University of Iowa
Department of Biochemistry
4-403 BSB
Iowa City, IA 52242-1109 USA phone: 877-846-8569
or 319-335-7932
fax: (319) 335-9570
biochem@uiowa.edu
Department of Biochemistry
4-403 BSB
Iowa City, IA 52242-1109 USA phone: 877-846-8569
or 319-335-7932
fax: (319) 335-9570
biochem@uiowa.edu
Department of Biochemistry
Every semester we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. These seminars are generally held at 10:30 AM in Room 2117 Medical Education & Research Facility (MERF) on The University of Iowa campus. All are encouraged to attend.
Upcoming Seminars
| Date & Time | Location | Visitor | University | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/30/07 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Stephen B.H. Kent | University of Chicago | Chemistry of the Molecules of Life - Total Synthesis of Proteins for Biological Research | Khademi |
| 9/20/07 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Mark Lagrimini (Carl Vestling Lecture) | University of Nebraska | Peroxidase: One Enzyme's View on Plant Growth and Development | Donelson |
| 9/27/07 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Jeffrey J. Hayes | University of Rochester | Washington | |
| 10/4/07 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Daniel Schoenberg | Ohio State University | c-Src Activation of mRNA Decay: A new link between signal transduction and cancer? | Price |
| 10/11/07 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Colin Stewart | NIH | Functional Architecture of the Nucleus in Development and Disease | Geyer |
| 10/18/07 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | John Lis | Cornell University | Wallrath | |
| 10/25/07 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Peter Burgers | Washington University | Wold | |
| 11/1/07 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Susan Craig | Johns Hopkins University | DeMali | |
| 11/8/07 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Sharon Dent (seminar in 1117 MERF) | MD Anderson Cancer Center | Function of Histone Modifying Enzymes | Wallrath |
| 11/29/07 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Danesh Moazed | Harvard University | Geyer | |
| 12/7/07 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Robert Stroud (Henry Bull Lecture) | Univ. California, San Francisco, Dept. Biochem. & Biophysics | Elcock | |
| 12/13/07 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Alessio Accardi | University of Iowa, Dept. Molecular Physiology | Khademi | |
| 1/31/08 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Craig Mizzen | University of Illinois-Urbana, Dept. Cell & Develop. Biology | Regulation and Function of Histone H4-K20 Methylation | Wallrath |
| 2/14/08 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | John Logsdon | University of Iowa, Dept. Biology | Sex, Cells: The Origin and Evolution of Meiosis (or, How Cupid Got His Genes) | Wold |
| 2/21/08 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | John Kirby | University of Iowa, Dept. Microbiology | Chemosensory Regulation of Biofilm Formation in Bacteria | Fuentes |
| 2/28/08 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Karissa Carlson (PhD Thesis Seminar) | University of Iowa, Dept. Biochemistry | Translesion DNA Synthesis by Eukaryotic DNA Polymerases Eta and Kappa | Washington |
| 3/6/08 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Marisa Bartolomei | University of Pennsylvania, Dept. Cell & Develop. Biol. | Epigenetic Regulation of Genomic Imprinting | Geyer |
| 3/7/08 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Lukas Tamm | University of Virginia, Dept. Molec. Physiol. & Biol. Physics | Gate Keepers of Our Cells: Membrane Proteins in Ion Conduction, Synaptic Transmission, and Virus Entry | |
| 3/10/08 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | John Denu | University of Wisconsin- Madison, Dept. Biomolec. Chemistry | Histone epigenetics, protein acetylation and metabolic regulation | |
| 3/13/08 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Jeannie T. Lee | Harvard Medical School, Dept. Genetics | X-chromosome inactivation: Sex, heterochromatin, pairing, and stem cells | Geyer |
| 3/13/08 2:00 PM | 2117 MERF | John York | Duke University, Dept. Pharm. & Cancer Biol. and Biochemistry | Insights into Inositol Phosphate Cellular Signaling Pathways | |
| 3/20/08 10:30 AM | Spivey Auditorium (Aud. 2), BSB | John Lee | University of Iowa, Dept. Otolaryngology | Loss of PTPN13 Induced by HPV Synergizes with Receptor Tyrosine Kinases to Result in Invasive Growth | DeMali |
| 3/27/08 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Jeff Peng | Notre Dame, Dept. Chem. & Biochemistry | Functional Motions of Modular Signaling Proteins | Fuentes |
| 4/10/08 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Jodi M. Nunnari | Univ. California, Davis, Dept. Molec. & Cell Biol. | The Machines that Divide and Fuse Mitochondria | Rubenstein |
| 4/15/08 9:00 AM | 2117 MERF | Thomas Smithgall | Univeristy of Pittsburgh, Dept. Molec. Genetics & Biochemistry | HIV Accessory Proteins as Targets for Anti-Retroviral Drug Discovery | |
| 4/17/08 10:30 AM | 2117 MERF | Tomomi Kuwana | University of Iowa, Dept. Pathology | Investigation on Mitochondrial Outer Membrane Permeabilization (MOMP) in Apoptosis | Khademi |
| 4/24/08 10:30 AM | 2189 MERF | Lillian Chong | University of Pittsburgh, Dept. Chemistry | Atomistic Simulations of Natively Unfolded Proteins | Elcock |
