Biology Seminars in 2008

Thursday
January 17
11:00
Regulatory Phosphorylation of Novel Phosphoenolpyruvate
Carboxylase Isoforms from Developing Castor Oil Seeds
William C. Plaxton
Department of Biology
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Host: Jorg Schwender
Friday
January 18
11:00
Artificial Photosynthesis
James T. Muckerman
Chemistry Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY
Host: Carl Anderson
Thursday
January 24
11:00
Family X Polymerases in Double-Strand Break Repair
Miguel Garcia-Diaz
Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY
Host: Bob Sweet
Friday
January 25
9:30
Joint Computational Science Center / Biology Department Seminar
Modeling Enzymes to Make Ethanol from Cellulose
Ross C. Walker
San Diego Supercomputer Center
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
Hosts: Jim Davenport and Wally Mangel
Friday
January 25
11:00
Guiding Improvements of Photosynthesis Using
an Integrated Dynamic Model of Photosynthetic
Carbon Metabolism
Xinguang Zhu
Department of Plant Biology
School of Integrative Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Jorg Schwender
Friday
February 15
11:00
Life Sciences Seminar
The Birth and Death of Cellular Glycoproteins
William J. Lennarz
Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY
Host: Huilin Li
Wednesday
April 2
11:00
Structure and Dynamics of Proteins Studied by X-ray
and Neutron Solution Scattering
Lee Makowski
Biosciences Division
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, IL
Host: Carl Anderson
Friday
April 4
11:00
Proline-Rich Cell Wall Proteins:
Building Blocks for a Growing Cell Wall
Mary L. Tierney
Department of Plant Biology
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
Hosts: Carl Anderson and Chang-Jun Liu
April 7-11 RapiData 2008
Rapid Data Collection and Structure Solving at the NSLS:
A Practical Course in Macromolecular X-Ray Diffraction
Measurement

Organizers: R.M. Sweet, S. Sclafani, H. Robinson,
L. Berman, D. Schneider, A. Heroux, A. Saxena,
and A. Soares
Thursday
April 24
3:00
DNA Repair and Photoaging
Daniel B. Yarosh
President and Chairman
AGI Dermatics
Freeport, NY
Host: Betsy Sutherland
Friday
April 25
11:00
The Expanding p53 Universe
Michael A. Resnick
Head of the Chromosome Stability Group
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Research Triangle Park, NC
Host: Carl Anderson
Friday
April 25
2:00
Quantitative Imaging of Storage Metabolism in Crop Seeds
Hardy Rolletschek
Department of Molecular Genetics (Gene Expression)
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
Gatersleben, Germany
Host: Jorg Schwender
Friday
May 9
11:00
Developing Plants with Enhanced Biomass Potential:
Proteomics Prospecting in the Plant Cell Wall
Jocelyn Rose
Department of Plant Biology
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Host: Carl Anderson
Thursday
May 15
11:00
Life Sciences Seminar
Toxicogenomics of an Environmental Disease
Arthur P. Grollman
Laboratory of Chemical Biology
Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY
Host: Carl Anderson
Thursday
June 5
2:00
National Synchrotron Light Source Seminar
The ESRF Upgrade: Bigger, Better, Smaller, Faster, Higher
Edward Mitchell
Upgrade Programme Project Group Leader
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Grenoble, France
Host: Bob Sweet
Friday
June 13
11:00
Advanced Fluorescence Microscopies at the
Center for Functional Nanomaterials at BNL
Mircea Cotlet
Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY
Host: Paul Freimuth
Friday
June 20
11:00
Harnessing Photosynthetic Bacteria for the Heterologous
Expression of Membrane Proteins
Deborah K. Hanson
Biosciences Division
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, IL
Host: Carl Anderson
June 23-27 BioCD 2008: Short Course in Circular Dichroism
Spectroscopy of Proteins and Other Biomolecules

Organizers: J. Sutherland (BNL-Biology),
L. Miller (BNL-NSLS),
B. Wallace and R. Janes (University of London)
Wednesday
July 9
11:00
Biology Informal Seminar
Stony Brook Proteomics
Antonius (Toni) Koller
Stony Brook University Proteomics Center
Stony Brook, NY
Host: Carl Anderson
Friday
July 11
11:00
Validating Computational Models Using Global
Regression Analysis
Mikhail Levin
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
University of Connecticut Health Center
Farmington, CT
Host: Bill Studier
Friday
July 25
11:00
X-Ray Crystallographic Studies of Cytochrome c Oxidase,
the Energy Generator of Cells
Ling Qin
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Host: Allen Orville
Friday
August 1
11:00
Plants and Environmental Challenges
Lee Newman
Wednesday
August 6
11:00
Different Transcriptional and Metabolic Reprogramming
in Medicago truncatula Cell Suspension Cultures Induced
by Yeast Elicitor or Methyl Jasmonate
Marina Naoumkina
Plant Biology Division
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
Ardmore, OK
Host: Niels van der Lelie
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