MBMB 597 Seminar Schedule, Fall, 2008-Fridays, 11:00 AM, LS III Auditorium*

Aug 22

Course Introduction

Aug 29

MICR

Matthew R. Chapman, University of Michigan

Protein Misfolding Done Right: The Biogenesis of Bacterial Amyloid Fibers

Sept 5

MMICB

Kirill Lobachev. Georgia Institute of Technology

Mechanism of Chromosomal Fragility and Genome Rearrangements Triggered by Unstable Repeats

Sept 12

BMB

Sukesh Bhaumik, Southern Illinois University

Dissecting the Regulatory Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription and Its Coupling to DNA Repair

Sept 19

MICR

Michael Caparon, Washington University

A Novel Pathway for Catabolite Repression Regulates Virulence in Streptococcus pyogenes

Sept 26

MMICB

Steve Alexander, LSU Health Science Center

Therapeutic Lymphangiogenesis in Experimental IBD

Oct 3

BMB

Olke Uhlenbeck, Northwestern University

Tuning tRNAs for Translation

Oct 10

MICR

Abigail Salyers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Human Colonic Microbiota - A Hotbed of Resistance Gene Transfer

Oct 17

MMICB

Bala Chandran, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

Kaposi's Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV-8) Manipulates Host Cell Signaling and Gene Expression to Create an Environment for Successful Infection

Oct 24

BMB

Peter Jones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Insights from Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Frogs

Oct 31

MICR

Isaac K. O. Cann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Molecular and Biophysical Analyses of a Novel Clamp Loader Complex in Archaea

Nov 7

MMICB

Travis Antes, Ph.D., System Biosciences

Nov 14

BMB

Michelle Barton, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

TAP-ing into Regulation of p53 in Normal Cells

Nov 21

MICR

James Holden, University of Massachusetts

Dissimilatory Iron Reduction in Hyperthermophilic Archaea

Nov 28

Holiday (Thanksgiving Break)

Dec 5

MMICB

 

 

*MMICB talks will be telecast from Springfield. Seminar Coordinators: KyuHong Cho (cho@micro.siu.edu) (MICR), Ed Gershburg (egershburg@siumed.edu) (MMI), and Judy Davie (jdavie@siumed.edu) (BMB)