Seminar Schedule
* Speaker in the graduate seminar series
all seminars held at 12:45 pm in Stafford 101 unless otherwise noted

 Date
 Speaker
 Institution
 Seminar Title
 Host
12/02/09 Dr. Joel Kline* University of Iowa TBA Drs. Chris Huston & Beth Kirkpatrick



Other Recent Seminars
* Speaker in the graduate seminar series

 Date
 Speaker
 Institution
 Seminar Title
11/11/09 Dr. Eric Martens* University of Michigan Complex glycan metabolism by human distal gut Bacteroides
10/21/09 Dr. Marc-Jan Gubbels Boston College Cell division in Toxoplasma gondii: two buns in the oven
10/07/09 Dr. Rich Darveau* University of Washington Porphyromonas gingivalis LPS: interactions with innate host defense
09/30/09 Dr. Eric Pamer* Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Innate immune responses to bacterial infection
09/23/09 Dr. Deborah Hogan* Dartmouth College Communication and Competition: The roles of reactive oxygen species in bacterial-fungal interactions
09/16/09 Dr. Philip Hanawalt Stanford University Coordinating multiple mechanisms for genomic maintenance
04/29/09 Dr. Eugene Koonin* NIH Origin and evolution of viruses: Implications for cellular evolution
04/22/09 Dr. Daniel DiMaio Yale University From a viral oncogene to an artificial hormone
04/15/09 Dr. Jeanne Harris* University of Vermont Underground Architecture: coordinating root development with symbiotic nodule formation in legumes
04/08/09 Dr. Marilyn J. Roossinck* The Samual Roberts Noble Foundation Ecogenomics, Viral Ecology and Mutualism
03/25/09 Dr. J. Peter Googarten* University of Connecticut Phylogenetics in Light of Horizontal Gene Transfer
03/06/09 Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai* University of Wisconsin-Madison Forming a lasting partnership: The establishment and maintenance of the squid-vibrio symbiosis
12/03/08 Dr. Grace Spatafora Middlebury College Investigating SloR virulence gene metalloregulation in the oral cariogen, Streptococcus mutans
11/19/08 Dr. Gerard Bouffard University of Vermont/NIH Intramural Sequencing Center The Human Microbiome Project and Skin Microbiome Sequencing at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center
10/17/08 Dr. Sheila David University of California - Davis Recognition and Repair of Oxidized Guanines by BER Glycosylases: 8-Oxoguanine and Beyond
10/13/08 Dr. Pierre-Emmanuel Milhiet* Centre De Biochimie Structurale Single molecule analysis of DC9 dynamics and partitioning in living cells
09/10/08 Dr. Indra Neil Sarkar Marine Biological Laboratory Computational Methods for High-Throughput Phylogenomics
05/28/08 Dr. Alejandro D'Aquino Brandeis University DtxR (E175K): Can We Learn to Reduce Virulence in Diptheria and Tuberculosis?
