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FALL 2007
 


 

Friday, Aug 17, 2007
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Full contact origami: GnRH receptor trafficking in health and disease

Michael Conn
Oregon Health & Science University
Oregon National Primate Research Research Ctr.

Host: David Puett

 


 

Friday, Aug 24, 2007
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

A Look at the Biochemical Weaponry of the Formosan Subterranean Termite, and Development of Some Chemical Insults of Our Own

Roger Laine
Louisiana State University
Department of Biological Sciences & Chemistry

Host: Michael Pierce & Michael Tiemeyer & Department of Entomology

 


 

Friday, Aug 31, 2007
11:15am
Masters Hall, GA Center for Continuing Education

Live Cell Imaging of G Protein Signaling Pathways

Cathy Berlot
Geisinger Health Systems

Host: David Puett

 


 

Friday, Sept 7, 2007
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

The Dystrophin - Glycoprotein Complex, Actin and Human Disease

Jim Ervasti
University of Minnesota
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics

Host: Lance Wells

 


 

Friday, Sept 14, 2007
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

RNA - mediated DNA repair by LINE-1 retrotransposons

John Moran
University of Michigan Medical School
Department of Human Genetics & Internal Medicine

Host: Shaying Zhao

 


 

Friday, Sept 21, 2007
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Heme is involved in microRNA processing

Feng Guo
UCLA School of Medicine
Department of Biological Chemistry

Host: Harry Dailey

 


 

Monday, Sept 24, 2007
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

Activation and nuclear localization of GSK-3 Beta promotes the differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells

Matt Bechard


Major Professor:

 


 

Monday, Oct 1, 2007
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

The Nudix Hydrolase Superfamily, a Jack of All Trades

Maurice Bessmane
The John Hopkins University
Department of Biology

Host: Michael Pierce

 


 

Friday, Oct 5, 2007
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Insulin Degrading Enzyme: An Allosteric Peptidase involved in Regulating Insulin Action and Alzheimer's Disease

Lou Hersh
University of Kentucky
Molecular & Cellular Biology

Host: Walter Schmidt

 


 

Monday, Oct 8, 2007
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

Synchrotron X-ray Imaging - Today and in the Future

J. Murray Gibson
Director
Advanced Photon Source
Argonne National Laboratory

Host: B. C. Wang

 


 

Friday, Oct 12, 2007
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Biochemical Analysis of Mitotic Spindle Assembly Reveals New Tricks for an O-GLcNAc

Christiane Wiese
University of Wisconsin
Department of Biochemistry

Host: Lance Wells

 


 

Monday, Oct 15, 2007
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

Oxidative footprinting with mass spectrometry and molecular modeling as methods for studying protein-carbohydrate interactions

Olga Charvatova


Major Professor:

 


 

Friday, Oct 15, 2007
3:00pm
C127 Life Sciences

Mucin Glycosylation - Structural Analysis Predicts Biological Function?

Niclas Karlsson
Senior Scientist
Department of Chemistry
Centre for BioAnalytical Sciences
National University of Ireland
Galway, Ireland

Host: Kelly Moremen

 


 

Friday, Oct 19, 2007
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

The Genetic Code Revisited - Four Decades after Francis Crick

Dieter Soll
Yale University
Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry

Host: Robert Sabantini

 


 

Monday, Oct 22, 2007
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

In Quest of the O-Main Proteome: Fishing for O-Mannose Modified Proteins in the Mammalian Brain

Anu Koppikar


Major Professor: Lance Wells

 


 

Monday, Oct 29, 2007
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

Swee Revenge: Impacts of O-GLcNAc Modification on Type II Diabetes

Chin Fen Teo


Major Professor: Lance Wells

 


 

Wednesday, Oct 31, 2007
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

AQUAPORIN WATER CHANNELS: From Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicin

Nobel Laureate - Dr. Peter C. Agre
Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology
Duke University Interim Chair
Department of Biochemistry

Host: BGSA Sponsored

 


 

Friday, Nov 2, 2007
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Telomere signaling networks in mammalian cells

Zhou Songyang
Baylor College of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry

Host: Michael Terns

 


 

Monday, Nov 9, 2007
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

A New Pathological Feature of Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabeters: Involvement of Ganglioside GM3

