medical & Renal Pathophysiology, Lyon France
Subject: "Glutamine metabolism in kidney tubules from fed & fasted rats studied with 13c-NMR"
When: Wednesday, April 9, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Norm Curthoys

Speaker: Dr. David Brown, Lecturer - Dept. of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Bath, UK
Subject: Prion diseases and metals
When: Monday, April 7, 2003 at 4:10 PM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Jim Bamburg

Speaker: Dr. David Barton - Univ. of CO Health Sciences Center
Subject: Expandng the Paradigm of 5'- 3' Ribonucleoprotein Interactions in Poliovirus RNA
When: Monday, April 7, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Olve Peersen

Speaker: Dr. Lucio Comai - University of Southern California
Subject: Regulation of ribosomal RNA transcription by SV40 Virus
When: Monday, March 31, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marv Paule

Speaker: Dr. Geeta Narlikar - MGH, Boston MA
Subject: Mechanisms of ATP-dependent Chromatin Remodeling
When: Monday, March 24, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Dean Crick - CSU, Dept. of Microbiology
Subject: Decaprenyl diphosphate synthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
When: Monday, March 17, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Craig Schenck

Speaker: Dr. Robert Hodges - UCHSC
Subject: Protein folding and stability
When: Monday, March 3, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Craig Schenck

Speaker: Dr. Lilly Huang
Subject: Mechanism of activation of JAK2 tyrosine kinase
When: Monday, February 24, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Recruitment Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Tatiana Kutateladze
Subject: Protein-lipid interaction in signal transduction and trafficking
When: Thursday, February 13, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Recruitment Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Jeff Hansen, Professor of Biochemistry at Univ. of TX-San Antonio
Subject: Higher order chromatin structure
When: Monday, February 10, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Recruitment Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Heather True-Krob, Postdoc at MIT
Subject: Protein folding - yeast prions
When: Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Faculty Recruitment Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Melissa Jurica, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brandeis University
Subject: Structure of RNA spliceosome
When: Monday, January 27, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Facult Recruitment Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Sarah Elgin - Washington University - St. Louis, MO
Subject: Silence is Golden: Heterochromatin Form and Function in Drosophila
When: Monday, December 9, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Kurt Beam - CSU
Subject: Searching for protein-protein interactions underlying excitation-contraction coupling in muscle
When: Monday, December 2, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Craig Schenck

Speaker: Dr. Trevor Archer - NIH
Subject: Receptor Mediated Histone Modification and Chromatin Remodeling
When: Monday, November 18, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Laybourn

Speaker: Dr. Larry Rothblum - Geisinger Clinic and Research Foundation
Subject: Rrn3 Phosphorylation: A molecular switch for ribosomal DNA transcription
When: Monday, November 11, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marv Paule

Speaker: Dr. Barbara Hamkalo - Univ. of CA, Irvine
Subject: Everything you ever (or never) wanted to know about histone H1
When: Monday, November 4, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Laybourn

Speaker: Dr. Joseph Falke
Subject: Minding the membrane-conserved domains that regulate membrane signaling events
When: Monday, October 28, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Craig Schenck

Speaker: Dr. Amy McGough - Purdue University
Subject: Insights into actin dynamics from molecular snapshots frozen in time
When: Monday, October 21, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. James Bamburg

Speaker: Andy Vendel
Subject: TBD
When: Monday, October 14, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Lumb

Speaker: Dr. Craig Pikaard - Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Subject: Nucleolar dominance; epigenetic silencing on a megabase-scale in genetic hybrids
When: Monday, October 7, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Marv Paule

Speaker: Dr. Christopher K. Mathews - Oregon State University
Subject: Protein-protein interactions in DNA precursor biosynthesis
When: Monday, September 23, 2002 at 11:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. David Fahrney

Speaker: Dr. Barbara Lyons - University of Vermont
Subject: Structural Analysis of Grb7 Protein Binding Specificity
When: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 111
Sponsor: Dr. Laurie Stargell

Speaker: Dr. Robert Handa
Subject: Functional Variants of Estrogen Receptor Beta in the Brain
When: Monday, April 29, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Scott Summers

Speaker: Dr. Vasily Studitsky
Subject: Nucleosome remodeling by RNA polymerase II
When: Monday, April 15, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Xiaojiang Chen
Subject: TBD
When: Sunday, April 14, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Ross Dalbey
Subject: Membrane Protein Biogenesis in Bacteria: YidC
When: Monday, April 8, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Craig Schenck

Speaker: Dr. Carl Wu
Subject: ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodeling for Transcription
When: Monday, April 1, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Rowena Matthews
Subject: Cobalamin-dependent Methione Synthase: the Mechanism of Methyl Transfer
When: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 4:10 PM
Where: Chem B101E
Sponsor: Dr. Norman Curthoys - Joint Seminar with Chem.

Speaker: Dr. Boris Atanasov
Subject: Protein Electrostatics: Evaluation and Analysis of pH-dependent processes
When: Monday, March 18, 2002 at 2:00 PM
Where: Chem B302
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Woody

Speaker: Dr. Dontcho Staynov
Subject: The many faces of condense chromatin
When: Monday, February 11, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Karolin Luger

Speaker: Dr. Jacob Friedman
Subject: Control of Energy Metabolism by the Transcription Factor C/EBPb
When: Monday, February 4, 2002 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Norman Curthoys

Speaker: Dr. Kevin Struhl
Subject: Yeast transcriptional regulatory mechanisms
When: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 at 10:00 AM
Where: MRB 123
Sponsor: Dr. Laurie Stargell