04/30/08 Dr. Cynthia Burrows* University of Utah Beyond 8-OxoG: Chemistry and Biochemistry of Hydantoin Lesions in DNA
04/23/08 Dr. Tod Merkel Food and Drug Administration The Host Response to B. anthracis Infection
04/16/08 Dr. Rick Wood* University of Pittsburgh Specialized A and B family DNA polymerases in human cells
04/10/08 Dr. Rey Carabeo 11 AM, HSRF 400 Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Imperial College London Iron transport to the chlamydial inclusion
04/02/08 Dr. Tom Hollis Wake Forest Death and TREXes: nuclease function during cell death
03/26/08 Dr. Wei Yang* National Institutes of Health (NIH) Substrate recognition and catalytic specificity of RNase H and nucleic acid enzymes
03/20/08 Dr. Manuela Raffatellu University of California - Davis Tales from the gut: How Salmonella overcomes the mucosal barrier
03/05/08 Dr. Yolanda Sanchez* Dartmouth College Genome integrity via signaling networks: lessons from model organisms
02/27/08 Dr. Craig Martin* University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Workings of a Complex Molecular Machine: Structure and Function in Promoter Escape by T7 RNA Polymerase
02/06/08 Dr. Scot Wolfe* University of Massachusetts, Worcester Exploring & Engineering DNA-binding specificity using a bacterial one-hybrid system
12/05/07 Dr. Barbara Panning* University of California at San Francisco Epigenetic regulation in embryonic stem cells
11/28/07 Dr. Sasha Shafikhani University of California at San Francisco Pseudomonas aeruginosa & Host Cell Interactions (New insights into Pseudomonas pathogenesis & mammalian cell biology)
11/07/07 Dr. Jerry Workman* Stowers Institute for Medical Research Protein Complexes that Modify Chromatin for Transcription
10/31/07 Dr. John Panepinto University of Illinois A Role for Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation in Cryptococcus neoformans Pathogenesis: Analysis of a Deadenylase-Deficient Mutant
10/25/07 Dr. Jon Boyle Stanford University Toxoplasma population and molecular genetics: host response
10/24/07 Dr. Brian Hammer Princeton University Shedding light on Vibrio cholerae quorum sensing
10/17/07 Dr. Colby Zaph University of Pennsylvania Balancing immunity and inflammation in the gut
10/10/07 Dr. Jason Botten Scripps Institute Viral pathogenesis and immune response
10/05/07 Dr. Jason Whitmire Scripps Institute Regulation of T cell function & differentiation
09/26/07 Dr. Emma Wilson University of Pennsylvania Visualizing the immune response in the brain during Toxoplasma infection
09/12/07 Dr. Julian Lum University of Pennsylvania Autophagy controls a metabolic form of lymphocyte survival: A new approach to understanding host-immune responses
07/26/07 Dr. Joann Sweasy Yale University School of Medicine Cancer-Associated Mutants of DNA Polymerase Beta Have Functional Phenotypes
05/02/07 Dr. Michael Roth University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Bullets and Targets: High throughput Screening of Chemical Compound and Genomic siRNA Libraries
04/25/07 Dr. Marc-Jan Gubbels Boston College Genetic dissection of Toxoplasma gondii invasion and replication
04/18/07 Dr. Bruce Klein* University of Wisconsin Morphogenesis and mechanisms of pathogenicity in Blastomyces dermatitidis and related dimorphic fungi
04/11/07 Dr. Deborah Hogan* Dartmouth College Inhibition of a Candida albicans filamentation induction pathway by microbially secreted factors
04/04/07 Dr. Donald Sheppard* McGill University Sex, drugs and a fuzzy mold: Developmental control of virulence traits in Aspergillus fumigatus
03/28/07 Dr. Laurie Whittaker* University of Vermont The Pulmonary Immune Response to Fungal and Bacterial Products
03/21/07 Dr. Ralph Budd* University of Vermont Caspase in immune activation: the FLIP side
03/14/07 Dr. Amy Gladfelter* Dartmouth College Nuclear anarchy: Asynchronous mitosis in multinucleated fungal cells
03/07/07 Dr. Aaron Mitchell* Columbia University Genetic control of biofilm formation in Candida albicans
02/28/07 Dr. Theodore White* Seattle Biomedical Research Institute Antifungal Drug Resistance: Pumps and Permutations
02/21/07 Dr. Andrew Alspaugh* Duke University Morphogenesis and Pathogenesis in Cryptococcus neoformans
12/06/06 Dr. Barbara Mann University of Virginia Identification of Francisella tularenis Virulence Factors
