Biological Chemistry Seminars - Spring 2018
Coordinated by Prof. Manju Hingorani
Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Hall-Atwater Laboratories 84 - 12:00 p.m. - Mondays
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
February 19 | Bo Song | Hingorani Lab | “Positioning of the 5' flap junction in the active site limits the rate of FEN1-catalyzed DNA cleavage” |
February 26 | Juan Liu | Hingorani Lab | "How to build a kinetic model for RFC-catalyzed PCNA loading mechanism" |
March 5 | Katie Kaus | Olson Lab | "Structural Investigation of Bacterial Virulence Factors" |
March 12 | Spring Break | ||
March 19 | Spring Break | ||
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" |
April 2 | Brandon Case | Hingorani Lab | "Coordinated Actions of Two Pairs of ATPase Sites on UvrA2 During Initiation of Nucleotide Excision Repair" |
April 9 | Anne Kaplan | Alexandrescu (UCONN) | "Protein Yoga. Conformational Flexibility of a Novel Fold" |
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" |
April 23 | Zane Lombardo | Mukerji Lab | “Characterizing the Binding Interactions of Mouse Linker Histone H1 with Nucleosomes” |
April 30 | Tithi Banerjee | Oliver Lab | "Elucidation of the Dynamics of SecA-SecYEG interactions and its role in pre-protein translocation in Escherichia coli" |
May 7 | [No seminar] |