January 30 | Michael Groll, University of Munich, “Molecular machines for protein degradation: a Structural Approach” (Time and place changed to 11:00 AM in the Marker Lecture Room of Chemistry and Biochemistry) |
February 6 | |
February 13 | Professor Reed B. Wickner, National Institute of Health, "Yeast Prions: Prion Domain Shuffling and Transfection with Recombinant Ure2p" |
February 20 | Professor John T. Fourkas, UMCP, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,“Making Things with Light” |
February 27 | Professor Olga Boudker, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, “Glutamate Transporter Structure and the Mechanism of Coupling Ion Gradients to substrate Translocation” |
March 6 |
William A. Eaton, Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, ”The Incredible Kinetics of Sickle Hemoglobin Ploymerization” |
March 13 | Professor Brian Matthews, University of Oregon, Institute of Molecular Biology, “Tolerance and Intolerance in Protein Structure and Function” |
March 20 | SPRING BREAK |
March 27 |
Professor John F. Nagle, Professor of Physics and Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, “STRUCTURE OF BIOMEMBRANES: Challenges for Experiment and Theory” |
April 3 | Professor Marilyn Gunner, City College of New York, Physic Department, “The Role of Buried Charged Groups in Proteins” |
April 10 | Dr. George Stan, National Institute of Health, “Biological Nanomachines at Work: Chaperonin-mediated Protein Folding” |
April 17 | Professor David Fushman, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park,"Structure, Ligand Binding, and Conformational Dynamics in Polyubiquitin Chains" |
April 24 | Professor Victor Munoz, University of Maryland, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, "Protein Folding: Living in a World with Small Barriers" |
May 1 | Professor William E. Bentley, Center for Biosystems Research, UMBI, “Engineering the Interface: Embedding “bio” into Devices” |
May 8 |