11/29/06 Dr. Nicholas Heintz* University of Vermont, Dept. of Pathology Hyper-oxidation of peroxiredoxins: a new mechanism for coordinating responses to oxidative stress
11/15/06 Dr. Randall King* Harvard Medical School Dissecting the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System with Chemical Genetics and Mass Spectrometry
11/08/06 Dr. Elodie Ghedin* University of Pittsburgh Medical School Pandemic Watch: Tracking Flu Host Shifts and Virulence Using Genomic Tools
11/01/06 Dr. Alan Howe* University of Vermont, Dept. of Pharmacology Two Renaissance Painters, Protein Kinase A, and Cytoskeletal Dynamics - Everything in Context
10/24/06 Dr. Reed Wickner National Institutes of Health Yeast Prions: Biology and Structure
10/18/06 Dr. Matthew Bogyo* Stanford University Functional proteomic profiling of proteases: applications for cancer and malaria
10/11/06 Dr. Elizabeth Winzeler* Scripps Research Institute Genomics, systems biology, and malaria
10/04/06 Dr. William Sullivan* Indiana University Toxoplasma gondii differentiation: Hold on to your HATs
09/22/06 Dr. Nils Walter (Given C443) University of Michigan Single Ribozyme Molecules and Water - A Dynamic Relationship
09/20/06 Dr. Michel Desjardins* Universite de Montreal Exploitation of ER-mediated phagocytosis by Leishmania to invade neutrophils
06/09/06 Dr. Martin Horvath University of Utah Allosteric regulation of DNA-binding affinity at the ends of telomeres
05/24/06 Dr. Michael Hanna Intracel Active Specific Immunotherapy with Autologous Tumor Cell Vaccines for Stage II Colon Cancer: Logistics, Efficacy, Safety and Immunological Pharmacodynamics
04/19/06 Dr. Andrew Ellington* University of Texas at Austin Using RNA to Characterize Cell Surfaces
03/29/06 Dr. Joel Graber The Jackson Laboratory Eukaryotic 3' -processing signals: Variation, selection, and regulatory implications
03/22/06 Dr. Craig Hunter* Harvard University Genetic analysis of systemic RNAi in C. elegans: insights into intercellular trafficking of RNA
03/15/06 Dr. Eric Lai* Sloan-Kettering Institute Drosophila microRNAs: from genes to functions
03/09/06 Dr. Karen Allen Boston University How Does Nature Make New Enzymes?
03/08/06 Dr. Bonnie Bartel* Rice University Targets and Functions of Plant MicroRNAs
03/01/06 Dr. Wade Winkler* University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Control of mRNA stability by metabolite-sensing RNAs
02/22/06 Dr. Susan Lolle* Purdue University Evidence for non-Mendelian inheritance of ancestral sequence in plants
12/07/05 Dr. Kendall Knight* University of Massachusetts Medical School Cellular and Mechanistic Regulation of Human Rad51 Function
11/30/05 Dr. Kenneth Kreuzer Duke University Medical Center Replication fork failure and chemotherapeutic drug action
11/09/05 Dr. Beth Kirkpatrick University of Vermont Cryptosporidium and the Human Innate Immune Response
11/02/05 Dr. Lawrence L. Johnson Trudeau Institute B cells, antibodies and Toxoplasma gondii
10/05/05 Dr. Bennett van Houten* NIEHS Structure-function studies of bacterial nucleotide excision repair proteins: clues to DNA damage recognition and processing
09/28/05 Dr. James Haber* Brandeis University Checkpoint responses and repair of a broken chromosome
09/21/05 Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Heyer* University of California, Davis Rad54: The Swiss Army knife of recombination
07/18/05 Dr. Sanford Simon Rockefeller University Imaging the Dynamics of Molecules at the Surface of the Cell: Studies on Exo and Endocytosis
06/08/05 Dr. David Ott National Cancer Institute at Frederick HIV-1 assembly: Clues for How and Where
06/01/05 Dr. Karol Gryczynski University of Maryland School of Medicine Biomedical Applications of Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Nanotechnology Approach to Ultrasensitive Detection
05/04/05 Dr. Boris Striepen* University of Georgia Horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of parasites
04/27/05 Dr. Christopher Huston University of Vermont Understanding the Mechanism and Biology of Phagocytosis by the Human Pathogen Entamoeba histolytica
04/20/05 Dr. Alfred Goldberg* Harvard Medical School Functions of the Proteasome in Protein Degradation and Immune Surveillance
03/30/05 Dr. Alexei Kisselev* Dartmouth Medical School Why does proteasome have many active sites?
