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 2009 Schedule | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Jan 15 | Paul Hardin | Texas A & M University | Unwinding the Circadian Timekeeping Mechanism in Drosophila | Price | |
| Jan 22 | Marco Brotto | University of Missouri - Kansas City | MIP, A Novel Phosphoinositide Phosphatase is Involved in Muscle Aging, Disease and Fatigue | Dreyfus | |
| Jan 29 | Andrew D. Mesecar | University of Illinois at Chicago | Development of Non-Covalent Inhibitors that Target the Papain-Like Cysteine Protease from SARS Virus: New Horizons for Targeting Deubiquitinating Enzymes | Miziorko | |
| Feb 5 | Barbara Valent | Kansas State University | Molecular and Cellular Analyses of Biotrophic Invasion of Rice Cells by the Blast Fungus, Magnaporthe Oryzae | McCluskey | |
| Feb 12 | Joel Swanson | University of Michigan Medical School | Coordinatation of Signaling during Phagocytosis and Macropinocytosis | Dreyfus | |
| Feb 19 | Michael Garcia | University of Missouri - Columbia | Motor Neuron Growth and Death: Order and Disorder in the Axoplasm | King | |
| Feb 26 | Daniel Kadouri | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey | Predatory Bacteria - From Basic Research to Application | O'Connor | |
| Mar 5 | Steven J. Ludtke | Baylor College of Medicine | Macromolecular Structure and Dynamics using CryoEM Imaging and Single Particle Reconstruction | Gogol | |
| Mar 12 | Nathalie C. Franc | The Scripps Research Institute | Genetic Dissection of the Molecular Mechanisms of Phagocytosis of Apoptotic Corpse in Drosophila | Dobens | |
| Mar 19 | Mark Richter | University of Kansas | Generation of Rotational Torque in the F1-ATPase Motor | Gogol | |
| Apr 2 | Ronald Viola | Univ of Toledo | Targeting Metabolic Enzymes for the Development of New Antibiotics | Miziorko | |
| Apr 9 | Robert Ward | University of Kansas | Genetic Approaches to Uncover the Mechanisms of Hormone-Dependent Morphogenesis in Drosophila | Geisbrecht E. | |
| Apr 16 | Dee Denver | Oregon State University | Mutational Variation in Nematode Genomes | Dreyfus | |
| Apr 23 | Christine Guthrie | University of California - San Francisco | New Insights into the Regulation of mRNA Splicing |
Dreyfus
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| Apr 24 | Michael J. Muskus | Dissertation Defense | Doubletime Regulates the Drosophila Circadian Clock Through Multiple and Separable Kinase-Dependent or Independent Activities on the Period Protein | Price | |
| Apr 30 | James W. Kronstad | University of British Columbia | Virulence Factor Expression and Adaptation to the Host Environment by the Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus Neoformans | Idnurm | |
| May 5 | Jeff Eskew | Dissertation Defense | Calcium Dependent Changes in the Proteome During Myofibrillogenesis: Identification of Phosphorylation Requirements of Myosin Regulatory Light Chain | Ferrari | |
| Fall 2008 Schedule | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Aug 28 | Justin Fay | Washington University St. Louis | Dissecting the Effects of a Pleiotropic Quantitative Trait Nucleotide | Wyckoff | |
| Sep 4 | Gerald Wyckoff | UMKC | Studying Adaptive Evolution via Sequence Domains | Miziorko | |
| Sep 11 | Orna Elroy-Stein | Tel Aviv University | Translational Control during Mitosis | Belostotsky | |
| Sep 18 | Bettie Sue Masters | University of Texas Health Science Ctr/San Antonio | Characterization and Comparisons of Two Evolutionarily-Related Flavoproteins: NADPH-Cytochrome P450 Reductase and Nitric Oxide Synthases | Miziorko | |
| Sep 25 | Liang Tang | University of Kansas - Lawrence | Structural Virology by the Combination of X-ray Crystallography and Electron Cryo-Microscopy | Gogol | |
| Oct 2 | Brian Geisbrecht | UMKC | Using Structural Biology as a Tool to Understand Staphylococcal Immune Evasion | Read | |
| Oct 9 | Pinghui Feng | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Post-Translational Events Regulate vGPCR Tumorigenicity | Read | |
| Oct 16 | Dennis J. Stuehr | Lerner Research Institute/Cleveland Clinic | Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: How might NO control the biological behaviors of the NO synthases? | Persechini | |
| Oct 23 | Anita Corbett | Emory University | Quality Control of mRNA Export from the Nucleus:Checking ID's at the Nuclear Pore | Chekanova | |
| Nov 6 | Chris Davies | Medical University of South Carolina | Penicillin-binding proteins: structure, function and role in antibiotic resistance | Geisbrecht | |
| Nov 20 | Heriberto Cerutti | University of Nebraska Lincoln | RNA interference: biogenesis and function of small RNAs | Belostotsky | |
| Dec 4 | John P. Bannantine | National Animal Disease Center, USDA | Proteomics of Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis | B. Geisbrecht | |
| 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 |
