Past Events

There are many events that happen on and near campus that interest members of the CMB community. Here is a list of activities that may interest you.

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Date	Speaker	Title	Location	Seminar Series
5/14/2013	Mr. Mel Symeonides	TBA	Davis Auditorium	CMB Student
5/7/2013	Mr. Luther Pollard	TBA	Davis Auditorium	CMB
5/1/2013	Dr. Dao Nguyen	Antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Davis Auditorium	MMG
4/30/2013	Kenneth Smith	TBA	Davis Auditorium	CMB
4/17/2013	Dr. Rachel Dutton	Food for thought: Cheese as a model microbial ecosystem	Davis Auditorium	MMG
4/16/2013	Dr. Alan Howe	What are the three biggest unanswered questions in our/your field?	Davis Auditorium	CMB
4/10/2013	Dr. Benjamin Morin	Functional and structural studies of negative-strand RNA viruses L polymerases	HSRF 400	MMG
4/9/2013	Ms. Yao Li	TBA	Davis Auditorium	CMB
4/2/2013	Wendy Cannan	TBA	Davis Auditorium	CMB
3/27/2013	Dr. Laurie Comstock	Interactions between bacterial members of the colonic microbiota	Davis Auditorium	MMG
3/26/2013	Mr. Todd Cramer	TBA	Davis Auditorium	CMB
3/19/2013	Mr. Vivekanand Sharma	An in silico approach to identifying potential phyto-therapies	Davis Auditorium	CMB
3/12/2013	Mr. Chris Ziegler	Z & Company: The Role of Cellular Proteins in the Function of the Arenavirus Matrix Protein Z	Davis Auditorium	CMB
2/26/2013	Dr. Darcy Wagner	Mechanotransduction: Making the Stretch Towards Ex Vivo Lung Tissue Regeneration	Davis Auditorium	CMB
2/22/2013	Ms. Jill Jemison	"Millennials, technology and teaching opportunities"	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry
2/19/2013	Dr. Alan Howe	Scientific vs Lay Presentations; talking to the public about your science	Davis Auditorium	CMB
2/13/2013	Dr. Mark Nelson	Elementary Ca2+ signals through endothelial TRPV4 channels regulate vascular function	HSRF 400	MMG
2/12/2013	Dr. Robert Hondal	The Selenium Paradox: The Chemical Basis for the Use of Selenocysteine in Enzymes	Davis Auditorium	CMB
2/6/2013	Dr. Robert Desalle	CANCELLED	Davis Auditorium	MMG
2/5/2013	Dr. Elizabeth Yeh	Targeting a Novel AMPK-related Protein Kinase in Breast Cancer	Davis Auditorium	CMB
1/30/2013	Dr. Jeffrey Spees	Priming with ligands secreted by human stromal progenitors (p75MSCs) promotes grafts of cardiac stem cells after myocardial infarction	HSRF 300	MMG
1/29/2013	Mr. James Nolin	Redox-based control of inflammatory signaling in airway epithelial cells	Davis Auditorium	CMB Student
1/22/2013	Brian Cunniff	Mitochondrial Architecture, Oxidant Production, and Redox Signaling in Malignant Mesothelioma Cells	Davis Auditorium	CMB Student
1/16/2013	Dr. Vincent Racaniello	Antagonism of innate immunity by picornaviruses	HSRF 400	MMG
1/15/2013	Mr. Andrew McKenzie	“Mechano-Regulation of leading edge PKA activity during ovarian cancer cell migration	Davis Auditorium	CMB
12/12/2012	Dr. Bryce Nickels	NanoRNAs: a new class of regulatory small RNAs	Stafford Hall 101	MMG
12/11/2012	Ms. Kelly Fimlaid	A novel bifurcated pathway regulates sporulation in Clostridium difficile	Davis Auditorium	CMB
11/28/2012	Dr. Simon Dove	Essential transcription regulators in Pseudomonas and Francisella	Stafford Hall 101	MMG
11/27/2012	Dr. Alan Howe	Blogging in Science: Peer Review vs. Field Review	Davis Auditorium	CMB
11/14/2012	Dr. Anthony Sinai	Autophagy in Toxoplasma gondii: a matter of life and death	Stafford Hall 101	MMG
11/13/2012	Mr. Christian Jordan	DNA Repair, Replication, and Recombination in Bacteriophage T4	Davis Auditorium	CMB Student
11/7/2012	Dr. Heran Darwin	Breaking TB: Pup, proteasomes and pathogenesis	Stafford Hall 101	MMG
11/6/2012	Ms. Jamie Meadows	P. aeruginosa metabolism and regulation of carnitine and its derivatives	Davis Auditorium	CMB
10/31/2012	Dr. Scarlet Shell	Sculpting the transcriptome of a pathogen: from DNA methylation to mRNA processing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Stafford Hall 101	MMG
10/30/2012	Adam Sateriale	Gene regulation in phagocytic Entamoeba histolytica	Davis Auditorium	CMB Student
10/24/2012	Dr. Christopher Lima	Structure and activities of the eukaryotic RNA exosome	Stafford Hall 101	MMG
10/23/2012	Ms. Jamie Abbott	"An Evaluation of Antipsychotic Drugs as Treatment options for Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder"	Given C443	Biochemistry Student
10/23/2012	Dr. Alan Howe	Going paperless – Electronic lab notebooks (ELNs)	Davis Auditorium	CMB
10/17/2012	Dr. Jeffrey Wilusz	CANCELED	Stafford Hall 101	MMG
