Biological Chemistry Seminars - Fall 2019
Coordinated by Professor Irina Russu 

Hall-Atwater Laboratories 84, Mondays, Noon 12:00 p.m.-1:00pm
CHEM587 / MB&B587

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Sept. 9 Dr. Irina Russu  Wesleyan University Introduction and Organization
Sept. 16 Dan Chung Wesleyan University The Investigation of Allosteric Regulation Through Markov State Modeling
Sept. 23 Molecular Biophysics Retreat on 9/26 -- --
Sept. 30 Amanda Vines  Yale School of Medicine Live Cell Dynamics of DNA Double Strand Break Repair in Fission Yeast
Oct. 7 Dr. Abhilash Jayaraj Wesleyan University Development of Some Novel Computational Techniques for Screening and Optimizing Hit Molecules for Protein Targeted Lead Molecule Discovery and Extensions
Oct. 14 Matthew Huston Wesleyan University Inhibition of Specific Cancer Cell Lines Using Rocaglamide Drivatives
Oct. 21 Fall Break -- --
Oct. 28 Kristen Scopino Wesleyan University A Ribosome Interaction Surface Sensitive to mRNA GCN Periodicity
Nov. 4 Jozafina Milikaj Wesleyan University Inhibition of Heptosyltransferase I
Nov. 11 Kendar Serindag Wesleyan University Conformational Studies of Cyclized DNA for a CryoEM Platform
Nov. 18* (ESC 121 at 4:15pm) Dr. Kimberly Harris Yale University  Ribozymes and Noncoding RNAs in Bacteria 
Nov. 25 Thanksgiving Break -- --

 

Biological Chemistry Seminars - Spring 2020
Coordinated by Professor Alison O'Neil
Professor of Chemistry 

Hall-Atwater Laboratories 84, Mondays, 12:15 p.m.-1:15 pm
CHEM588 / MB&B588

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Feb. 3 Dr. Scott Lipnick PatientsLikeMe, UnitedHealth Group Working in Industry Series
Feb. 17 Tawnya Nead Takeda Vaccines, Inc. Working in Industry Series 
Feb. 24 Erika Norabuena QurAlis Working in Industry Series 
March 2 Miranda Nestor -- MD Simulations of CAP to Detect Allostery Without a Conformational Change
March 9 Spring Break  -- --
March 16 Spring Break  -- --
March 23 Dosh Whye  Neurona Therapeutics  Working in Industry Series
March 30 Mikayla Mclaughlin  O'Neil Lab  Presentation of current literature: Parsing disease-relevant protein modifications from epiphenomena: a perspective on the structural basis of SOD1-mediated ALS
April 6 Angelika Rafalowski Taylor Lab  Expansion and Characterization of the Protocatechuate Dioxygenase Superfamily
April 13 Eric Zanderigo  -- --
Aprill 20 Nathanael Litner Pfizer  Working in Industry Series 
April 27 Joshua Dudley Smith Lab  --
May 4 Bakar Hassan  Taylor Lab  --