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Seminar Series Archive

2017  Frontiers In Biochemistry Seminars

August 18:  Chuan He, University of Chicago, HHMI, "RNA methylation in gene expression regulation"

August 25: Craig Lindsley, Vanderbilt University, "The curious case of mGlu1 PAMs – the forgotten Group I mGIuR with New Life"

September 15: Shu-ou Shan, Cal Tech, "Molecular mechanism of membrane protein targeting: chaperone cascades and protean clamps"

October 6: Ken Johnson, University of Texas-Austin, "Role of nucleotide-induced conformational changes in specificity and evolution of drug resistance by HIV reverse transcriptase"

October 20: Enrique De La Cruz, Yale University/NSF, "How Cells Use Chemistry and Physics to Break the Bones that Power Their Movement"

November 10: Armstrong LectureJeremy Thorner, UC Berkeley/NAS: Armstrong Lecture, "A Protein Kinase Network Controls Plasma Membrane Lipid and Protein Homeostasis"

December 1: Cohen LectureErin O’Shea, HHMI President, Harvard University, "Identification of a Transporter Complex Required for Nitrogen-containing Bisphosphonate Function"

December 8: Anna Marie Pyle, Yale University/HHMI  Co-sponsored by the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation (VI4)

December 13, Agata Smogorzewska, Rockefeller University, "Genome Maintenance: From Molecules to Diseases" Note: This seminar will be held on Wednesday in 208 Light Hall.

December 19: Biochemistry Seminar at 10am, Jamaine Davis, Meharry Medical College, "Using 3D structures to understand disease phenotypes"  Note: This seminar begins at 10:00 am.

2014 Frontiers In Biochemistry Seminars

February 21, 2014
Tanya Paull, University of Texas, Austin
"Regulation of DNA Double-Strand Break Repair and Damage Signaling"

February 28, 2014
Thomas Poulas, University of California, Irvine
"Nitric Oxide Synthase: Structure Based Drug Design Targeting Neurodegenerative (and other) Diseases"

March 21, 2014
John Lis, Cornell University
"Local & Genome-Wide Views Into the Mechanisms of Transcription and Its Regulation"

March 28, 2014
Tanja Mittag, St Jude Children's Research Hospital
"The Role of Multivalency in Dynamic Protein Interactions and Control of Ubiquitination"

April 4, 2014
Ruma Banerjee, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Enzymology of H2S Signaling"

April 18, 2014
Robert C. Murphy, University of Colorado, Denver
"Advances in Lipid Biochemistry as Revealed by Mass Spectrometric Approaches"

April 25, 2014
Loren Looger, HHMI, Janelia Farm Research Campus
"New Tools to Study the Brain, A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Talk"

August 22, 2014
Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins
"A Ribosome-Centric Look at mRNA Surveillance"

September 5
Brian Shoichet, University of California, San Francisco
"A Metabolic Code for Chemical Signaling"

September 26, 2014
Joaquin Espinosa, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Taming the p53 Network for Effective Cancer Therapies"

October 26, 2014
Frank McKeon, Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine