Fall 2009 Seminars

Fall 2009 BB Seminar Program

Seminars are Wednesdays at 3:30 in ALS4001 unless otherwise noted.

Date:  September 30
Speaker:  Regis Moreau
Affiliation:  Linus Pauling Institute, OSU
Title: "The role of mitochondrial enzymes in metabolic disorder:  lessons from aging and hypertriglyceridemia"
Host:  Hagen

Date:  October 14
Speaker:  Barbara Panning
Affiliation: Biochemistry, UCSF
Title:  "Epigenetic regulation in stem cells"
Host:  Freitag

Date:  October 29 (Thursday) 2:00 pm
Speaker:  John Hart
Affiliation:  Biochemistry, UT Health Science Center, San Antonio
Title:  "Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase and Motor Neuron Disease"
Host:  Beckman 

Date:  November 9 (Monday) 5:30 pm, LaSells C&E Hall, Public Tsoo King Lecture
Speaker: Stephen Lippard
Affiliation:  Chemistry, MIT
Title:  "Understanding and Improving Platinum Anticancer Drugs"
Host:  4th year graduate students  

Date:  November 10 (Tuesday) 2:00 pm, ALS 4000, Tsoo King Lecture
Speaker: Stephen Lippard
Affiliation:  Chemistry, MIT
Title:  "Chemistry to Detect and Understand Biological Mobile Zinc and Nitric Oxide"
Host:  4th year graduate students

Date:  December 4 (Friday)
Speaker:  First year graduate students
Affiliation:  Biochemistry and Biophysics, OSU
Title:  Rotation talks
Host:  Barbar

Date:  December 9
Speaker:  Ken Dill
Affiliation:  Biophysics, UCSF
Title:  "How do proteins get their structures and folding routes?  And, how do proteomes get ther stabilities?"
Host:  Karplus