Biophysics, Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Seminars
2000-01
TO THE BOTTOM • Winter 2001 • Spring 2001
Fall Quarter 2000
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
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September 28 |
Tom Steitz, Yale |
Insights into Ribosome Function from the Atomic Structure of the Large Subunit and its Complexes |
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October 5 |
Richard Wagner |
Activation of Thyroid Hormone Receptor |
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October 12 |
Greg Verdine, Harvard |
Recognition and Repair of Oxidative DNA Damage in Humans |
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October 19 |
Lila Gierasch, Univ Mass |
Structural Insights into the Mechanism of Allostery in an Hsp70 Molecular Chaperone |
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October 26 |
David Bartel, MIT |
Creation and Evolution of New Ribosomes |
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November 2 |
Philip Bourne, UCSD |
New Methods and Insights from Protein Structure Alignments |
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November 9 |
Stan Fields, Univ Washington |
Genomic Approaches to rotein Function |
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November 16 |
Chi-Huey Wong, Scripps |
Tackling the Problem of Carbohydrate-Based Drug Design |
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November 30 |
Ben Shen, UC-Davis |
Harnessing the Biosynthetic Code: Lessons from Natural Product Biosynthesis |
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December 7 |
Greg Petsko, Brandeis |
TBA |
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December 14 |
Dennis Dougherty, Caltech |
TBA |
Winter Quarter 2001
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
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January 4 |
Jean Chmielewski, Purdue |
TBA |
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January 11 |
Tim Mitchison, Harvard Med School |
Towards a Chemical Genetics |
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January
16
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Masahide
Kikkawa, Univ. Tokyo
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Structure and Mechanism of Kinesin Molecular Motors |
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January 18 |
Sam Gellman, Univ Wisconsin |
Structure and Function in Conventional Peptides and p-Peptides |
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January 25 |
John Koh, U Delaware |
New Transcriptional Regulators from Rationally Modified Hormone Receptors |
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February 1 |
Milan Mrksich, Univ Chicago |
A Surface Chemistry Approach to Studying Cell Adhesion and Migration |
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February 8 |
Roger Kornberg, Stanford |
Towards an Atomic Resolution Structure of the Eukaryote Transcription Machinery |
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February 15 |
No Seminar |
, |
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February 22 |
No Seminar |
, |
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March 1 |
Ron Zuckermann, Chiron |
Bioinspired Heteropolymers |
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March 8 |
Michael Marletta, Univ Michigan |
Cellular Signaling with Nitric Oxide |
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March 15 |
No Seminar |
, |
Spring Quarter 2001
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
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March 22 |
Hung-wen Liu, Univ Minn |
Learning Nature's Strategies for Making Unusual Sugars |
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March 29 |
Steve Boxer, Stanford |
Patterning, Electrical Manipulation and Imaging of Supported Lipid Bilayers |
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April 5 |
No Seminar |
, |
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April 12 |
Carlos Bustamante, UC-Berkeley |
Recent Advances on Single Molecule Manipulation |
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April 19 |
No Seminar |
, |
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April26 |
Wei Yang, NIH |
DNA Mismatch Repair: From Structure to Mechanism |
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May 3 |
Gary Stormo, Washington Univ. |
Experimental and Computational Approaches To Determining Protein-DNA Specificity |
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May 10 |
Tom Kodadek, Univ. Texas SWMC |
New Methods To Study and Manipulate "Protein Machines" |
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May 17 |
Steve Mayo, Caltech |
Protein Fold Stabilization and the Design of New Protein Function |
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May 24 |
Kris Palczewski, Univ Washington |
TBA |
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May 31 |
Deborah Wuttke, Univ Colorado |
TBA |
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June 7 |
Andrew Hamilton, Yale Univ. |
New Synthetic Approaches To Disrupting Protein-Protein Interactions |
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