03/23/05 Dr. John Boothroyd* Stanford University Genome-wide Approaches to the Study of Development and Virulence in the AIDS Pathogen, Toxoplasma gondii
02/09/05 Dr. Joseph Wedekind University of Rochester 'You win some, you lose some': Insight into the hairpin ribozyme mechanism through structural analysis of suppressor and loss-of-function mutants
01/26/05 Dr. Kirk W. Deitsch* Weill Medical College of Cornell University Antigenic variation, gene silencing and the pathogenesis of malaria
12/08/04 Dr. Jeff Wilusz* Colorado State University How viral transcripts deal with the mRNA turnover machinery
12/01/04 Dr. Harold Martinson* University of California - Los Angeles The polymerase and the poly(A) signal: Conversations during transcription
11/17/04 Dr. Dan Schoenberg* Ohio State University Tyrosine phosphorylation of PMR1: A direct link between signal transduction and mRNA decay
10/20/04 Dr. David Price* University of Iowa RNA Polymerase II Elongation Control and Coupling of RNA Processing
10/13/04 Dr. Barbara Golden Purdue University Crystal Structure of an Active Group I Ribozyme-Product Complex
10/06/04 Dr. Sam Butcher* University of Wisconsin-Madison Structure and Function of Spliceosomal RNA
09/29/04 Dr. Clinton MacDonald* Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Testis-specific mRNA Polyadenylation
09/22/04 Dr. Junjie Chen* Mayo Clinic DNA Damage Checkpoints and Tumorigenesis
09/15/04 Dr. Brent Graveley* University of Connecticut Health Center Wiring of the Drosophila Nervous System and the Regulation of Dscam Alternative Splicing
07/29/04 Dr. Amy Anderson 11:00 AM/HSRF 400 Dartmouth College Targeting Biodefense Organisms: From Structures to Drugs
05/11/04 Dr. Deborah Hogan Dartmouth Medical School Bacterial-Fungal Interactions: Molecular Mechanisms and Biological Consequences
05/04/04 Dr. Teresa Ruiz University of Vermont 3D Electron Microscopy: From Cellular to Macromolecular Complexes. The Bacterial Fimbriae on the Horizon
04/27/04 Dr. Larry Wackett* University of Minnesota Evolution of Enzymes and Genomes: Microbial Adaption to s-Triazine Herbicides
04/20/04 Dr. Thomas Wood* University of Connecticut Oxygenases for Green Chemistry and Bioremediation
04/19/04 Dr. Susan Hollingshead University of Alabama at Birmingham Comparative Genomics of S. pneumoniae: Intra-Strain Diversity and Genome Plasticity
04/13/04 Dr. Tadgh Begley* Cornell University Mechanistic and Structural Studies on Thiamin Biosynthetic Enzymes
03/30/04 Dr. Nicholas Ornston* Yale University Towards Natural History of a Catabolic Pathway
03/09/04 Dr. James Spain* Tyndall Air Force Base Biodegradation of Nitroaromatic Compounds: Recent Evolution
02/17/04 Dr. Jeffrey Lawrence* University of Pittsburgh Constraints on Horizontal Gene Transfer Among Bacteria
12/09/03 Dr. Junhyong Kim* University of Pennsylvania Historical Accident, Functional Selection, or Generative Constraint? Dissecting Patterns of Genomic Data
12/02/03 Dr. Jay Dunlap* Dartmouth College Genetic and Molecular Dissection of a Simple Circadian System
11/18/03 Dr. David Zarkower* University of Minnesota DM Domain Proteins Regulate Sexual Development of Diverse Metazoans
11/11/03 Dr. Sarah Bray* University of Cambridge Distal limb patterning: lessons from Drosophila
10/21/03 Dr. Jeffrey Freidman* Rockefeller University Leptin and the Regulation of Body Weight in Mammals
10/14/03 Dr. Randy Jirtle* Duke University Evolution of Imprinted Disease Susceptibility Genes
10/07/03 Dr. Jim Posakony* University of California, San Diego Transcriptional Regulatory Strategies in Nervous System Development
09/30/03 Dr. Robert Sokol* SUNY at Stony Brook Do Ethnohistory, Genetics and Geography Affect European Cancer Rates?
