Spring 2008 Departmental Seminars

All seminars are held in room 128A Polk Hall at 4:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Date Title and Speaker Host
Jan. 10 Photochemical Regulation of Biological Processes
Alex Dieters
NCSU Chemistry		 Dr. Brown
Jan. 17 Modeling Unfolded States of Proteins: Application to Collagen and Tau Protein
Collin Stultz
MIT		 Dr. Mattos
Jan. 24 The remarkable worldwide emergence of whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses (begomoviruses): Lessons learned from West Africa
Bob Gilbertson
UC  Davis		 Tara Nash
Jan. 31 Multiple functions of rRNA methyltransferases in ribosomal biogenesis
Jason Rife
VCU		 Dr. Maxwell
Feb. 7 Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria
Bonnie Bassler
Princeton (MATRONE)**		 Dr. Cavanagh
Feb. 14 Targeted Metabolomics for Understanding Mechanisms of Chronic Metabolic Disorders
Deborah Muoio
Duke		 Helen Rho
Feb. 21 SGLT2 Inhibitors for Treatment of Diabetes: From Benchtop to Bedside
Chari Smith
Glaxo Smith Kline		 Sarah MacKenzie
Feb. 28 DHNTPase: a Nudix Hydrolase is the missing step of folate biosynthesis
Sandra Gabelli
Johns Hopkins		 Sue Fetics
Mar. 6 Spring Break - No Classes
Mar. 13 Mass Spectrometry: A Flexible Tool for Drug Discovery
Jon Williams
Glaxo Smith Kline 		Erik Soderblom
Mar. 20 Title Pending
David MacAlpine
Duke		 Dr. Hanley-Bowdoin
Mar. 27 A Multifunctional Activator Protein in Vertebrates Stimulates Transcription of Both Small RNA Genes and Protein-Coding Genes
Gary Kunkel
Texas A&M		 Dr. Clark
Apr. 3 Canceled  
Apr. 10 Understanding Proteolytic Function through Protein Redesign
Teaster Baird
SFSU		 Dr. Mattos
Apr. 14 A Life in Science
Dr. Peter Doherty
**5:00pm in Room 2215 Williams Hall		  
Apr. 17 Interaction of alphaviruses with tissue cultured cells
Gongbo Wang
NCSU		 Dr. Brown
Apr. 24 Collision-induced dissociative chemical crosslinking reagents: applications to protein structural characterization using mass spectrometry
Erik Soderblom
NCSU		 Dr. Goshe

*** NOTE:  The MATRONE lecture will be in Dabney 222 at 5:00 pm