Winter 2009 Seminars

Date:January 14
Speaker: Weijian Zhang, Assistant Professor (Sr. Research)
Affiliation:Linus Pauling Institute; Oregon State University
Title: The role of lipoic acid in inflammation and atherosclerosis
Host:

Date:February 4
Speaker: Bill Skach, Associate Professor
Affiliation:Dept. of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology, OHSU
Title: Cellular mechanisms of membrane protein folding: A tale of two aquaporin water channels
Host: Elisar Barbar

Date:February 11
Speaker: Richard Klemke; Professor
Affiliation: Department of Pathology and Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego
Title: Fishing for Metastatic Clues Using Zebrafish
Host: Jeff Greenwood

Date:February 25
Speaker: Tracy Handel; Professor
Affiliation:Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego
Title: Complexities of Chemokine Receptor Structure and Function
Host: Elisar Barbar

Date:March 11
Speaker: Steve Lippard (Tsoo King Lecture)
Affiliation: Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at MIT
Title: Chemistry to Detect and Understand Biological Mobile Zinc and Nitric Oxide
Host: Rick Cooley, Megan Hirko

Date: March 13, 2009 (Last day of dead week)
Speakers: Rotation Talks by first year students:  Camden Driggers (Karplus lab), Chunxiao Guo (Hagen lab), Brian Sinnott (Gombart lab)
Host: Michael Gross