SBS Seminar Archive Listing
Sponsoring programs: DO = Dean's Office; CBB = Cell Biology & Biophysics; MBB = Molecular Biology & Biochemistry; RLSS = UMKC SBS Regional Life Sciences Seminar series; RMCB = Regional biophysics collaboration; TB = Trailblazers Series.
| Winter 2008 Schedule | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Jan 17 | Daniel Nemecek | University of Missouri - Kansas City | Biophysical Studies of Bacteriophage P22 Terminase: Proteins Involved in Viral DNA Packaging | Thomas | |
| Jan 24 | Stephen J. King | UMKC School of Biological Sciences | Dynein: from Genetics to Biochemistry | ||
| Jan 31 | Peter E. Prevelige, Jr | University of Alabama - Birmingham | Hybrid-Method-Based Studies of Macromolecular Complexes: Viral Packaging Motors | Thomas | |
| Feb 7 | Roberto N. De Guzman | University of Kansas - Lawrence | NMR of Bacterial Needles and Hantaviral Zinc Fingers | Laity | |
| Feb 14 | Julia Zeitlinger | Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Transcriptional Regulatory Networks in the Early Drosophila Embryo | Dobens/Price | |
| Feb 18 | Duane Compton, Ph.D. | Dartmouth Medical School | Mechanisms of Chromosome Segregation and Aneuploidy in Human Cells |
Dreyfus
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| Feb 21 | Ali Shilatifard | Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Molecular Mechanism of Implementation and Removal of Histone H3 Lysine (H3K4) Methylation | Belostotsky | |
| Feb 28 | Alexey Khodjakov | Wadsworth Center, NY State Dept. of Health | Mechanisms of centriole duplication: Template or no template? | Chekanova | |
| Mar 6 | John A. Cooper | Washington University in St. Louis | Spindle Movement and Checkpoint Control during Mitosis in Budding Yeast | Plamann | |
| Mar 13 | Kirk Deitsch | Weill Medical College, Cornell University | Silencing and Activation of Virulence Gene Expression by the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum | Dreyfus | |
| Apr 3 | David J. Odde | University of Minnesota | Intracellular "Rulers": How a Cell Measures Distance in Signaling and Mitosis | King | |
| Apr 10 | Michael G. Feiss | The University of Iowa | Phage Lambda's cos region: Sites Orchestrating Virus Chromosome Processing and Packaging | Thomas | |
| Apr 17 | Arkady Mushegian | Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Evolutionary History of Bacteriophages with Double-Stranded DNA Genomes | Chekanova | |
| Apr 24 | Hiten Madhani | University of California - San Francisco | Systematic Genetic Analysis of Virulence of the Human Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus Neoformans | Idnurm | |
| Fall 2007 Schedule | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Aug 23 | Sue Jaspersen | Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Budding yeast Mps3: The role of SUN proteins in centrosome anchoring and telomere tethering at the nuclear envelope | King | |
| Aug 30 | John Laity | University of Missouri - Kansas City | Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Zinc Homeostasis | Thomas | |
| Sep 6 | Michael Ferrari | University of Missouri - Kansas City | Assembling the muscle myofibril: The role of calcium signals and phosphorylation | Miziorko | |
| Sep 13 | Erik Lundquist | University of Kansas | Cell migration and axon pathfinding in C. elegans | King | |
| Sep 20 | Matthew S. Sachs | Oregon Health & Science University | Gene Regulation Through the Control of Ribosome Movement | Plamann | |
| Sep 27 | Michael O'Connor | University of Missouri - Kansas City | Quality Control on and off the Bacterial Ribosome | Miziorko | |
| Oct 4 | Xiao-Qiang (Sean) Yu | University of Missouri - Kansas City | Multiple functions of insect C-type lectins | Thomas | |
| Oct 11 | Sullivan Read | University of Missouri - Kansas City | mRNA Decay during Herpesvirus Infections: Targeting a Viral Endonuclease through Interactions with Cellular Translation Factors | Thomas | |
