Biological Chemistry Seminars - Fall 2018
Coordinated by Prof. Colin Smith
Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Hall-Atwater Laboratories 84 - 12:00 p.m. - Mondays

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

September 10 Prof. Colin Smith Smith Lab Seminar Series Introduction
September 17 Bakar Hassan Taylor Lab Glycodiversification Through Domain Swapping of Glycosyltransferase
September 27 (Thursday) Molecular Biophysics Retreat -- --
October 1 Prof. Dequan Xiao University of New Haven Inhibitor design for the UCHL1 enzyme by integrating computational chemistry and experimental approaches
October 8 Elliot Williams Weir Lab S12 Pro-64 Hydroxylation, and the 530 Loop of 18S rRNA
October 15 Prof. Sarah Maurer Central Connecticut State University Formation and characterization of protocells to understand the origins of life
October 22 Fall Break -- --
October 29 Dacheng Zhao Etson/Mukerji Labs Establishing a Single Molecule-FRET System for Studying DNA-Protein Interaction
November 5 Prof. Joseph Audie Sacred Heart University The development, validation, and application of computational methods for structure-based peptide drug design
November 19 Will Barr Weir Lab Enhancing mRNA-rRNA complementarity depresses protein translation
November 26 Joshua Dudley Smith Lab Analysis of Enhanced NMR Peak Fitting Method
December 3 Prof. Jillian Smith-Carpenter Fairfield University Incorporating Reactivity into Supramolecular Structures

Biological Chemistry Seminars - Spring 2019
Coordinated by Prof. Alison O'Neil
Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior

Hall-Atwater Laboratories 84 - 12:15 p.m. - Mondays

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

February 4t Brandon Case Manju M. Hingorani Coordinated Actions of UvrA2 During Initiation of Necleotide Excision Repair 
February 11 Tithi Banerjee Dr. Donald Oliver Characterization of the Physiological State of SecA and SecYEG: Key Components of Bacterial Protein Transport Across the Plasma Membrane
February 18 Zane Lombardo  Dr. Ishita Mukerji  Mismatch Recognition of Msh2-Msh6: Role of Structure and Dynamics
February 25 Angelika Rafalowski Dr. Erika Taylor  Characterization of Known and Newly Identified Members of Protocatachuate Dioxygenase Superfamily
March 11 Spring Break  -- --
March 18 Spring Break  -- --
April 1 Sojeong Park  Dr. Colin Smith  Mini Protein Structural Analysis Through NMR Studies
April 8  Cody Hecht  Dr. Erika Taylor  Mapping Heptosyltransferase I Dynamics with Pyrene Excimer Flourescense and Tryptophan-Induced Quenching
April 15  Ivy Poon  Dr. Colin Smith  Investigating the Structural Change Propagations from Point Mutations in Xylanase A
April 22 Jozafina Milicaj Dr. Erika Taylor  Inhibition of Heptosyltransferase I
April 29  Meagan MacDonald Dr. Colin Smith  XyIA Dynamics in Lignin Binding