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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 ParkinsonÂ’s 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 |
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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 | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Aug 26 | UMKC General Faculty Meeting | Faculty Senate | |||
| Sep 2 | Saul Honigberg | UMKC -SBS | Signal integration and the control of meiotic differentiation in yeast |
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| Sep 9 | Jeffrey Price | University of Missouri-Kansas City | Doubletime: a protein kinase that sets the pace of the circadian clock | Persechini | |
| Sep 16 | Dorota Skowyra | St. Louis University | Why studies with natural substrates uncover unexpected features of the mechanism by which the 26S proteasome works | Gogol | |
| Sep 23 | James Brozik | University of New Mexico | Single molecule spectroscopy in Biophysical Chemistry |
Esser
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| Sep 30 | Aron Fenton | KUMC-Dept of Biochemistry | Allosteric control of glycolytic enzymes |
Gogol
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| Oct 7 | Douglas Harrison | University of Kentucky | A potential morphogen controls follicle cell fates through the JAK pathway |
Dobens
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| Oct 14 | John D. Schuetz | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis | ABC transporters in heme homeostasis and survival |
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| Oct 21 | Emanuel Petricoin | FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research | Clinical application of proteomics |
Morgan
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| Oct 28 | Roman Tuma | Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki | Packaging Mechanisms in RNA Virus Assembly | Thomas | |
| Nov 4 | Carlos Bustamante | UC - Berkeley | Mechanical Unfolding of a Single RNA Molecule by Force |
Dreyfus
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| Nov 11 | Steve Welch | Kansas State University-Plant Sciences Center | Theoretical Plant Modeling |
Wyckoff
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| Nov 18 | Walter Chazin | Vanderbilt University | Structural Mechanisms of Target Activation by EF-hand Protein | Persechini | |
| Dec 2 | Maurice Kernan | SUNY - Stony Brook | In touch with the feelings of a fly: mechanosensory mutants and sensory cilia in Drosophila | O'Connor | |
| Dec 9 | Kim Lewis | Northeastern University - Boston | Prokaryotic programmed cell death |
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| Winter 2004 Schedule | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Jan 13 | Bryan Mackenzie | Brigham & Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical | Molecular physiology of the iron transporter DMT1 | Persechini | |
| Jan 15 | Brenda Schulman | Structural Insight into Ubiquitin-Like Protein Transfer | Yoder | ||
| Jan 20 | Sabrina Caldwell | Dissertation Defense | Misfolded protein degradation requires ER-Golgi transport and the novel cargo receptor Erv29p | Cooper | |
| Jan 22 | Nicholas V. Hud | Georgia Institute of Technology | Controlling Nucleic Acid Assembly by Intercalation: A Plausible Approach to Artificial Self-Replication and the RNA World | Thomas | |
| Jan 27 | Patrick Burgon | Harvard Medical School | Cell cycle regulation in the transition from Perinatal to Adult Heart: A central role for myosin binding protein C | Persechini | |
| Jan 29 | Chung-I Wu | The University of Chicago | Molecular Genetics of Speciation | Wyckoff | |
| Feb 3 | Yuan Liu | Emory University School of Medicine | Cell surface interactions and signaling in neutrophil transepithelial migration | Persechini | |
| Feb 4 | Victoria L. Robinson | Cntr for Adv Biotech and Medicine, Piscataway, NJ | Phosphoregulated Prokaryotic Switch Proteins | Thomas | |
| Feb 5 | Chris Kaiser | Biology at MIT | Pathways for disulfide bond formation and transfer | Cooper | |
| Feb 11 | Keli Hu | University of California - San Francisco | Traffic regulation of ATP-sensitive K+ channels | Persechini | |
| Feb 11 | Brian V. Geisbrecht | John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD | Structure/Function Studies of Extracellular Proteins in Development and Disease | Thomas | |
| Feb 12 | Anupam Agarwal | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Regulation of human heme oxygenase-1 gene expression in disease | Smith | |
| Feb 17 | Alejandro Heuck | Texas A&M University | Analysis of the Perfringolysin O pore formation mechanism using fluorescence spectroscopy | Persechini | |
| Feb 19 | Jerry Workman | Stowers Research Insitute, Kansas City | Protein Complexes that Modify Chromatin | Waterborg | |
