Biology Seminars in 2004

Tuesday
January 27
11:00
Joint Seminar - Biology, Materials Science and Nano Center
Present Status and Prospects for Aberration-Corrected High-Resolution,
Energy-Filtering Electron Microscopes
Harald Rose, University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
Hosts: Joe Wall and Yimei Zhu
Friday
January 30
11:00
Crystal Structure and Mechanism of the Glycerol-3-Phosphate Transporter from E. coli Inner Membrane
Da-Neng Wang, Skirball Instituteof Biomolecular Medicine, New York University Medical Center
Host: Huilin Li
Tuesday
February 10
11:00
CDIC / Biology Seminar
Computational Drug Design with Application to HIV/AIDS and Cancer
Robert C. Rizzo, Dept of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California at San Francisco
Host: Jim Davenport and Carl Anderson
Wednesday
February 25
4:00
391st Brookhaven Lecture
Cultivating Crystallography: A Research Resource for Biomolecular Structures at the NSLS
Robert M. Sweet, BNL Biology Department
Wednesday
March 3
11:00
Life Sciences Seminar
Neuronal Function & Degeneration: From Genes to Brains
Athena Andreadis, Dept of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Host: Peter Paul
Thursday
March 4
11:00
Life Sciences Seminar
Unraveling Cellular Complexity
Ravi Iyengar
Department of Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Host: Peter Paul
Friday
March 5
11:00
Microbial Arsenic Metabolism: from Genes and Enzymes to Geocycles
Simon Silver, Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Chicago
Host: Niels van der Lelie
Friday
March 5
11:00
Life Sciences Seminar
Molecular Epidemiological Studies of HIV-1 in Phase III HIV Vaccine Efficacy
Trial Cohort
David Jobes, VaxGen, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Host: Peter Paul
Wednesday
March 17
11:00
Life Sciences Seminar
Bewitched: Genomic Approaches to Deciphering the Striga Host Interaction
Michael Timko, Department of Biology, University of Virginia
Host: Peter Paul
Tuesday
March 30
11:00
Life Sciences Seminar
Overview of Life Sciences at ORNL
Brian Davison, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Host: Carl Anderson
Friday
April 9
11:00
Regulated Trafficking of the Insulin-Responsive Glucose Transporter Protein GLUT4
Jeffrey E. Pessin, Dept of Pharmacology, SUNY Stony Brook
Host: Carl Anderson
Friday
April 23
11:00
Free Mounting System, a Novel Tool to Improve Handling and Quality of Protein Crystals
Reiner Kiefersauer, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Host: Dax Fu
April 25-30 RapiData 2004
Rapid Data Collection and Structure Solving at the NSLS: A Practical Course in Macromolecular X-Ray Diffraction Measurement
Organizers: R.M. Sweet, D. Kranz-Robertson,
H. Robinson, L. Berman, D. Schneider, A. Saxena
A. Heroux, M. Becker, J. Jiang, and A. Soares
Friday
May 7
11:00
Understanding the Science of Phytoremediation of Organic Contaminants for Better Application of the Technology
Lee Newman, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
Host: Niels van der Lelie
Monday
May 10
4:00
Vein Pattern Formation in Arabidopsis Leaves: Genetics and Genomics
Timothy M. Nelson, Dept of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
Host: Ben Burr
Friday
June 4
11:00
T7 RNA Polymerase as a Molecular Machine
William T. McAllister Dept of Molecular Biology and Genetics, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY
Host: Bill Studier
Tuesday
June 15
11:00
Life Sciences Seminar
3D-Structure, Mechanism and Evolution of Serum Paraoxonases - A Family of Detoxifying and Anti-Atherosclerotic Enzymes
Joel L. Sussman, Dept of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Host: Carl Anderson
Monday
June 28
11:00
Probing Bacterial Metal Homeostasis at the Molecular Level
Christopher Rensing, Dept of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, University of Arizona
Host: Niels van der Lelie
Friday
July 16
11:00
Using Neural Nets to Distinguish Normal Prostate from CA Prostate Using Peptide Data
Gyan Bhanot, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ
Host: Carl Anderson
Friday
July 30
11:00
Computational Architecture and Evolution of Genetic Regulatory Networks
Sergei Maslov, Condensed Matter Theory Group, BNL Physics Department
Host: Bill Studier
Thursday
August 12
11:00
Biosynthesis and Function of Chloroplast Lipids and Vitamins in Arabidopsis thaliana
Peter Dörmann, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm, Germany
Host: John Shanklin
Thursday
September 16
11:00
Life Sciences Seminar
Paradigm Shifts in Radiation Biology and Their Impact on Radiation Protection
Antone L. Brooks, Washington State University, Richland, WA
Host: Arland Carsten
Friday
September 17
11:00
Microbial Functional Genomics, Genomic Technologies and Environmental Applications
Jizhong Zhou, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Host: Daniel van der Lelie
Thursday
September 30
11:00
Dissection and Discovery of Plant Metabolic Networks by Metabolic Flux Analysis
Jörg Schwender, Dept of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing
Host: John Shanklin
Friday
October 8
11:00
RNA Interference: How Small RNAs Control Gene Expression and Development in Plants
Guiliang Tang, Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Host: John Shanklin
Friday
October 15
11:00
Matrix Metalloptroteinases in Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury
Hussein Foda, Pulmonary Care Division, Dept of Medicine, SUNY Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY
Host: Paul Freimuth
Friday
October 29
11:00
Biosynthesis and Metabolic Engineering of Isoflavonoid Natural Products
Chang-Jun Liu, Structural Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
Host: John Shanklin
Friday
November 5
11:00
Going for the Gold--Uses of Gold Nanoparticles
Jim Hainfeld, BNL Biology Department
Tuesday
November 9
11:00
Gene Identification Signature (GIS) Analysis of Transcriptome Characterization
Yijun Ruan, Genome Institute of Singapore
Host: John Dunn
Tuesday
November 16
4:00
High-throughput Protein Crystallography Beamlines at Photon Factory and Structural Biology of Protein Transport and Posttranslational Modification
Soichi Wakatsuki, Director, Structural Biology Research Center, KEK - High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan
Host: Bob Sweet
Thursday
November 18
4:00
Switching Functions and Structures in Yeast Prionogenesis
Alasdair Steven, Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
Host: Joe Wall
Friday
December 17
11:00
Why is a Third-Generation Synchrotron Source Useful for Non-Crystalline
Biological Structure Studies?
Tom Irving, Biophysics Collaborative Access Team (BioCat), Illinois Institute of Technology and Advanced Photon Source
Host: Dieter Schneider
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