09/23/03 Dr. Cynthia Kenyon* University of California, San Francisco From Worms to Mammals: Genes That Control the Rate of Aging
09/16/03 Dr. Anne Joutel* Faculte de Medecine Lariboisiere Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of CADASIL, an Hereditary Vascular Dementia
09/09/03 Dr. Ross Cagan* Washington University School of Medicine Viewing Death and Cancer Through the Fly Eye
09/02/03 Dr. Thomas Fowler University of Vermont It’s Good to Be a Little Different: G Protein-coupled Receptor Recognition of Sex Pheromones in Schizophyllum commune
06/24/03 Dr. Klaus Nusslein University of Massachusetts Rhizosphere Microbial Communities and Their Role in Phytoremediation
06/10/03 Dr. Daniel Leahy Johns Hopkins University Receptor autoinhibition and cancer: structures of members of the EGF receptor family
05/13/03 Dr. Paula Fitzgerald Merck Research Laboratories The Many Crystal Lattices of Metallo-Beta-Lactamases: A Case Study of Structure-Assisted Drug Design
05/06/03 Dr. Wolfgang Dostmann Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont Exploring the Roles of cGMP and cGMP-dependent Protein Kinase in Intracellular Signaling
04/29/03 Dr. Jean Marie Meyer Université Louis Pasteur Fluorescent Pseudomonas and Pyoverdine Diversity or How Siderophores Could Help in Bacterial Identification and Taxonomy
04/22/03 Dr. Angela W. Ness * University of New Mexico HSC Rab GTPases as Regulators of Endocytosis
04/08/03 Dr. Christopher J. Froelich * Northwestern University Cytotoxic Cell Granule-mediated Apoptosis: A Tale of Lytic Magnitude
04/01/03 Dr. Thomas Hope * University of Illinois at Chicago Looking at HIV a New Way: Adventures with Fluorescently Labeled Virions
03/26/03 Dr. Michael Dustin * NYU, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine Regulation of signaling in the immunological synapse
03/25/03 Dr. Martin Hemler * Harvard Medical School, DFCI Tetraspanin proteins define a novel type of membrane microdomain and modulate integrin-dependent post-cell adhesion events
03/18/03 Dr. Lawrence H. Thompson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Role of FancG and other Fanconi anemia genes in a chromosome stability pathway that influences cancer incidence and development
03/10/03 Dr. Josephine C. Adams * Lerner Research Institute Regulation of Cell Protrusions by ECM
01/28/03 Dr. Stuart Firestein Columbia University Making Sense of Scents: Mammalian Olfaction
12/03/02 Dr. Thomas Vogelmann University of Vermont, Botany & Agricultural Biochemistry Chair Use of novel biophysical tools to probe leaf structure-function and the adaptive significance of chloroplast movements within leaves
11/21/02 Dr. Stefan Pöhlmann University of Pennsylvania DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR: Helping hands for HIV - and others?
