Weds at 4:30 p.m. in Room 107 Parks Hall
Spring Quarter 2008
Mar 26: David E. Graham, PhD, University of Texas at Austin
"Convergent Evolution in Methanogen Amino Acid and Coenzyme Biosynthesis"
Host: Joe Kryzcki
Apr 2: Kenneth Keiler, PhD, Penn State University
"Temporal and Spatial Control of tmRNA and trans-translation"
Host: Mike Ibba
Apr 9: Chet Cooper, PhD, Youngstown State University
"Protein Profiling of the Dimorphic Fungus Penicillium marneffei"
Host: Chad Rappleye
Apr 16: Phil Farabaugh, PhD, University of Maryland- Baltimore County
"Coming Up for Error: The Way Ribosomes Misunderstand the Genetic Code"
Host: Kurt Fredrick
Apr 23: William Margolin, PhD, University of Texas at Houston
"What Does It Take to Divide a Bacterial Cell?"
Host: Joe Krzycki
Apr 30: Ann Hochschild, PhD, Harvard University
"RNA polymerase conformational changes during early elongation facilitate gene regulation"
Host: Irina Artsimovitch
May 7: Maria Diakonova, PhD, University of Toledo
"Role of Adapter Protein SH2-Bbeta in the Actin-Based Motility of Listeria monocytogenes"
Host: Stephanie Seveau
May 14: Andreas Baumler, PhD, University of California- Davis
"Tales from the Gut: How Salmonella Crosses the Mucosal Barrier"
Host: Brian Ahmer
May 21: Isaac Caan, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Analyses of a Novel Clamp Loader Complex, a Molecular Switch in DNA Replication"
Host: John Reeve
May 28: Ruslan Aphasizhev, PhD, University of California- Irvine
"RNA Processing Machinery of Trypanosomal Mitochondria"
Host: Juan Alfonzo
Autumn Quarter 2008
Sep 24: Robert Batey, PhD, University of Colorado
"To be announced"
Host: Irina Artsimovitch
Oct 1: Paul Babitzke, PhD, Penn State University
"Mechanism of RNA polymerase pausing at the Bacillus subtilis trp pause site" Host: Tina Henkin
Oct 8: Lawrence Goodridge, PhD, Colorado State University
"To be announced"
Host: Steve Abedon
Oct 15: David Ardell, PhD, Uppsala University
"To be announced"
Host: Mike Ibba
Oct 22:
Oct 29: Kurt Fredrick, PhD, Ohio State University
"To be announced"
Host: Tina Henkin
Nov 5: Bill Gause, PhD, New Jersey Medical School
"To be announced"
Host: Abhay Satoskar
Nov 12: Kendrick Memorial Seminar
Jeff Gordon, PhD, Washington University
“The human microbiome project: exploring the microbial side of ourselves”
Host: Jessica Dyszel
Nov 19: John R. David, M.D., Harvard
"To be announced"
Host: Abhay Satoskar
Dec 3: Kerri Mowen, PhD, Scripps
"To be announced"
Host: Abhay Satoskar
Winter Quarter 2009
Jan 7:
Jan 14: Olivia Steele-Mortimer, PhD, Rocky Mountain Labs
"To be announced"
Host: Brian Ahmer
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Spring Quarter 2009:
Apr 1:
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Apr 15: Brad Cookson, MD, PhD, University of Washington
"To be announced"
Host: Brian Ahmer
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