| Oct 18 | Kristin Michel | Kansas State University | How the mosquito immune system influences malaria parasite transmission | Dobens | |
| Oct 25 | William E. Goldman | Washington University, St. Louis, MO | Intracellular Survival Strategies of a Discreet Fungal Pathogen |
Dreyfus
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| Oct 29 | Witold K. Surewicz | Case Western Reserve University | The Enigma of the Prion: A Biophysical Perspective |
Dreyfus
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| Nov 1 | Christian Whitman | University of Texas at Austin | Evolution of Enzymatic Activities in the Tautomerase Superfamily | Miziorko | |
| Nov 12 | Richard Nowakowski | UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School | Genome-Wide Analyses of Neurostem Cells: A Systems Biology Approach |
Dreyfus
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| Nov 15 | Frank Pugh | Penn State University | Genome-wide organization of chromatin and the transcription machinery from yeast to flies | Belostotsky | |
| Nov 29 | Kami Ahmad | Harvard Medical School | Transcription, Development and the H3.3 Histone Variant in Drosophila | Waterborg | |
| Dec 6 | Joachim Frank | Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Wadsworth Center | The Mechanism of mRNA-tRNA Translocation as Inferred by Cryo-EM |
Dreyfus
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| Winter 2007 Schedule | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Jan 11 | Ashim K. Mitra | University of Missouri - Kansas City | Transporter and Receptor Targeted Drug Delivery through Prodrug Design. | Price | |
| Jan 18 | Rong Li | Stowers Institute for Medical Research | In-Vivo Biochemical Analysis of Dynamic Protein Interactions in the MAP Kinase Signaling Cascade | Honigberg | |
| Jan 25 | Jens Luders | Stanford University | Organizing Microtubule Networks During Cell Cycle and Differentiation | Miziorko | |
| Jan 30 | Lisa A. Cameron | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Microtubule Dynamics in Mitosis | Thomas | |
| Feb 1 | Mara C. Duncan | UCLA School of Medicine | Uncovering Roles of Clathrin Adaptors Through Chemical Genetics and Protein Biochemistry | Miziorko | |
| Feb 8 | Marlene Bouvier | University of Connecticut | The Class I Antigen Presentation Pathway and Its Susceptibility to Viral Proteins: A Molecular View | Miziorko | |
| Feb 15 | Stephen W. White | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | Targeting Bacterial Fatty Acid Synthesis and Folate Synthesis for the Development of Novel Antibiotics | Thomas | |
| Feb 22 | Kathleen Millen | University of Chicago | Genes and Brains - Finding New Mechanisms Controlling Brain Development | Wyckoff | |
| Feb 27 | Christopher Stroupe | Dartmouth Medical School | The HOPS Complex, a Nexus Linking Rab GTPases, Phosphoinositides, and SNAREs in Membrane Tethering and Fusion | Thomas | |
| Mar 1 | Ronald W. Woodard | University of Michigan | Redefining the Requisite Lipopolysaccharide Structure in Escherichia Coli | Miziorko | |
| Mar 8 | Michael S. Gilmore | Harvard Medical School | Antibiotic Resistant Enterococci: What Makes a Good Commensal Go Bad? | Dreyfus | |
| Mar 15 | Kevin T. Vaughan | University of Notre Dame | Differential Targeting of Cytoplasmic Dynein by Phosphorylation | King | |
| Mar 22 | Feng Guo | University of California - Los Angeles | Heme is Involved in MicroRNA Processing | Smith | |
| Apr 5 | Susan K. Dutcher | Washington University School of Medicine | Comparative Genomics and Genetics: Tools for Understanding Ciliary and Basal Body Genes | King | |
| Apr 12 | Robert E. Ricklefs | University of Missouri - St. Louis | Evolutionary Biology of Aging: Insights from Comparative Studies | Huang | |
| Apr 19 | Barak Cohen | Washington University Medical School | Dissection of Complex Traits in Yeast | Honigberg | |
| Apr 26 | Gene LeSage | University of Texas, Houston | Transcriptional and posttranslational regulation of bile acid and lipid transport |
Dreyfus