| Feb 23 | Timothy J. Allison | National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD | Crystallographic and Other Biophysical Studies of a gamma delta T Cell Receptor | Thomas | |
| Feb 24 | Ira Clark | Princeton University | The right place at the right time - translational control in Drosphila development | Persechini | |
| Feb 26 | Steven Gross | University of California - Irvine | Single-molecule investigations of cytoplasmic dynein and what they tell us about in vivo function | King | |
| Mar 2 | Harold Fisk | University of Colorado, Boulder | Cell cycle regulation of centrosome duplication | Persechini | |
| Mar 4 | PH Taghert | Washington University Anatomy & Neurobiology | Mechanisms of Circadian output in Drosophila | Price | |
| Mar 8 | Tanja M. Gruber | University of California - San Francisco | Dissecting Transcription Initiation | Thomas | |
| Mar 18 | Christian Zwieb | Univ. Texas Health Center - Tyler Texas | Signal Recognition Particle: Phylogeny, Structure and Function | O'Connor | |
| Mar 25 | Peter E. Prevelige | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Identification and Therapeutic Targeting of Intersubunit Interactions in HIV-1 Using Mass Spectrometry | Thomas | |
| Mar 29 | David J. Steger | University of California - San Francisco | Regulation of Chromatin Remodeling and Transcription | Thomas | |
| Apr 1 | Carlos Catalano | University of Colorado Health Sciences Center | Mechanistic Studies on Virus Assembly | Thomas | |
| Apr 8 | Susan Egan | University of Kansas, Lawrence | Transcription Activation of the E. Coli L-Rhamnose Operons | Yoder | |
| Apr 15 | Roger Colbran | Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine | Role of Subcellular Targeting of Ca2+/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II in the Feedback Regulation of Calcium Signaling | Persechini | |
| Apr 22 | Zhong Sheng Sun | Cornell Medical College | Circadian clock system in peripheral tissues | Price | |
| Apr 23 | Leslie McSweeney | Dissertation Defense | Characterization of E.coli Cytolethal Distending Toxin subunits CdtA, CtdB and CtdC | Dreyfus | |
| Apr 23 | Michael Berridge | Malaghan Institute of Medical Research | Cell Surface Oxygen Consumption by Mammalian Cells: Molecular Characterization and Linkage to Cell Metabolism and Stress Responses | Smith | |
| Apr 27 | Susan Abmayr | Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Mergers and Acquisitions: Proteins Associated with Myoblast Fusion in Drosophila | Thomas | |
| May 3 | J. Andrew Keightly | Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Proteomics: Protein Nitro-Tyrosine Quantitation, Phosphoproteome Analysis, and Aldose Reductase/Cellular Aldehyde Toxicity |
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| Fall 2003 Schedule | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Aug 28 | Michael Plamann | SBS - UMKC | Growth of filamentous fungi: morphological mutants and motors | Thomas | |
| Sep 4 | Sue Brown | Kansas State University | From Hox genes to genomics and beyond in the Red Flour Beetle Tribolium castaneum | Dobens | |
| Sep 10 | Hideo Akutsu | Osaka University | The mechanism of the piston movement of the beta subunit of H+ -ATP Synthase revealed by NMR | Thomas | |
| Sep 11 | Dan Schoenberg | Ohio State University | A central role for mRNA endonucleases in the regulated degradation of normal and nonsense-containing mRNA |
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| Sep 18 | Ann Smith | SBS - UMKC | Cellular Defenses for Redox-Active Metals: Hemopexin and Heme Transport | Persechini | |
| Sep 30 | Alexander Ninfa | University Michigan Medical School | Development of a genetic clock and a genetic toggle switch for Escherichia coli |
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| Oct 2 | Karl Volz | University of Illinois - Chicago | Structure and function of PEDF, a potent anti-angiogenic factor | Yoder | |
| Oct 9 | Michael Summers | HHMI at Univ. Maryland- Baltimore County | New insights info retroviral genome packaging and assembly | Laity | |
| Oct 14 | David VanderVelde | KU, Medicinal Chemistry | Taxol analogs in chemotherapy and neuroprotection |
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| Oct 16 | Jennifer Gerton | Stowers Research Institute, Kansas City | Genome-wide mapping of the cohesin complex in S.cerevisiae | Persechini | |
| Oct 23 | Steve Lodmell | University of Montana - Missoula | The role of HIV-2 leader RNA structure in the regulation of replicative functions | OConnor | |
| Oct 30 | Lynda Bonewald | Dentistry - UMKC | Identification of osteocyte specific proteins and their function in response to mechanical strain | Yoder | |
| Nov 6 | Tien Hsu | Medical University South Carolina | Epithelial cell migration in Drosophilia and in renal carcinoma cells | Dobens | |
| Nov 10 | Mitchell F. Balish | University of Georgia - Athens | Building the Mycoplasma pneumoniae Attachment Organelle | Thomas | |
