Spring 2016 Seminars in Biochemistry | View Current Seminar Schedule
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
February 3
Thomas J. Silhavy, Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
Outer membrane biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria
February 10
Fevzi Daldal, Professor, Dept. of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Biogenesis of Cytochrome c Oxidase: Cofactor Addition & Subunit Assembly
February 17
Luke Rice, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biophysics & Biochemistry
University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center
Mechanism and regulation in microtubule dynamics
February 24
Holger Sondermann, Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Medicine
Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
The ins and outs in bacterial biofilm formation
March 2
Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Director, Microbial Sciences Institute; Professor, MCDB Dept.
Yale University
Intracellular Partitioning and Patterning: Lessons from Tiny Cells
March 9
John P. Marino, Leader, Biomolecular Structure & Function Group
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Biologics and Biosimilars: Addressing the Challenge of Structure Assessment and Comparability with NMR
March 16
No seminar
No seminar
No seminar
March 23
Christopher D. Lima, Professor, Structural Biology Program, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
RNA processing and decay by the eukaryotic RNA exosome
March 30
Robert J. Stanley, Professor, Dept. of Chemistry
Temple University
A Comparative Study of Extremophile DNA Photolyases: DNA Repair at Extreme Temperatures
April 6
Erik Sontheimer, RNA Therapeutics Institute
University of Massachusetts Medical School
CRISPR Interference and Genome Editing by Neisseria meningitidis Cas9
April 13
Anthony A. Kossiakoff, Chair & Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
University of Chicago
Modifying biological function using conformational trapping by customized synthetic antibodies
April 20
Angela M. Gronenborn, Chair & Distinguished Professor, Department of Structural Biology; Professor of Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Synergy between NMR, cryo-EM and large scale MD simulations – An all atom model of a native HIV capsid
April 27
Spring Break
No seminar
No seminar
May 4
Morgan Huse, Associate Professor, Immunology Program; Center for Molecular Imaging & Nanotechnology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Mechanical Control of Cytotoxic T cell Function