| 4/30/08 1:20 PM | 5-669 BSB | Lata Biochemistry Undergraduate Honors Symposium | University of Iowa, Dept. Biochemistry | ||
| 5/1/08 10:30 AM | 283 EMRB | Michael Cole | Dartmouth, Norris Cotton Cancer Ctr | MYC and Cancer: Transcription, Translation, and Wnt | Price |
| 5/8/08 10:30 AM | 2189 MERF | Carol Deutsch | University of Pennsylvania, Dept. Physiology | Kv Channels and the Ribosome: Tunnel Vision | Elcock |
| Date & Time | Location | Visitor | University | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/31/06 | Qiang Cui | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Long-range Proton Transfers in Biomolecules: an alternative to the Grotthuss mechanism? | Elcock | |
| 9/14/06 | Montgomery Honorary Symposium | University of Iowa, Biochemistry Dept. | |||
| 9/21/06 | David Levens | NIH | How the c-myc Promoter Works: the role of dynamic supercoiling in realtime feedback | Price | |
| 9/28/06 | David Sept | Washington University | Molecular Mechanism and Allosteric Effects of Microtubule Drugs | Elcock | |
| 10/12/06 | Mary Ann Osley | University of New Mexico | Histone Ubiquitylation and Transcription | Wallrath | |
| 10/19/06 | Peter Mohler | Univ. Iowa, Dept. Internal Medicine | Dysfunction in Ankyrin-based Pathway for Ion Channel and Transporter Targeting and Human Arrhythmia | DeMali | |
| 10/26/06 | Bruce Goode == CANCELLED | Brandeis University | Actin Machines and the Dynamic Remodeling of Cell Architecture | Rubenstein | |
| 11/2/06 | Peter Flynn | University of Utah | A New Paradigm for Studies of Encapsulated Proteins | Fuentes | |
| 11/9/06 | John Rosazza | Univ. Iowa, College of Pharmacy | Reductions of Carboxylic Acids by Aldehyde Oxidoreductase Requires a Phosphopanthetheinylated Enzyme | Rubenstein | |
| 11/16/06 | Michelle Barton | MD Anderson Cancer Center | p53 Meets TGF-beta in Chromatin Modification | Wallrath | |
| 11/30/06 | Michael Shogren-Knaak (location: 2189 MERF) | Iowa State University | Elucidating the Effects of Histone Modifications on Higher-Order Chromatin Structure | Wallrath | |
| 12/7/06 | Phoebe Rice | University of Chicago | Sin and Flp: Structural biochemistry of two very different site-specific DNA recombinases | Ramaswamy | |
| 12/14/06 | Bryan Allen (PhD Thesis Seminar) | Univ. Iowa, Biochemistry Dept. | The Role of XNkx2 in Xenopus Cardiac Development | Weeks | |
| 1/18/07 | Anne Dickson (PhD Thesis Seminar | Univ. Iowa, Biochemistry Dept. | RPA32-DNA Interactions are not Essential for Growth and Viability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Wold | |
| 1/25/07 | Brian Kay | University of Illinois, Chicago | Designer Peptide and Protein Afficnity Reagents | Fuentes | |
| 1/30/07 | George Giudice | Medical College of Wisconsin | The Role of Type XVII Collagen in Autoimmune and Inherited Diseases of the Skin | Donelson | |
| 2/1/07 | Darryl Granner (Carl Vestling Lecture) | Vanderbilt University | Inhibition of PEPCK Gene Transcription by Insulin: An epigenetic effect? | Donelson | |
| 2/8/07 | Karen Allen | Boston University | Phosphoryl Transfer in the Haloalkanoic Acid Superfamily | Ramaswamy | |
| 2/20/07 | Huiying Li | UCLA | From Genome to Gene Expression: Understanding Protein Interactions and Host-Pathogen Interactions | Donelson | |
| 2/27/07 | Vitali Tugarinov | University of Toronto | Methyl Isotopomers as Sensitive NMR Probes of Protein Structure and Dynamics | Rubenstein | |
| 3/1/07 | Brian Volkman | Medical College of Wisconsin | Sulfotyrosine Recognition and Protein Folding in Chemokine Signaling | Ramaswamy | |
| 3/8/07 | Brian Van Ness | University of Minnesota | Genomic Profiling Cancer Risk, Disease Progression and Response | Rubenstein | |
| 3/13/07 | Adrian Hegeman | University of Wisconsin | Expanding Metabolic Labeling for the Quantitative Proteomic Characterization of Mo | Donelson | |
| 3/20/07 | Thomas Leeper | University of Washington | NMR Structures of Essential Components of the Human Telomerase RNA | Donelson | |
| 3/22/07 | R. Dyche Mullins (Co-sponsored with Mol. & Cell. Biology) | University of California, San Francisco | The Secret Life of Actin | Rubenstein | |
| 3/27/07 | Charles Galea | St. Judes Hospital | The Role of Protein Dynamics in Biological Processes: Insights from NMR and Proteomics | Donelson | |
| 3/29/07 | Laskshmanan K. Iyer | Tufts University | From Omics Datamining to the Discovery of Novel Cancer Targeting Agents | Ramaswamy | |
| 4/5/07 | Jared Helm (PhD Thesis Seminar | Univ. Iowa, Biochemistry Dept. | Differential Regulation of the MSP (GP63) Genes in African Trypanosomes | Donelson | |
| 4/10/07 | Yingming Zhao | UT Southwestern Medical Center | Proteomics Tools for Systems Biology of Protein Modifications | Donelson | |
| 4/12/07 | Frank Conlon | University of North Carolina | Pathways of Survival and Proliferation of Cardiac Progenitors | Weeks | |
| 4/13/07 | Haining Zhu | University of Kentucky | Proteomic, Biochemical and Functional Studies of Neurodegenerative Disease ALS | Donelson | |
| 4/26/07 | Kevin Gardner | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Ctr | PAS Domains: A versatile way to build a biological switch | Fuentes | |
| 5/3/07 | J. Patrick Loria | Yale University | Biophysical Characterization of Functional Enzyme Motions | Fuentes | |
| 5/10/07 | Paul Schedl (location: Kelch Conf. Rm, CBRB) | Princeton University | Boundary Elements and the Formation of Regulatory Domains | Donelson |
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