2013 Spring Physiology Seminars
Seminar Speakers for Spring 2013 in the Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics Department at UVA
Molecular Physiology & Biological Physics
Fall 2013
| Date | Speaker ~ Affiliation ~ Title |
Host |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, August 29, 2013 4:00 PM Jordan 1-17 |
Karen Allen, PhD Department of Chemistry Boston University Title: TBA |
Thurl Harris with Mol. Phys. |
Spring 2013
| Date | Speaker- Affiliation - Title | Host |
|---|---|---|
| January | ||
| February | ||
| March 11, 2013 1:30 PM Jordan Hall Room 425 |
Eileen J. Kennedy, PhD Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences University of Georgia College of Pharmacy Title: "Designing modified peptides to study kinase cell signaling." |
Zygmunt Derewenda |
| April 4th, 2013 2:00 PM Snyder Building |
Sonia Gregory PhD Defense Snyder 3rd Floor Conference Room |
Lukas Tamm |
April 5th, 2013 4:00 PM Jordan Hall 1-14 Auditorium |
Distinguished Lecture Series Yale E. Goldman, MD, PhD Department of Physiology Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Title: "Molecular Motors in Singulo: Examining Nature's Nano-Transporters One by On." |
Avril Somlyo |
| April 22, 2013 4:00 PM Snyder Bldg. 3rd Floor Conf. Rm. |
Tamir Gonen, PhD, MRSNZ Janelia Farm Research Campus Howard Hughes Medical Institute Title: "The influence of lipids on membrane protein structure and function" |
Jochen Zimmer |
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April 29, 2013
4:00 PM Jordan Hall 4-25 Andrew P. Somlyo Conference Room
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Stephen C. Blacklow, MD, PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Department of Cancer Biology Harvard Medical School Title: "Unraveling the Mechanism of Notch Activation" |
John Bushweller |
| June 10, 2013 4:00 PM Snyder Bldg. 3rd Floor Conf. Rm. |
Gregory A. Voth, PhD Department of Chemistry University of Chicago Title: "Theory and Simulation of Biomolecular Systems: Surmounting the Challenge of Bridging the Scales." |
Mark Yeager
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June 13, 2013
2:00 PM MR-5 Room 2005 |
Elizabeth Ames Thesis Defense Title:"High-throughput analysis of gene expression and alternative splicing in cardiac hypertrophy" |
Jeffrey Holmes |
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June 17, 2013
4:00 PM Snyder Bldg. 3rd Floor Conf. Rm.
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Bil Clemons, PhD Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology Title: "Structural insight into the delivery of tail-anchor membrane proteins to the ER" |
Jochen Zimmer |
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June 20, 2013
4:00 PM Snyder Bldg. 3rd Floor Conf. Rm.
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Walter Schmidt, PhD Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Georgia Title: "Yeast Mating, Proteases, and Aging Related Diseases." |
Michael Wiener |
| July 29, 2013 12:00 PM MR5 Room 1005 |
Thomas Wieland, PhD Experimental Pharmacology University of Heidelberg Title: "Novel pathways to activate Rho GPTases in the vasculature and beyond: p63RhoGEF and RhoGEF17 exemplified." |
Avril Somlyo |
Fall 2012
| When |
Speaker- Affiliation - Title | Host |
| 8/14/12 Time: 2:30 PM Place: Jordan Hall, Room 4-25 (Andrew P. Somlyo Conference Room) |
Dr. Adam Godzik Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute Title: "Mapping the Protein Universe with Structural Genomics" |
Zygmunt Derewenda |
| 9/13/12 Time: 10 AM Place: Jordan Hall, Room 4-25 (Andrew P. Somlyo Conference Room) |
Dr. Trina Schroer Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University Title: "New Insights Into the Structure and Function of the 1.2 MDa Cytosolic Complex - dynactin" |
Zygmunt Derewenda |
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10/1/2012 Time: 4 PM Place: Snyder Building, Room 313 |
Jebrell Glover, Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University Title: "Caveolin: A Tale of Two Prolines" |
Linda Columbus |
| 10/4/12 Time: 10 AM Place: Jordan Hall, Room 4-25 (Andrew P. Somlyo Conference Room) |
Janusz Petkowski (Thesis Defense) Interdisciplinary Program in Biophysics, University of Virginia Title: "NRMT: An alpha-N-Methyltransferase” |
Drs. Wladek Minor and Ian Macara |
| 10/8/2012 Time: 10 AM Place: Snyder Building, Room 313 |
Elizabeth Rhoades, Associate Professor Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University Title: "Amyloids and Membranes: Identifying Differences in Functional and Dysfunctional Interactions" |
Lukas Tamm |
| 10/15/2012 Time: 4 PM Place: Jordan Hall, Room 4-25 (Andrew P. Somlyo Conference Room) |
Felix Vajdos Pfizer Title: "Crossing the Divide: Identification of Spirocyclic Pyrrolidines as Novel BACE Inhibitors by Means of X-Ray Based Fragment Screening" |
Wladek Minor |
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10/22/2012 Time: 4 PM Place: JHCC |
Joyce C. Hamlin Distinguished Lecture Joan Steitz, Professor Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University Title: "Noncoding RNAs: with a viral twist" |
Anindya Dutta |
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10/23/2012 Time: 1 PM Place: JHCC |
Andrew P. Somlyo Memorial Lecture in Molecular Physiology and Biolphysics Tom Steitz, Professor Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University Title: "From the Structure and Function of the Ribosome to New Antibiotics" |
Mark Yeager |
| 11/19/2012 Time: 2 PM Place: Jordan Hall, Room 4-25 (Andrew P. Somlyo Conference Room) |
Ashish Sharma (Thesis Defense) Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia Title: "The role of iNKT cells and receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) in lung ischemia-reperfusion injury" |
Victor Laubach |
| 11/19/2012 Time: 4 PM Place: Snyder Building, Room 313 |
Da-Neng Wang Skirball Institute, New York Title: "Structure and mechanism of a bacterial INDY homolog: A sodium-dependent carboxylate transporter involved in fatty acid synthesis and obesity" |
Lukas Tamm |
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12/10/2012 Time: 4 PM Place: Snyder Building, Room 313 |
David Weliky, Professor Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University Title: Structure/function of membrane-associated viral fusion proteins and structure of recombinant proteins in bacterial inclusion bodies |
Lukas Tamm |
| 12/17/2012 Time: 4 PM Place: Snyder Building, Room 313 |
Tobias Baumgart, Associate Professor Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania Title: Biophysics of lipid bilayer and protein interaction modulated by curvature |
Lukas Tamm |