11/19/02 Dr. Noreen Williams Witebsky Ctr. For Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, University at Buffalo Intertwined studies of function and developmental regulation of two trypanosome RNA binding proteins
11/12/02 Dr. C. Robertson McClung * Dartmouth College Signaling and Sensing: environmental inputs reset the Arabidopsis circadian clock
10/29/02 Dr. Tom Fowler * University of Vermont - Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Multiple mating pheromones and GPCRs communicate in the mushroom fungus Schizophyllum commune
10/22/02 Dr. Stuart Firestein * - Postponed Columbia University Making Sense of Scents: Mammalian Olfaction
10/15/02 Dr. Gregory S. May The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Aspergillus: a Model and a Pathogen
10/02/02 Dr. Paula Sundstrom (Seminar to be held in HSRF 300) University of Pennsylvania The making of an adhesin: cAMP signaling, hypha-specific gene activation and cell wall localization of Candida albicans Hwp1, a substrate for epithelial transglutaminase
10/01/02 Dr. Barry Ache * University of Florida Multiple signaling pathways in olfactory transduction
09/24/02 Dr. John Carlson * Yale University Odor and Taste Receptors in Drosophila: Genetics and e-Genetics
09/17/02 Dr. Dan Oprian * Brandeis University Rhodopsin Mutations and the Molecular Mechanism of Congenital Stationary Night Blindness
09/10/02 Dr. Claudia C. Häse St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Role of sodium motive force in virulence gene regulation of Vibrio cholerae
09/03/02 Dr. Mariana L. Matrajt University of Pennsylvania A genetic screen for the selection of differentiation mutants in the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii
08/29/02 Dr. Reynaldo A. Carabeo Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH Invasion of epithelial cells by the obligate intracellular pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis
08/21/02 Dr. Yves Dufrene Unite de Chimie des Interfaces Atomic force microscopy of biosurfaces: from molecules to living cells
08/19/02 Dr. Michele M. Klingbeil Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Trypanosome Kinetoplast DNA Transactions: Multiple DNA Polymerases in the Bank
08/13/02 Dr. Howard A. Shuman Columbia University - College of Physicians & Surgeons Intracellular multiplication of Legionella pneumophila in mammalian and protozoan hosts
08/06/02 Dr. Philip E. Stewart Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH Replication of linear and circular plasmids in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and their essential role in the infectious cycle
07/26/02 Dr. James M. Hogle Harvard Medical School Snapshots of a Virus Cell Entry Pathway
07/23/02 Dr. Jay R. Radke Montana State University-Bozeman Analysis of Growth Regulation and Gene Expression in Toxoplasma gondii
07/18/02 Dr. David M. Belnap National Institutes of Health The Initial Stages of Poliovirus Cell Entry
07/16/02 Dr. James C. Morris Johns Hopkins University Silencing is Golden: Development of an RNA Interference Genomic Library in Trypanosoma brucei
07/01/02 Dr. Ira J. Blader Stanford University Communication between Toxoplasma gondii and its host cell
05/21/02 Dr. Gary H. Cohen University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine Entry of Herpes Simplex Virus Into Mammalian Cells
05/14/02 Dr. John Diffley * Imperial Cancer Research Fund Regulation of DNA Replication During the Cell Cycle and in Response to DNA Damage
04/30/02 Dr. Alexander Strunnikov * National Institutes of Health Specificity in Chromatin Targeting of Condensin and Cohesin
04/23/02 Dr. Daniel Finley * Harvard Medical School The Proteasome and Its Interaction With Ubiquitin-like Proteins
04/16/02 Dr. Paul Kaufman * Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Chromatin Assembly on Newly Replicated DNA
04/11/02 Dr. Richard Ellen University of Toronto Perturbation of Actin Dynamics and Store-operated Calcium Flux in Fibroblasts by Treponema Denticola
03/05/02 Dr. Junjie Chen * Mayo Clinic DNA Replication and Damage Checkpoint Networks - What We Know and What We Do Not Know
02/19/02 Dr. Claire Cupples Concordia University Why Are Methylcytosines Mutational Hotspots in E. coli?
