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SBS Seminars
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Date Speaker Affiliation Topic/Title Host
01/24/2013 Matthew S. Thimgan Missouri Science & Technology The Detection and Prevention of the Consequences of Sleep Deprivation Price
01/31/2013 Takanori Otomo Scripps Research Institute Structure and Function of the ATG12-ATG5 Conjugate required for Autophagosome Formation Yao
02/07/2013 Chris Holman UMKC Patents and Biotechnology: An Overview with an Emphasis on Some Hot Topics White
02/14/2013 Li-Jun Ma University of Massachusetts Horizontal Gene Transfer and Pathogenicity in Fusarium Chekanova
02/21/2013 Shui Qing Ye UMKC School of Medicine Novel Role of PBEF in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome White
02/28/2013 Emily Scott University of Kansas Biochemistry and Structural Biology of Cytochrome P450 17A1: Prostate Cancer Drug Target Laity
03/07/2013 Nancy Freitag Univ. of Illinois at Chicago From Soil to Cytosol: The Pathogenic Transition of the Environmental Bacterium Listeria Monocytogenes White
03/13/2013 Stephen F. Kingsmore Children's Mercy Hospital The Thirteenth Task of Hercules: Bringing the Genome Biology to Medicine Dreyfus
03/14/2013 John Walker UMSL Discovery of a Novel & Selective S1P1 Agonist for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis Miziorko
03/21/2013 James Ervasti Univ. of Minnesota Large Recombinant Proteins as Tools to Understand and Treat Muscular Dystrophy Erika Geisbrecht
03/28/2013 Spring Break
04/04/2013 Health Research Day
04/11/2013 Orie Shafer Univ. of Michigan Functional Connectivity and Timekeeping Hierarchy in the Circadian Clock Neuron Network of Drosophila Price
04/18/2013 Wolfgang Zueckert University of Kansas Medical Center Borrelia burgdorferi White
04/25/2013 Paul Sorgen Univ. Nebraska Medical Center Connexin interactions with cytosolic proteins Gogol
05/02/2013 Kevin Elicieri Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Computational and Optical Approaches to Multidimensional Live Cell Imaging Erika Geisbrecht

