| Date |
Time |
Event |
| October 3 |
1:30 pm |
Thesis Seminar
Elizabeth Feeser
"Structure of Yeast Rap1: Insights into Transcriptional Silencing and Telomer Length Regulation"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 1:15 pm |
| October 29 |
9:30 am |
Wednesday Morning Class
Daniel Leahy, Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, JHU SoM
"Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About SAXS But Were Afraid To Ask"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea
9:15 pm |
| October 29 |
1:30 pm |
Special Seminar
Michael Ibba, Department of Micobiology, Ohio State University
"Exploring New Roles for Elongation Factor Tu Inside and
Outside Translation"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea
1:15 pm
|
| November 5 |
9:30 am |
Student Seminar
Jackson Buss
"Remodeling the Wall: Peptidoglycan-targeted Antibiotic Resistance in S. Aureus"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| November 12 |
9:30 am |
Student Seminar
Thomas Cleveland
"Characterizing the Structure of Natively Unfolded Proteins"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| November 12 |
1:30 pm |
Special Seminar
William Weis, Stanford University
"Two Structures of the Beta-2-Adrenergic Receptor"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 1:15 pm |
| November 19 |
9:30 am |
David Shortle , JHU, Biological Chemistry
"(Systematic) Design of
(Efficient) Experiments"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| December 3 |
9:30 am |
BCMB Thesis Seminar
Simon Messing
"Identification of a New Family of Bacterial RNA Decapping Enzymes:
Structure and Function of BdRppH"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| December 3 |
1:30 pm |
Special Seminar
Gautam Dantas, Harvard Medical School
"Functional Microbiomics: Harnessing the Chemical Potential of the Microbial World"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 1:15 pm |
| December 10 |
9:30 am |
David Shortle, JHU, Department of Biological Chemistry
"2008 Critical Assessment
Prediction (CASP) Update"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| December 10 |
1:30 pm |
Special Seminar
David Bain, University of Colorado, Denver
"Making Sense of Nuclear Receptor Function: Models Versus Mechanisms"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| December 17 |
9:30 am |
Tom Woolf, JHU, Physiology
"Next Generation Force-Fields for
Molecular Simulation -- Speeding
up versus Slowing Down: A Tale
of Sampling and Accuracy"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| December 24 |
|
NO CLASS |
| December 31 |
|
NO CLASS |
| January 14 |
9:30 am |
Student Seminar
Bora Erdemli
"Single Molecule Manipulation: Choosing the Right Technique"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| January 21 |
9:30 am |
Jie Xiao, JHU, Biochemical and Biophysical Principles
"Computational Tools for Enhancing Conformation Sampling of Biological Macromolecules"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
January 28
|
9:30 am |
****POSTPONED TO FEBRUARY 4, 2009****
Wednesday Morning Class
|
| February 4 |
9:30 am |
Elizabeth Petro
Wednesday Morning Class
""Rendezvous with Raman:
Imaging with High Sensitivity by
Stimulated Raman Scattering"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am
***MOVED TO APRIL 8, 2009***
Herschel Wade, Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, JHU SoM
|
| February 4 |
1:30 pm |
Jochen Zimmer, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
"Structural Basis for SecA Mediated Protein Translocation"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| February 9 |
4:00 pm |
SPECIAL SEMINAR: Dintzis Lecture
Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
"Induced Fit: A Common Strategy Used by the Ribosome in Decoding, Peptidyl Transfer and Termination"
Wood Basic Science Auditorium, Ground Floor, SoM, Tea 3:45 pm
***Location Change*** |
| February 11 |
9:30 am |
Student Seminar
Helen Jun
"Botox, the Wrinkle Releaser,
and Its Mechanism of Toxicity"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| February 11 |
1:30 pm |
**********CANCELLED***********
Bo Huang, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard Medical School
"Seeing the Unseen With Super-resolution Flourescence Microscopy"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 1:15 pm |
| February 18 |
1:30 pm |
Dominique P. Frueh, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
"Modulation of Domain Interactions and Dynamics in Non-ribosomal Peptide Synthetases "
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 1:15 pm |
| February 25 |
9:30 am |
Student Seminar
Gustavo Afanador
"The Cellulosome: An efficient
machine for ethanol production"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| February 25 |
1:30 pm |
Junji Iwahara, University of Texas Medical Brank
"NMR Studies of Protein Translocation on DNA"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| March 2 |
1:00 pm |
SPECIAL LECTURE - Canegie Mellon University's "Last Lecture Series"
Jon Lorsch, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
WBSB Auditorium (Ground Floor of PCTB building; 1st year lecture hall)
Sponsor: Nathan College School of Medicine |
| March 4 |
9:30 am |
Student Seminar
Anthony DiBello
"The Structural Biology of Diverse Ligand Recognition by Beta-catenin"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| March 11 |
9:30 am |
Wednesday Morning Class
Jan Hoh, Physiology, JHU SoM
"A New Metric for Quantifying Spatial Information in Biological Systems"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| March 11 |
1:30 pm |
Jian Liu, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
University of California, Berkely
"Theoretical Modeling of Mechanochemical Feedback Mechanism of Cellular Processes"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 1:15 pm |
| March 18 |
9:30 am |
NO Wednesday Morning Class |
| March 18 |
1:30 pm |
Blance Barquera, Rensselaer Polytechnique Institute
"Na+ -bioenergetics: Enzymes That Use Na+ Instead of H+ as a Chemiosmotic Currency"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 1:15 pm |
| March 25 |
9:30 am |
Wednesday Morning Class
Junho Hur
"The Structure and Function of
CCA-adding Enzyme""
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| March 25 |
1:30 pm |
Michelle Wang, HHMI, Cornell Medical College
"DNA Accessibility in Nucelosomes"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 1:15 pm |
| April 1 |
9:30 am |
NO Wednesday Morning Class |
| April 1 |
1:30 pm |
Lynn Regan, Yale University
"Exploring the Structure and Function of Natural and Designed TPR Proteins"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 1:15 pm |
| April 8 |
9:30 am |
NO Wednesday Morning Class |
| April 15 |
9:30 am |
Student Seminar
John Bullen, Jr., JHU
"MassSpectrometry Fundamentals
for Non-mass spectrometrists:
Recent Advances in post-translational modification (PTM)
Proteomic Approaches"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| April 15 |
3:00 pm |
Jonathan Farrell, PMB Thesis Seminar
"Q-space Diffusion Imaging of Axon and Myelin Damage in the Human and Rat Spinal Cord"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 2:45 pm |
| April 22 |
9:30 am |
NO Wednesday Morning Class |
| April 22 |
1:30 pm |
Wali Karzai, Stony Brook University
"Orchestrating Post Transcriptional Processes at the Ribosome: Insights into Decoding and Decay of Defective mRNAs"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 1:15 pm |
| April 29 |
9:30 am |
Wednesday Morning Class
Al Mildvan, Biological Chemistry, JHU School of Medicine
"NMR Studies of Catalytic
Side Chains of Enzymes"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 9:15 am |
| May 13 |
1:30 pm |
Kathleen Howard, Swarthmore College
"Conformational Changes of the Membrane-Bound M2 Protein of Influenza A Virus upon pH Activation and Drug Binding"
PCTB 517, SoM, Tea 1:15 pm |