02/05/02 Dr. Maria Harrison The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Towards an Understanding of Development and Nutrient Transfer in the Arbusular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis
12/11/01 Dr. Jeffrey Bond University of Vermont - MMG Dept. Computational Analysis of the Evolution of Proteins Involved in Base-excision Repair
12/04/01 Dr. Paul Coussens Michigan State University Application of Functional Genomics to the Study of Complex Mycobacteria-host Interactions
11/27/01 Dr. Rebekah DeVinney * University of Calgary Subversion of Host Signalling Pathways by Enterohemorrhagic and Enteropathogenic E. coli
11/12/01 Dr. Paula Sundstrom * Ohio State University Role of Transglutaminmase-mediated Covalent Cross-linking Between Host Cells and Candida albicans in Oroesophageal candidiasis
11/06/01 Dr. Ambrose Cheung * Dartmouth Medical School Regulation of Virulence Determinants in S. aureus by the SarA Protein Family
10/30/01 Dr. Roberto Kolter * Harvard Medical School Diverse Mechanisms of Biofilm Development
10/23/01 Dr. Alan Lambowitz * University of Texas at Austin Group II Intron Mobility by Reverse Splicing into DNA and Its Potential Applications in Targeted Gene Disruption and DNA Insertion
10/16/01 Dr. Gary Ward University of Vermont - MMG Dept. New Approaches to Studying Host Cell Invasion by Toxoplasma gondii
10/09/01 Dr. Richard P. Darveau * University of Washington Porphyromonas gingivalis LPS Interactions with the Innate Host Defense System
10/02/01 Dr. John M. Burke * University of Vermont - MMG Dept. How Different are the Hairpin and Hammerhead Ribozymes?
09/25/01 Dr. M. Ahmad Chaudhry University of Pennsylvania Radiation-induced Gene Expression in the Cell Cycle
07/31/01 Dr. Philip Gerrish Los Alamos National Laboratory The Rhythm of Adaptation
07/12/01 Dr. Gerard G. Bouffard NIH Intramural Sequencing Center Large Scale DNA Sequencing and Analysis at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center
07/10/01 Dr. Alexander Sorkin University of Colorado Health Science Center Trafficking and Signaling of the EGF Receptor
06/12/01 Dr. Sarah M. Smolik Oregon Health Sciences University A Complex Role for the Transcriptional Coactivator dCBP in Drosophila Development
05/08/01 Dr. Robert Johnston * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Biology of Alphavirus Vaccine Vectors
05/01/01 Dr. Carl Correll University of Chicago How Sarcin Finds and Cleaves an RNA Achilles' Heel in the Ribosome
04/24/01 Dr. Richard Collins * University of Toronto Structure, Function and Folding of the Neurospora VS Ribozyme
04/17/01 Dr. Jonathan Zehr University of California at Santa Cruz Nitrogen Fixation in the Open Ocean: Microbial Diversity, Gene Expression and the Global Carbon Cycle
04/10/01 Dr. Leo Parks North Carolina State University A Physiological Paradox in Yeast
04/03/01 Dr. Sarah Woodson * Johns Hopkins University Folding Mechanism of a Large Catalytic RNA
03/27/01 Dr. Michael Been * Duke University RNA Side Chain Involvement in Ribozyme Catalyzed Reactions: Insights From Studies of the Hepatitis Delta Virus Self-cleaving RNAs
03/13/01 Dr. Ronald Breaker * Yale University Engineering RNA Switches and DNA Enzymes
02/20/01 Dr. Jon Magnuson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory A Pair of Dehalogenases Facilitate Respiration of Tetrachloroethene to Ethene by Dehalococcoides Ethenogenes
02/13/01 Dr. Sigmund Socransky The Forsyth Institute Ecologic Relationships in Mixed Species Biofilms Such as Dental Plaque
02/06/01 Dr. Umadevi Wesley Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center The Role for Cell Surface Peptidases in Suppressing the Malignant Phenotype of Human Cancer