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MCB Seminar Program Schedule
Spring 2009
Tuesdays – 4:00 p.m. (unless otherwise noted)
221 Integrated Sciences Building
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
Faculty Organizer: Alice Y. Cheung - acheung@biochem.umass.edu
February 3 – Colin Thorpe, University of Delaware
"Oxidative Protein Folding: New Enzymes and Old Nostrums"
HOST: Lila Gierasch
February 10 – Erik Herzog, Washington University
"The Politics of Periodicity: Networked Circadian Clocks in the Brain"
HOST: Eric Bittman
February 24 – Julian Schroeder, University of California, San Diego
"Guard Cell CO2 and Abscisic Acid Signaling: What are the Sensors?"
HOST: Om Parkash
March 3 - Jodi Nunnari, University of California, Davis
"The Machines that Divide and Fuse Mitochondria"
HOST: Christina Moody, MCB Student; co-sponsored with ICE IGERT students
March 5, Thursday - Steven Block, Stanford University
"The Biophysics of Gene Regulation, Studied One Molecule at a Time"
HOST: Ankit Vahia and Lila Gierasch; co-sponsored by Chemistry and CBI students
March 7 –MCB Retreat, 135 Integrated Sciences Building
Kim Tremblay "Endoderm development: How does the liver form?"
Magdalena Bezanilla "Formin' the Tip: How to Polarize a Plant Cell"
Lila Gierasch "Watching Proteins Fold Inside the Cell: The Impact of a Molecular Chaperone ‘Soup’ "
March 10 - Robert Desnick, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
title TBA
HOST: Scott Garman
March 17 - Spring Break — no seminar
March 24 – Josep Rizo, U.T. Southwestern Medical Center
"Structural Insights into the Mechanism of Neurotransmitter Release"
HOST: Cassidy Dobson, MCB student
March 31 – No Seminar Scheduled
April 7 – Gary Gorbsky, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
"Chromosome Movement and Cell Cycle Regulation in Mitosis"
HOST: Pat Wadsworth
April 14 – Scott Strobel, Yale University
"RNA Catalysis: Ribozymes, Ribosomes and Riboswitches"
HOST: Bob Zimmermann
April 21 – Marian Walhout, UMass Worcester
"Gene-Centered Regulatory Networks"
HOST: Sam Hazen
April 28 – Henry Higgs, Dartmouth Medical School
"Tracking an Actin Assembly Factor that Splits Time Between ER and Mitochondria"
HOST: Wei-Lih Lee
May 5 – Bernardo Trigatti, McMaster University
"A New Trick for an Old Dog ? High Density Lipoprotein: Cell Signaling in Macrophages, and Protection Against Atherosclerosis"
HOST: Alejandro Heuck