Fall 2012
All seminars are Fridays at 4:00 p.m.
JF Library, 248 Antatomy-Chemistry Building
Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m.
Molecular switches - click here to see full listing of past seminars
SEPTEMBER 7
Laboratory of Kristen Lynch | Biochemistry and Biophysics
Signal-induced changes in protein interactions to regulate splicing
Kristen Lynch and Chris Yarosh
SEPTEMBER 14
Laboratory of Ben Black | Biochemistry and Biophysics
Switching on new centromeres and the deviant nucleosomes that do it
Ben Black and Tanya Panchenko
SEPTEMBER 21
Laboratory of Roberto Dominguez | Physiology
Molecular switches of the actin cytoskeleton
Roberto Dominguez and David Kast
SEPTEMBER 28
Laboratory of Ben Garcia | Biochemistry and Biophysics
Quantitative proteomics for understanding the histone code
Ben Garcia and Barry Zee
OCTOBER 5
Laboratory of Kate Ferguson | Physiology
Extracellular control of receptor tyrosine kinases
Kate Ferguson and Jason Moore
OCTOBER 12
Laboratory of Franz Matschinsky | Biochemistry and Biophysics
Diverse tissue specific molecular switching of glucokinase
Franz Matschinsky and Bogumil Zelent
Repairing the glucokinase switch of pancreatic beta-cells in diabetic states
Nicolai Doliba
Membranes
OCTOBER 19
Laboratory of Bohdana Discher | Biochemistry and Biophysics
The challenges of building bioenergetic membranes
Bohdana Discher and Bryan Fry
OCTOBER 26
Laboratory of Zhe Lu | Physiology
Conformational changes in the ligand-binding domain of ion channels
Zhe Lu, David Lin, and John Lewis
NOVEMBER 9
Laboratory of Michael Ostap | Physiology
How a molecular motor generates force when bound to lipid membranes. A single-molecule approach.
Michael Ostap and Serapion Pyrpassopoulos
NOVEMBER 16
Laboratory of Paul Janmey | Physiology
Polyphosphoinositides
Paul Janmey, David Slochower, and Eric Wang
NOVEMBER 30
Laboratory of Ravi Radhakrishnan | Bioengineering
Modeling membrane remodeling
Ravi Radhakrishnan, Ryan Bradley, Rick Tourdot, and N Ramakrishnan
DECEMBER 7
Laboratory of Tobias Baumgart | Chemistry
Biophysics of lipid and protein interactions and their modulation by membrane curvature
Tobias Baumgart
DECEMBER 14
Laboratory of Roberto Dominguez | Physiology
At the interface between the actin cytoskeleton and the plasma membrane
Roberto Dominguez and Adam Zwolak
JANUARY 11
Laboratory of Paul Axelsen | Pharmacology
Oxidative stress and membranes - the slow burn
Paul Axelsen and Tom Mitchell
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