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| Fall 2006 Schedule | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Aug 24 | Leonard Dobens | University of Missouri - Kansas City | Interplay between spatial and temporal signals controls cell migration in Drosophila | Miziorko | |
| Aug 31 | Stephen J. King | University of Missouri - Kansas City | Dynein and Dynactin: Components of a Molecular Motor | Miziorko | |
| Sep 7 | George R. Jackson | David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA | Tangling with Tau using Drosophila | Price | |
| Sep 14 | John E. Johnson | Scripps Research Institute | Biophysical Analysis of Virus Particles and their Maturation: Insights into elegantly Programmed Nano Machines | Thomas | |
| Sep 21 | Scott Hawley | Stowers Institute for Medical Research | The Molecular Genetics of Meiosis | Thomas | |
| Sep 28 | Mark L. Johnson | UMKC School of Dentistry | A Wnt-ing Road Traveled to Understanding Bone Responsiveness to Mechanical Loading | Honigberg | |
| Oct 5 | Virginia L. Miller | Washington University School of Medicine | Yersinia Infection: Views From Both Sides | Dreyfus | |
| Oct 12 | Harold Scheraga | Cornell University | The Two Aspects of the Protein Folding Problem | Laity | |
| Oct 19 | Giulietta Smulevich | University of Florence | Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Engineered Heme-Containing Peroxidases | Thomas | |
| Oct 26 | Jay C. Dunlap | Dartmouth College | Genetic and Molecular Dissection of a Simple Circadian System | Plamann | |
| Nov 2 | Peter J. Tonge | Stony Brook University | Mycolic Acid and Menaquinone Biosynthesis: Mining the Magic Mountain for Novel Tuberculosis Drugs | Miziorko | |
| Nov 9 | Carl C. Correll | Rosalind Franklin Univ. of Medicine and Science | Molecular Basis of Ribosome Inactivation by Sarcin | O'Connor | |
| Nov 15 | Dennis H. Bamford | University of Helsinki | Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Viruses Meet: The Story of Double Beta Barrels | Thomas | |
| Nov 16 | William D. Picking | University of Kansas | Assembly and Activation of the Shigella Type III Secretion System | Dreyfus | |
| Nov 30 | Amita Sehgal | University of Pennsylvania | Moleular basis of sleep:wake cycles | Price | |
| Dec 7 | John D. Lambris | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine | From atoms to systems: A "multidisciplinary" approach to today's challenges in biosciences | Geisbrecht | |
| Dec 12 | Alexander Idnurm | Duke University Medical Center | Light-Sensing in the Fungal Kingdom | Thomas | |
| Dec 19 | Christopher D. Putnam | Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research | Suppression of Genome Instability in Yeast | Thomas | |
| Winter 2006 Schedule | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Jan 12 | Gregory Vanden Heuvel | Kansas University Medical Center | Cell Cycle Regulation in Kidney Development and Disease | Dobens | |
| Jan 19 | Dudley Strickland | University of Maryland School of Medicine | The LDL Receptor Superfamily: Roles in Inflammation and Regulation of Signaling Pathways | Smith | |
| Jan 26 | Erik Herzog | Washington University | Coupled Circadian Oscillators in the Brain: The Politics of Periodicity | Price | |
| Feb 2 | Nathan Oyler | UMKC Department of Chemistry | Solid State NMR Methods of Molecular Structure Determination in Peptides and Amloid Fibrils | Laity | |
| Feb 9 | Edward Egelman | University of Virginia | Filaments and Rings: Role of RecA-like Proteins in DNA Recombination, Replication and Repair | Yoder | |
| Feb 16 | K. Kevin Pfister | University of Virginia | Cytoplasmic Dynein Subunit Diversity in Axonal Transport and Mitosis | King | |
| Feb 23 | Glen Andrews | Kansas University Medical Center | Regulations and Functions of Mouse Zinc Transporters | Laity | |
| Mar 2 | Howard White | Eastern Virginia Medical School | Rapid Kinetic Studies of the Mechanisms of Thin Filament Regulation of Actomyosin ATP Hydrolysis and Processive Movement of Myosin V | Persechini | |
