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Visiting Speaker Seminars

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

September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May

September 22, 2008
Dr. Darren F. Boehning
UTMB Galveston
Title: Intracellular Calcium and Apoptosis: from Basic Science to the Clinic
Host: Dr. Serysheva

 

September 29, 2008
Dr. A. Keith Dunker
Indiana University
Title: Bioinformatics Investigations of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Host: Dr. Putkey

 

October 6, 2008
Rodger McEver, M.D.
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Title: Force Regulation of Leukocyte and Platelet Adhesion Under Flow
Host: Dr. Li

 

October 8, 2008
Special Seminar
Dr. Patrick Barth
University of Washington
Title: Membrane Protein Structure Prediction Using Rosetta
Host: Dr. Spudich

 

October 13, 2008
Chris M. Evans
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title: Airway Mucus, It'Snot that Bad
Host: Dr. Michael Blackburn

 

October 20, 2008
Jianpeng Ma, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: Simulating, Modeling and Refining Supramolecular Complexes at Multiscales
Host: Dr. Jayaraman
October 27, 2008
Dr. Daniel L. Minor, Jr.
University of California, San Fraancisco
Title: Structural and Functional Insight into Ion Channel Funcion and Modulation
Host: Dr. Serysheva

November 3, 2008
Note: Seminar time 1PM

Dr. Ronald T. Raines
The Welsh Foundation
Title: Enzymes as Chemotherapeutic Agents: Ribonuclease A as a Paradigm
Host: Dr. Kellems
         Welsh Lecture Tour

 

November 10, 2008
Dr. Paul Anderson
Harvard Medical School
Title: Identification of Signaling Pathways that Regulate the Assembly of Stress Granules and Processing Bodies
Host: Dr. Shyu

 

November 17, 2008
Michael Mancini, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: Nuclear Receptor Functional Analyses by High Throughput Systems Biology
Host: Dr. Shyu

 

December 1, 2008
Dr. Eduardo Perozo
Universtity of Chicago
Title: Structural Basis for Activation and Inactivation Gating in K+ Channels
Host: Dr. Jayaraman

 

December 8, 2008
Dr. Thomas A. Cooper
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: Disruption of a Conserved Network of Developmentally Regulated Splicing Causes Muscular Dystrophy
Host: Dr. Wagner

 

December 15, 2008
Note: Room MSB B.605
Dr. John S. McMurray
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title: Development and Evaluation of Cell-permeable Peptidomimetics Targeting Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3
Host: Dr. Jayaraman

 

January 5, 2009
Hui Zheng, Ph.D.
Huffington Center on Aging
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: Pathophysiology of the Amyloid Precursor Protein and Presenilin in Alzheimer's Disease
Host: Dr. Kellems

 

January 12, 2009
Dr. Vincent Hilser
UTMB-Galveston
Title:Intrinsic Disorder and Local Unfolding in Proteins: The Basis of Allostery in an Ensemble
Host: Dr. Putkey
January 26, 2009
Holger Eltzschig, MD, Ph.D.
Denver (UCHSC) Anesthesiology
Title: Alternative Mechanisms of Adenosine Receptor Activation
Host: Dr. Xia

 

February 2, 2009
Dr. Krishna Rajarathnam
UTMB Galveston
Title: Being in the right place at the right time - Structural Basis of Chemokines’ Role in Inflammation and Immunity
Host: Dr. Jayaraman

February 9, 2009
Dr. Christy Landes
University of Houston
Title: Signal Transduction in Single Molecules: How can Biology Inform Materials Design?
Host: Dr. Jayaraman

 

February 11, 2009
Special Seminar
Note: Room MSB 3.301
Zheng Jake Chen, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
Title: Biological Rhythms in Yeast and Mammals
Host: Dr. Rod Kellems

February 16, 2009
Dr. Stephen S. Sligar
University of Ilinois-Urbana-Champaign
Title: Elucidating the Structure and Function of Membrane Proteins through Nanotechnology
Host: Dr. Strobel

 

February 23, 2009
Dr. J. Alan Diehl
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Title: Coordinated Regulation of Cyclin D1 Subcellular Localization and Destruction During Cell Division
Host: Dr. Jin

March 2, 2009

    

Dr. James Bowie
UCLA
Title: Investigating the Forces that Drive Membrane Protein Folding
Host: Dr. Spudich

March 16, 2009
Dr. David R. Rowley
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: Reactive Stoma in Prostate Cancer Progression
Host: Dr. Putkey

March 23, 2009
Dr. Simon Robson
Harvard University
Title: CD39 Expression by Regulatory Immune Cells: Immune Suppression Occurs via Phosphohydrolysis of Extracellular Nucleotides
Host: Dr. Xia

March 30, 2009
Dr. Mien-Chie Hung
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title: Signal Network of Three Oncogenic Kinases and Membrane Receptor in the Nucleus
Host: Dr. Jin


April 6, 2009
Dr. John S. Oghalai
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: Membrane-Based Outer Hair Cell Electromotility in Hearing and Hearing Loss
Host: Drs. Spudich and Jayaraman

April 13, 2009
Dr. Laising Yen
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: TBA
Host: Dr. Shyu

April 20, 2009
Dr. Carson's seminar has been cancelled.
Dr. Daniel D. Carson
University of Deleware
Title: TBA
Host: Dr. John Putkey
 

 

April 27, 2009
Dr. Sandy Chang
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title: Telomere Dysfunction and the DNA Damage Response
Host: Dr. Jin
May 6, 2009