Biological Chemistry Seminars - Spring 2012
Mondays at 4:00 p.m., Hall-Atwater Laboratories 84


 

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
February 6 Luidmila Dzhekieva Rex F. Pratt "A Kaleidoscope of Specific and Non-specific Inhibitors of Bacterial DD-peptidases."
February 13 Jie Zhang Irina M. Russu "NMR study of intrinsic transcription  termination."
February 20 Daniel Czyzyk Erika A. Taylor "Heptosyltransferase I A Potential Target for Biofilm Inhibition."
February 27 Kenneth Song Philip H. Bolton

"Determination of Ligands Binding to Insertion Mutation in Duplex DNA Through Hydroxyl Radical Footprinting."

March 05 Ronak Tilvawala Rex F. Pratt "Phosphate Diesters: New Mechanism-based Inhibitors for Serine β-Lactamases."
March 26 Nicholas R Silvaggi University of Wisconsin (UConn Alumn.) "What Looks Like A Duck, But Doesn't Quack? Structure and Function in Family V of the Acetoacetate Decarboxylase-Like Superfamily."
April 2 Yayan Zhou Manju Hingorani "An active clamping role for PCNA during assembly and function on DNA."
April 9 Olga Buzovetsky Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center(Wes Alumn.) "Structure and Binding Activity of FANCI-FANCD2 Complex: Insights into the Fanconi Anemia DNA Interstrand Cross-Link Repair Pathway."
April 16 Anwesha Bhattacharya Ishita Mukerji "Insights into Amyloid-beta aggregation: From monomers to fibrils."
April 23 Venkatesh Nemmara Rex F. Pratt "Cyclic Peptides as Substrate for DD-Peptidases."
April 30 Anushi Sharma Manju Hingorani "Understanding the Kinetic Mechanism of MutS Mismatch Repair Protein."
May 7 Sophia Levan Rich Olson "The carbohydrate-binding activity of Vibrio cholerae cytolysin."