Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Thursdays, 4:00 pm, Room 8-314 |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
September 4
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Ilya Trakht
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
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Development of fully human monoclonal antibodies in cancer
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September 11
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Ricky De Benedetti
LSUHSC-S
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A tousled-like kinase in radioresistance
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September 18
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Eric First
LSUHSC-S
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Was tyrosyl-tRNA synthethase a target of chemical warfare between primordial eukaryotes and bacteria?
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October 2
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David Donze
LSU, Baton Rouge
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Good or bad neighbors? RNA polymerase III genes as both barriers to and mediators of transcriptional repression
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October 9
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John Hershey
University of California, Davis
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Studies of the structure, function and regulation of human translation initiation factor eIF3
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October 16
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Kelly Tatchell
LSUHSC-S
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Asymmetric localization of proteins in the neck of budding yeast: Implications for cell polarity and morphogenesis
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October 23
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Clarence Chan
University of Texas, Austin
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Regulation of yeast chromosome segregation by the conserved Ipl1/Aurora kinase complex
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October 30
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Daniel Shelver
LSUHSC-S
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Novel virulence factors of Group B streptococcus
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November 6
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Lindsey Hutt-Fletcher
LSUHSC-S
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Epstein-Barr virus glycoproteins and cell receptors
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November 13
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Lucy Robinson
LSUHSC-S
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Plasma membrane targeting of the Yck2 protein kinase in yeast
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November 20
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John Sixbey
LSUHSC-S
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Epstein-Barr virus in human tumors: Something between a passenger and a driver
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December 4
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Brad Cairns
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Utah
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Mechanism and regulation of the chromatin remodeling complex RSC
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December 11
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Ronald Butow
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Ctr.
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Signaling pathways from mitochondria to the nucleus
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December 18
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Ron Klein
LSUHSC-S
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Adeno-associated virus gene transfer to the brain for novel models of neurodegenerative diseases
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January 15
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Shari Meyers
LSUHSC-S
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Hematopoiesis and beyond: RUNX transcription factors
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January 22
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Robert E. Rhoads
LSUHSC-S
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Isoforms of the translational initiation factor eIF4E in C. elegans
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February 5
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Frank G. Whitby
University of Utah School of Medicine
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Crystal structures of uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase: A new view of porphyrinogen intermediates in heme biosynthesis
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February 12
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James R. Williamson
The Scripps Research Institute
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Assembly of the 30S ribosomal subunit
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February 19
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Edward T. Kipreos
University of Georgia
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Cell cycle regulation by the C. elegans CUL-2 and CUL-4 ubiquitin ligases
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March 4
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John Cannon
University of Missouri
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A regulatory network for yeast protein phosphatase-1
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March 11
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Gary Gorbsky
Oklahoma Research Foundation
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New regulators of chromosome movement and the mitotic spindle checkpoint
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March 18
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Tatyana Pestova
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
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Initiation codon selection in eukaryotic translation
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March 25
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Mark T. Bedford
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
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Functional analysis of the protein methyltransferase, CARM1
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April 1
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Omar Skalli
LSUHSC-S
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Intermediate filaments and microfilaments crosstalk in astrocytoma cells
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April 8
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Sidney Grimes
LSUHSC-S
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Regulatory factor X2 (RFX2) is involved in testis-specific gene transcription
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April 15
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Neal Mathias
LSUSHC-S
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Biogenesis, substrate recognition and regulation of the SCFMet30p ubiquitin ligase complex in yeast
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April 22
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Scott Hiebert
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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Blood, guts, and cancer: What the t(8;21) translocation tells us about leukemia and gut development
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April 29
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Benjamin Glick
The University of Chicago
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Building the Golgi apparatus
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May 6
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Maurine E. Linder
Washington University School of Medicine
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Mechanism and function of protein palmitoylation in signal transduction and protein trafficking
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May 13
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Brian Salvatore
LSU-S
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Synthesis and studies of a new class of pro-apoptotic derivatives of vitamin E
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May 20
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Cesy Dinkova
LSUSHC-S
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A C. elegans eIF4E isoform that regulates translation of specific mRNAs
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