Biology Seminars in 2001

Friday
January 5
11:00
Protein Structure Calculation Using Protein Threading and Sparse NMR Data
Ying Xu, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Host: Carl Anderson
Thursday
January 11
11:00
pMOL28, a Megaplasmid of the Heavy Metal Resistant Strain Ralstonia metallidurans CH34, as a Model for Adaptation to Environmental Stress
Safiyh Taghavi, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (Vito), Environmental Technology Expertise Center, Mol, Belgium
Host: Carl Anderson
Friday
January 12
11:00
Enzyme Function: A Dynamical View via Solids NMR
Ann E. McDermott, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University
Host: Michael Becker
Friday
January 26
11:00
The Future of Functional Genomics as Seen from the Drosophila Blastoderm
John Reinitz, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, SUNY Stony Brook
Host: Sean McCorkle
Friday
February 2
11:00
Targeted Screening for Induced Mutations
Steven Henikoff, Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Host: Dawei Lin
Friday
February 9
11:00
Computer Simulations of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
Carlos Simmerling, Department of Chemistry, SUNY Stony Brook
Host: Maria Bewley
Friday
February 16
11:00
Structural Studies on Neurotoxins
S. Swaminathan, Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Wednesday
February 21
4:00
361st Brookhaven Lecture
Structural Genomics -- Bringing the Genome to Life
F. William Studier, Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Friday
March 2
11:00
DNA Nanotechnology
Nadrian C. Seeman, Department of Chemistry, New York University
Host: Bob Sweet
Friday
March 9
11:00
Overview on the Toxic Pfisteria Complex, and Their Impacts on Fish and Mammalian Health
Joann Burkholder, Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Host: John Dunn
Wednesday
March 14
11:00
Life Sciences Seminar
How to Maintain the Correct Genetic Information - From DNA Repair to Replication
Caroline Kisker, Center for Structural Biology, Dept of Pharmacological Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook
Host: Nora Volkow
Thursday
March 15
11:00
Life Sciences Seminar
Seeing is Believing: Non-Invasive, Quantitative and Repetitive Imaging
of Reporter Gene Expression in Living Animals, Using Positron Emission Tomography
Harvey R. Herschman, Division of Basic Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at Los Angeles
Host: Nora Volkow
Friday
March 16
11:00
Bacterial Fatty Acid Synthesis: Targets for Development of Novel Antibiotics
Stephen W. White, Dept of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
Host: Maria Bewley
Monday
March 19
11:00
Pathologic and Physiologic Double-Strand DNA Breaks:
Roles in Cancer, Aging, and the Immune System
Michael Lieber, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Host: Carl Anderson
Friday
March 23
10:00
CDIC Seminar
Structural Proteome Database (SPD), an Integrated Protein Information System
Dawei Lin, BNL Biology Department
Friday
March 23
11:00
A Movie of Catalysis in the Copper-Containing Quinoprotein Amine Oxidase
Carrie M. Wilmot, Dept of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Host: Maria Bewley
Friday
March 30
11:00
Biosynthesis of the Molybdenum Cofactor - A Conserved Pathway with Interesting Evolutionary Relationships
Hermann Schindelin, Dept of Chemistry, SUNY Stony Brook
Host: Dieter Schneider
Friday
April 6
11:00
Solution Structure of Damaged DNA: Does it Really Matter?
