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MOCB Seminar Series

Wednesdays, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
1103 Bioscience Building

(unless otherwise noted)

Fall 2008

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

09/03/08

D. Schneider/Stanford

Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology

Separating Resistance and Endurance Properties in Drosophila Immune Defense Reactions

Louisa Wu wul@umbi.umd.edu

09/10/08

Andrei  Medvedev/UMB

Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology School of Medicine

TLR4 Signaling Pathways & Endotoxin Tolerance

Volker Briken

vbriken@umd.edu

09/17/08

Martin Zizi/VUB

Faculty of Medicine & Pharmacy, Dept. of Physiology

Brussels, Belgium

VDAC’s Metabolism & the Control of Cellular Death Processes

Marco Colombini colombini@umd.edu

09/24/08

Zvi Kelman/CARB

Biochemistry & Molecular Interactions

The Structure and Function of the Archaeal MCM Helicase

Jonathan Dinman

dinman@umd.edu

10/01/08

Yikang Rong /NCI

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Telomere Capping in Drosophila: Dealing with Chromosome Ends that Resemble DNA Breaks

Jian Wang

jianwang@umd.edu

10/08/08

Lisa Taneyhill/UMD

Animal & Aviation Sciences

Regulation of Neural Crest Formation in the Avian Embryo

Jonathan Dinman

dinman@umd.edu

 

10/15/08

Silvia Muro/UMBI

Center for Biosystems Research

Endocytosis in Health and Disease:  Designing New Therapeutic Interventions

Louisa Wu

wul@umbi.umd.edu

10/22/08

Meera Sundaram/UPenn

 

Unicellular Tube Development in C. Elegans

Haag

Eric Haag ehaag@umd.edu

10/29/08

R. Mariuzza/CARB

Structural Basis for Recognition of MHC and Non-MHC and Non-MHC Ligands by Natural Killer Cell Receptors

Briken

vbriken@umd.edu

11/05/08

J.D. Ernst/NYU

Initiation of the Adaptive Immune Response to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Briken

vbriken@umd.edu

11/12/08

John Marino/CARB

Detection of Lithium-Magnesium Bound Nucleotide Di- and Tri-Phosphate Complexes and its Implication of Lithium Pharmacology

Dinman

dinman@umd.edu

 

11/19/08

John Moult

SNPs, Protein Structure, and Disease

      

Dinman

dinman@umd.edu

11/26/08

Dr. Pukazhenthi

TBA

Dinman

dinman@umd.edu

 

12//03/08

Paul Trainor/Stowers Inst. For Medical Research

Making Faces:   The Role of Neural Crest Cells in Craniofacial Development and Congenital Birth Defects

Lisa Taneyhill

ltaney@umd.edu

12/10/08

                                  Faculty Meeting                           

updated 09-03-08


   


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