| Nov 13 | Michael Weiss | Case Western Reserve University | Human sex determination and sex reversal syndrome | Thomas | |
| Nov 17 | Anne Stellwagen | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | The means to an end: Recruiting Telomerase to Native and Broken Chromosome Ends | Thomas | |
| Nov 19 | Cole Haynes | Dissertation Defense | Degradation of misfolded proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum: identification of a novel mechanism and prevention of cell death | Cooper | |
| Nov 20 | Sandy Quackenbush | University of Kansas, Lawrence | The A, B, C's of Walleye Dermal Sarcoma virus | Thomas | |
| Nov 24 | B. Duane Price | University of Alabama - Birmingham | Nodavirus Replication in Yeast; Basic and Applied Research | Thomas | |
| Dec 1 | Toru Nakamura | The Scripps Research Institute | Roles of Checkpoint Proteins in DNA Damage Recognition and Telomere Maintenance | Thomas | |
| Dec 2 | Henry Miziorko | The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee | Mevalonate Kinase: structure/function correlations for an enzyme implicated in inherited disease |
Dreyfus
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| Dec 4 | Scott Moye-Rowley | University of Iowa | Redox regulation of transcription factor function | Cooper | |
| Dec 16 | Pamela Lloyd | University of Missouri - Columbia | Persechini | ||
| Winter 2003 Schedule | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Jan 23 | Phoebe Rice | University of Chicago | Flipping and bending DNA: structural studies of Flp recombinase and bacterial nucleoid proteins | Yoder | |
| Jan 30 | Tom Menees | SBS - UMKC | RNA branch formation in a yeast retroposon | Thomas | |
| Feb 6 | Yeon-Kyun Shin | Iowa State University | Regulation of neuronal SNARE assembly: An EPR study | Esser | |
| Feb 13 | Paul Jardine | University of Minnesota | The Phi29 DNA packaging machine: Looking under the hood of a powerful molecular motor | Thomas | |
| Feb 20 | Yevgenya Grinblat | University of Wisconsin - Madison | Border disputes: patterning the neural/non-neural border in zebrafish | Dobens | |
| Feb 27 | Michael Zolkiewski | Kansas State University | Structure and function of ClpB, a protein disaggregating molecular chaperone | Gogol | |
| Mar 6 | Michael Walsh | University of Calgary | Signal transduction pathways in the regulation of vascular smooth muscle contraction | Persechini | |
| Mar 20 | Graciela Unguez | New Mexico State University | Where does the electric organ come from? Cellular and molecular insights | Ferrari | |
| Mar 27 | Michael Kanost | Kansas State University | Protenses and protease inhibitors in insect immune responses | Xiaoquiang | |
| Apr 3 | Carla Green | NSF Center for Biological Timing | Molecular timekeeping in the Xenopus retina | Price | |
| Apr 10 | Richard Kriwacki | St.Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis | Structural polymorphism among tumor suppressor proteins | Laity | |
| Apr 17 | Terry Wagenknecht | Wadsworth Center, NY State Dept Health | Molecular anatomy of skeletal muscle Ryanodine receptors and triad junctions | Gogol | |
| Apr 24 | Larry Sklar | University of New Mexico | Molecular assemblies for drug discovery by high throughput flow cytometry | Esser | |
| May 1 | Susan Liebman | University of Illinois - Chicago | Prion::prion interactions, predisposing factors | OConnor | |
| May 15 | Benjamin Glick | University of Chicago | Building the Golgi Apparatus | Cooper | |
| Fall 2002 Schedule | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Aug 22 | Jakob Waterborg | SBS - UMKC | Dynamics of histone acetylation and what it reveals about transcription of chromatin acress the species | Persechini | |
| Aug 29 | Debbie Scheuer | School of Pharmacy - UMKC | Central effects of glucocorticoids on blood pressure regulation | Price | |
| Sep 5 | Michael Herman | Kansas State University | Control of cell polarity by non-canonical Wnt signaling in C.elegans | Price | |
| Sep 12 | Michele Swanson | University of Michigan | Legionella's fateful journey from Amoebae to Macrophages | Dreyfus | |
| Sep 19 | Jeffrey Gorski | SBS - UMKC | Galectin-3: To splice or not to splice | Persechini | |
| Sep 26 | Christine M. Malcom | University of Chicago | Craniometry and prehistoric dynamics of the Chiribaya Culture of southern Peru | Wyckoff | |
| Oct 3 | Art Palmer | Columbia University | The role of protein dynamics in ligand binding, catalysis, and folding probed by NMR spectroscopy | Laity | |
| Oct 10 | Zenon Grabarek | Boston Biomedical Research Institute | Calmodulin - A protein with many talents | Persechini | |
| Oct 17 | H. Jane Dyson | Scripps Research Institute | Unfolded proteins: A new frontier in structural biology | Laity | |
| Oct 24 | Roman Tuma | Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki | In vitro assembly of dsRNA | Thomas | |