| Mar 9 | No Seminar - Spring Break |
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| Mar 13 | Jamil Saad | Howard Hughes Medical Institute - UMBC | Structural Basis for Specific Targeting of HIV-1 Gag to Membrances Enriched in Phosphatidylinositol-(4,5)-bisphosphate | Miziorko | |
| Mar 14 | A. L. Crumbliss | Duke University | Iron Transport in Man & Microbes: Bio-Coordination Chemistry of Mammalian & Bacterial Transferrins | Smith | |
| Mar 16 | Albert Girotti | Medical College of Wisconsin | Dissemination of Peroxidative Stress via Spontaneous and Protein-Facilitated Intermembrane Transfer of Lipid Hydroperoxides | Miziorko | |
| Mar 23 | Troy Zars | University of Missouri - Columbia | The ABCs of Memory Formation in Drosophila | Price | |
| Mar 27 | Laran Jensen | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Iron Metabolism and Oxidative Stress in Mitochondria | Miziorko | |
| Mar 30 | Steve Van Doren | University of Missouri - Columbia | Long-Range Structural Coupling in Protein-Protein Interactions: Examples from Carcinogenesis and Signal Transduction | Laity | |
| Apr 6 | Rob Mitra | Washington University School of Medicine | Tools for High-Throughput Analysis of Nucleic Acids | Honigberg | |
| Apr 13 | Cameron Mura | University of California -San Diego | Structure and Dynamics of Some Nucleic Acid-binding Proteins |
Dreyfus
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| Apr 13 | James Zheng | UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School | Directional Control of Growth Cone Steering During Guidance | King | |
| Apr 20 | R. Paul Robertson | Pacific Northwest Research Institute | Chronic Oxidative Stress as a Central Mechanism for Glucose Toxicity in Pancreatic Islet Beta Cells in Diabetes | Cooper | |
| Apr 25 | Tommer Ravid | Yale University | An unfolding tale of destruction: quality control of cytosolic proteins in yeast | Miziorko | |
| Apr 27 | Angus Nairn | Yale University | Protein Kinase and Protein Phosphatase Machines at Synapses | Persechini | |
| Apr 27 | Linda Columbus | The Scripps Research Institute | Investigating Protein Structure and Dynamics with Magnetic Resonance |
Dreyfus
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| Fall 2005 Schedule | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Aug 25 | Doug Frost | Master Somellier and Writer | Cultural Perceptions of Taste and Smell | Esser | |
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| Sep 8 | Arturo Casadevall | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY | The Origin of Virulence in Human Pathogenic Fungi |
Dreyfus
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| Sep 15 | Fred Heffron | Oregon Health Sciences University | Molecular pathogenesis of Salmonella | Dreyfus | |
| Sep 22 | Albert Mildvan | Johns Hopkins University | Kinetic and Structural Studies of the Mechanisms of Nucleoside-Diphosphate-X (NUDIX) Hydrolases | Miziorko | |
| Sep 29 | David Dyer | University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | The Iron Response Regulon of Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
Dreyfus
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| Oct 4 | Greg Miller | National Institute of Diabetes, NIH | Specificity and Mechanism in Inositol Signaling: Insights from Structures of Inositol Polyphosphate Kinases | Miziorko | |
| Oct 6 | Patrick Shiu | University of Missouri - Columbia | Meiotic Silencing by Unpaired DNA | Plamann | |
| Oct 11 | Stephen Spiro | Georgia Institute of Technology | Gene regulation by nitric oxide in Escherichia coli | Miziorko | |
| Oct 13 | James C. Sacchetini | TAMU | TB Structural Genomics: High through put crystallography and drug discovery |
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| Oct 18 | Elan Eisenmesser | Brandeis University | Enzymes Never Rest: Structural Rearrangements and Dynamics of a Working Enzyme | Miziorko | |
| Oct 20 | Mark Cookson | National Institute on Aging, NIH | What genetics has told us about Parkinsons disease | Cooper | |
