Structural Biology & Biophysics Program @ Duke University


2007-2008 SBB Seminar Series

All seminars are held every Monday at 4:00 pm in Room 439 of the Nanaline Duke Building, unless otherwise indicated.

Non-SBB students and faculty are, of course, welcome to attend. Attendance is required for SBB Program students. Food and beverages (typically, pizza and sodas) will be served at each seminar.

SUMMER 2008: Date
Speaker
June 9
Dr. Nicolas Guex
Vital-IT group, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Swiss-PdbViewer and SwissModel: an environment for comparative protein modeling and structural analysis.

4pm, room 439, Nanaline Duke Bldg (move to 147 if overcrowded)
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Spring 2008: Date
Speaker
Winter Break

Spring semester classes start Jan 9, first SBB seminar Jan 28
Jan. 21
MLK day
No Duke Classes, etc.
Jan. 28
Victor Hosfeld & Brady Taylor
Medical Physics Program
Modern Developments and Techniques in Radiation Therapy - Radiosurgery and the Treatment of Cervical Cancer
Feb. 4
Jon Werner-Allen
Zhou/Biochem
Structure and Function Studies of the CTD Phosphatase Ssu72
Feb. 11
Mark Chee
Haase/Biology
Kinesin-5 motors in budding yeast: Powering centrosome separation
Feb. 18
Yu Chu Chang
Oas/Biochem
Folding kinetics of RNase P Protein: An Intrinsically Unstructured Protein
-- Fri,Sat Feb. 22,23 --
----- SBB recruiting weekend -------

Feb. 25
Curtis Layton
Hellinga/Biochem
High-Throughput Microscale Production, Purification, and Assay of Protein-Protein Interactions
Mar. 3
Mike Hast
Beese/Biochem
From cancer to parasitic pathogens: attacking protein prenylation in the fight against disease
Mar. 10
Spring Break

Mar. 17
Andrew Ban
U. Wash., Seattle
HIV Immunogen Design
Mar. 24
Beth McSweeney
Beese/Biochem
Human Exonuclease I and DNA Repair
Mar. 31
Dan Keedy
Richardson/Biochem
Massaging Protein Backbone: New Observations and Applications of the Backrub
Apr. 7
Weina Wang
Beese/Biochem
Understanding a high fidelity DNA polymerase: structure and mechanism
Apr. 14
Jeff Rubino
Franz/Chemistry
Characterization of Thioether-Only Cu(I) Binding by Ctr1 Methionine Motifs
Apr. 21
Brian Kuhlman
Biochemistry and Biophysics, UNC Chapel Hill
Computer-based Design of Protein-Protein Interfaces
Apr. 28
Parag Mukhopadhyay
Beratan/Chemistry
Can one derive the conformational preference of a peptide from its Raman optical activity spectrum?
May 5
Jo Anna Wiersma
Beese/Biochem
Adventures in Telomerase Biology
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Fall 2007: Date
Speaker
Aug. 27th
Organizational meeting

Sept. 3th
Labor Day
no meeting
Sept. 10th
student discussion
about seminars
Sept. 17th
Harold Erickson
Cell Biology
FtsZ, the bacterial tubulin: (1) a biophysical enigma (cooperative assembly), (2) a major breakthrough (division of liposomes in vitro)
Sept. 24th
Scott Schmidler
Statistical Science
Theory and Practice of Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Oct. 1st
Martha Bomar
Zhou/Biochem
Probing the structural and functional properties of ubiquitin-binding domains within DNA Y-Polymerases eta and iota
Oct. 8th
Fall Break

Oct. 15th
Stuart Endo-Streeter
York/Pharm
Investigating Substrate Selectivity in Inositol Polyphosphate Kinase 2; Structural Studies of atIPK2 alpha
Oct. 22nd
Molly Gregas
Vo-Dinh/Biomedical Engineering
Plasmonics-active biosensing at the single-cell/single molecule level
Oct. 29th
Jeffrey Boyles
Zhou/Biochem
NMR Structure Studies of the FF Domains of CA150
Nov. 5th
Gary Kapral
Richardson/Biochem
Suite Strings : Harmony Between Backbone and Base Motifs
Nov. 12th
Mike Word
GlaxoSmithKline
Evolutionary and Structural Bioinformatics at GSK:
tales, +-'s of an industrial position, time for Q&A

---- NOTE: seminar time moved to 4:45 ----
Nov. 19th
Ivelin Georgiev & Cheng-Yu Chen
Donald/Computer Science & Biochemistry
Computational Protein Redesign and the Non-Ribosomal Code
Nov. 26th
Traci Hall
NIEHS
Probing RNA Recognition Specificity of PUF Proteins
Dec. 3rd
Matt Redinbo
Dept Chem, Dept Biochem & Biophys, UNC
Human Nuclear Receptors: Ancient Precursors and Modern Marvels
Dec. 10th
Vincent Chen
Richardson/Biochem
Protein Fragments and Residual Dipolar Couplings

Protocol for hosting speakers:

Note that for this seminar series, our students act as host for all of our outside speakers. Student hosts should download and use this protocol for hosting speakers (MS Word Document) so that the seminar will be properly advertised and all the necessary arrangements will be made well in advance of the actual seminar. In conjunction with that protocol, please download and use this seminar notice template (MS Word Document).