| Oct 31 | Gerald Hazelbauer | University of Missouri - Columbia | Detecting conformational changes in transmembrane signaling by engineered, diagnostic disulfides | Calson | |
| Nov 7 | Peter C. Dedon | Biological Engineering, MIT | Thomas | ||
| Nov 14 | Joseph P. Vogel | Washington University, School Medicine | Legionella pneumophila: A bacterial parasite of phagocytic cells | Drefus | |
| Nov 21 | Linda Hendershot | St.Jude Children's Research Hospital | BiP, a master regulator of ER function | Cooper | |
| Dec 5 | Roger Colbran | Vanderbilt University, School Medicine | Synaptic targeting of protein kinases and protein phosphatases | Persechini | |
| Winter 2002 Schedule | |||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | |
| Jan 10 | Kristi L. Neufeld | Oncological Sciences, University of Utah | Regulated nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of the tumor suppressor APC | G. Thomas | |
| Jan 17 | Jamie C. Rusconi | Washington University | The Wilm's Tumor Suppressor-1 ortholog Klumpfuss regulates programmed cell death in the developing Drosophila retina | G. Thomas | |
| Jan 24 | Robert Britton | MIT | Genetic and genomic characterization of SMC, a gene involved in chromosome compaction and partitioning | Carlson | |
| Feb 7 | Steve Harris | University of Nebraska - Lincoln | Polar growth of Aspergillus | M. Plamann | |
| Feb 14 | Paul Stemmer | University of Nebraska Medical Center | Regulation of Calcineurin | Persechini | |
| Feb 21 | Partho Ghosh | UC-San Diego | Structural biology of host-pathogen interactions |
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| Feb 28 | James H. Tumlinson III | Agricultural Research Service, USDA |
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| Mar 7 | Carey K. Johnson | Chemistry, KU, Lawrence | Single-molecule studies of calmodulin signaling | Persechini | |
| Mar 21 | Pobert Piper | University of Iowa | Intraluminal sorting at the endosome as a mechanism for receptor down-regulation | Cooper | |
| Mar 28 | Elizabeth Komives | UC-San Diego | Extracellular protein-protein interactions |
Esser
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| Apr 4 | Wilma Olson | Rutgers University | Sequence-dependent deformations of DNA | G. Thomas | |
| Apr 11 | Joan Burnside | Delaware Biotechnology Institute | Development of a chicken EST database for gene expression profiling | Crawford | |
| Apr 18 | John Correia | University of Mississippi Medical Center | Antimitotic drugs and new targets: From biophysics to cellular effectiveness | G. Thomas | |
| Apr 25 | Joe Lutkenhaus | Microbiology, KU Medical Center | Spatial regulation of cell division | Gogol | |
| May 2 | Jill Trewhella | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Unlocking the secrets of signal transduction using information from hybrid experimental data sets |
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| May 23 | J. Richard McIntosh | University of Colorado | Electron tomography | Gogol | |
Fall 2001 Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | Div. |
| Aug. 23 | Antony Cooper | CBB, UMKC | Protein Quality Control in Yeast | G. Thomas | CBB |
| Aug. 30 | Edward A. Dennis | Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-San Diego | Regulation of Phospholipas Cyclooxygenase in Signal Transduction | Carlson | MBB |
| Sept. 6 | John Flanagan | Brookhaven National Lab | Structure of the Bacterial Protease ClpP | Gogol | CBB |
| Sept. 13 | J. Richard McIntosh CANCELLED |
Cell Biology, University of Colorado | Electron Tomography | Gogol | CBB |
| Sept. 20 | David Allis CANCELLED |
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia | Translating the Histone Code | Honigberg | CBB |
| Sept. 27 | Robert Pasternack | Swathmore College | Supramolecular Assemblies of Porphyrins on DNA Templates | Morgan | MBB |
| Oct. 4 | George M. Carman | Department of Food Science, Rutgers University | A Regulation of Yeast Diacylglycerol Pyrophosphate Phosphatase | Carlson | MBB |
| Oct. 11 | Thomas Squier | Dept. Molecular Biosciences, Univ. Kansas | Regulation of Ca2+ Transport | Persechini | MBB |
| Oct. 18 | P. John Hart | Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas-San Antonio | Strucutre of TGF-B3 in Complex with its Type II Receptor: Implications for Signaling Complex Assembly | Yoder | CBB |
| Oct. 25 | Doug Chalker | Department of Biology, Washington University | Programmed DNA Rearrangements in Tetrahymena | Menees | CBB |
| Nov. 1 | David Morrison | UMKC Medical School | Gram Negative Sepsis, Tissue Macrophages and Systemic Inflammation | Morgan | MBB |
| Nov. 8 | Arun Chatterjee | Plant Pathology, University of Missouri-Columbia | Global Regulators of Erwinia Pathogenicity Factors | Yoder | CBB |
| Nov. 15 | Gregory Reinhart | Biochemistry and Biophysics Texas A&M University |
Allosteric Interactions in a Tetrameric Enzyme | Carlson | MBB |
| Nov. 22 | THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY | ||||
