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2002-2003 Seminar Series
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Thursdays, 4:00 pm, Room 8-314
 
 Date Speaker Title

September 5

Francesco Turturro
Medicine
LSUHSC-S

Alk-positive lymphoma: a melting pot for diversity in therapy

September 26

Jonathan Glass
Medicine
LSUHSC-S

The complexity of iron transport across intestinal epithelium

October 3

Tom Dever
National Institutes of Health

Protein kinase and GTPase control of eukaryotic translation initiation

October 17

Nancy Leidenheimer
Pharmacol. & Therapeutics
LSUHSC-S

Mechanisms of GABAA receptor endocytosis

October 24

Jeff Rosen
Baylor College of Medicine

Systemic hormone and local growth factor interactions control mammary gland development and early breast cancer

October 31

Kate Ryman
Microbiol. & Immunology
LSUHSC-S

Interferon-inducible genes and their role in Alphavirus virulence

November 7

Chris Keevil Pathology LSUHSC-S

Regulation of endothelial cell function by ICAM-1: insights from mutant cells

November 14

Mark Goebl
Indiana University School of Medicine

Regulation of SCF ubiquitin ligase function by post-translational modification

December 5

Vasily M. Studitsky
Wayne State University School of Medicine

Chromatin remodeling by RNA polymerase II: a novel mechanism

December 19

Michael Mathis
Cell Biol. & Anatomy LSUHSC-S

Gene therapy for ovarian cancer

January 9

David Gross
Biochem. & Mol. Biol. LSUHSC-S

Involvement of mediator and the proteasome in regulating the heat shock transcriptional response in yeast

Janauary 30

Sushil Jain
Pediatrics
LSUHSC-S

Oxidative stress and cellular damage in diabetes mellitus

February 20

Rick Lloyd
Baylor College of Medicine

Translational control in poliovirus infection: Links to apoptosis and RNA replication

February 27

Cheryl Dixon
Biochem. & Mol. Biol. LSUHSC-S

Alpha-synuclein toxicity in yeast

March 6

Asano Katsura
Kansas State University

The role and interaction of multifactor complex in eukaryotic translation initiation

March 7

Shile Huang
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Rapamycin-induced apoptosis: activation of JNK signaling is suppressed by p53/c1Cip1

March 11

Phillip Buckhaults Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

Gene expression analysis of cancer

March 13

Fyodor Urnov
Sangamo Biosciences

Chromatin as a target for diagnostics and therapeutics of human disease

March 14

Jinfang Ju
CuraGen Corporation

Translational regulation, cancer therapeutics and systems biology

March 18

Dennis Peffley University of Health Sciences

Isoprenoid-mediated regulation of mevalonate biosynthesis and its role in tumor cell proliferation

March 20

Marjan Trutschl Computer Sciences LSU-S

Cluster analysis of protein sequences

March 21

Patricia Hentosh
University of Health Sciences

The anti-leukemia agent 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine (Cladribine): effects on transcriptional and translational processes

March 25

John Clifford
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Retinoid and interferon signaling pathways in skin cancer chemoprevention

March 27

Chris Francklyn University of Vermont College of Medicine

Bridging the RNA and protein worlds: the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and their relatives

March 28

Tony Giordano
VGD Consulting

Post-transcriptional gene regulation: its potential for use as a drug and as a target in therapeutic intervention

April 2

Kumar Kotlo
University of Illinois

Death-associated protein 5 (DAP5)/p97 reveals its secrets

April 3

Mary Ann Osley
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

Histone ubiquitylation and transcriptional regulation

April 10

Eric Moss
Fox Chase Cancer Center

Developmental timing and microRNAs in animals

April 17

Lukasz Kozubowski Biochem. & Mol. Biol. LSUSHC-S

Elucidating the requirement of the spatial restriction of septin-associated proteins in yeast

April 24

Praveen Babu
Biochem. & Mol. Biol.
LSUHSC-S

Posttranslational modification and subcellular localization of casein kinase I isoforms in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

May 1

Nathan Davis
Biochem. & Mol. Biol. LSUHSC-S

Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate 5-kinase regulation of endocytosis

May 8

Steve Pruett
Cell. Biol. & Anatomy LSUHSC-S

A road block at the toll-gate: A new mechanism for suppression of inflammation and immunity by ethanol

May 15

Eric Aamodt
Biochem. & Mol. Biol. LSUHSC-S

The role of pag-3 in regulating neurogenesis in C. elegans

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