| 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 |
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| Winter Break
Spring semester classes start Jan 9, first SBB seminar Jan 28
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| Jan. 21
| MLK day
No Duke Classes, etc.
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| Jan. 28
| Victor Hosfeld & Brady Taylor
Medical Physics Program
Modern Developments and Techniques in Radiation Therapy -
Radiosurgery and the Treatment of Cervical Cancer
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| Feb. 4
| Jon Werner-Allen
Zhou/Biochem
Structure and Function Studies of the CTD Phosphatase Ssu72
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| Feb. 11
| Mark Chee
Haase/Biology
Kinesin-5 motors in budding yeast: Powering
centrosome separation
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| Feb. 18
| Yu Chu Chang
Oas/Biochem
Folding kinetics of RNase P Protein: An Intrinsically Unstructured Protein
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| -- Fri,Sat Feb. 22,23 --
| ----- SBB recruiting weekend -------
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| Feb. 25
| Curtis Layton
Hellinga/Biochem
High-Throughput Microscale Production, Purification, and Assay of Protein-Protein Interactions
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| Mar. 3
| Mike Hast
Beese/Biochem
From cancer to parasitic pathogens: attacking protein prenylation in the fight
against disease
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| Mar. 10
| Spring Break
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| Mar. 17
| Andrew Ban
U. Wash., Seattle
HIV Immunogen Design
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| Mar. 24
| Beth McSweeney
Beese/Biochem
Human Exonuclease I and DNA Repair
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| Mar. 31
| Dan Keedy
Richardson/Biochem
Massaging Protein Backbone: New Observations and Applications of the Backrub
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| Apr. 7
| Weina Wang
Beese/Biochem
Understanding a high fidelity DNA polymerase: structure and mechanism
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| Apr. 14
| Jeff Rubino
Franz/Chemistry
Characterization of Thioether-Only Cu(I) Binding by Ctr1 Methionine Motifs
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| Apr. 21
| Brian Kuhlman
Biochemistry and Biophysics, UNC Chapel Hill
Computer-based Design of Protein-Protein Interfaces
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| Apr. 28
| Parag Mukhopadhyay
Beratan/Chemistry
Can one derive the conformational preference of a peptide from its Raman optical activity spectrum?
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| May 5
| Jo Anna Wiersma
Beese/Biochem
Adventures in Telomerase Biology
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| Fall 2007: Date |
Speaker |
| Aug. 27th
| Organizational meeting
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| 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
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| Oct. 29th
| Jeffrey Boyles
Zhou/Biochem
NMR Structure Studies of the FF Domains of CA150
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| Nov. 5th
| Gary Kapral
Richardson/Biochem
Suite Strings : Harmony Between Backbone and Base Motifs
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| 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 ----
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| Nov. 19th
| Ivelin Georgiev & Cheng-Yu Chen
Donald/Computer Science & Biochemistry
Computational Protein Redesign and the Non-Ribosomal Code
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| Nov. 26th
| Traci Hall
NIEHS
Probing RNA Recognition Specificity of PUF Proteins
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| Dec. 3rd
| Matt Redinbo
Dept Chem, Dept Biochem & Biophys, UNC
Human Nuclear Receptors: Ancient Precursors and Modern Marvels
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| Dec. 10th
| Vincent Chen
Richardson/Biochem
Protein Fragments and Residual Dipolar Couplings
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