Past Seminars
Seminar Series Dates 1999 - 2008
March 3, 2008
CNS control of energy homeostasis by nutrient and endocrine signals
Presented by: Michael Wolfgang, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Hosted by: Rich Cross
February 28, 2008
Crystallographic Investigations of Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Complex II and Complex III
Presented by: Edward Berry, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Hosted by: Rich Cross
February 14, 2008
Functional Regulation of Telomeres by Telomerase and Telomeric Proteins
Presented by: Lifeng Xu, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Hosted by: Rich Cross
February 11, 2008
Lipid Signal Regulation of Membrane Trafficking and Oncogenesis
Presented by: Guangwei Du, PhD, SUNY Stony Brook
Hosted by: Rich Cross
February 4, 2008
The Lowe Syndrome Protein OCRL in Early Steps of the Endocytic Pathway
Presented by: Yuxin Mao, PhD, Yale University
Hosted by: Rich Cross
January 31, 2008
Structural Insights in DNA replication
Presented by: Scott Bailey, PhD, Yale University
Hosted by: Rich Cross
January 24, 2008
Insights into mRNA-tRNA translocation from cryo-EM reconstructions of the 80S ribosome
Presented by: Derek Taylor, PhD, The Wadsworth Center
Hosted by: Rich Cross
January 17, 2008
Chromatin-Remodeling and Epigenetics Assist Circadian Clock-Regulated Gene Expression
Presented by: William Belden, PhD, Dartmouth Medical School
Hosted by: Rich Cross
January 7, 2008
Nucleating branched filaments: structural, biochemical and computational insights into actin and Arp2/3 complex
Presented by: Brad Nolen, PhD, Yale University
Hosted by: Rich Cross
January 3, 2008
The phosphatase laforin crosses evolutionary boundaries and links 'plant starch' to neurodegeneration
Presented by: Matthew Gentry, PhD, University of California, San Diego
Hosted by: Rich Cross
November 19, 2007
Dr. Hurley - Visiting Professor in Ophthalmology
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox/Dr. Bob Barlow
October 22, 2007
Design and Discovery of D-peptide Inhibitors of HIV Entry
Presented by: Michael S. Kay, University of Utah
Hosted by: Dr. Stewart Loh
October 1, 2007
Single-molecule biophysics with a protein nanopore
Presented by: Liviu Movileanu, Syracuse University
Hosted by: Dr. Stewart Loh
September 24, 2007
Visiting Professor in Ophthalmology
Hosted by: Bob Barlow
March 8, 2007
Gila Monster Peptides, Gut Hormones and The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus
Presented
by: George Holz, PhD, Departments of Physiology and Neuroscience and Pharmacology, New York University
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
February 12, 2007
Termination of transcription of RNA polymerase II
Presented by: Minkyu Kim, PhD, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
February 5, 2007
Assembly and disassembly of individual RecA nucleoprotein filaments
Presented
by: Roberto Galletto, Department of Microbiology, University of California, Davis
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
January 29, 2007
Emerging roles of titin as a mechano-sensitive scaffold that mediates adaptive signaling in muscle
Presented by: Olga Mayans, Division of Structural Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
January 22, 2007
Mechanism of DNA damage recognition by a checkpoint mediator protein
Presented by: Li-Lin Du, PhD, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
January 16, 2007
How hexameric DNA helicases work - Insights from how a viral helicase is assembled
Presented by: Arne Stenlund, Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
January 11, 2007
Regulation of membrane biogenesis by the endoplasmic reticulum
Presented by: Stephen Jesch, PhD, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
January 8, 2007
Changing the Code: How Chromatin Structure Modulates Protein-Genome Interactions
Presented by: Michael Buck, PhD, Department of Biology and Center for Genome Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
January 4, 2007
From genome to gene expression: Understanding protein interactions and host-pathogen interactions
Presented by: Huiying Li, PhD, UCLA/DOE Institute for Genomics and Preteomics, UCLA
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
December 15, 2006
Biochemical and Genetic Analysis Provide Insight into the Structural and Mechanistic Properties of Actin Filament Disassembly by the Aip1p-Cofilin Complex
Presented by: Michael Clark, Research Project Assistant in the Amberg Lab at SUNY Upstate Medical University.
Thesis Defense Seminar
December 14, 2006
Mechanisms of mitochondial degeneration, aging and aging-related degenerative diseases
Presented by: Xin Jie Chen, PhD, Department of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
December 11, 2006
Structural Insights into the Mechanism and Specificity of Rab GTPase Regulated Membrane Trafficking
Presented by: Sudharshan Eathiraj, PhD, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
November 13, 2006
Interkinetic Nuclear Migration and Retinogenesis
Presented by: Brian Link, PhD, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
November 6, 2006
Exploring Saccharomyces cerevisiae membrane proteome
Presented by: Joy Kim, PhD, Center for Biomembrane Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
June 28, 2004
Regulation of Actin Dynamics and Cell Motility by a Novel Protein Signaling Complex
Presented by: Dr. Ira Herman, Tufts University School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. David Amberg
June 14, 2004
Directed Differentiation of ES Cells to the Neural Lineages
Presented by: Dr Joy Rathjen, University of Adelaide, Australia
Hosted by: Dr. David Gilbert
May 10, 2004
Three Blind Mice: Glucose and Retinal Degeneration
Presented by: Dr. Robert Barlow, Center for Vision Research, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
May 6, 2004
Life in Boiling Water in the Early History of Life: How Archaea Synthesize ATP
Presented by: Dr. Volker Mueller
Hosted by: Dr. Richard Cross
May 3, 2004
The Role of the Kinetochore in the Spindle Checkpoint
Presented by: Dr. Dan Burke, University of Virginia Medical School
Hosted by: Dr. David Amberg
April 26, 2004
Subunit Architecture of the Vacuolar ATPase by Electron Microscopy
Presented by: Dr. Stephan Wilkens, Department of Biochemistry, U.C. Riverside
Hosted by: Dr. Patricia Kane
April 5, 2004
The Crystal Structure of an RNA Editing Deaminase From Yeast Provides Insight into the Fold and Function of AID and APOBEC-1
Presented by: Dr. Joe Wedikind, University of Rochester
Hosted by: Dr. Stewart Loh
May 19, 2003:
DNA replication, checkpoints and genome stability: Lessons from budding yeast
Presented by: Dr. John F.X. Diffley, The Cancer Research UK London Research Institute
Hosted by: Dr. David Gilbert
October 28, 2002:
Presented by: Dr. Alex Hodel, Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Mark Schmitt
September 23, 2002:
Transcription of Chromatin in Living Cells
Presented by: Dr. Hiroshi Kimura, Tokyo Medican and Dental University
Hosted by: Dr. David Gilbert
June 17, 2002:
Dephosphorylation and Signal Transduction in Bacterial Chemotaxis
Presented by: Dr. Robert Bourett
Hosted by: Dr. Shahid Khan
June 3, 2002:
The Mitotic Regulator Securin: Can't Separate with it, Can't Separate Without it.
