Fall 2012 -2013 Seminar Series
Thursdays, 4:00 pm, Basic Science Auditorium
| September 6, 2012 | Darren Boehning, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UTMB, | "Protein quality control in Alzheimer’s Disease" |
| September 13, 2012 | Dr. Ian Molineux, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology,University of Texas Austin | "Viral dynamics at the initiation of infection" |
| September 20, 2012 | Fernanda Laezza, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX |
“Protein-protein interactions with ion channels as new targets for disease-modifying interventions against brain disorders” |
| October 18, 2012 | Xiaodong Cheng, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX |
"EPAC: Structure, Function and Pharmacological Intervention” |
| October 26, 2012 | Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr., Ph.D. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore Muge Neslihan-Martinez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UTMB |
"Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS): Computational approach for optimization of inhibitors of protein-protein interactions including BCL6, ERK and S100B" |
| November 1, 2012 | Vijay S. Reddy, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA |
“Virus structure, Informatics and Vaccine Design” |
| November 8, 2012 | Jun Liu, Ph.D., University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Assistant Professor, Pathology | High-throughput cryo-electron tomography – Visualizing molecular machines in living cells |
| November 15, 2012 | Cornelius Elfrink, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology, UTMB | “New Insights in Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Biology” |
| November, 22, 2012 | THANKSGIVING | |
| November 29, 2012 10:30 am |
John Tanner, Ph.D., University of Missouri, Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry | “Structural Biology of Proline Catabolism” |
| December 6, 2012 | Alan Brasier, M.D., UTMB, Leon Lomberg Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | “Signaling in the innate immune response” |
| December 13, 2012 | Ok-Ho Shin, Ph.D., Assististant Professor, Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UTMB | "Regulation of cardiac norepinephrine release" |
| January 10, 2013 | Dr. Xander H.T. Wehrens Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute Professor, Departments of Medicine-Cardiology and Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas |
“The role of sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium leak in heart failure and cardiac arrhythmias” |
| January 17, 2013 | Muge Martinez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor UTMB Galveston |
“Dysregulation of alternative splicing in diabetes” |
| January 24, 2013 | Olivier Lichtarge, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas | “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Coding Polymorphisms: A Calculus of Genotype-Phenotype Variations” |
| January 31, 2013 | Gracie Vargas, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology UTMB Galveston |
“The use of nonlinear optical microscopy in imaging of oral neoplasia” |
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SPECIAL SEMINAR |
Rodrigo Maillard, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. | "Mechanism of Force Generation and Intersubunit Coordination in a AAA+ Protease" |
| February 14, 2013 | Theodore G. Wensel, Ph.D. ,
Welch Professor and Chair, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Ophthalmology Director, Houston Area Molecular Biophysics Program Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas |
" Molecular and cellular structures in sensory neurons" |
| February 28, 2013 | Ingeborg Schmidt-Krey, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology | “Studies of Eukaryotic Membrane Protein Structure and Function via Electron Crystallography” |
| March 7, 2013 | Cheryl S. Watson, Ph.D., University of Texas Medical Branch | “How Xenoestrogens Disrupt Hormonal Signaling in Cells” |
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| March 21, 2013 | John Tanner, Ph.D., University of Missouri, Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry | "Targeting UDP-Galactopyranose Mutase, A Key Enzyme in Sugar Biosynthesis in Pathogens" |
| March 28, 2013 | Randy Schekman, Ph.D. UC Berkeley |
“Protein sorting in the secretory pathway” |
| April 4, 2013 | ||
| April 11, 2013 | Bill Ameredes, M.S., Ph.D., UTMB Gavleston | "Novel Phosphodiesterase-4 Inhibitors Decrease Allergic Sinus Congestion and Inflammation" |
| April 18, 2013 | ||
| April 25, 2013 | Carlos Catalano, Ph.D., , Univ. of Washington School of Pharmacy, Professor, Medicinal Chemistry | "Mechanistic Studies on a Viral Genome Packaging Motor" |
| May 1, 2013 | Elena Orlova, Ph.D., Birbeck College, London, UK | "Unveiling of the type IV secretion system architecture by hybrid method" |
| May 2, 2013 | ||
| May 9, 2013 | ||
| May 16, 2013 | Michael Deem, Rice University, John W. Cox Professor in Biochemical and Genetic Engineering Professor, Physics and Astronomy |
"Physical Theory of the Immune Response to Vaccines" |
| May 23, 2013 | Nils G. Walter, Professor of Chemistry, University of Michigan | "Single Molecule RNA Biology: Of Intracellular microRNAs and Molecular Nanorobots" |
| May 30, 2013 | James Sachettinni, Texas A&M, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Chemistry, Wolfe-Welch Chair in Science | "Novel strategies for treating drug resistance" |
| June 6, 2013 | Steven McKnight, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Professor and Chairman, Biochemistry, Distinguished Chair in Basic Biomedical Research; The Sam G. Winstead and F. Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry | "Solid state conceptualization of information transfer in eukaryotic cells" |
| Seminar Series Contact Information | |
| Chair | Coordinator |
| Dr. Marc Morais PHONE: (409) 747-1401 FAX: (409) 772-1404 E-MAIL: mcmorais@utmb.edu ROUTE: 0647 |
Julie Quiroga PHONE: (409) 772-2742 E-MAIL: jaquirog@utmb.edu ROUTE: 0645 |