Jin-Ichi Inokuchi
Institure of Molecular Biomembranes and Glycobiology
Tohoku Pharmaceutical University

Host: Michael Pierce

 


 

Friday, Nov 9, 2007
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Leptin in hte regulation of body fat

Ruth Harris
University of Georgia
Foods & Nutrition Department

Host: Lance Wells

 


 

Monday, Nov 12, 2007
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

A novel approach to identify protein complexes in the proteome of Pyrococcus furisus

Joseph Scoot


Major Professor: Mike Adams

 


 

Friday, Nov 16, 2007
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Ceomprehensive metabolic profiling for understanding of obesity and diabetes mechanisms

Chris Newgard
Duke University Center
Department's of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology

Host: James Prestegard

 


 

Monday, Nov 19, 2007
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

Epitope Characterization of Tamarind Xyloglucan Directed Monoclonal Antibodies

Sami Tuomivaara


Host: William York

 


 

Monday, Nov 29, 2007
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

An Investigaion Into the Molecular Basis of Telomerase Trafficking in Cancer Cells

Eladio Abreu


Major Professor: Mike Terns

 


 

Friday, Nov 30, 2007
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Lysosomal Enzyme Targeting: A Story of Sweetness and Diversion

Nancy Dahms
Medical College of Wisconsin
Department of Biochemistry

Host: Richard Steet

 


 

Monday, Dec 3, 2007
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

Regulated telomeric DNA glycosylation by two thymine hydroxylase enzymes in Trypanosoma brucei

Shanda Birkeland


Major Professor: Robert Sabatini

 


 

Friday, Dec 7, 2007
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Employing protein quality control for regulation of cellular functoin

Randy Hampton
University of California, San Diego
Division of Biology

Host: Walter Schmidt

 


 
Spring 2008
 


 

Tuesday, Feb 6, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Investigating Protein Structural Mechanisms: Towards a Systems Biology Approach

Natarajan Kannan
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA

Host:

 


 

Wednesday, Feb 13, 2008
4:00pm
CCRC Auditorium

Sugars, Biofuels and Sustainability

Dianna Bowles
Weston Chair of Biochemistry and
Director, Department of Biology Centre for Novel Agricultural Products
(CNAP)
Department of Biology
University of York

Host: Debra Mohnen

 


 

Monday, Mar 17, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Modes and Mechanisms of Protein Evolution: Application to Function Prediction in the Enolase Superfamily

Margaret Glasner
Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Host: BMB-IOB

 


 

Tuesday, Mar 18, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Remodeling of the bacterial surface: Modification of Lipopolysaccharides

M. Stephen Trent
Medical College of Georgia
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Host: BMB

 


 

Wednesday, Mar 19, 2008
2:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Comparative Network Biology Approach to Studying Gene Regulatory Systems

Kai Tan
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA

Host: BMB-IOB

 


 

Monday, Mar 24, 2008
2:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

State of the Art in Protein Structure Prediction: Refinement of Protein Models

Anna Jagielska
Center for the Study of Systems Biology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

Host: BMB-IOB

 


 

Thursday, Mar 27, 2008
11:00am
C127 Life Sciences

Role of transcription-coupled RNA degradation in heterochromatic silencing

Lidia Vasilieva
Harvard Medical School
Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology

Host: BMB

 


 

Monday, Mar 31, 2008
2:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Y Chromosomes: Collateral Damage in the War Between Sexes

Steven Rozen
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Cambridge, MA

Host: BMB-IOB

 


 

Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Structural and Biophysical Studies of the Interleukin-7 Signaling Pathway

Scott Walsh
The Ohio State University
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Host: Jeff Urbauer

 


 

Wednesday, Apr 2, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Recognizing RNAs: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

Hong Li
Florida State University
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Host: BMB

 


 

Monday, Apr 7, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Function and Control of Cullin-based E3 Ubiquitin Ligases

Thimo Kurz
ETH Zurich, Institute of Biochemistry

Host: BMB

 


 

Wednesday, Apr 9, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Sensing, Signaling and Repairing DNA Double-strand Breaks

Zhongshen You
Salk Institute for Biological Sciences
Molecular & Cell Biology Laboratory

Host: BMB

 


 

Thursday, Apr 17, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

DNA damage responses and BRCA1 complexes

Bin Wang
Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics

Host: BMB

 


 