Carlos de los Santos, Dept of Pharmacological Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook
Host: John Flanagan
Friday
April 20
11:00
Proteins: Design and Disease
Lynne Regan, Dept of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Yale University
Host: Maria Bewley
April 22-27
RapiData2001
Rapid Data Collection and Structure Solving at the NSLS:
A Practical Course in Macromolecular X-Ray Diffraction Measurement
Organized by: R. Sweet, L. Berman, D. Schneider, A. Saxena, H. Robinson,
M. Becker, and D. Kranz
Friday
May 4
11:00
UV-Driven Clonal Expansion: Colonization of Stem-Cell Compartments by p53-Mutant Cells
Douglas E. Brash, Dept of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine
Host: Dick Setlow
Wednesday
May 9
3:00
Life Sciences Seminar
Molecular Mechanisms of Ethanol-Induced PKA Translocation and Gene Expression
Ivan Diamond, Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, Emeryville, CA
Host: Nora Volkow
Friday
May 11
11:00
Oxidative DNA Damage: An Enemy Within
Arthur P. Grollman, Dept of Pharmacological Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook
Host: Maria Bewley
Friday
May 18
11:00
Inhibitor Design for DUTPase and its Important Medical Consequences
Eila Cedergren-Zeppezauer, Dept of Biochemistry, Lund University, Sweden
Host: Zbigniew Dauter
Tuesday
May 29
11:00
Semliki Forest Virus Vectors: Versatile Tools for In Vitro and In Vivo Gene Expression Studies
Kenneth Lundström, Central Nervous System Department, Hoffman-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland
Host: Adrian Goldman
Friday
June 1
11:00
The Forms of Things Unknown: Tackling the Problem of Membrane Protein Structure
Patrick J. Loll, Dept of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Host: Anand Saxena
Monday
June 4
4:00
Understanding Kinesin Motility Using Single Molecule Measurements
Kurt Thorn, Graduate Group in Biophysics, UCSF
Host: Bob Sweet
Friday
June 15
11:00
DNA-PK and the Non-Homologous End Joining Pathway: Lessons from Nature
Katheryn D. Meek, National Food Safety and Toxicology Center, Michigan State University
Host: Maria Bewley
Friday
June 29
11:00
Structural Basis forNAD-Dependent Protein Deacetylation
Rui-Ming Xu, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Host: Dieter Schneider
Friday
August 3
11:00
Bacteriophage Metabolism and Evolution: New Strategies
Philip Serwer, Dept of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas
Host: Bill Studier
Monday
August 27
11:00
Structural Characterization of E. coli Periplasmic Ferric Siderophore-Binding Protein FhuD
Teresa Clarke, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary
Host: Dax Fu
Wednesday
September 19
4:00
366th Brookhaven Lecture
Investigating Bacterial Neurotoxins
S. Swaminathan, Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tuesday
October 16
11:00
Reduction of Skin Cancer in Xeroderma Pigmentosum Patients
Treated Topically with DNA Repair Enzymes
Daniel B. Yarosh, AGI (Applied Genetics, Inc.) Dermatics, Freeport, NY
Host: Dick Setlow
Wednesday
October 17
11:00
Decoding the Message: How the Ribosome Recognizes Cognate tRNA
Venki Ramakrishnan, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK
Host: Dax Fu
Monday
October 22
4:00
BSA Colloquium
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor and the Structural Basis of Fast Synaptic Transmission
Nigel Unwin, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK
Host: Dax Fu
Thursday
October 25
11:00
Atomic Model of a Water-Selective Pore in the Lipid Bilayer
Determined by Electron Crystallography in Vitreous Ice
Alok K. Mitra, Dept of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Host: Jim Hainfeld
Friday
October 26
11:00
The Structure and Function of Dengue Virus, a Simple Enveloped Virus
Michael Rossmann, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
Host: Maria Bewley
Monday
October 29
11:00
RNA Synthesis in a Cage - Structural Studies on Reovirus Polymerase Lambda3
Yizhi Jane Tao, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Host: Jim Hainfeld
Friday
November 2
11:00
Maintenance of an Unfolded Polypeptide by a Cognate Chaperone in the Secretion of a Bacterial Virulence Factor
Erec Stebbins, Rockefeller University
Host: Maria Bewley
Friday
November 9
11:00
Suillus luteus: Symbiotic Solution to Metal Contamination
Jan V.G. Colpaert, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Environmental Biology Universitaire Campus, Diepenbeek, Belgium
Host: Daniel van der Lelie
Friday
November 30
11:00
Proteasomess Molecular Machines Intergal to the Genomes to Life Initiatives
Julie Maupin-Furlow, Dept of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida
Host: John Flanagan
Friday
December 14
11:00
Nudix ADPRases: Structure, Mechanism and Surprises
Sandra Gabelli, Biophysics Dept, School of Medicine, John Hopkins University
Host: Michael Becker
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