Biological Chemistry 2007/2008 SEMINARS



Biological Chemistry Sponsored Research Seminars

Wednesday Mornings (11:00 AM) - F-114 Dr. S. Jerome & Judith D. Tamkin Student Lecture Building

Fall Quarter 2007
October 3 No Seminar  
October 10 Michael Grunstein
UCLA
Site specific histone acetylation and gene activity
PDF1, PDF2
October 17 Wade Harper
Harvard
Signaling through the ubiquitin-proteasome system
PDF1, PDF2
October 24 Chris Lima
Sloan Kattering
Post-translational protein modification by SUMO, a ubiquitin-like modifier
PDF1, PDF2
October 31 Jodi Nunnari
UC Davis
***CANCELLED***   The machines that divide and fuse mitochondria   ***CANCELLED***
November 7 Ellis Levin Estrogen inhibits DNA damage and repair signaling in breast cancer
November 14 No Seminar  
November 21 Thanksgiving
week
 
November 28 Pierre Baldi Charting Chemical Space with Computers: Challenges and Opportunities in Drug Discovery and Design
December 5 Anita Hopper
Ohio State University
Retrograde Nuclear Accumulation of Cytoplasmic tRNAs: A Conserved Cellular Response to Nutrient Deprivation
PDF1, PDF2
December 12 Terry Magnuson
UNC
Epigenetics, stem cells and mammalian develoment
PDF1, PDF2

Winter Quarter 2008
January 9 Barbara Graves
The ETS family of transcription factors - finding target genes and co-activators
PDF1, PDF2
January 16 Peter Kaiser Metabolic Pathways and Cell Proliferation
January 23 No Seminar  
January 30 Ed Rubin
LBL and current JGI Director
 
February 6 Sarah Millar
Univ of Penn School of Med
Wnt signaling in ectodermal organ specification, regeneration and neogenesis
PDF1, PDF2
February 13 Bert O’Malley
Baylor College of Med
Nuclear Receptor Coactivators: Breaking the Code Of A Master Gene Regulator
PDF1, PDF2
February 20 Suzanne Sandmeyer In and Out with Ty3
February 27
Noon-1:00PM
Plumwood/Hitachi Lecture Hall
Judy Campisi
Lawrence Berkley National Lab
Cancer and Aging: Rival Demons?
PDF1, PDF2
March 5 Robert Steele Hydra - small animal, big genome, lots of surprises
March 12
F-110
Lorraine Pillus
UCSD
Modifying Chromatin to Define Chromosome Functions
March 19
Plumwood/Hitachi Lecture Hall
Steve Jacobsen
UCLA
Genetics and genomics of DNA methylation
PDF1, PDF2
March 26 No Seminar  

Spring Quarter 2008
April 2 Jeremy Thomer
UC Berkeley
Where to erect a scaffold: spatial and temporal control of MAPK signaling
PDF1, PDF2, PDF3, PDF4
April 16
10AM
Hitachi Lecture Hall
Leslie Lock
Biological Chemistry and Development & Cell Biology
Modeling Development using embryonic stem cells
April 23 Jodi Nunnari
UC Davis
The machines that divide and fuse mitochondria
PDF1, PDF2
May 7 James Kadonaga
UCSD
Perspectives on Transcription and Chromatin Dynamics
PDF1, PDF2, PDF3
May 14
Hitachi Lecture Hall
Dan Klionsky
University of Michigan
Autophagy: a tightly regulated pathway of subcellular degradation that you rely on more than you realize (unless you attend this seminar, then you will be in awe)"
PDF1, PDF2
May 21 Xing Dai Is it still winter? - Pygopus in Wnt signaling, chromatin modification, and epithelial stem cell development
May 28 Galina Filipova
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Genetics and Epigenetics of the Multifvunctional Protein CTCF
PDF1, PDF2
June 4 Doug Wallace A Mitochondrial Pathophysiology of Age-related Diseases, Aging and Cancer
June 11 No Seminar  


Biological Chemistry Sponsored Special Seminars

Wed, Oct 24
9AM
Hitachi Lecture Hall
Silvere van der Maarel
Leiden University Medical Center
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: where genetics meets epigenetics
Mon, Oct 29
11AM
Hitachi Lecture Hall
Dale Dorsett
St. Louis University School of Medicine
Roles of sister chromatid cohesion proteins in gene expression and development