Spring 2008 Seminars
Spring 2008 BB Seminar Program
Seminars are Fridays at 3:30 in ALS4001 unless otherwise noted
Date: April 4, 2008
Speaker: Richard W. Kriwacki
Affiliation: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Title: Flexibility and Modularity in Signaling Mediated by Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins (IUPs)
Host: Elisar Barbar
Date: April 11, 2008
Speaker: Christine Beatty
Affiliation: Center for Molecular Neurobiology/Dept. of Neuroscience, Ohio State University
Title:Modeling human motoneuron diseases in zebrafish: approaches and outcomes
Host: Megan Stewart/Joe Beckman
Date: April 23, 2008, 3:00 p.m. (Public Lay Lecture; Tsoo King Series)
!!TIME/PLACE!! Chemistry and Engineering Lecture Hall of LaSells
Speaker: Dr. Flint Beal (Tsoo King Lecture )
Affiliation:Dept Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College, Cornell University
Title: NEW THERAPIES FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Host: BB 3rd year Students
Date: April 24, 2008, 2:00 p.m. ( Scientific Seminar in ALS4001, Tsoo King Series)
Speaker: Dr. Flint Beal
Affiliation:Dept Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College, Cornell University
Title: Role of Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Oxidative Damage in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Host: BB 3rd year students
Date: April 25, 2008
Speaker: Susan Craig
Affiliation: Dept. Biological Chemistry; Johns Hopkins Medical School
Title: Vinculin, the transformer robot that gates cell adhesion and motility
Host: Jeff Greenwood
Date: April 29, 2008 (Gilfillan Award Lecture)
!!TIME/PLACE!! 7:00 p.m. Austin Auditorium, LaSells Stewart Center; Reception @ 6:30
Speaker: Dr. Joe Beckman
Affiliation:Dept Biochemistry & Biophysics, Linus Pauling Institute
Title: From Pine Trees to the Brain: A Radical View of Lou Gehrig's Disease
Host: College of Science
Date: May 2, 2008 (special time 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.)
Speaker: Rod MacKinnon
Affiliation:Rockefeller University, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology & Biophysics & HHMI
Title: Ion conductivity and Selectivity in potassium channels
Date: May 2, 2008 (normal time 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.)
Speaker: Paul Janmey
Affiliation:Institute for Medicine and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Title: TBA
Host: Jeff Greenwood
Date: May 9, 2008
Speaker: Sangeet Lal; 3rd year Student
Affiliation: Greenwood Lab, Dept. Biochem/Biophys
Title: TBA
Date: May 16, 2008
Speaker: Ben Black
Affiliation:Dept Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Title:The histone variant CENP-A and centromere specification
Host: Michael Freitag
Date: May 23, 2008
Speaker: Justin Hall; 3rd year student
Affiliation: Barbar Lab, Biochem/Biophysics , OSU
Title: TBA
Date: May 30, 2008
Speaker: Hui Nan; 3rd year student
Affiliation: Dashwood Lab; EMT/LPI/BB
Title: TBA
Date: June 6, 2008 (last day of dead week)
Speaker: Rotation Talks of first year students