Contact: Ranjan Ganguly for information on current and past seminars.
Fall 2014 Seminar Series
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20 |
Professor Subimal Datta Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine |
Mechanisms of Behavioral-State-Dependent Learning and Memory | Rebecca Prosser |
| Aug 27 |
Assoc. Professor Todd Reynolds Microbiology, UT |
The Roles of Phosphatidylserine in Host-Pathogen Interactions in Candida Albicans | Gladys Alexandre |
| Sep 3 |
Asst. Professor Donald Fox Duke University School of Medicine |
Polyploidy and Aneuploidy During Organ Construction | Josh Bembenek |
| Sep 10 |
Asst. Professor Steven Abel Chemical & Biololgical Engineering, UT |
Deconstructing Signal Transduction at the T Cell Membrane | Barry Bruce |
| Sep 24 |
Professor Charles Sanders Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University |
How Does Binding of Cholesterol to the Amyloid Precursor Promote Amyloidogenesis and Alzheimer’s Disease | Francisco Barrera |
| Oct 1 |
Distinguished Scientist Gerald Tuskan BioSciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Rich Genomics Resources Facilitate Progress in Understanding Wood Formation | Barry Bruce |
| Oct 8 |
Asst. Professor Tessa Calhoun Chemistry, UT |
Advancing Optical Microscopy to Study the Small Molecules with Cell Membranes | Barry Bruce |
| Oct 15 |
Week of Fall Break | ||
| Oct 22 |
Asst. Professor Tongye Shen BCMB, UT |
Computation of Allosteric Mechanism by Evaluating Residue-Residue Associations | Jeremy Smith |
| Oct 29 |
Assoc. Professor Biswarup Mukhopadhyay Biochemistry, Virginia Tech |
Development of Biological Sulfate Reduction and Thioredoxin Systems and Methanogenic Archaea | Karen Lloyd (Micro) |
| Nov 5 |
Assoc. Professor Michael Best Chemistry, UT |
Chemical Approaches for Characterizing Lipid Biological Activities Using Synthetic Lipid Probes | Barry Bruce |
| Nov 12 |
Asst. Professor Paul Dalhaimer Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, UT |
Lipid Droplet Formation and Subsequent Function in Eukaryotes | Barry Bruce |
| Nov 19 |
Professor and Head Brenda Winkel Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech |
The Flavonoid Interactome: Evidence that Chalcone Synthase May Function in Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression | Gladys Alexandre |
Spring 2013 Seminar Series
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Topic |
| August 21 | Gladys Alexandre | BCMB Department, UT | Sensing and Information Processing in Azospirillum Brasilense Chemotaxis |
| August 28 | Jae Park | BCMB Department, UT | Neurons. It’s Complicated! |
| September 4 | Brad Binder | BCMB Department, UT | Ethylene Signal Transduction in Plants and Cyanobacteria |
| September 11 | Jerome Baudry | BCMB Department, UT | Virtual Screening and Molecular Discovery: Methods, Applications and Challenges |
| September 18 | Les Dutton | Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania | Design and Engineering of Man-Made Oxidoreductases |
| September 25 | Michael Gilchrest | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UT | TBD |
| October 2 | Paul Langan | Biology and Soft Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Lab | Extending the Reach of Neutrons in Structural Biology |
| October 9 | Sakiko Okumoto | Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Institute of Technology | Genetically Encoded Metabolite Sensors – An Alternative Approach for Discovering Novel Transport Processes |
| October 16 | Jessy Labbe | Plant Systems Biology Group, Oak Ridge National Lab | Plants, Mycorrhizal Fungi, and Bacteria: Deciphering an Intimate Alliance within a Network of Interactions |
| October 23 | Arieh Zaritsky | Ben Gurion University | How is Bacterial Cell Dimensions Related to Its Chromosome Replication? |
| October 30 | David | JensenAAAS Science “Tooling Up” columnist, Managing Director for Kincannon Reed | Street Savvy Science: How Science Employment Proceeds in a Down Economy |
| November 27 | Day before Thanksgiving. No session scheduled. | ||
Fall 2012 Seminar Series
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| Jan. 9 | Anne Skaja Robinson | Tulane University | Molecular and Cellular Re-Engineering to Facilitate G-Protein Coupled Receptor Expression in Yeast: Adenosine Receptor Expression and Biophysical Characterization | Robert Standaert |
| Jan. 16 | Steve Sine | The Mayo Clinic College of Medicine | Molecular Recognition Linked to Biological Function in Nicotinic Alpha7 Acetylcholine Receptors | Xiaolin Cheng |
| Jan. 23 | Susan Taylor | University of California, San Diego | PKA: Assembly of Dynamic and Isoform-Specific Macromolecular Assemblies | Loukas Petridis |
