Molecular and Cellular Biology Colloquia

Fall 2007

Mondays at 12:15 pm
1634 LGR Towers (Math Lounge)
Snacks Provided

MCB Student Organizers:
Dave Bruhn, Kristina Moody, and Nick Griner

September 10
2nd-Year Students' Presentations:
Speaker: Katie Maher (Chase)
Speaker: Dave Bruhn (Klingbeil)

September 17
2nd-Year Students' Presentations:
Speaker: Alicja Bledzka (Williams)
Speaker: Nat Clark (Garman)
Speaker: Kristina Moody (Wadsworth)

September 24
2nd-Year Students' Presentations:
Speaker: William Boston-Howes (Heuck)
Speaker: Leah Aggison (Zoeller)

October 1
2nd-Year Students' Presentations:
Speaker: Paejonette Jacobs (Telfer)
Speaker: Khursheed Wani (Chase)

October 8
No Colloquium—Columbus Day Holiday

October 15
"PACSIN2 Regulates Cell Adhesion and Migration in Xenopus laevis Early Development"
Speaker: Helene Cousin

October 22
"New Tools for Improved Combinatorial Biosynthesis"
Speaker: Nate Schnarr

October 29
"The Role of Brown Adipose Tissue on Temperature Homeostasis and Energy Balance Revisited"
Speaker: Enrique Silva

November 5
"Identification and Manipulation of Liver and Pancreas Precursors in the Mouse"
Speaker: Kimberly Tremblay

November 12
No Colloquium—Veterans Day Holiday

November 19
"Packaging of Biological Macromolecules: Models of Endocytosis and Viral Assembly"
Speaker: Muthu Muthukumar

November 26
"Mechanisms of Transmembrane Signaling and Transport"
Speaker: Lynmarie Thompson

December 3
"Self-Assembly of Plant Cell Walls: Role of the Structural Protein AtEXT3"
Speaker: Maura Cannon

December 10
"Regulation of Motor Activity in the DNA Repair Protein Mfd"
Speaker: Karsten Theis

Spring 2008

February 4                  
2nd-Year Students' Presentations:
Speaker: Fabian Romano (Heuck)
Speaker: Banyoon Cheon (Fissore)

February 11  
1st-Year Students' Poster Session

February 18                
No Colloquium—Presidents' Day Holiday

February 25
"Maintaining the Balance: Regulation of Cadherin-11 by ADAM13 during Cranial Neural Crest Migration
in Xenopus Laevis" 
Speaker: Kate McCusker             

March 3
"Engineered Bacterial Toxins to Determine Cholesterol Levels in Membranes"
Speaker: Alejandro Heuck                      

March 10
"Regulation of RecA-Dependent Homologous Recombination by 3'-5' Exonucleases and the UvrD Helicase"
Speaker: Rich Centore

March 17                    
No Colloquium—Spring Break

March 24
"Fishing for Genes Required for Locomotive Behavior: Genetic Analysis of Movement Disorders in Zebrafish"
Speaker: Gerry Downes

March 31
"TSSK6, a Member of the Testis-Specific Serine Kinase (TSSK) Family, is Present in Mature Sperm and Required for Sperm-Egg Fusion in the Mouse"
Speaker: Julian Sosnik

"Signal Peptide Interactions with the Functionally Active and Open Form of Escherichia coli SecA"
Speaker: Jenny Maki                    

April 7
"Are Environmental Contaminants Making Males More Like Females? (Using Genomics Approaches to Identify Sex-Specific Genes Dysregulated during Brain Development)"
Speaker: Sandy Petersen

April 14
"Iron Reduction Near 100°C in Archaea"
Speaker: James Holden

April 21                       
No Colloquium—Patriot's Day Holiday

April 28
"The Quality Control of Glycoprotein Maturation in the Endoplasmic Reticulum" 
Speaker: Brad Pearse                   

May 5
"The Effect of Macromolecular Crowding on Protein Folding"
Speaker: Jiang Hong

"The Nature of the E. coli Cytoplasm Studied by In-Cell NMR"
Speaker: Qinghua Wang                      

May 12
"Pollen Tubes: The 'Energizer Bunny' of Cell Growth Machinery"
Speaker: Alice Cheung