Seminar Archives

2012 - 2011

Date Speaker Affiliation Topic / Title Host
12/13/2012 Dr. Craig Vander Kooi University of Kentucky Neuropilin Function and Inhibition in VEGF Dependent Angiogenesis Bouyain
12/06/2012 Dr. Nigel Unwin MRC/Scrips Gating movement of acetylcholine receptor caught by plunge-freezing Gogol
11/29/2012 Alex Moise University of Kansas Structure-function studies of adipose phospholipase A2 Yao
11/15/2012 Dr. Robert A. Cramer Dartmouth Medical School Oxygen and Human Fungal Pathogenesis: To Air or Not to Air? Idnurm
11/08/2012 Dr. Kathrin Schrick Kansas State University START lipid/sterol binding domains and a role in homeodomain transcription factors Yao
11/01/2012 Dr. Nancy Berman KU Med Wound healing in the aged brain Huang
10/25/2012 Dr. Matthew Gentry University of Kentucky Glucan phosphatases link neurodegeneration with starch metabolism Bouyain
10/18/2012 Dr. Kathryn Barton Stanford University Cancelled Chekanova
10/11/2012 Dr. Robert Bender University of Michigan A contrarian view of Metabolism: molecular myths, physiological fallacies and biochemical baloney White
10/04/2012 TBD TBD TBD TBD
09/27/2012 Dr. Julia Chekanova UMKC The role of Arabidopsis exosome complex in silencing of heterochromatic loci. Miziorko
09/20/2012 Dr. Gaya Amarasinghe Washington University Immune evasion and replication mechanisms of filoviral VP35 proteins Yao
09/13/2012 Dr. Mike Plamann UMKC Neurospora crassa: A Model System for the Genetic Analysis of the Cytoplasmic Dynein Motor White
09/06/2012 Dr. Alexander Idnurm UMKC DNA mutation as an agent of microevolution that affects microbial pathogenesis White
08/30/2012 Dr. Tom Menees UMKC Slipping a noose around HIV: the curious case of RNA lariats and retroviral replication Yao
08/23/2012 Dr. Kevin McCluskey UMKC Using genetic and genomic data to drive discovery in Neurospora crassa White
04/26/2012 Dr. Lindsey Hutt-Fletcher LSU Health Sciences Center Epstein-Barr Virus: B Cells, Epithelial Cells and the Cycle of Persistence Menees
04/19/2012 No Seminar: UMKC Health Sciences Research Summit
04/12/2012 Dr. Richard Bennett Brown University Cryptic Sex in Candida Fungal Pathogens Idnurm/White
04/05/2012 Dr. Vytas Bankaitis University of North Carolina Lipid Signaling and the Secret Lives of Lipid Transfer Proteins Yao
03/22/2012 Mark Fisher KU Medical Center Structure and Transition Kinetics of the Anthrax Pore Translocon Complex Gogol
03/15/2012 Dr. Michal Hammel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Small Angle Scattering (SAS) Combined with Crystallography and Computation: Defining Accurate Structure of DNA Repair Machinery B. Geisbrecht
03/08/2012 Dr. Brian Lee Southern Illinois University Solution structure of the binuclear zinc binding domain of cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein Laity
03/01/2012 Dr. Mei Hong Iowa State University Structure and Mechanisms of Influenza M2 and Antimicrobial Peptides from Solid-State NMR Yao
02/23/2012 Dr. Simon H. Friedman UMKC Pharmaceutical Sciences The Creation, Refinement and Application of Light Activated RNA Interference Dreyfus
02/16/2012 Dr. Jerry Workman Stowers Institute Protein Complexes that Modify Chromatin Chekanova
02/09/2012 Dr. Barry Astroff MRI Global - Life Sciences and Animal Health Life Sciences Programs at MRIGlobal White
02/02/2012 Dr. Denis Medeiros UMKC Looking at heart disease through copper-colored glasses Dreyfus
01/26/2012 Dr. Phillip Hardwidge KU Medical Center How Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli Evade Host Innate Immunity B. Geisbrecht
01/19/2012 Dr. Nilofer Qureshi UMKC School of Medicine Story of the Endotoxins White
01/12/2012 Dr. Soumen Paul KU Medical Center Molecular controls of first mammalian cell-lineage commitment Chekanova
12/08/2011 Dr. Ian Besse UMKC Cardiac caveolae as a source of persistent sodium current: a computational approach Wyckoff
12/01/2011 Dr. Gene LeSage East Tennessee State University CDC42 is required for intestinal stem cell self-renewal but not differentiation TBD
11/17/2011 Dr. Russell Swerdlow KU Alzheimer's Disease Center Cell Bioenergetics: A Potential Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutic Target? Smith
11/10/2011 Dr. Reuben Peters Iowa State University To Gibberellins and Beyond: Investigating diterpenoid biosynthesis in plants and pathogens Geisbrecht.B
11/03/2011 Dr. Alice Cheung University of Massachusetts, Amherst FERONIA receptor kinase, a multifunctional cell surface regulator for RHO GTPase-mediated cell growth and reproduction in plants Yao
10/27/2011 Dr. Robert Rose North Carolina State University Structure and function of a dual-specificity interface of the transcriptional coactivator DCoH Bouyain
10/20/2011 Dr. Michelle Momany University of Georgia Polarity in Aspergillus: Septins and RNA localization Idnurm
10/13/2011 Dr. Kyoungtae Kim Missouri State University Dynamin-like protein Vps 1 in endocytosis and membrane recycling Menees
10/06/2011 Dr. Jean-François Côté Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal Regulation of the ELMO/DOCK180 complex: Implications in myoblast fusion and breast cancer metastasis Geisbrecht, E
09/29/2011 Dr. Jeff Gorski UMKC SKI-1 (site-1) protease deficiency causes hindlimb paralysis associated with developmental abnormalities of bone, muscle and nerve tissues Smith
09/22/2011 Dr. Marc Orbach University of Arizona RIG1, a fungal transcription factor essential for pathogenicity in plant and animal pathogens FGSC
09/15/2011 Dr. Samuel Bouyain SBS, UMKC Protein tyrosine phosphatases and contactins in nervous system development – a structural perspective Miziorko
09/08/2011 Dr. Xuemei Chen UC Riverside PLANT MICRO RNA’S: BIOGENESIS AND FUNCTION Chekanova
09/01/2011 Dr. Gerardo Vasta University of Maryland School of Medicine THE SWEET TOOTH OF INNATE IMMUNITY: THE FIRST BARRIER OR THE TROJAN HORSE? Geisbrecht, B
08/25/2011 Dr. Jed Lampe KU Medical Center Cytochrome P450 protein-ligand interactions revealed through 2D NMR and molecular dynamics simulations Yao