| Jan. 30 | Matthew Fields | Montana State University | Dwayne Elias | |
| Feb. 6 | Donald Hamelberg | Georgia State University | Tongye Shen | |
| Feb. 13 | Rommie Amaro | University of California, San Diego | Jerome Baudry | |
| Feb. 20 | NO SEMINAR | |||
| Feb. 27 | Ashley Spies | University of Iowa | Jerome Baudry | |
| March 6 | Carol Post | Purdue University | Jeremy Smith | |
| March 13 | Alexander Wlodawer | National Cancer Institute | Hong Guo | |
| March 20 | Toshiko Ichiye | Georgetown University | Jeremy Smith | |
| March 27 | SPRING BREAK | |||
| April 3 | Gnana S. Gnanakaran | Los Alamos National Labs | Tongye Shen | |
| April 10 | Bradley S. Moore | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD | Reading and Reprograming Microbes to Biosynthesize Natural Product Drugs | Jerry Parks |
| April 17 | Roland Dunbrack | Fox Chase Cancer Center | Protein Structure Prediction in Biology and Medicine | Hong Guo |
Spring 2012 Seminar Series: “The Molecular Basis for Human Disease”
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
| Jan. 11 | Organizational/Information Session | University of Tennessee | ||
| Jan. 18 | Valerie Berthelier | UT Health Science Center, Knoxville | Conformational Diseases: Fingering the True Villain | |
| Jan. 25 | Peter Wolynes | Rice University | The Energy Landscape Theory of Protein Folding | |
| Feb. 1 | John Fisher | MD/PhD with Richard Kriwacki at St. Jude’s | How PUMA attacks it’s prey: PUMA-induced dimerization of BCL-xL releases cytosolic p53 inducing p53-dependent apotosis” | |
| Feb. 8 | Jack Riordan | UNC, Chapel Hill | Allosteric modulation balances thermodynamic stability and restores function of DeltaF508 CFTR | |
| Feb. 15 | Open | |||
| Feb. 22 | Peter Andreasen | Aarhus University, Denmark | Proteolytic Enzymes in Cancer | |
| Feb. 29 | Susan Wente | Vanderbuilt University | Beyond the Pore: From nuclear mRNA export to translation | |
| Mar. 7 | Dudley Strickland | University of Maryland | Mechanisms involved in protecting the vasculature: Role of LRP1 | |
| Mar. 14 | Brynn Voy | Department of Animal Science, UT | Systems genetics: exploiting genetic diversity | |
| Mar. 21 | Spring Break | |||
| Mar. 28 | Thomas Kunkel | NIEHS, Research Triangle Park | Relationships Between DNA Replication Infidelity and Human Diseases | |
| Apr. 4 | Justin Boyd | Chattanooga Research Institute | Drug Discovery and Translational Research in Academia: Taking Steps on the bridge over the Valley of Death. | |
| Apr. 11 | Ron Wetzel | University of Pittsburgh | Nucleation of Polyglutamine Amyloid: From the Classical to the Baroque | |
| Apr. 18 | Mary Ann Handel | Jackson Laboratory | Molecular Models for Human Infertility | |
| Apr. 25 | Jeff Smith | The Burnham Institute | Janus Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Imaging |
Spring 2011 Seminar Series
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 1/19 | Jane Dyson | Scripps Research Center | Structural and Dynamic Studies of Functional Disordered and Partly Folded Proteins |
| 1/26 | Open | ||
| 2/2 | Pedro Romero | Indiana University School of Medicine | The Evolution of Protein Sequence and Structure: Lessons from Intrinsic Disorder Prediction |
| 2/9 | Ashok Deniz | Scripps Research Center | Single-molecule Dynamics and Coupled Binding-folding of intrinsically Disordered Proteins |
| 2/16 | Richard Kriwacki | St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital | The Role of Intrinsic Flexibility in Protein Regulatory Mechanisms |
| 2/23 | Peter Tompa | Hungarian Academy of Sciences | Chaperone Activity of Intrinsically Disordered Plant Dehydrins |
| 3/2 | Vladimir Uversky | University of Florida | Intrinsically Disordered Protein in Diseases: Uncontrolled Chaos |
| 3/9 | Robert Baldwin | Stanford University | Recent Developments in Folding Energetics and Their Significance for Understanding Intrinsically Disordered Proteins |
| 3/23 | Dorthy Erie | University of North Carolina | Visualization of Adenine Nucleotide-Induced Disorder-Order Conformation in MutLalpha |
| 3/28 | Steve Benkovic | Pennsylvania State University | A perspective on Biological Catalysis |
| 4/6 | Anne-Frances Miller | University of Kentucky | Nitroreductase, a Plastic Explosive Degrading Enzyme: Flexibility with respect to substrate specificity |
| 4/13 | Vern Schramm | Albert Einstein Medical Center | Enzymatic Transition States and Dynamics in Catalysis |
| 4/20 | Keith Dunker | Indiana University School of Medicine | Protein Intrinsic Disorder and Cell Signaling |
| 4/27 | Chris Stanley | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Characterizing Intrinsically Disordered Proteins by Small-angle Neutron Scattering |