Winter 2008 Seminars

Winter 2008 BB Seminar Program

Seminars are Fridays at 3:30 in ALS4001 unless otherwise noted

Date: January 11, 2008 ***2:00 p.m. in LaSells Stewart Center Construction and Engineering Hall***
Speaker: Paul A. Gray Ph.D.
Affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Washington University School of Medicine
Title: Neural Circuits, Development, and Evolution of Breathing
Host: Michael Gross

Date: January 18, 2008
Speaker: Jeff Chamberlain
Affiliation: Department of Neurology; University of Washington
Title:“Reversal of muscle pathology in dystrophic mice via systemic AAV gene transfer”
Host: Gary Merrill

Date: February 8, 2008
Speaker: Andrea Hall
Affiliation: Karplus lab, Dept Biochemistry/Biophysics, OSU
Title:Protein Dynamics Studies Give Insight into the Functional Evolution of a Thioredoxin Homolog
Host: Andy Karplus

Date:February 15, 2008
Speaker: Michael S. Chapman, R.T. Jones Professor of Structural Biology
Affiliation: Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; School of Medicine, OHSU
Title:More than structure - Teasing out Dynamics in Arginine Kinase
Host: Elisar Barbar

Date:February 22, 2008
Speaker: John D. Scott
Affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, OHSU Vollum Institute
Title:Cell Signaling in Space & Time
Host: Andy Karplus

Date: February 29, 2008
Speaker: Meritxell Riquelme
Affiliation: Department of Microbiology; CICESE; Ensenada, Mexico
Title:Localization and traffic of cell-wall building enzymes in living hyphae of Neurospora crassa
Host: Michael Freitag

Date: March 7, 2008
Speaker: Donald Jump
Affiliation: Director of Bionutrition Faculty; Dept. of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences
Oregon State University
Title: Dietary Fat and the Control of Hepatic Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism
Host: Gary Merrill


Date: March 14, 2008
Speakers: Rotation Talks of first year BB graduate students
Host: Michael Freitag