| Oct 25 | Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova | Hardvard Medical School | Pyrrole Formation and Modification in Secondary Metabolites | Miziorko | |
| Oct 27 | Liskin Swint-Kruse | Kansas University Medical School | Understanding Allostery in Transcription Regulatory Proteins: Integrating Simulation, Experiment, and Mutational Analysis | Laity | |
| Nov 1 | Stephen Parnell | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Analysis of phosphorylation and G protein signaling using yeast and polycystic kidney disease as model systems | Miziorko | |
| Nov 3 | Richard M. Losick | Harvard University | Cannibalism, Commitment and Cell Fate |
Dreyfus
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| Nov 10 | Denis L. Rousseau | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Structural and Functional Properties of Nitric Oxide Synthase | Thomas | |
| Nov 15 | Peter G. Stockley | Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology | The Making of a Simple Virus Particle: The Roles of RNA Folding and Dynamics | Thomas | |
| Nov 17 | Gerald I. Byrne | University of Tennessee Health Science Center | Back to Basics: Chlamydial Growth, Development, and Functional Genomics as a Reflection of Disease Pathogenesis | Thomas | |
| Dec 1 | Cynthia Stauffacher | Purdue University | Through the Looking Glass: Examining Enzyme Mechanism and Inhibition with X-Ray Crystallography | Miziorko | |
| Dec 8 | John W. Shiver | Merck Research Laboratories, West Point PA | Strategies for HIV-I Vaccine Development |
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| Winter 2005 Schedule | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Jan 13 | Ru Chih Huang | The Johns Hopkins University | Targeting Refractory Tumors by Suppression of Cdc2, Survivin and MDR-1 Gene Expressions: M4N, A Potential Anticancer Drug for Humans | Price | |
| Jan 20 | Alex Ladokhin | KUMC | Folding Proteins into Membranes: From First Principles to Insertion Pathways | Iriarte | |
| Jan 27 | Roger W. Hendrix | University of Pittsburgh | Bacteriophages: Evolution of the Majority | Thomas | |
| Feb 3 | Todd Holyoak | KU Med. Center | Substrate Selectivity and Recognition: A Structural Investigation of the Kex2 Family of Proteases |
Yoder
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| Feb 10 | Rodney Tweten | University of Oklahoma - Health Science Center | The Structural Biology of Large Pore Formation by the Cholesterol Dependent Cytolysins | Dreyfus | |
| Feb 17 | Andrew Ewing | Penn State University | EXOCYTOSIS: Techniques to Measure Individual Release Events and Towards Measuring Cell Membrane Domains | Esser/Keightley | |
| Feb 24 | Thomas J. Park | University of Illinois at Chicago | Pain Processing in the Naked Mole-Rat: An Animal that Naturally Lacks the Pain Transmitter Substance P | Ferrari | |
| Mar 3 | Michael Koonce | Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY | Structure and Regulation of the Molecular Motor, Dynein | King | |
| Mar 17 | William Balch | Scripps Research Institute | Conformational Disease and Ras Superfamily GTPases - The Packaging Problem | Cooper | |
| Mar 24 | Colin Thorpe | Univerity of Delaware | New Enzymes for Oxidative Protein Folding: From Humans to Vaccinia Via the Blue Hen | Miziorko | |
| Mar 31 | Margaret Kielian | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Virus-Membrane Fusion: Structural and Functional Studies of the Alphavirus Fusion Protein |
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| Apr 7 | Daniel Voytas | Iowa State University | Transposable Elements and Genome Organization: Target Specificity of the Yeast Ty5 Retrotransposons | Menees | |
| Apr 14 | Peter Tipton | University of Missouri - Columbia | Enzymology of Quorum-Sensing Signaling and Biofilm Formation in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa | Morgan | |
| Fall 2004 Schedule | |||||
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