Department of Molecular Biology
College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources
Departmental Seminars
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.
Molecular Biology Spring 2012 SEMINARS
Date
Speaker & Affiliation
Seminar Title
Host
1/13/2012
Jennifer DeLuca
Colorado State University
Colorado State University
Mitotic chromosome segregation:
Tuning the binding affinity between kinetochores
and microtubules
Tuning the binding affinity between kinetochores
and microtubules
Gatlin
1/20/2012
Thomas Gerken
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University
The Initiation of Mucin Type O-Glycosylation:
It’s Really Getting Complicated!
It’s Really Getting Complicated!
Jarvis
1/27/2012
Christopher Marx
Harvard Biological Labs
Harvard Biological Labs
Selective pressures on enzymes and adaptation of
metabolic systems
metabolic systems
Heather Rothfuss
Postdoc Ward
Postdoc Ward
2/3/2012
Kirsten Hagstrom
Univ. of Mass Medical School
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
University of California Berkeley
Baculovirus nucleocapsid transport in vivo and in vitro
Jarvis
2/17/2012
Soman Abraham
Department of Pathology
Duke University
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
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
Department of Biology,
Washington University, St. Louis
Wall
3/9/2012
Allison Frand
UCLA
UCLA
Fay
3/16/2012
Spring Break
None
NONE
3/23/2012
Katrina Forest
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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
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
Univ. Minnesota
Decisions, decisions: establishing and maintaining male cell
fates in the mammalian gonad
fates in the mammalian gonad
Fay
4/20/2012
Ma J
Dept. Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, Ohio SU, Columbus
Dept. Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, Ohio SU, Columbus
Generating a prion with bacterially expressed recombinant
prion protein
prion protein
Schatzl
4/27/2012
Christopher Voigt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ryu
(Grad Student)
(Grad Student)
TBA
NONE
NONE; Jarvis will choose a primary paper.
N/A
