2009-10 Biological Chemistry Seminar Series Schedule

To assign dates please call Sharon at 4-8155, or email shoffman@umich.edu


Date Name Title Faculty Host

09/08/09

David J. Pinsky, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UMHS

Paradoxes and inspirations: Potential therapeutic effects of a deadly gas

Steve Ragsdale

09/15/09

Goldstein Lecture, Ajit Varki, UCSD

Sialic Acids: A Hot-Spot in Human Evolution and Disease

Irwin Goldstein & Bill Smith

09/17/09

Ruma Banerjee, Toren Finkel, Mark Gladwin, Ursula Jakob, Leslie Poole, Nicholos Tonks, Jakob Winther

Redox Signaling and Disease Symposium
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Hosted by the Department of Biological Chemistry

Ruma Banerjee

09/22/09

John Lipscomb, University of Minnesota

The Many Facets of O2 Activation by Non-Heme Iron-Containing Enzymes

Bruce Palfey

09/24/09

Greg Payne, UCLA

Regulation and dynamics of clathrin adaptors

Robert Fuller

09/29/09

Fred Guengerich, Vanderbilt University

Interactions of DNA Polymerases with Damaged DNA: Interpreting the Details of Mutation Errors

Pat O'Brien

09/30/09

Fred Guengerich, Vanderbilt University

Dynamics of Cytochrome P450 Reactions and Their Relevance to Catalytic Function
-2736 MS II-12:00 pm

Pat O'Brien, cohosted by Pharmacology

10/06/09

Carla Green, Univ. of Virginia

Circadian control of metabolism is mediated by post-transcriptional regulation

Aaron Goldstrohm

10/13/09

Donald Becker, University of Nebraska

Title of Talk

Stephen W. Ragsdale

10/20/09

Eric Wagner, University of Texas -Houston Medical School

The Beginning of the End: Formation of RNA 3' termini in Metazoans

Aaron Goldstrohm

10/27/09

Michael Washburn, Stowers Institute

Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of RNA Polymerase II and The Discovery of a Novel Ser-5 CTD Phosphatase

Ray Trievel

11/03/09

Mariano Garcia-Blanco, Duke Univ. Medical Center

Alternative splicing and eithelial transitions in cancer

Aaron Goldstrohm

11/10/09

Gloria Culver, University of Rochester

Studies of E. coli Ribosome Biogenesis

Katrin Karbstein

11/17/09

Jerry Workman, Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Protein Complexes that Modify Chromatin for Transcription

Dan Bochar

11/24/09

Speaker Name

Title of Talk

Host Name

12/01/09

Lands Lecture, Richard Wurtman, MIT

Administering Phosphatide Precursors Increases Synaptic membrane, Dentritic Spines, &, probably, Brain Synapses"

Bill Smith

12/08/09

G. Marius Clore, NIH-Bethesda

Title: Detection and visualization of lowly-populated stated of macromolecules and their complexes by paramagnetic NMR

Erik Zuiderweg

12/15/09

Tamara Hendrickson Wayne State University

Title of Talk

Neil Marsh

01/12/10

Rui Wang, Lakehead University

Title of Talk

Ruma Banerjee

01/19/10

Suzanne Sandmeyer, UC Irvine

Title of Talk

Dave Engelke

01/26/10

Kathy Collins, Univ. of Michigan

Title of Talk

Bob Fuller

02/02/10

Faculty Candidate

Presentation

Bill Smith

02/09/10

Faculty Candidate

Presentation

Bill Smith

02/16/10

Faculty Candidate

Presentation

Bill Smith

02/23/10

Faculty Candidate

Presentation

Bill Smith

03/02/10

Faculty Candidate

Presentation

Bill Smith

03/09/10

David Katzmann, Mayo Clinic

Title of Talk

Zhaohui Xu

03/16/10

Greenberg Lecture, Steve Gygi, Harvard University

Title of Talk

Biochemistry Graduate Students

03/23/10

Tom Hollis, Wake Forest University

Title of Talk

Pat O'Brien

03/30/10

Alex Brown, Vanderbilt University

Title of Talk

Bill Smith

04/06/10

Forest White, MIT

Title of Talk

Phil Andrews

04/13/10

Ludwig Lecture, David Davies, NIH

Title of Talk

Bill Smith

04/20/10

John Kuriyan, UC Berkeley

Title of Talk

Matt Young

04/27/10

Nabil G. Seidah, Institute for Clinical Research, Montreal

TBA

Bob Fuller