Visiting Speaker Seminars

Every Monday - 12:00 pm - MSB 2.135
*** Unless otherwise noted below ***

September 24, 2007	Jeffrey Rosen, Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine Title: Stem/Progenitor Cells in the Etiology and Treatment of Breast Cancer Host: Dr. Kellems
October 1, 2007	Irina Serysheva, Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine Title: Structure of RyRl Channel of Subnanometer Resolution by Single Particle CryoEM Host: Drs. Penczek and Kellems
October 8, 2007	Hamed Jafar-Nejad, M.D. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Title: Fine-tuning the Notch Signaling Pathway via Protein O-glucosylation Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems
October 15, 2007	Richard Gomer, Ph.D. Rice University Title: Eukaryotic Cell Number Counting, Wound Healing, and Fibrosing Diseases Host: Dr. Michael Blackburn
October 22, 2007	Philip Bryan, Ph.D. University of Maryland Biotechnology-CARB Title: TBA Host: Dr. Kevin Ridge
October 29, 2007	Arthur L. Burnett, M.D. John Hopkins University Title: TBA Host: Dr. Yang Xia
November 5, 2007	William Brownell, Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine Title: TBA Host: Dr. John Spudich Director, Center for Membrane Biology
November 12, 2007	Melvin Klegerman, Ph.D. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Title: Tissue Plasminogen Activator: A Versatile Molecule with Some Surprising Applications Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems
November 26, 2007	Jianping Jin, Ph.D. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Title: Ubiquitylation-controlled DNA Damage Response Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems
December 3, 2007	Xiadong Wang, Ph.D. UT Southwestern Medical Center-Dallas Title: PAS Domains: A Versatile Way to Build a Biological Switch Host: Greer Visiting Lectureship
December 10, 2007	Miles Wilkinson, Ph.D. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Title:The Rhox Genes: Transcriptional Control and Gametogenesis Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems
December 17, 2007	Theodore Wensel, Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine Title: Regulatory Mechanisms in Vertebrate Photoreceptors Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems
January 7, 2008	David Russell, Ph.D. UT Southwestern Medical Center-Dallas Title: Cholesterol Turnover in the Brain Host: Dr. William Dowhan Center for Membrane Biology
January 14, 2008	Richard Clark, Ph.D. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Title: New Approaches to an Understanding of G Protein Receptor Kinase/b2-Adrenergic Receptor Interactions: Tune In, Turn On, Desensitize Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems
January 28, 2008	Heinrich Taegtmeyer, Ph.D. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Title: Metabolic Dysregulation and the Failing Heart: Virchow's Fatty Atrophy Revisited Host: Dr. Yang Xia
February 4, 2008	S. Ananth Karumanchi, M.D. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Title: Angiogenic Factors and Preeclampsia Host: Dr. Yang Xia
February 11, 2008	Bruce Cronstein, Ph.D. New York University School of Medicine Title: Purine Growth Factor; Adventures with Adenosine Host: Dr. Michael Blackburn
February 18, 2008	Huey Huang, Ph.D. Rice University Title: Antimicrobial Peptides. How do they make stable pores in membranes? Host: Dr. Vasanthi Jayaraman
February 25, 2008	Judd Rice, Ph.D. University of Southern California Title: Histone Methylation: New Insights into Epigenetic Gene Regulation and Cellular Identity Host: Dr. Phillip Carpenter
March 3, 2008	Michael Gambello, M.D., Ph.D. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Title: Releasing the Breaks on mTOR in the Brain: A Mouse Model of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems
March 17, 2008	George Weinstock , Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine Title: Breakthroughs in Genome Analysis from Microbes to Man Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems
March 24, 2008	Sergei Sukharev, Ph.D. University of Maryland Title: The Small Mechanosensitive Channel MscS: Biophysical Principles of Gating and Modulation Host: Dr. Vasanthi Jayaraman Center for Membrane Biology
April 7, 2008	John Wilson, Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine Title: Rhodopsin Gene Correction in Rod Cells of Mice Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems
April 14, 2008	Carmen Dessauer , Ph.D. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Title: Spatial Contraints of cAMP Signaling: The Next Dimension in Adenylyl Cyclase Regulation Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems
April 21, 2008	Mikhail Kolonin, Ph.D. IMM Title: *Stem Cell Surface Interactions in Cancer and Obesity* Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems
April 28, 2008	David Nelson, Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine Title: Modeling Fragile X Syndrome and FXTAS in Mice and Flies Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems
May 5, 2008	Nami McCarty , Ph.D. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Title: Identification and Characterization of Molecules important in the Immune System by Genomic and RNAi-based Approaches Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems

About BMB

Visiting Speaker Seminars

Baylor College of Medicine

Title: Stem/Progenitor Cells in the Etiology and Treatment of Breast Cancer

Host: Dr. Kellems

Baylor College of Medicine

Title: Structure of RyRl Channel of Subnanometer Resolution by Single Particle CryoEM

Host: Drs. Penczek and Kellems

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Title: Fine-tuning the Notch Signaling Pathway via Protein O-glucosylation

Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems

Rice University

Title: Eukaryotic Cell Number Counting, Wound Healing, and Fibrosing Diseases

Host: Dr. Michael Blackburn

University of Maryland Biotechnology-CARB

Title: TBA

Host: Dr. Kevin Ridge

John Hopkins University

Title: TBA

Host: Dr. Yang Xia

Baylor College of Medicine

Title: TBA

Host: Dr. John Spudich

Melvin Klegerman, Ph.D.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Title: Tissue Plasminogen Activator: A Versatile Molecule with Some Surprising Applications

Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems

Jianping Jin, Ph.D.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Title: Ubiquitylation-controlled DNA Damage Response

Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems

UT Southwestern Medical Center-Dallas

Title: PAS Domains: A Versatile Way to Build a Biological Switch

Host: Greer Visiting Lectureship

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Title:The Rhox Genes: Transcriptional Control and Gametogenesis

Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems

Baylor College of Medicine

Title: Regulatory Mechanisms in Vertebrate Photoreceptors

Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems

UT Southwestern Medical Center-Dallas

Title: Cholesterol Turnover in the Brain

Host: Dr. William Dowhan

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Title: New Approaches to an Understanding of G Protein Receptor Kinase/b2-Adrenergic Receptor Interactions: Tune In, Turn On, Desensitize

Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Title: Metabolic Dysregulation and the Failing Heart: Virchow's Fatty Atrophy Revisited

Host: Dr. Yang Xia

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Title: Angiogenic Factors and Preeclampsia

Host: Dr. Yang Xia

New York University School of Medicine

Title: Purine Growth Factor; Adventures with Adenosine

Host: Dr. Michael Blackburn

Rice University

Title: Antimicrobial Peptides. How do they make stable pores in membranes?

Host: Dr. Vasanthi Jayaraman

University of Southern California

Title: Histone Methylation: New Insights into Epigenetic Gene Regulation and Cellular Identity

Host: Dr. Phillip Carpenter

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Title: Releasing the Breaks on mTOR in the Brain: A Mouse Model of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems

Baylor College of Medicine

Title: Breakthroughs in Genome Analysis from Microbes to Man

Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems

University of Maryland

Title: The Small Mechanosensitive Channel MscS: Biophysical Principles of Gating and Modulation

Host: Dr. Vasanthi Jayaraman

Baylor College of Medicine

Title: Rhodopsin Gene Correction in Rod Cells of Mice

Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Title: Spatial Contraints of cAMP Signaling: The Next Dimension in Adenylyl Cyclase Regulation

Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems

Mikhail Kolonin, Ph.D.

IMM

Title: Stem Cell Surface Interactions in Cancer and Obesity

Host: Dr. Rodney Kellems