Biology Seminars in 2002
Friday March 14 11:00	A New Fish Story: Application of Transgenic Fish to the Assessment of Mutations In Vivo Richard N. Winn, Aquatic Biotechnology and Environmental Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens Host: Richard Setlow
Friday March 22 11:00	Atomic Structure of F41 Fragment of Flagellin: A Clue to the Switching Mechanism of the Flagellar Filament F. Alexis Samatey, Protonic NanoMachine Project, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO), Japan Science and Technology (JST), Kyoto, Japan Host: Dax Fu
Friday April 5 11:00	The Emergence of Multi-Domain Extracellular Proteins in the Evolution of Pathogenic Protozoans Thomas J. Templeton, Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University Host: Michael Becker
Friday April 12 11:00	Engineering Deinococcus Strains for the Bioremediation of Radioactive Mixed Wastes Hassan Brim, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD Host: Daniel van der Lelie
April 21-26	RapiData2002 Rapid Data Collection and Structure Solving at the NSLS: A Practical Course in Macromolecular X-Ray Diffraction Measurement Organized by: R. Sweet, D. Kranz, H. Robinson, L. Berman, D. Schneider, A. Heroux, A. Saxena, M. Becker, and J. Jiang
Friday May 10 11:00	The cer Site of Plasmid ColE1: An Elegant but Frustrating Russian Doll David Summers, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Host: Betsy Sutherland
Friday May 24 11:00	Microtubule, its Structure and Anticancer Drugs Binding Sites Huilin Li, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Host: James Hainfeld
Thursday May 30 11:00	Structural Rationale for the Rejection of 2'-5' Links for Genetic Material Narayanarao Yathindra, Head, Department of Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras, India Host: S. Swaminathan
Friday May 31 11:00	Placement of the Structure Proteins in Sindbis Virus Wei Zhang, Dept of Biological Sciences, Purdue University Host: James Hainfeld
Friday June 7 11:00	Strategies to Assess Spatial and Temporal Changes in Microbial Community Structure Larry J. Forney, Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho Host: Safiyh Taghavi
Friday June 21 11:00	Regulators and Mediators of the p53 Tumor Suppressor Pathway Gerard P. Zambetti, Dept of Biochemistry, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN Host: Carl Anderson
Thursday June 27 11:00	Investigating the Relationship Between In Vitro and In Vivo Fitness Kimberly Mayer, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Host: John Shanklin
Friday June 28 11:00	3D Reconstruction of the Ryanodine Receptor and Its Bound Ligands Montserrat Samso, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY Host: James Hainfeld
Thursday July 11 11:00	Beyond Proteomics: D Novo Proteins from Designed Combinatorial Libraries Michael H. Hecht, Dept of Chemistry, Princeton University Host: Carl Anderson
Friday July 19 2:00	Latest Advances in Phase and/or Heavy Atom Refinement Gerard Bricogne, Global Phasing, Cambridge, UK Host: Bob Sweet
Tuesday August 20 11:00	The Evolution of Genes in the TCA and Glyoxylate Cycles: Studies of Functional Redundancy in Ancient Pathways through Endosymbiosis Claus Schnarrenberger, Institute of Biology, Free University of Berlin, Germany Host: John Dunn
Friday August 30 11:00	Large Scale Properties of Protein Networks Sergei Maslov, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Physics Dept, BNL Host: Geoffrey Hind
Wednesday September 4 11:00	Genetics and Biochemistry of Melanoma Suppression in Xiphophorus Hybrids Rodney S. Nairn, Dept of Carcinogenesis, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX Host: Dick Setlow
Friday September 20 11:00	How Calmodulin Activates the cAMP-Producing Exotoxin from Anthrax Andrew Bohm, Boston Biomedical Research Institute Host: Michael Becker
Friday September 27 11:00	Roots, the Rhizosphere and Metal Phytoextraction Alan J. M. Baker, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Australia Host: Daniel van der Lelie
Monday October 7 11:00	Cellular Phenotypes and Molecular Pathways that Link Cancer and Aging Judith Campisi, Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Host: Carl Anderson
Friday November 8 11:00	Plant Diversity, Soil Microbial Communities & Ecosystem Function: Are There Any Links? Donald R. Zak, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan Host: Daniel van der Lelie
Wednesday November 13 1:30	Life Sciences Seminar Testing the D4 Dopamine Receptor Hypothesis of ADHD in a Mouse Model of Hyperactivity Marcelo Rubinstein, Institute for Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology Research (INGEBI)-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina Host: Nora Volkow
Friday November 22 11:00	Natural Transformation of Acinetobacter sp. BD413 in Biofilms Studied by Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Stefan Wuertz, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis Host: Daniel van der Lelie

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