10/16/2012	Dr. Phan Thai Saligrama	IL-15 maintains T cell survival via inhibition of caspase-3-mediated T cell apoptosis	Davis Auditorium	CMB Student
10/10/2012	Dr. Daniel Schoenberg	Cytoplasmic capping: A new post-transcriptional mechanism with impacts on translation, mRNA stability and the complexity of the proteome	Stafford Hall 101	MMG
10/9/2012	Joe Klaus	Molecular Insight into the Cellular Biology of Arenaviruses	Davis Auditorium	CMB Student
10/3/2012	Dr. Michael Terns	Small RNA-Guided Immune Systems in Prokaryotes	Stafford Hall 101	MMG
10/2/2012	Dr. Emily Larson	New insights for the role of cell wall structure in regulating root hair cell shape and growth	Davis Auditorium	CMB Student
9/25/2012	Dr. Alan Howe	Seminar tips, tricks, and advice	Davis Auditorium	CMB
9/11/2012		CMB Faculty Meeting	Med Ed 200	CMB
9/7/2012	Dr. Steve Holland	Molecular Genetics of the Host and the Pathogen	Davis Auditorium	CMB
8/21/2012	Ms. Sarah Abdalla	Masters Defense: Identification of the Regions in Factor V Mediating its Endocytosis by Megakaryocytes to Form the Unique Platelet-derived Cofactor Molecule	Given C443	Biochemistry Student
8/13/2012	Minmin Liu	DEFENSE NOTICE: Structure and Substrate Specificity of a Mouse NEIL3 Ortholog	101 Stafford	MMG Student
8/10/2012	Pamela Lescault	DEFENSE NOTICE: Analyzing sources of expression profile variation associated with a multidisciplinary clinical process: How does intratumor variation affect identification of neuroblastoma therapies? Can we obtain profiles from cancer cells dilute in bone marrow?	Davis Auditorium	MMG
8/1/2012	Wendy Cannan	Everything you wanted to know about XRCC1 and Ligase IIIalpha, and then some	101 Stafford	MMG Student
8/1/2012	Todd Cramer	Control of Candida albicans biofilms on medical equipment	101 Stafford	MMG Student
7/25/2012	Lucas Tilley	Identification of Toxoplasma gondii cGMP-dependent protein kinase (TgPKG) substrates	101 Stafford	MMG Student
7/25/2012	Changjiang Yu	Recruitment of chromatin modifiers during BER	101 Stafford	MMG Student
7/18/2012	Adam Nock	Choline Metabolism and its Relevance in Burkholderia	101 Stafford	MMG Student
7/18/2012	Jia Zhou	DNA glycosylase Neil3 may function in repairing oxidative base damage in telomeres	101 Stafford	MMG Student
7/11/2012	Kovi Bessoff	Novel candidates for the treatment of cryptosporidium using high throughput methods	101 Stafford	MMG
7/11/2012	Annette LaBauve	Host detection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa: response to sphingosine	101 Stafford	MMG Student
6/27/2012	Jenna Foderaro	Small-Molecule Target Identification in Apicomplexan Parasites	Stafford Hall 101	MMG Student
6/27/2012	Kenneth Smith	The Secretome of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans	Stafford Hall 101	MMG Student
6/19/2012	Dr. Maria Cristina Bravo	Understanding the Complexity of the Protein C Pathway		CMB Student
6/19/2012	Dr. Maria Cristina Bravo	Doctoral Defense: Understanding the Complexity of the Protein C Pathway	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry
6/5/2012	Mr. Naresha Saligrama	Role of Histamine Receptors in Central Nervous System Autoimmune Disease		CMB Student
5/31/2012	Ms. Laura Haynes	Doctoral Defense: The Role of Flow in Regulating the Prothrombinase Complex	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
5/16/2012	Dr. Andrew Goodman	New tools for exploring the human gut microbiome	101 Stafford Hall	MMG
5/9/2012	Dr. Dimitry Krementsov	Unraveling the immune mechanisms of multiple sclerosis using animal models: a tale of two kinases	101 Stafford Hall	MMG
5/8/2012	Ms. Rebecca Martin			CMB Student
5/4/2012	Dr. Peter Ward	Being Rescheduled to Another Date	Rowell Room 103	Biochemistry
5/2/2012	Ms. Amy Branagan	Doctoral Defense: Mechanisms of Helicase Loading and Coordination of DNA Replication by Bacteriophage T4 Gp59 protein	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
5/2/2012	Dr. Hera Vlamakis	Regulation of cell fate in biofilms by extracellular signals	101 Stafford Hall	MMG
5/1/2012	Mr. Chase Haven	Disorder in Disorders: Exploring the involvement of IDPs in Cancer	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
4/27/2012	Dr. Matthew Liptak	Spectroscopic Investigations of Metalloprotein Function	Given C443	Biochemistry
4/24/2012	Brian Cunniff	TBA		CMB Student
4/24/2012	Ms. Laura Haynes	Single-Molecule Approaches to Studying the Structure of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
4/20/2012	Dr. Frances Carr	Understanding Thyroid Homeostasis; Impact of Environmental Toxins	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry
