Seminars 2008

Spring
January
Tuesday Jan. 22, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	CANCELLED Roy Duncan, Ph.D. Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia "Life in the FAST Lane:  The Reovirus Fusion-Associated Small Transmembrane Proteins"
Wednesday Jan. 23, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	Perry Christian University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "Death, Danger and Immunity:  The role of HMGB1 in tumor immunosurveillance"
Wednesday Jan. 30, 2008 BBSRB B202A 11:00 AM	Catherine Royer, Ph.D. Directeur de Recherche IN SERM Montpellier, France "Functional Dynamics in the Regulation of Gene Expression:  From Single Molecules to Live Cells"
Wednesday Jan. 30, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	Lance Hellman University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "The modeling of β-amyloid channels"
February
Tuesday Feb. 5, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	Jun Liu, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Diabetes and Vascular Biology Section Kentucky Pediatric Research Institute University of Kentucky School of Medicine "Regulation of Adipocyte Differentiation and Turnover"
Wednesday Feb. 6, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	Xiaoyan Liu University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "Is ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation impaired in Huntington's disease?"
Wednesday Feb. 13, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	Rachel Schowalter University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "In Through the Out Door:  Unlocking SV40 in the ER"
Wednesday Feb. 20, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	Brandon Adkins University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar
March
Wednesday Mar. 5, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	Andreea Popa University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "The Mechanism of GCC185 Localization to the Golgi"
Tuesday Mar. 18, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	M. Gerard Waters, Ph.D. Director, Atherosclerosis Research Merch Research Laboratories Rahway, NJ "The roles of the GPCRs GPR109A and DP1 in the efficacy and tolerability of the anti-atherosclerosis drug niacin"
Wednesday Mar. 19, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	Jamie Cantrell University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "Insights into β Adrenergic Receptor Internalization in Human Heart Failure"
Wednesday Mar. 26, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	Shaojing Ye University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "The Role of Host Tetherin in HIV-1 Release"
April
Tuesday Apr. 1, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	James E. Hopper Ph.D. Professor Department of Biochemistry & Department of Molecular Genetics Ohio State University "New Evidence Supporting a Novel Mechanism for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae GAL Gene Transcription Switch"
Wednesday Apr. 9, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	Weikang Cai University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "SUMO, Wrestling With How Hypoxia Regulates HIF1and Erythropoietin Expression"
Monday Apr. 14, 2008 BBSRB B202A 10:30 AM	Sowmya Sampath University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "Structure and substrate specificity of puromycin sensitive aminopeptidase"
Wednesday Apr. 16, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	Yuqian Zhang University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "Cancer Stem Cell and miRNA: Two Fields Have Converged"
Tuesday Apr. 22, 2008 BBSRB B202A 4:00 PM	Diane L. Barber, Ph.D. Professor and Vice-Chair Department of Cell and Tissue Biology University of California, San Francisco "pH sensors in cell migration:  design principles and function"
Tuesday Apr. 29, 2008 BBSRB B202A 1:00 PM	Nick Noinaj University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "Structural Insights into the Substrate Recognition and Catalytic Mechanism of Thimet Oligopeptidase and the Activation and Allosteric Regulation of Insulysin"
May
Monday May 5, 2008 BBSRB 202A 4 PM	Faculty Candidate Seminar Catherine Carlynn Hedrick, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine University of Virginia "Sphingosine-1-phosphate signaling in the vessel wall"
Tuesday May 6, 2008 BBSRB 202A 4PM	Richard A. Gibbs, Ph.D. Professor Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Purdue University "Inhibition of Prenylated Protein Processing"
Thursday May 29, 2008 BBSRB B202A 9:00 AM	Nathan L Vanderford University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "Regulation of MafA Expression and Degradation in Pancreatic Beta Cells"
Fall
September
Thursday September 25, 2008 4 PM	Student Seminar Adam Weidener Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar
October
Thursday October 2, 2008 4:30 PM	Chunxia Zhao Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "A Negative Regulator of the ISD Response (Trex1) and Autoimmunity"
Thursday October 9, 2008 4 PM	Shaojing Ye University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "Control of Actin Filament Branch Stability"
Thursday October 23, 2008 4 PM	Jamie Cantrell Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "Chemokines and Chemokine Receptors Mediate West Nile Virus Encephalitis"
Thursday October 30, 2008 4 PM	Andreea Popa University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "The fellowship of the RING: TRIM proteins and their role in intrinsic immunity against retroviruses"
November
Thursday November 6, 2008 4 PM	Clint Smith Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "Regulation of Golgi pH: Complexities, Insights and Disease"
Thursday November 13, 2008 4 PM	Weikang Cai University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "Senescence in Liver Fibrosis: Beyond Tumor Suppression"
Thursday November 20, 2008 4 PM	Andres Chang Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "Pumping Our Way Through Endocytosis: The Role of the Na+/K+ ATPase in Caveolae"
Tuesday November 25, 2008 10 AM	Wangsun Choi University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Dissertation Seminar "Arf6: The Underdog of Platelet GTPases"
December
Thursday December 4, 2008 4 PM	Lance Hellman Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "2001: A Spore Odyssey"
Thursday December 11, 2008 4 PM	Perry Christian University of Kentucky Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar "Life Beyond Energy Production: A biological role for succinate in retinal vascularization"