| Nov. 29 | Jerry Feng | UMKC School of Dentistry, Oral Biology | Cloning and Characterization of Murine Dmp1 Gene. Function and Regulation | Gorski | MBB |
| Dec. 6 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Nelson-Atkins Museum Atkins Auditorium |
Jack Kirsch | University of California Berkeley | Current Problems in Modern Enzymology | Symposium
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| James Prestegard | University of Georgia | New NMR Approaches to Problems in Structural Biology | |||
| Linda Randall | University of Missouri Columbia | Interactions between the Protein Export Chaperone SecB and SecA from E.coli | |||
| Michael Rossmann | Purdue University | The DNA Packaging Motor of Bacteriophage phi29 | |||
| Dec. 13 | Peter E. Prevelige, Jr. | Dept. of Microbiology, University of Alabama-Birmingham | Making and Breaking Icosahedral Symmetry in Virus Assembly | G. Thomas | CBB |
Winter Semester 2001
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | Div. |
| Jan 18 | Robert Dunn | Univ. of Kansas, Chemistry | Biological applications of near-field optics | Martinez | RMCB |
| Jan 25 | Frank Rosenzweig | Univ. of Florida, College of Medicine | CANCELLED | Crawford | MBB |
| Feb 1 | Roger Hendrix | Univ. of Pittsburgh, Biological Sciences | Assembly Mechanisms and Dynamics of a Virus Capsid: the HK97 Protein Ballet | G. Thomas | CBB |
| Feb 8 | James Hoch | Scripps Institute | Molecular Recognition and Control in Phosphorelay Signal Transduction | Morgan | MBB |
| Feb 15 | Lawrence Parkhurst | Univ. of Nebraska, Chemistry | Binding and Bending of DNA by TBP in Transcription Regulation | Gogol | CBB |
| Feb 22 | Antonio Artigues | UMKC, SBS | Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics: A Beachhead at SBS | Martinez | RMCB |
| Mar 1 | Michel Grandbois | Univ. of Missouri- Columbia |
Atomic Force Microscopy | Gogol | CBB |
| Mar 8 | John Kyriakis | Mass. General Hospital, Diabetes Research Lab. | Activation of MAP Kinases by Inflammatory Cytokines | Smith | MBB |
| Mar 15 | Alan Smrcka | Univ. of Rochester | Protein-Protein Interactions in G Protein Signaling | Persechini | MBB |
| Mar 22 | Jane Aubin | Univ. of Toronto, Anatomy and Cell Biology | Osteoblast Development: From Primitive Progenitor to Mature Osteolast | Gorski | MBB |
| Apr 5 | George DeMartino | Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Regulation and Localization of Proteasomes in Higher Eukaryotes | Gogol | CBB |
| Apr 12 | Jim Birchler | Univ. of Missouri- Columbia |
Silencing of Dispersed Gene Copies in Drosophila | Price | MBB |
| Apr 19 | Anna DePaoli-Roach | Indiana Univ. School of Medicine, Biochem. & Mol. Biology | Hormonal and Neuronal Control of Glycogen Metabolism: Insights from Transgenic and Knockout Models | Carlson | MBB |
| Apr 26 | Victor DiRita | Univ. of Michigan, Sch. of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology | Transcription control of virulence gene expression in Vibrio cholerae | Dreyfus | CBB |
| May 3 | James Coffman | Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Transcriptional regulatory proteins and the cell physiology of sea urchin embryogenesis | SBS | SBS |
| May 17 | Charles Radding | Yale University, Genetics | The Search for Homology in Duplex DNA | Honigberg | CBB |
Fall Semester 2000
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | Div. |
| Aug 24 | Simon Friedman | UMKC Pharmacy | Synthetic and Analytical Strategies for Targeting Telomerase | Benevides | MBB |
| Aug 31 | Tom Menees | UMKC SBS | Yeast Ty Retrotransposons as a Model for Studying Retroelement/Host Interactions in Eukaryotes | G. Thomas | CBB |
| Sept 7 | Douglas Law | UMKC SBS | Anchoring the Contractile Machinery of Vertebrate Striated Muscle | G. Thomas | CBB |
| Sept 14 | Douglas Crawford | UMKC SBS | Using Evolution to Identify what is Biologically Important | Carlson | MBB |
| Sept 21 | Marilyn Yoder | UMKC SBS | The Structure of Phosphatidylinositol Transfer Protein | G. Thomas | CBB |
| Sept 28 | S. Ramaswamy | University of Iowa, Biochemistry | Structural Enzymology of Non-heme Iron | Yoder | CBB |
| Oct 5 | Ed Eisenstein | University of Maryland, Biotechnology Institute | A Structural Approach for Determining the Biological Roles of Proteins of Unknown Function; Problems and Prospects | Morgan | MBB |
| Oct 12 | Richard W. Hanson | Case Western Reserve University, Biochemistry & Mol. Biology | How Transcription Factors Pattern Metabolic Processes | Carlson | MBB |
| Oct 19 | Paul Kelly | University of Kansas , Molecular Biosciences | What Makes Synapses Plastic? | Martinez | RMCB |
| Oct 26 | Steven Nothwehr | University of Missouri-Columbia, Biological Sciences | Mechanisms for Localization and Trafficking of Resident Trans-Golgi Network Proteins | Cooper | CBB |
| Nov 2 | Dorothy Beckett | University of Maryland-College Park, Chemistry & Biochemistry | The Importance of Flexibility for the Allosteric Escherichia coli Biotin Repressor | Esser | CBB |
