BIOCHEMISTRY

Biochemistry Seminar Series

 2009-2010

Previous Speakers 

Seminars will be held on Mondays at 4:00 p.m. in 1700 HSEB unless otherwise noted.

To add your invited speaker to this calendar, please call ext. 12117 or email the information to Elizabeth Loertscher.

Oct 5

Julie Hollien
University of Utah
Department of Biology
Host Janet Shaw
Coping with stress in the endoplasmic reticulum

Oct 19

Greg Payne
David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Biological Chemistry
Host Janet Shaw
Structure, regulation, and dynamics of clathrin adaptors

Oct 26

Eric Weiss
Northwestern University
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology
Host Jared Rutter
A system that coordinates transcription and translation in cell fate determination and morphogenesis

Nov 2

Avi Chakrabartty
University of Toronto
Department of Medical Biophysics
Host Michael Kay
Misfolding of Superoxide dismutase in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Nov 16

Suzanne Pfeffer
Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry
Host Jin-Mi Heo, Rutter Lab, Biochemistry Student Advisory Committee
Small GTPase control of receptor trafficking

Nov 18

Special Seminar - Venki Ramakrishnan
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Structural Studies Division, Cambridge England
2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Host Chris Hill, Biochemistry Co-Chair
Selection of trna by the ribosome during decoding of the genetic message
12:00 noon in Huntsman Cancer Institute Eccles Auditorium, 6th Floor

Dec 7

Nathanael Gray
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Host Jared Rutter
Targeting Cancer with Small Molecule Kinase Inhibitors: Bcr-Abl, EML4-ALK and T790M EGFR

Apr 12

Webinar - TBA
Host TBA

Apr 26

Webinar - TBA
Host TBA