| Spring 2002 |
| May 1 | "tba" Hendrik Szurmant (Ordal lab)
"tba" Brad Baas (Sligar lab) |
| April 24 | "tba" Bruce Geryk (Campanelli lab)
"tba" Enhu Li (Olsen lab) |
| April 17 | "tba" Wen Shan Yew (Gerlt lab) |
| April 10 | "tba" Stanley Wang (Shapiro lab)
"tba" Sean Li (Schwartz lab) |
| April 3 | "Bridging Phosphoethanolamine Addition During GPI Biosynthesis May Have Distinct Requirements for Yeast and Mammals" Jill Grimme (Orlean lab)
"P22 Xis and Site-Specific Excision" Aras Mattis (Gumport lab) |
| March 27 | "Characterization of Membrane Dynamics in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles Assembled from Rat Kidney Brushborder and Basolateral Membrane Fragments"
Melanie Cheng (Mantulin lab)
"Directed Evolution of Peptide-MHC Complexes" Susan Brophy (Kranz lab) |
| March 20 | none - Spring Break |
March 13
4 pm, B102 CLSL |
Final Defense Seminar: Wednesday, 4:00 p.m., B102 CLSL
"Examining The Proton Channels In Heme-Copper Oxidases"
Farol Tomson (Gennis lab) |
| March 6 | "Glucocorticoids: A New Class of Neurosteroids Involved in Myelin Synthesis"
Paul Rodriguez-Waitkus (Glaser lab)
"Modulators of Inflammation Regulate the Caspase-1 and Granzyme B
Inhibitor, Proteinase Inhibitor 9" Padma Thulasiraman
(Shapiro lab) |
February 27
4 pm, B102 CLSL |
Final Defense Seminar: Wednesday, 4:00 p.m., B102 CLSL
"Biochemical Studies of the Na+-translocating NADH:ubiquinone Oxidoreductase" Weidong Zhou (Gennis lab) |
| February 20 | "Topology Study on Cytochrome bd Oxidase
Using Gene Fusion"
Jie Zhang (Gennis lab)
"Tamoxifen and
4-hydroxytamoxifen Induces Estrogen Receptor Dependent Atypical Cell
Death" Maria Obrero
(Shapiro lab) |
| February 13 | "Exploring the Biological Function of the First 18 Residues of Adenylate Kinase With Fluorescence Microscopy" QiaoQiao Ruan (Mantulin lab)
"Engineering the T Cell Receptor to Protect T Cells from Superantigen-Induced Pathogenesis" Hywyn Churchill
(Kranz lab) |
| February 6 | "Deficiencies in the Essential GPI Biosynthetic Proteins Gpi1 and Gpi3 Lead to Cell Wall Defects in the Opportunistic Pathogen Candida albicans"
Eric Robinson (Orlean lab)
"Mechanism of Reductive Dehalogenation by P450cam" David Kellner (Sligar lab) |
|
January 30 | "Assignment of Function to Enzymes in Phenylacetate Catabolism by E. coli"
Mark Lies (Gerlt lab) |
| January 23 |
"The Multifaceted Mechanism of Chemotactic Adaptation in Bacillus subtilis"
Dr. George Ordal |
January 22
10 am, B124 CLSL |
Final Defense Seminar: Tuesday, 10:00 a.m., B124 CLSL
"Characterization of the Enhancer and Promoter Elements of the Human TAFII55
Gene" Tianyuan Zhou |
| Fall 2001 |
| December 5 | "Utilizing Compartmentalized Cultures to Determine Signal Transduction Mechanisms During Myelin Synthesis" Benjamin Ng (Glaser lab) |
| November 28 |
"Characterization of McpB Transmembrane Helix 1 and 2 and Identification
of Asparagine Induced Conformational Changes"
Michael Bunn (Ordal lab) |
| November 21 |
none scheduled - Thanksgiving Recess |
| November 14 |
"Structures and Spectral Characterization of Thermostable P450, CYP119"
Kara Weiss (Sligar lab)
"Interaction of Tamoxifen-bound Estrogen Receptor with
Chromatin"
Adam Krieg (Shapiro lab) |
| November 7 |
none - talk rescheduled |
| October 31 |
"A New Enzyme Involved in Bacillus subtilis Chemotaxis"
Chris Kristich (Ordal lab) |
| October 24 |
"Multiple Regions of b-Dystroglycan Play Functional Roles in Agrin-Induced Acetylcholine Clustering" Joanna Kahl (Campanelli lab) |
| October 17 |
"Association of DNA-bound Estrogen Receptor with Coregulatory Proteins"
Varsha Likhite (Nardulli lab) |
| October 10 |
"GPI Anchors and Polarized Growth in a Filamentous Fungus"
Benjamin Yan (Orlean lab) |
| October 3 |
"Peptide-MHC Cross-Reactivity of T Cell Receptors Selected for Higher Affinity In Vitro" Phil Holler (Kranz lab) |
| September 26 |
none scheduled - Fall Conference |
| September 19 |
"A Tale of Three Tails, a Mutant, and a Dimer: Structural Insights into
RsrI Methyltransferase" Chad Thomas (Gumport lab) |
September 13
2:00 pm, 177 MSB |
Final Defense Seminar: Thursday, 2:00 p.m., 177 MSB
"Behavioral Adaptation in Bacillus subtilis: The Role of Selective Methylation Changes and Heterologous Receptors in McpB-Mediated Signaling"
Michael Zimmer (Ordal lab) |
| September 12 |
"Molecules and Mechanisms Involved in Synaptogenesis"
Dr. Jim Campanelli |
September 11
2:00 pm, 354-A MSB |
Final Defense Seminar: Tuesday, 2:00 p.m., 354-A MSB
"Investigating the PyrR-pyr mRNA Interaction Through Site-Directed Mutagenesis of the PyrR Protein" Heather Savacool (Switzer lab) |
September 6
2:00 pm, 177 MSB |
Final Defense Seminar: Thursday, 2:00 p.m., 177 MSB
"Understanding Protein-DNA Recognition: Development and Application of
High Pressure Methods" Tom Lynch (Sligar lab) |
| September 5 |
"Divergence of Function in (b/a)8 Barrels: Different Reactions Catalyzed by the 'Same' Active Site"
Dr. John Gerlt |
August 15
4:30 pm, 401 RAL |
Final Defense Seminar: Wednesday, 4:30 p.m., 401 RAL
"Investigation of the Molecular Interaction Between pyr mRNA and the Bacillus subtilis Attenuation Regulatory Protein, PyrR"
Eric Bonner (Switzer lab) |
August 13
10:00 am, 401 RAL |
Final Defense Seminar: Monday, 10:00 a.m., 401 RAL
"Methylmalonyl-CoA Decarboxylase (YgfG) from E. coli: A New Activity for the Crotonase Superfamily" Tom Haller (Gerlt lab) |
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