| Nov 9 | Ken Rudd | University of Miami, Biochemistry | Targeting ORFs for Functional Characterization: Deletion of E-coli ynfA Confers Resistance to ß-lactam Antibiotics | Carlson | MBB |
| Nov 16 | Elizabeth Craig | University of Wisconsin-Madison, Biomolecular Chemistry | Molecular Chaperones: HSP70's Many Physiological Roles in the Cell | Martinez | TB |
| Nov 30 | Cathy Krull | University of Missouri-Columbia, Biosciences | Axon Guidance in the Periphery | Price | MBB |
| Dec 7 | Colette Witkowski | Southwest Missouri State University | C. elegans Collagen Type IV Function in Muscle Cell Development | Waterborg | CBB |
| Dec 8 | U. McMahan | Stanford University Medical Center | The Architecture of Active Zone Material and its Role in Synaptic Transmission, as Revealed by Electron Microscope Tomography | Gogol | CBB |
Winter Semester 2000
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | Div. |
| Jan 13 | Vincenz Unger | Yale University, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry | From Pictures to Maps to Models - Gap Junctions as a Paradigm for the Future of Membrane Protein Structural Biology | Gogol | CBB |
| Jan 20 | Jack Preiss | Michigan State University | New Aspects of Regulation of Starch Synthesis and Alteration of Starch Structure by Creation of Designer Branching Enzymes | Iriarte | MBB |
| Jan 27 | David Smith | University of Nebraska | Probing the Dynamics of Protein Folding by Hydrogen Exchange/Mass Spectrometry | Martinez | RMCB |
| Feb 3 | Steven Van Doren | University of Missouri-Columbia | Structure and Motion in a Few Proteins with Roles in Cancer Progression: TIMP, MMP, & Viral Co-Chaperone | Martinez | DO |
| Feb 10 | Margaret Offermann | Emory University | Human Herpesvirus 8 and the Pathogenesis of Kaposi's Sarcoma | Chronwall Martinez | CBB |
| Feb 17 | Kenneth Peterson | University of Kansas, Medical Center | Developmental Regulation of ß-globin Gene Expression: Role of cis-linked Sequences and Locus Organization | Iriarte | MBB |
| Feb 24 | Linda J. Van Eldik | Northwestern University, Medicine | Glial Activation Pathways as Potential Drug Discovery Targets for Neurodegenerative Disorders | Carlson | MBB |
| Mar 2 | Ed Fisher | Cardiovascular Institute, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine | ApoB and Its Cotranslational Ubiquitination and Ultimate Proteasomal Degradation | Cooper | CBB |
| Mar 16 | Sam Ward | University of Arizona | Genomes, Microarrays, Macrodata: Identifying All the Germ Line Genes in the Nematode C. elegans | K. Thomas | MBB |
| Mar 23 | Carolyn Price | University of Nebraska | How Many Proteins Does It Take to Build a Telomere? Requirements for Proper End Capping and Replication | G. Thomas | CBB |
| Apr 6 | Peter E. Wright | Scripps Research Institute | Structure, Dynamics and Molecular Interactions in Transcriptional Regulation | G. Thomas | RMCB CBB |
| Apr 13 | Karolin Luger | Colorado State University | Crystal Structure of the Nucleosome | Yoder | CBB |
| Apr 20 | Thomas Reilly | University of Missouri-Columbia, Medicine | Lipoprotein e (P4) of Haemophilus Influenzae, A Putative Heme Transporter, is a Novel Phosphomonoesterase | Smith | MBB |
| Apr 27 | Michael Lynch | University of Oregon, Biology | The Role of Mutation in Evolution and Extinction | Crawford | MBB |
Fall Semester 1999
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | Div. |
| Aug 26 | Kelley Thomas | UMKC SBS | Mode and Tempo of Genomic Evolution in Caenorhabditis elegans | Carlson | MBB |
| Sept 2 | Henry Miziorko | Medical College of Wisconsin | Phosphoribulokinase: A Glimpse into the Active Site | Carlson | MBB |
| Sept 9 | Bjorn R. Olsen | Harvard School of Medicine, Cell Biology | Skeletal Development Through the Looking Glass of Murine and Human Genetic Disorders | Gorski | MBB |
| Sept 16 | Sullivan Read | UMKC SBS | mRNA Decay During Herpesvirus Infections: Interactions Between a Putative Viral Nuclease and a Cellular Translation Factor | Martinez | CBB |
| Sept 23 | Lesa Beamer | University of Missouri-Columbia | Structural Studies of BPI, the Bactericidal/Permeability- increasing Protein | Yoder | CBB |
| Sept 30 | Carmen Mannella | New York State Dept. of Health, University at Albany | Electron Tomography of Mitochondria: Exploring the "Feng Shui" of the Cell | Gogol | CBB |
| Oct 7 | Robert Sauer | MIT | Understanding Protein Folding and the Evolution of New Structures | G. Thomas | CBB |
| Oct 13 | Peter Doherty | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Immunology | Cell-Mediated Immunity in Virus Infections | Hutt-Fletcher | TB |
| Oct 21 | Peter Dolphin | Dalhousie University, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Human Plasma Lecithin: Cholesterol Acyltransferase Structure, Function and Catalytic Mechanism | Martinez | RMCB |
