Microbiology 799 Seminar Schedule

Winter Quarter 2006

Thursdays at 4:30 p.m. in Room 111 Parks Hall

January 5: Ross E. Dalbey, PhD, Dept of Chemistry and Ohio State Biochemistry Program, Ohio State Univ

The YidC Membrane Chaperone Facilitates Membrane Protein Insertion in Bacteria.

Hosts: Joe Krzycki/Mike Ibba

January 12: Gloria Culver, PhD, Dept of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State Univ, Ames.

Studies of 30S Ribosomal Subunit Assembly: Conformational changes and chaperones.

Host: Kurt Fredrick

January 19: Chad A. Rappleye, PhD, Dept of Molecular Microbiology, Washington Univ School of Medicine, St Louis

Virulence gene discovery in the fungal pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum .

Hosts: Neil Baker/John Gunn

January 26: Mark L. Lang, PhD, Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon NH

Enhancement of humoral immunity by CD1d-restricted NKT cells.

Hosts: Neil Baker/John Gunn

February 2: Patrice P. Hamel, PhD, Dept of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology, Ohio State Univ

Heme delivery systems and redox components in c-type cytochrome maturation in organelles.

Host: Joe Krzycki

February 9: Robert K. Ernst, PhD, Div of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Univ of Washington, Seattle

Title: TBA

Hosts: John Gunn/Neil Baker

February 16: John Diener, PhD, Archemix Corporation, Cambridge MA

Anti-von Willebrand Factor Aptamers for Treatment of Acute Coronary Syndromes.

Host: Kurt Fredrick

February 23: Michal A. Olszewski, DVM, PhD, Veterans Affairs Medical Center , Ann Arbor MI

Title: TBA

Hosts: John Gunn/Neil Baker

March 2: Christopher S. Hayes, PhD, Dept of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Univ of California Santa Barbara

Killing the messenger: Ribosome pausing & mRNA cleavage.

Host: Kurt Fredrick

March 9: Stefan Maas, PhD, Dept of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University

New targets and functions for mammalian RNA editing.

Host: Juan Alfonzo