Structural Biology & Biophysics Program @ Duke University


2009-2010 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.

Fall 2009: Date
Speaker
August 24th
Organization Meeting

August 31th
Roy Hughes
Oas/Biochemistry
Modeling the Unfolded State
September 7th
Labor Day: NO SEMINAR

September 14th
Gary Kapral
Richardson/Biochemistry
New and Improved Methods for Determining RNA Structures: Pucker-Specific Refinement and NOE Assignments
September 21th
Seok-Yong Lee
Biochemistry
membrane protein crystallography
September 28th
Sharyn Endow
Cell Biology
Stalk Rotation and Steps by a Kinesin Motor
October 5th
FALL BREAK: NO SEMINAR

October 12th
Rui Zhao
University of Colorado Medical School
Understanding pre-mRNA splicing: structural and functional studies of Prp8 and Brr2
October 19th
Yves Wang
Beratan&Toone/Chemistry
Not All Hydrogen Bonds in Water Are Created Equal: Anti-Cooperativity
October 26th
Daniel Keedy
Richardson/Biochemistry
Trapped in the Lattice: Crystal Packing and Other Intricacies of Protein Structure Prediction
November 2nd
Chuljin Lee
Zhou/Biochemistry
Structural Studies of the Inhibition of the Deacetylase LpxC
November 9th
Joe Howard
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden
Mechanical coordination in networks of motor and cytoskeletal proteins
November 16th
Mike Hast
Beese/Biochemistry
Structure and inhibition of the essential protein farnesyltransferase from the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans
November 23rd
Claire Parker Siburt
Crumbliss/Chemistry
November 30th
TBA

December 7th
Jo Anna Wiersma
Beese/Biochemistry
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Spring 2010: Date
Speaker
January 18th
MLK Day: NO SEMINAR

January 25th


February 1st


February 8th
Amy Keating
MIT Dept. of Biology
February 15th


February 22nd


March 1st


March 8th
Spr Break: NO SEMINAR

March 15th


March 22nd


March 29th


April 5th


April 12th


April 26th


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Fall 2008: Date
Speaker
Aug. 25th
Organizational meeting

Sept. 1st
Labor Day
no meeting
Sept. 8th
Gary Kapral
Richardson/Biochemistry
Suitestring Motifs: RNA backbone based motif identification and correction.
Sept. 15th
Yves Wang
Beratan&Toone/Chemistry
Toward simple yet accurate water model for solvation free energy
Sept. 22nd
Daniel Keedy
Richardson/Biochemistry
From Molecular Structural Informatics to Protein Design
Sept. 29th
Ian Davis
p-doc with Baker Lab, Univ. Wash. Seattle
Rosetta Ligand docking with full ligand and receptor flexibility
Oct. 6th
Jeremy Block, Vincent Chen, Bart Bartkowiak
Richardson/Biochemistry
Visualization of NMR RDCs on structures in the DiVE
Oct. 13th
Fall Break: NO seminar

Oct. 20th
Tom Darden
NIEHS
Force fields: What's next?
Oct. 27th
Beth McSweeney
Beese/Biochemistry
The Structure of the Human Exonuclease I Catalytic Domain: Exploring DNA Binding and Catalysis
Nov. 3rd
Michael Knapp
U Mass. Amherst
Redox Chemistry Across Protein Surfaces: Hypoxia Sensing and Electron Transfers
Nov. 10th
Claire Parker Siburt
Crumbliss/Chemistry
Clams, Carp, and Chemistry: Protein Structure-Function Relationships from the Metal's Perspective
Nov. 17th
Stuart Endo-Streeter
York/Biochemistry
Probing Inositol Metabolism and Signaling through Structure-Based Design
Nov. 24th
Jo Anna Wiersma
Beese/Biochemistry
Investigating the structure and function of telomerase reverse transcriptase
Dec. 1st
Jeff Headd
Richardson/Biochemistry & CBB
Putting misfits in their place
Dec. 8th
Molly Gregas
Vo-Dinh/Biomedical Engineering
Development of Nanobiosensors: Intracellular Bioanalysis of Single Living Cells using a SERS-based Fiber-optic Nanoprobe
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Spring 2009: Date
Speaker
Jan. 26th
No seminar

Feb. 2nd
Nathan Nicely
Duke Human Vaccine Institute
Type III Pantothenate Kinase (CoaX) and Coenzyme A-mediated redox control in Bacillus anthracis
Feb. 9th
Yu-Chu Chang (confirmed 090203)
Oas/Biochemistry
Explore the Folding Intermediate of Rnase P Protein
Feb. 16th
Martha Bomar
Zhou/Biochemistry
Structural Properties of Ubiquitin-Binding Domains within DNA Y- Family Polymerases
Feb. 23rd
Jim Qiu
Rajagopalan/Biochemistry
Structure-function studies in the metalloenzyme Sulfite Oxidase
--- Feb. 27 and 28: Friday and Saturday ---
--- SBB recruiting weekend ---

Mar. 2nd
seminar CANCELED

Mar. 9th
- Spring Break -

Mar. 16th
Mark Chee
Haase/Biology
Powering centrosome separation - Kinesin-5 motor regulation by cyclin/CDK phosphorylation in budding yeast
Mar. 23rd
Carleen Morris
Toone/Chemistry
Probing the affinity of multivalent ligand-receptor systems using atomic force microscopy
Mar. 30th
Mike Hast
Beese/Biochemistry
Structural Biology of Protein Prenyltransferases from Pathogenic Fungi
Apr. 6th
Jon Werner-Allen
Zhou/Biochemistry
Structural Studies of the RNAPII CTD Phosphatase Ssu72
Apr. 13th
Weina Wang
Beese/Biochemistry
Why isn't a DNA Polymerase a RNA Polymerase?
Apr. 20th
Jeffrey Rubino
Franz/Chemistry
Characterization of Thioether-Only Cu(I) Binding by Ctr1 Methionine Motifs
Apr. 27th
Chul-Jin Lee
Zhou/Biochemistry
Structural and Dynamic Studies of the deacetylase LpxC/inhibitor Complexes
May 4th
seminar CANCELED

May 11th
Roy Hughes
Oas/Biochemistry
Modeling the Unfolded State
May 16th Saturday
SBB RETREAT
retreat, regroup, relate, repast
May 18th
Curtis Layton
Hellinga/Biochemistry & CBB
Computational Design of Protein-Protein Interfaces
May 25th
seminar CANCELED
Memorial Day holiday. No classes are held
June 1st
Ed Triplett
Donald/Computer Science & Biochemistry
Studying the Non-Ribosomal Peptide Synthetase CepA
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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).