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August

Tuesday
August 28, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Paul N. Epstein, Ph.D.
Director, Juvenile Diabetes Research
Department of Pediatrics
University of Louisville
"Diabetic nephropathy:  a transgenic model for studying oxidative stress and inflammation"
 

September

Tuesday
September 11, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Matthew S. Gentry, Ph.D.
UCSD, School of Medicine
Department of Pharmacology
La Jolla, CA
"A phosphatase crossing evolutionary boundaries links carbohydrate metabolism to neuronal disease"
 
Tuesday
September 18, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Craig Vander Kooi, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Department of Biophysics
Baltimore, MD
"Structural basis for neuropilin function in VEGF signaling"
 
Wednesday
September 19, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Nathan Vanderford
University of Kentucky
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Graduate Student Seminar
"Stressing Out Over Obesity:  A Novel Role for Neuropeptide Y in Stress-Induced Obesity"
 
Tuesday
September 25, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Paul Pilch, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
"Physiological Role of Caveolae in Adipocytes"
 
Wednesday
September 26, 2007
BBSRB B202A
11:30 AM
Joseph Bishop, Ph.D.
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Glycobiology Research and Training Center
University of California, San Diego
"How sugars control fat:  Proteoglycan driven clearance of lipoproteins in the liver"
 
Wednesday
September 26, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Megan Sampley
University of Kentucky
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Graduate Student Seminar
"Cancer Stem Cells"
 

October

Wednesday
October 3, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Rich Singiser
University of Kentucky
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Graduate Student Seminar
 
Thursday
October 4, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4 PM
Aaron Goldstrohm, Ph.D.
Biochemistry Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
"Multiple mechanisms of PUF protein-mediated mRNA regulation"
 
Wednesday
October 10, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Clint Smith
University of Kentucky
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Graduate Student Seminar
"Regulation of the Mitochondrial Fusion-Promoting Protein OPA1"
 
Tuesday
October 16, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Jian Zhong, Ph.D.
Neuroscience Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Genetic Dissection fo the Raf-Mek-Erk Signaling Pathway in Nervous System Development"
 
Wednesday
October 17, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Mary Bosserman
University of Kentucky
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Graduate Student Seminar
"Tweezing out the mechanics of HCV NS3 helicase"
 
Tuesday
October 23, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Besim Ogretmen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC
"Lipid Metabolism and Signaling in the Regulation of Life Span and Cell Death"
 
Wednesday
October 24, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Chirie Sumanasekera
University of Kentucky
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Graduate Student Seminar
"Estrogen Prevents Osteoporotic Bone Loss by Inducing Osteoclast Apoptosis"
 
Thursday
October 25, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Hong Chen, Ph.D.
Yale University
Department of Pathology
New Haven, CT
"Molecular Basis for Clathrin and Ubiquitin-Mediated Endocytosis: the Epsin Connection"
 
Wednesday
October 31, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Katie Gibson
University of Kentucky
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Graduate Student Seminar
 
November
Tuesday
November 6, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
James J. Manfredi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Oncological Sciences
Associate Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Department of Oncological Sciences
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York
"Exploiting the p53 pathway to enhance cancer therapy outcomes"
 
Wednesday
November 7, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Steve Smith
University of Kentucky
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Graduate Student Seminar
"SorLA Sorts APP Out of Harm's Way"
 
Wednesday
November 14, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Adam Weidner
University of Kentucky
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Graduate Student Seminar
"Dscam Ginding:  A role for complex alternative splicing in neuronal development"
 
Tuesday
November 20, 2007
BBSRB B202A
3:00 PM
Xiao-Jiang Li, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Human Genetics
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA
"Neurodegeneration in polyglutamine diseases"
 
Wednesday
November 28, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Chunxia Zhao
University of Kentucky
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
Graduate Student Seminar
"Very Long-Chain Fatty Acid (VLCFA) Synthesis
 

December

Tuesday
December 4, 2007
BBSRB B202A
4:00 PM
Keith Dunker, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Professor, School of Informatics
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
"Intrinsically Disordered Protein:  Functions, Protein-Protein Interaction Networks, Alternative Splicing, and Drug Discover"
 

 

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