The Molecular Biology Department’s seminar program is one of the very best on campus. We make a strong effort to bring in visiting scientists who can provide a entertaining, enlightening, and current research report on an important area of molecular biology. Shown below is a listing of the current semester’s seminar speakers. Note that departmental seminars during Spring 2012 semester will start at 2:10 pm. in room 103 of the Animal Science/Molecular Biology building.
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Date |
Speaker & Affiliation |
Seminar Title |
Host |
| 1/13/2012 | Jennifer DeLuca Colorado State University |
Mitotic chromosome segregation: Tuning the binding affinity between kinetochores and microtubules |
Gatlin |
| 1/20/2012 | Thomas Gerken Case Western Reserve University |
The Initiation of Mucin Type O-Glycosylation: It’s Really Getting Complicated! |
Jarvis |
| 1/27/2012 | Christopher Marx Harvard Biological Labs |
Selective pressures on enzymes and adaptation of metabolic systems |
Heather Rothfuss Postdoc Ward |
| 2/3/2012 | Kirsten Hagstrom Univ. of Mass Medical School |
A new role for the chromosome architectural condensing proteins in gene silencing during RNA interference | Fay |
| 2/10/2012 | Loy Volkman University of California Berkeley |
Baculovirus nucleocapsid transport in vivo and in vitro | Jarvis |
| 2/17/2012 | Soman Abraham Department of Pathology Duke University |
TLR4 mediated immunity to bacterial challenge in the bladder | Jarvis |
| 2/24/2012 | Michael Pierce Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology University of Georgia Athens |
Development of Glycomics technologies and applications to stem cell differentiation and cancer diagnostics | Jarvis |
| 3/2/2012 | Joan Strassmann Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis |
Wall | |
| 3/9/2012 | Allison Frand UCLA |
Fay | |
| 3/16/2012 | SPRING BREAK | None | NONE |
| 3/23/2012 | Katrina Forest University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Using Structural Biology to Understand and Modify the Red Light Photoreceptor, Phytochrome | Gomelsky |
| 3/30/2012 | Orna Cohen-Fix NIH,NIDDK,LMCB |
Nuclear shape- when bad things happen to good nuclei | Levy |
| 4/6/2012 | NONE | NONE | |
| 4/13/2012 | David Zarkower Univ. Minnesota |
Decisions, decisions: establishing and maintaining male cell fates in the mammalian gonad |
Fay |
| 4/20/2012 | Ma J Dept. Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, Ohio SU, Columbus |
Generating a prion with bacterially expressed recombinant prion protein |
Schatzl |
| 4/27/2012 |
Christopher Voigt Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Ryu (Grad Student) |
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| TBA | NONE | NONE; Jarvis will choose a primary paper. | N/A |