Presented by: Dr. Orna Cohen-Fix, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, NIDDK, National Institute of Health
Hosted by: Dr. David Amberg
May 20, 2002:
The Ins and Outs of Nucleus/Cytosol Exchange and Nucleus Structure: Insights From Genetic Studies in Yeast
Presented by: Dr. Anita K. Hopper, Penn State University, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Hosted by: Dr. Winston Shen
May 6, 2002:
Regulation of DNA damage inducible genes by TFIID-dependent changes in chromatin structure
Presented by: Dr. Joseph C. Reese, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University
Hosted by: Dr. Winston Shen
March 25, 2002:
Molecular Timekeeping in the Xenopus Retina
Presented by: Dr Carla Green, Department of Biology, University of Virginia
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
March 11, 2002:
Membrane Ion Transporters and Human Cytomegalovirus: A Large Problem
Presented by: Dr John Russell, Biology Department Chairman, Syracuse University
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
February 25, 2002:
Monitoring Cell Shape to Control the Cell Cycle
Presented by: Dr Daniel Lew, Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Duke University Medical Center
Hosted by: Dr. David Amberg
February 11, 2002:
Genetic Defects in the Retinal Pigment Epithelium in Retinal Degeneration
Presented by: Dr Debra Thompson, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
January 28, 2002:
Bipolar Frogs: Lithium and Wnt Signaling in Xenopus Embryos
Presented by: Dr Peter S. Klein, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
January 14, 2002:
A new role for the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein in regulating the response to DNA damage during S-phase
Presented by: Dr Erick Knudsen of the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. David Gilbert
December 17, 2001:
Biological Solar Energy Storage Without Chlorophyll: Newfound Importance of a Vitamin-A-Based Mechanism in Today's Oceans and in Life's Evolutionary History
Presented by: Dr Mark Braiman, Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
December 3, 2001:
Presented by: Dr Andrew Dingwall, Department of Biology, Syracuse University
Hosted by: Dr. Robert West
September 24, 2001:
Chaperonin and Proteosome Structures analyzed by Cryo-EM
Presented by: Dr Edward Gogol of School of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Missouri
Hosted by: Dr. Shahid Khan
September 10, 2001:
The Creatine Kinase System for Cellular Bioenergetics
Presented by: Dr. Theo Wallimann of ETH Zurich
Hosted by: Dr. David Turner
May 21, 2001:
Nucleoporins involved in gating the nuclear pore complex translocation channel
Presented by: David S. Goldfarb, University of Rochester
Hosted by: Dr. Bob West
April 9, 2001:
Presented by: Johannes Walter, Havard Medical School
Hosted by: Dr. David Gilbert
March 26, 2001:
Molecular Biology of Color Vision
Presented by: Jeremy Nathans, MD, PhD. John's Hopkins
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
November 6, 2000:
Mammalian chromodomain proteins
Presented by: Prim Singh, PhD. Division of Gene Expression and Development Roslin Institute
Hosted by: Dr. David Gilbert
June 22, 2000:
Dymanics of the Yeast Vacoule: Fusion, Fission and Invagination
Presented by: Andreas Mayer, PhD Friedrich-Miescher Laboratory Max Planck Institute Tubingen, Germany
Hosted by: Dr. Patricia M. Kane
June 12, 2000:
The Role of RNase MRP in Cell Cycle Pregression (A PhD. Defense Seminar)
Presented by: Dr. Ti Cai
May 8, 2000:
Recombination Mediated Cassette Exchange To Analyze the Function of the Human B-globin Locus Control Region
Presented by: Steven Fiering, from Dartmouth University
Hosted by: Dr. David Gilbert
December 6, 1999:
Applications of New Mass Spectral Approaches to Biology and Medicine
Presented by: Dr. Catherine Costello Boston University Medical School Hosted by: Dr. B.N. Singh & Dr. J.J. Lucas
November 22, 1999:
Role of Helical Stalk Elements in Energy Coupling by the Plasma Membrane Proton Pump from Yeast
Presented by: David Perlin Scientific Director Public Health Research Institute
Hosted by: Dr. Richard Cross
September 27, 1999:
The Primary Event of Visual Opsins (Dissertation Seminar)
Presented by: Bryan W. Vought, from The Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University
Hosted by: Dr. Barry Knox
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