2011 - 2010

Date Speaker Affiliation Topic / Title Host
04/27/2011 Dr. Stephanie Karst University of Florida Elucidating Critical Determinants of Efficacious Norovirus Vaccines Dreyfus
04/21/2011 Dr. Gerardo Vasta University of Maryland School of Medicine The Sweet Tooth of Innate Immunity: The First Barrier or the Trojan Horse? Geisbrecht, B.
04/14/2011 Dr. Katsura Asano Kansas State University Mechanism and control of translation initiation in eukaryotes: Perspectives from yeast Menees
04/07/2011 Dr. Laurel Raftery University of Nevada, Las Vegas BMP Regulation of Epithelial Morphogenesis Dobens
03/24/2011 Dr. Salvatore Stella, Jr. UMKC School of Medicine Feed Forward Gabaergic Signaling from Mammalian Horizontal Cells at the First Synapse in Visual Processing Dreyfus
03/17/2011 Dr. Joan Conaway Stowers Institute for Medical Research A Role for the Mediator of RNA Polymerase II Transcription in Elongation Control Chekanova
03/10/2011 Dr. Amy Andreotti Iowa State University A Molecular View of Tec Kinase Signaling in Immune Cells Yao
03/03/2011 Dr. Sunita Kramer Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Moving Muscles in Drosophila with Attractive and Repulsive Guidance Signals Geisbrecht, E.
02/24/2011 TBD TBD Chekanova
02/17/2011 Dr. Michael J. Hendzel University of Alberta Quantitative Single Cell Biochemistry to Study Populations and Population Heterogeneity: Using the Cell as a Test Tube Waterborg
02/10/2011 Dr. Olga Danilevskaya Pioneer Hi-Bred International, A DuPont Company Genetic control of flowering time in maize Chekanova
02/03/2011 Dr. N. Louise Glass UC - Berkeley Fungal Social Media: Talking and Signaling to Form an Interconnected Network McCluskey
01/27/2011 Ravi Palanivelu University of Arizona Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Pollen-Pistil Interactions in Arabidopsis Chekanova
01/20/2011 Seminar cancelled due to weather
01/13/2011 Dr. Philippe Georgel Marshall University MeCP2 and Epigenetics: More than just DNA Methylation Waterborg

2010 - 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Topic / Title Host
04/07/2010 Bill Gates My Test Seminar
12/02/2010 Prof. Madeline Shea University of Iowa - Iowa City Molecular Remodeling by Calmodulin: Balancing Bending and Binding Persechini
11/18/2010 Prof. Dan Leahy Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Structural Basis for EGFR/ErbB Signaling and ErbB-targeted Cancer Therapies Bouyain
11/11/2010 Prof. Thomas Poulos University of California - Irvine Nitric Oxide Synthase: Structure Based Drug Design Targeting Neurodegenerative Diseases Geisbrecht, B
11/04/2010 Mary Baylies Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research Constructing an Organ: Genes and Pathways required to Make and Shape Muscle Geisbrecht, E
10/28/2010 Dr. Paul Hruz Washington University School of Medicine Molecular Mechanisms of Facilitative Glucose Transport: Halving one’s PI and eating it too Miziorko
10/21/2010 Dr. Mohammad Mir KU Medical Center Role of Hantavirus Nucleocapsid protein in transcription and translation initiation of viral mRNA Menees
10/14/2010 Prof. Barry Bowman University of California, Santa Cruz How is calcium sequestered in cells, and what is the structure and distribution of organelles? Plamann, McCluskey
10/07/2010 Dr. Mark Shapiro UT Health Science Center Regulation of neuronal ion channels by phosphoinositides and Ca2+/calmodulin Persechini
09/30/2010 Dr. Stephen King MBB Division Dynein and Dynactin: Caught on Film Dreyfus
09/23/2010
09/16/2010 Dr. Daniel Mitchell University of Warwick Protein interactions with neutral carbohydrates Bouyain
09/09/2010 Dr. Todd Holmes University of California - Irvine Cryptochrome is a blue light sensor that rapidly regulates neuronal firing rate Price
09/02/2010 Dr. Todd Reynolds University of Tenessee, Knoxville Role of vacuolar protein sorting components in biofilm formation in yeast Honigberg
08/26/2010 Dr. Simon Kaja UMKC School of Medicine Calcium signaling in neurological and neurodegenerative disease: novel avenues for neuroprotection Dreyfus