4/18/2012	Dr. Bryan Ballif	Braking While Accelerating: Identifying Novel Mechanisms of Negative Feedback in Ras-MAPK Signaling	101 Stafford Hall	MMG
4/17/2012	Mr. Gregg Snider	Regulation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: A Genomic and Proteomic Perspective	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
4/13/2012	Dr. Scott Morrical	Homologous Recombination, DNA Repair, and Cancer	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry
4/11/2012	Dr. Janet Lindow	Vaccines and T cells: a search for a correlate of protection for dengue fever	101 Stafford Hall	MMG
4/10/2012	Dr. Andrew Menke	TBA		CMB Student
4/10/2012	Ms. Brittany Todd	Alpha-Synuclein: An Extensively Studied & Intrinsically Disordered Protein Chameleon	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
4/4/2012	Dr. Gary Ward	Invade and conquer: An intracellular parasite’s ingenious tactics of stealth and subterfuge	Memorial Lounge, Waterman	MMG
4/3/2012	Ms. Jacqueline Gertz	De Novo Prediction of Intrinsic Disorder Within Proteins	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
4/3/2012	Leah Novinger	TBA		CMB Student
3/30/2012	Dr. Alan Mast	Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor Deficiency in Murine Models of Thrombosis and Hemostasis	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry
3/28/2012	Dr. Brent Berwin	A Few Poynters on the Immune Response to Bacterial Motility: Can This Make the WarGo Better Against Infection?	101 Stafford Hall	MMG
3/27/2012	Ms. Jamie Abbott	Functional Disorder: A Biological Role for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Fuzzy Complexes	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
3/27/2012	Ms. Krithika Rao	TBS		CMB Student
3/21/2012	Dr. Daniel Zenklusen	OEDissecting Gene Expression Regulation in yeast One Molecule at a Time	101 Stafford Hall	MMG
3/20/2012	Ms. Laura Haynes	Exploring Intrinsically Disordered Proteins with Infrared Spectroscopy	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
3/16/2012	Ms. Susan Robey-Bond	Ushering in a New Player: A Histidyl-tRNA Synthetase Mutation is Associated with an Usher-like Syndrome	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry
3/13/2012	Ms. Amy Rumora	Functional Regulation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs) by Post-Translational Modification	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
2/29/2012	Dr. Alan Howe	Protein Kinase A in Cell Migration: The Tension Mounts	Stafford 101	MMG
2/28/2012	Mr. Adam Mirando	Patterns of Disorder: Sequence Characteristics of Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
2/24/2012	Dr. Alisa Wolberg	Hypercoagulability in a Complex World	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry
2/21/2012	Ms. Lauren Ferris	Moonlighting and Janus Proteins: Biological Roles of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
2/15/2012	Dr. Nicholas Heintz	Redox-dependent mitochondrial targets in cancer therapy	Stafford Hall 101	MMG
2/14/2012	Mr. Francis Ayombil	Functional Distribution of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
2/10/2012	Dr. Dave Schneider	Amplification of Platelet Activation by FcGammaRIIa	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry
2/8/2012	Dr. Jason Stumpff	Spatial control of mitotic chromosome movements	Stafford Hall 101	MMG
1/27/2012	Dr. Robert Jinks	Personalized Genomic Medicine in the Cornfields of Pennsylvania	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry
1/25/2012	Dr. Ralph Budd	Caspase Regulation in Immune Function: the FLIP Side	Stafford Hall 101	MMG
1/20/2012	Ms. Ashley Steere	Doctoral Defense: Intermolecular Interactions between Human Serum Transferrin and the Transferrin Receptor that Mediate pH-Induced Iron Release	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
1/18/2012	Dr. Mary Tierney	Signals from the outside-in: new insights on ECM control of cell growth	Stafford Hall 101	MMG
12/15/2011	Dr. Eric Cohen	Novel Insights into HIV-1-host cell interactions governing viral replication and transmission	HSRF 400	MMG
12/8/2011	Mr. Adam Lothrop	Doctoral Defense: The Mechano-Enzymatic Function of Selenocysteine in Thioredoxin Reductases	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry Student
12/7/2011	Dr. Jie Xiao	Noise in Gene Regulation	Stafford 101	MMG
12/2/2011	Dr. Michael Trakselis	Protein Complex Assemblies and Activities at the Replication Fork	Given C443 Classroom	Biochemistry
11/30/2011	Dr. Craig Ellermeier	Activation of ECF sigma factors in response to cell envelope stress in Bacillus subtilis and Clostridium difficile	Stafford 101	MMG