September 4

Ilya Trakht
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

Development of fully human monoclonal antibodies in cancer

September 11

Ricky De Benedetti
LSUHSC-S

A tousled-like kinase in radioresistance

September 18

Eric First
LSUHSC-S

Was tyrosyl-tRNA synthethase a target of chemical warfare between primordial eukaryotes and bacteria?

October 2

David Donze
LSU, Baton Rouge

Good or bad neighbors? RNA polymerase III genes as both barriers to and mediators of transcriptional repression

October 9

John Hershey
University of California, Davis

Studies of the structure, function and regulation of human translation initiation factor eIF3

October 16

Kelly Tatchell
LSUHSC-S

Asymmetric localization of proteins in the neck of budding yeast: Implications for cell polarity and morphogenesis

October 23

Clarence Chan
University of Texas, Austin

Regulation of yeast chromosome segregation by the conserved Ipl1/Aurora kinase complex

October 30

Daniel Shelver
LSUHSC-S

Novel virulence factors of Group B streptococcus

November 6

Lindsey Hutt-Fletcher
LSUHSC-S

Epstein-Barr virus glycoproteins and cell receptors

November 13

Lucy Robinson
LSUHSC-S

Plasma membrane targeting of the Yck2 protein kinase in yeast

November 20

John Sixbey
LSUHSC-S

Epstein-Barr virus in human tumors: Something between a passenger and a driver

December 4

Brad Cairns
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Utah

Mechanism and regulation of the chromatin remodeling complex RSC

December 11

Ronald Butow
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Ctr.

Signaling pathways from mitochondria to the nucleus

December 18

Ron Klein
LSUHSC-S

Adeno-associated virus gene transfer to the brain for novel models of neurodegenerative diseases

January 15

Shari Meyers
LSUHSC-S

Hematopoiesis and beyond: RUNX transcription factors

January 22

Robert E. Rhoads
LSUHSC-S

Isoforms of the translational initiation factor eIF4E in C. elegans

February 5

Frank G. Whitby
University of Utah School of Medicine

Crystal structures of uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase: A new view of porphyrinogen intermediates in heme biosynthesis

February 12

James R. Williamson
The Scripps Research Institute

Assembly of the 30S ribosomal subunit

February 19

Edward T. Kipreos
University of Georgia

Cell cycle regulation by the C. elegans CUL-2 and CUL-4 ubiquitin ligases

March 4

John Cannon
University of Missouri

A regulatory network for yeast protein phosphatase-1

March 11

Gary Gorbsky
Oklahoma Research Foundation

New regulators of chromosome movement and the mitotic spindle checkpoint

March 18

Tatyana Pestova
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center

Initiation codon selection in eukaryotic translation

March 25

Mark T. Bedford
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Functional analysis of the protein methyltransferase, CARM1

April 1

Omar Skalli
LSUHSC-S

Intermediate filaments and microfilaments crosstalk in astrocytoma cells

April 8

Sidney Grimes
LSUHSC-S

Regulatory factor X2 (RFX2) is involved in testis-specific gene transcription

April 15

Neal Mathias
LSUSHC-S

Biogenesis, substrate recognition and regulation of the SCF^Met30p ubiquitin ligase complex in yeast

April 22

Scott Hiebert
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Blood, guts, and cancer: What the t(8;21) translocation tells us about leukemia and gut development

April 29

Benjamin Glick
The University of Chicago

Building the Golgi apparatus

May 6

Maurine E. Linder
Washington University School of Medicine

Mechanism and function of protein palmitoylation in signal transduction and protein trafficking

May 13

Brian Salvatore
LSU-S

Synthesis and studies of a new class of pro-apoptotic derivatives of vitamin E

May 20

Cesy Dinkova
LSUSHC-S

A C. elegans eIF4E isoform that regulates translation of specific mRNAs