BCMB 601/615
Wednesdays, 3:35 – 4:30, Mossman 202
(refreshments served at 3:20)
| 9 January 2019 | No Seminar |
| 16 January | Constance Bailey, UTK Department of Chemistry Mechanistic Investigations and Chemical Applications of Bacterial Megasynthases |
| 23 January | Jianbin Wang, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine Programmed DNA Elimination in Parasitic Nematodes |
| 30 January | Hangnoh Lee, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland The impact of DNA copy number alterations in Drosophila |
| 6 February | Loukas Petridis, Center for Molecular Biophysics, ORNL Molecular Flexibility in Proteins and Biopolymers |
| 13 February | Brian Gregory– Department of Biology, U. Pennsylvania
The effects of N6-methyladenosine on mRNA stability and secondary structure in Arabidopsis |
| 20 February | Veronica Segarra– Department of Biology, High Point University Becoming a scientist-educator at a primarily undergraduate institution |
| 27 February | Bode Adebowale Olukolu- UTIA Dept. of Entomology and Plant Pathology Versatile Next-Gen Tools for Complex Genomes, Metagenomes and Quantitative Trait Analytics |
| 6 March | Cong Trinh– UTK Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Principles of Modular Cell Engineering for Industrial Biocatalysis |
| 13 March | Leslie Sieburth– Dept. of Molecular Biology, University of Utah How studies of varicose veins in plants revealed genes with roles in cancer and unexpected mRNA dynamics |
| 20 March | Spring Break |
| 27 March | Christine Dunham– Department of Biochemistry, Emory U. RNA-mediated mechanisms of translational control |
| 3 April | Jennifer DeBruyn– UTIA Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science Biodegradable Plastics for Agriculture: Harnessing soil microbes to reduce waste in food production |
| 10 April | Anne Simon– Dept. of Cell Biology and Genetics, U. Maryland
Turning a novel, independently mobile RNA into a vector to save citrus from Citrus Greening, a destructive disease that is progressively killing every citrus tree world-wide |
| 17 April | Julie Mitchell– Biosciences Division, ORNL Big data and biophysics |
| 24 April | Manuel Ascano– Dept. of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt U.
Host-Pathogen Interactions: Nucleic Acid Detection and Co-Option |