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MOCB Seminar Series

Wednesday’s from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

1103 Bioscience Research Building

(Unless Otherwise Noted)

 Spring 2010 

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

HOST

1/27/10

 

Colin Thorpe

University of Delaware

Oxidative Protein Folding: New Enzymes and Old Nostrums

Ian Mather

imather@umd.edu

2/3/10

 

Nathan Edwards

Georgetown University

Improved Peptide Identification Sensitivity Using Meta-Search, Grid-Computing, and Machine-Learning, with Application to Genome Annotation

Catherine Fenselau

fenselau@umd.edu

2/10/10

 

Tracey Rouault

NIH

Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis and Regulation of Mammalian Iron Metabolism

Iqbal Hamza

hamza@umd.edu

2/17/10

 

Patrice Morin

NIH/NIA/IRP

Claudin Proteins: New Targets for Ovarian Cancer Detection and Therapy

Jon Dinman

dinman@umd.edu

2/24/10

 

Arthur Hurwitz

NCI/NIH

T Cell Tolerance to Prostate Cancer Antigens: Lessons Learned from a TRAMP

Ken Frauwirth

kfrauwir@umd.edu

3/3/10

 

K. J. Myung

NIH

Evolutionary Conserved Pathways Suppress Genomic Instability

June Kwak

jkwak@umd.edu

3/10/10

 

Robert K. Ernst

UMD – Baltimore, School of

Dentistry

Role of LPS Structural Modifications in Virulence of Pulmonary Pathogens

Vince Lee

vtlee@umd.edu

3/17/10

 

SPRING BREAK Mar 15-19

 

 

3/24/10

 

Lynne Angerer

NIH/NIDCR

Genomic Approaches to the Early Regulatory Network Specifying the Neurogenic Animal Pole Domain of the Sea Urchin Embryo

Eric Haag

ehaag@umd.edu

3/31/10

 

Richard L. Proia, Nat’l. Diabetes & Dig.& Kidney Diseases

 

Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Metabolism and Signaling

Marco Columbini

colombini@umd.edu

4/7/10

 

Val Culotta

John Hopkins Bloomsburg School of Public Health

Metals and Oxidative Stress:

Tales Told by Yeast

Iqbal Hamza

hamza@umd.edu

4/14/10

 

Tom Dever

NIH

eIF2 a Kinase PKR: Substrate Recognition and Viral Regulation

Jon Dinman

dinman@umd.edu

4/21/10

 

Paul Paukstelis

Chemistry @ Biochemistry

Structure, Function, and Evolution of a BiFunctional Group I Intron Splicing Factor

Barbara Gerratana

bgerrata@umd.edu

4/28/10

 

Gregory D. Bowman

John Hopkins University

Nucleosome-Based Activation of a Chromatin Remodeler:  Knowing When to Start and Stop

Dorothy Beckett

dbeckett@umd.edu

5/5/10

 

Stephen Howell

National Science Foundation

Plant Stress Signaling and the Unfolded Protein Response

Anne Simon

simona@umd.edu

5/12/10

 

Yikang Rong

NIH/NCI

Telomere Maintenance in Drosophila: The Story of the HipHop Brothers

Leslie Pick

lpick@umd.edu

5/19/10

Faculty Meeting

 

 

 

05/20/09

MOCB RETREAT

Dr. Bonnie Bassler, Princeton

 

 

updated 03/04/2010

   


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