Friday, Aug 22, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Genetic Analysis of Metastatic Colon Cancer

Phil Buckhaults


Host: Michael Pierce

 


 

Friday, Aug 29, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Prostate Cancer by Numbers: Foray in Biomath

Neil Bhowmick
Inaugural BMB Marquee Alumnae Seminar
Department of Urologic Surgery
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Host: David Puett

 


 

Friday, Sept 5, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Regulation of Hh and Wnt gradients: stories from proteoglycans and retromer complex

Xinhua Lin
Division of Developmental Biology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Host: Lianchun Wang

 


 

Friday, Sept 12, 2008
3:30pm
CCRC Auditorium

Improving Crystallization and Heavy Atom Derivatization for Protein Crystallography

Peter Sun
Chief, Structural Immunology Section
Lab of Immunogenetics, NIAID/NIH

Host: John Rose

 


 

Friday, Sept 19, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Enzymatic Approaches for developing heparan sulfate-based drugs

Jian Liu
School of Pharmacy
Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Host: Lianchun Wang

 


 

Monday, Sept 22, 2008
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

Clarifying the purpose of Fe-S clusters within Radical SAM enzymes and glycyl radical formation

Jon Demick


Major Professor: Bill Lanzilotta

 


 

Monday, Sept 29, 2008
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

Mitochondrial tRNA Import in Trypanosoma Brucei

David Seidman


Major Professor: Stephen Hajduk

 


 

Friday, Oct 3, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Quorum Sensing: The Biochemistry of Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria

Fred Hughson
Molecular Biology Department
Princeton University

Host: Richard Steet

 


 

Monday, Oct 6, 2008
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

Effect of Oxidative Stress on the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon

Priyanka Srivastava


Major Professor: Mike Adams

 


 

Thursday, Oct 9, 2008
3:30pm
CCRC Auditorium

Molecular Movies of RNA Dynamics: From Function to Therapeutic Design

Hashim M. Al-Hashimi
CCRC Auditorium

Host: BMB/CCRC Special Seminar

 


 

Friday, Oct 10, 2008
3:30pm
CCRC Auditorium

Sugar coated DNA tastes good to Tryps

Bob Sabatini
BMB

Host: BGSA

 


 

Friday, Oct 17, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

A Converging Picture of Side-Chain Flexibility in PDZ Domain

Andrew Lee


Host: Jeff Urbauer

 


 

Monday, Oct 20, 2008
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

The role of Lipopolysaccharide in Rhizobia/Legume Symbiosis

Dusty Brown


Major Professor: Russ Carlson

 


 

Monday, Oct 27, 2008
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

Modulation of Adipocytokine Levels upon the Induction of Insulin Resistance

Edith Hayden


Major Professor: Lance Wells

 


 

Friday, Oct 31, 2008
3:30pm
CCRC Auditorium

Title TO BE ANNOUNCED

Zach Wood
CCRC Auditorium

Host: BGSA

 


 

Friday, Nov 7, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Exploring the plant secretome: New tools, pathways and extracellular processes

Jocelyn K.C. Rose


Host: Will York

 


 

Monday, Nov 10, 2008
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

Functional identification and characterization of Sugar-1-P kinases in Arabidopsis

Ting Yang


Major Professor: Maor Bar-Peled

 


 

Friday, Nov 14, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Dissecting mammalian retrotransposons: natural and synthetic

Jef Boeke


Host: Shaying Zhao

 


 

Monday, Nov 17, 2008
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

The Role of the Long Chain Fatty Acid on Lipid A of Rhizobium Lipopolysaccharide for Cell Viability and Symbiosis

Dianna Bourassa


Major Professor: Russ Carlson

 


 

Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008
11:15am
C127 Life Sciences

Heterologous Expression of rat ST6GalI in Pichia pastoris for Structural and functional studies

Narendra Tejwani


Host: Dr. Kelley Moremen

 


 

Monday, Dec 1, 2008
11:10am
C127 Life Sciences

Molecular Mechanisms of I-cell Disease Pathogenesis

Jarrod Barnes


Major Professor: Richard Steet

 


 

Friday, Dec 5, 2008
3:30pm
C127 Life Sciences

Quality control of mRNA Export from the Nucleus: Checking IDs at the Nuclear Pore

Anita H. Corbett
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Emory University School of Medicine

Host: BGSA

 





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