Biology Seminars in 1999

Thursday
January 21
3:45
Intermolecular Force Measurements Between DNA Molecules
Using the Osmotic Stress Method - DNA Condensation and
Applications in Gene Therapy
Helmut H. Strey, Polymer Science and Engineering Department,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Host: John Sutherland
Thursday
February 18
3:45
Conformational Studies of Virus Assembly
R. Holland Cheng, Department of Biosciences,
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Host: Joe Wall
Thursday
February 25
3:45
Fatty Acid Desaturases: A Bioorganic Perspective
Peter Buist, Department of Chemistry,
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Host: John Shanklin
Thursday
March 25
3:45
A Tale of Two Symbionts-How the Bacteria Rhizobium
meliloti Responds to Signals from its Plant Partner Alfalfa
Pia Abola, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Host: Wally Mangel
Thursday
April 15
3:45
Models of Ternary Complexes for Nonpeptidic Farensyltransferase
Inhibitors: Insights into Structure-Based Design of Potential
Anticancer Therapeutics
Yuan-Ping Pang, Department of Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic
Host: Wally Mangel
April 18-23

DataCol 99

DataCol 99 Course:
Rapid Data Collection and Structure Solving at the NSLS:
A Practical Course in Macromolecular X-Ray Diffraction Measurement
Course Organizers: Bob Sweet, Malcolm Capel, and Lonny Berman
See: http://www.x12c.nsls.bnl.gov/rr_course/
Thursday
April 29
3:45
Two Ways of Talking: Channels and Receptors for Cell-to-Cell
Communication in Plants
David Jackson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Host: Ben Burr
Thursday
May 6
3:45
V (D) J Recombination: Gimme a Break
Guillermo E. Taccioli, School of Medicine, Boston University
Host: Carl Anderson
Tuesday
May 11
3:45
Sequence-Specific Recognition of Transcripts
for Rapid Decay in Plants
Pamela J. Green, MSU DOE Plant Research Laboratory
Host: Ben Burr
Thursday
May 13
3:45
Tetracycline Inducible Expression of Hepatitis B
Surface Antigen (HBsAg) Under the Regulation of T7
RNA Polymerase Transcription
V. Siva Reddy, International Centre for Genetic Engineering
and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India
Host: Bill Studier
May 14 SAS 99 Workshop: Introduction to Small-Angle Scattering
Organizer: Sow-Hsin Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Dieter Schneider
See: http://sas99.bnl.gov/sas99
May 16
canSAS II
CanSAS II Workshop: Software and Data Formats
for Small-Angle Scattering

Organizers: John Barnes (NIST) and Tom Irving (APS)
Hosts: Dieter Schneider and Malclom Capel
May 17-20
SAS 99: XIth International Conference on Small-Angle Scattering
Chair, SAS 99: Dieter Schneider
Organizing Committee:
John D. Axe, Malcolm S. Capel, Sow-Hsin Chen, Michael Hart,
Benjamin Hsiao, Dieter K. Schneider, Donna Zadow, and Ann Emrick
See: http://sas99.bnl.gov/sas99
Thursday
May 27
4:00
346th Brookhaven Lecture
Macromolecular Machines in the Intra-Cellular Assembly Line
John Flanagan, Biology Department
Thursday
June 3
3:45
Enzymes: Old Catalysts Used in New Ways to Make Polymers
Richard Gross, Department of Chemistry,
Poly Technic University, Brooklyn
Host: John Shanklin
June 20-21
ASDA Workshop: Towards Automation of Structure Determination
in Macromolecular Crystallography

Organizer: Swaminathan
See: http://avenger.bio.bnl.gov/asda/
Monday
June 21
3:45
Enzymes in Lipid Metabolism as Targets for Anti-Microbial Drugs
James Sacchettini, Texas A & M University
Host: John Shanklin
Wednesday
June 23
11:00
Anaerobic Life via Metal Reduction: Eating at the Hard Rock Cafe!
Kenneth H. Nealson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Host: Geoffrey Hind
Thursday
July 15
3:45
Molecular Matchmaking: Development of Vaccine and Diagnostic
Tools for Lyme Disease and Cancer Using Phage Display Technology
Valery A. Petrenko, Biological Sciences, University of Missouri
Host: John Dunn
Thursday
July 29
3:45
Brookhaven Women in Science Seminar
Peptides: Conformations, Channels, and Nanotubes
Isabella Karle, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Host: Louise Hanson
Thursday
September 2
3:45
Attaining High Thruput in a Macromolecular Crystallization Laboratory
George T. DeTitta, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute,
Buffalo, NY
Host: S. Swaminathan
Thursday
September 23
3:45
A Theoretical Study of Sequence Evolution in Proteins and Nucleic
Acids in the View of a Creationist/Evolutionist Debate
Arthur Rorsch, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Host: Jane Setlow
Thursday
September 30
3:45
Activation of NF-kappaB by UV and Ionizing Radiation
Nanxin Li, University of California, San Diego
Host: Carl Anderson
Saturday
October 2

Open Source/Open Science Conference
Berkner Hall
Chair: Steve Adler
Organizing Committee:
Steve Adler, Malcolm Capel, Ed McFadden, Sean McCorkle, Tom Schlagel,
Mark Sailer, Tim Sailer, Tom Throwe, Ann Emrick, Bonnie Sherwood,
Susan McKeon, Donna Zadow
See: http://openscience.bnl.gov
Thursday
October 7
3:45
DNA Replication Fidelity, Mismatch Repair and Genome Stability
Thomas Kunkel, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics,
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Host: Carl Anderson
Thursday
October 28
3:45
Enzymology of the Repair of Etheno Bases in Escherichia coli
and Human Cells
Jaques Laval, Institut Gustav Roussy, Villejuif, France
Host: Betsy Sutherland
Friday
November 5
11:00
Protein Folding
Dan Raleigh, Chemistry Department, SUNY-Stony Brook
Host: Wally Mangel
Monday
November 15
9am - 5pm
Q4 Users Meeting at the NSLS
NSLS Conference Room (Bldg. 725)
Organizer: Malcolm Capel
Thursday
November 18
3:45
Cell Cycle Regulation in Response to DNA Damage - Lessons from Yeast
Wolfram Siede, Winship Cancer Center, Emory University
School of Medicine
Host: Carl Anderson
Monday
November 29
11:00
Life Sciences Seminar
Photoproteins as Reporters for In Vivo Cellular and Molecular Analyses
Christopher Contag, Neonatal and Developmental Medicine,
Departments of Pediatrics, and Microbiology and Immunology,
Stanford University School of Medicine
Host: Nora Volkow
Thursday
December 2
3:45
Genes Controlling Cotton Fiber Development: A Hairy Story
Ben Burr, Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Monday
December 6
12 Noon
Muscle Specification in C. elegans: A Story of MyoD, Twist,
and NK Homeodomains
Brian Harfe, Biology Department, Emory University
Host: Paul Freimuth
Thursday
December 9
3:45
X-ray Microscopy: Imaging, Tomography, and Spectroscopy at the NSLS
Chris Jacobsen, Department of Physics & Astronomy,
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Host: Michael Becker
Thursday
December 17
11:00
Crystal Structure of UvrB Provides Insight into the Mechanism
of Nucleotide Excision Repair
Caroline Kisker, Department of Pharmacological Sciences,
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Host: Dieter Schneider
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