Biological Chemistry Seminars - Fall 2017
Coordinated by Prof. Irina Russu
Professor of Chemistry
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 84 - 12:00 p.m. - Mondays
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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September 18 |
Dr. Katherine Launer-Felty |
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. |
“Enzymatic synthesis of cyclic dinucleotide analogues and theiruse to study riboswitches.” |
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September 28 |
Mol. Biophysics Retreat Prof. Arthur Palmer |
Dept. Biochemistry & Mol. Biophysics Columbia University |
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October 2 |
Angelika Rafalowski |
Taylor Lab |
"Dioxygenases, Where We Are Now and Where We Are Going." |
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October 9 |
Jozie Milicaj |
Taylor Lab |
"Probing Inhibition of Heptosyltransferase I using in vitro and in vivo methods." |
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October 16 |
Prof. Otonye Braide-Moncoeur |
Gordon College |
"Improved understanding of lipid trafficking in lung surfactant via adaptive peptide helicity." |
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October 23 |
Fall Break |
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October 30 |
Nooshin Shatery Nejad |
Etson Group |
“Quantitative measurements of single-molecule FRET with a quantum dot donor" |
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November 6 |
Prof. Manju Hingorani |
Wesleyan University - MB&B Department |
"DNA mismatch repair – Mopping up after messy polymerases" |
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November 13 |
Will Barr |
Weir Group |
"An mRNA-rRNA base pairing model for efficient protein translation" |
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November 20 |
Thanksgiving |
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November 27 |
Joshua Dudley |
Smith Group |
"Protein Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Spectral Peak Fitting." |
Biological Chemistry Seminars - Spring 2018
Coordinated by Prof. Maju Hingorani
Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 84 - 12:00 p.m. - Mondays|
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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February 19 |
Bo Song |
Hingorani Lab |
“Positioning of the 5' flap junction in the active site limits the rate of FEN1-catalyzed DNA cleavage” |
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February 26 |
Juan Liu |
Hingorani Lab |
"How to build a kinetic model for RFC-catalyzed PCNA loading mechanism" |
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March 5 |
Katie Kaus |
Olson Lab |
"Structural Investigation of Bacterial Virulence Factors" |
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March 12 |
Spring Break |
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March 19 |
Spring Break |
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March 26 |
Xiaoming Ren, PhD |
Pyle (Yale) |
"Structural basis for recognition of IL-1α by a modified DNA aptamer that specifically inhibits IL-1α signaling" |
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April 2 |
Brandon Case |
Hingorani Lab |
"Coordinated Actions of Two Pairs of ATPase Sites on UvrA2 During Initiation of Nucleotide Excision Repair" |
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April 9 |
Anne Kaplan |
Alexandrescu (UCONN) |
"Protein Yoga. Conformational Flexibility of a Novel Fold" |
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April 16 |
Sudipta Lahiri |
Mukerji Lab |
"Elucidation of the Structural and Functional Role of MutSγ in Meiotic Recombination Using Structural Modeling and Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy" |
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April 23 |
Zane Lombardo |
Mukerji Lab |
“Characterizing the Binding Interactions of Mouse Linker Histone H1 with Nucleosomes” |
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April 30 |
Tithi Banerjee |
Oliver Lab |
“Elucidation of the Dynamics of SecA-SecYEG interactions and its role in pre-protein translocation in Escherichia coli” |