Molecular Biology, Microbiology, and Biochemistry

2002 Spring Seminar Program

January 18 TC	Yong Gao, PhD Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Southern Illinois University at Carbondale New nanomaterials for biological applications
January 25	Evan Cox, MSc Geosyntech Consultants Guelph, Ontario, Canada In situ bioremediation of perchlorate and trichloroethene in groundwater
February 1	David J. Asai, PhD Department of Biological Sciences Purdue University Dynein: a really large molecular motor
February 8	Robert Ryan, PhD Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute Oakland, CA Structural studies on helix bundle molecular switch apolipoproteins
February 15 TC	Michael Schneider, MD Department of Pediatrics - Division of Genetics Southern Illinois University School of Medicine DNase barrier to plasmid transfection and viral infection
February 22	Don Torry, PhD Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Molecular and cellular functions of placenta growth factor: implications for successful pregnancy
March 8	Joan Slonczewski, PhD Department of Biology Kenyon College TBA
March 15	Spring Break, No Seminar
March 22	Jodi Huggenvik, PhD Department of Physiology Southern Illinois University School of Medicine NUDR: a transcription factor with a novel DNA binding fold and oncogenic/tumor suppressor properties
March 29	Karolin Luger, PhD Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Colorado State University Crystallographic studies of chromosomal building blocks
April 5	Karl Weisgraber, PhD Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease University of California San Francisco Biophysical basis for the association of apolipoprotein E4 with cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases
April12	R. Meganathan, PhD Department of Biological Sciences Northern Illinois University Physiology and molecular biology of vitamin K biosynthesis in bacteria
April 19	Rob Edwards, PhD Department of Molecular Sciences University of Tennessee at Memphis Comparative genomics of the Salmonellae: host specifity, evolution and virulence
April 26	Zheng Cui, PhD Department of Biochemistry Wake Forest University, School of Medicine ESI-MS-MS and lipid metabolism
May 3	Andy Link, PhD Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Systematic analysis of protein complexes using mass spectrometry

All seminars presented in Room 1059 LS III at 11:00 a.m.

Live teleconference feed to SIU-Springfield campus.

TC = Teleconference from Springfield

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