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Seminars 2008- 2009
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Archived Schedules:Spring 2008 | Fall 2008

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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

 

 
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