| Oct 28 | Robert Horowits | National Institutes of Health | Nebulin-related Adhesion Protein (N-RAP) | Law | CBB |
| Nov 4 | Donald Hilgemann | University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center | Regulation of Transporters and Channels by Phospholipids | Esser | CBB |
| Nov 11 | Cynthia Peterson | University of Tennessee | New Insights into the Structure and Function of Vitronectin | Morgan | MBB |
| Nov 18 | John L. Markley | University of Wisconsin | NMR Approaches to Structure-Function Investigations of Proteins | G. Thomas | CBB |
| Dec 2 | Russell Middaugh | University of Kansas | Non-Native States of Proteins and Their Transport Across Membranes | G. Thomas | CBB |
Winter Semester 1999
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | Div. |
| Jan 14 | Elaine Tuomanen | St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN | Pathogenesis of Pneumococcal Invasion | Dreyfus | CBB |
| Jan 21 | Charles Deber | University of Toronto | Transmembrane Helices in Proteins: Models and Mutants | G. Thomas | CBB |
| Feb 4 | James Bardwell | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI | Beyond the Chaperone Paradigm, New Heat Shock Proteins and Disulfide Catalysts in E. coli | Esser | CBB |
| Feb 11 | Robert Dores | University of Denver, Biological Sciences | Analyzing the Evolution of the Opioid/Orphanin Gene Family | Chronwall | CBB |
| Feb 18 | Judy Wall | University of Missouri-Columbia, Biochemistry | Genetics of the Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria: Potential for Bioremediation | Esser | CBB |
| Mar 4 | Neal DeLuca | University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine | Transcriptional Control During Herpesvirus Infections | Read | CBB |
| Mar 9 | Ruben Abagyan | New York University, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, Courant Institute of Mathematics | Challenges of Biomolecular Structure Prediction | Esser | RMCB |
| Mar 11 | Jeff Gorski | UMKC, SBS | New Regulatory Mechanisms Controlling Intramembranous Bone Mineralization and Removal | Iriarte | MBB |
| Mar 18 | Mark Hochstrasser | University of Chicago | The Ubiquitin-Proteasome System | Cooper | CBB |
| Apr 8 | Jack Tanner | University of Missouri-Columbia, Chemistry | Structure and Dynamics of NAD: Its Role in Catalysis and Enzyme Thermostability | Yoder | CBB |
| Apr 15 | Deborah Lannigan | University of Virginia-Charlottesville | In vitro Evolution of Steroid Receptors to Create Novel Biosensors | L. Plamann | CBB |
| Apr 22 | Hiram Gilbert | Baylor College of Medicine | Folding Proteins with Disulfides: Catalysis and Chaos | Carlson | MBB |
| Apr 29 | Miguel Llinas | Carnegie Mellon University, Chemistry | Mosaic Proteins: Characterizing the Plasminogen System by NMR Spectroscopy | Martinez | RMCB |
Fall Semester 1998
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic/Title | Host | Div. |
| Sept 3 | Michael Schaefer | UMKC SBS | Dissection of a Cyanobacterial Photoregulatory Mechanism | Carlson | MBB |
| Sept 10 | J. Oliver McIntyre | Vanderbilt University | Protein-Lipid Interactions in (R)-3-Hydroxybutyrate Dehydrogenase, a Lipid-Dependent Membrane Enzyme | Esser / Martinez | RMCB |
| Sept 17 | Ed Gogol | UMKC, SBS | Proteasome Regulators : Correlated Structure-Function Studies | G. Thomas | CBB |
| Sept 24 | Ronald Midura | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland | New Concepts on How Bone Mineral Forms | Gorski | MBB |
| Oct 1 | Clare Woodward | University of Minnesota | Protein Folding and Hydrogen Exchange | G. Thomas | CBB |
| Oct 8 | Svante Pääbo | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology | The Origin of the Human Gene Pool | K. Thomas | MBB |
| Oct 15 | Christopher Mathews | Oregon State University | Protein-Protein Interactions in DNA Precursor Biosynthesis | Hirschberg | MBB |
| Oct 22 | Rod Levine | National Institutes of Health | Aging: Just Rusting Out | Morgan | MBB |
| Oct 29 | Juan Ausio | University of British Columbia, Vancouver | In Search of a Structural Role for Histone Acetylation. Does Chromatin Care? | Waterborg | CBB |
| Nov 5 | Robert Stroud | University of California-San Francisco | How Membrane Proteins are Targeted in the Cell and How Cytokine Receptors Signal Across Membranes | Martinez | RMCB |
| Nov 12 | Richard Armstrong | Vanderbilt University | Fosfomycin Resistance Protein and Its Relatives: Do Mechanistic Imperatives Direct the Evolution of Enzyme Function? | Carlson | MBB |
| Nov 19 | Nancy Ing | Texas A&M University | Estradiol Acts Post-transcriptionally to Stabilize Estrogen Receptor mRNA | Rider | MBB |
| Dec 3 | Dara Frank | Medical College of Wisconsin, Microbiology | Novel Toxins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Dreyfus | CBB |
| Dec 10 | Scott Mathews | Washington University, Biochemistry | Flavocytochromes: Structures and Implications for Electron Transfer | Martinez | RMCB |
