Schultz

Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Graduate Program

 

Biophysics/Chemistry & Chemical Biology Seminar Series
2009-10

Thursdays, Mission Bay GH106, 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm
Simulcast to Parnassus, Room S161

Fall Quarter 2009
Date Speaker Topic Host
October 1 CLEMENTS LECTURE
Jeremy Wilbur
Mechanisms for Scaling the Mitotic Spindle R. Fletterick
October 15

Alice Ting
MIT

Fluorescent reporters of protein trafficking and interactions, and applications to imaging studies of synapse development S. Dandekar
October 22 Bill Jorgensen
Yale
Efficient Discovery of Enzyme Inhibitors M. Jacobson
October 29 Mark Mayer
NIH
Structure and mechanism in glutamate receptor ion channels D. Minor
November 19 Niko Grigorieff
Brandeis
High-resolution cryo-EM: How to make X-ray crystallographers jealous Y. Cheng
December 3 Rachelle Gaudet
Harvard
Heat and Spice: Setting the Sensitivity of TRP Channels L. Jan
Winter Quarter 2010
January 14 James Berger
Berkeley
Catching a motor in the act: the molecular basis for translocation and biased movement in hexameric helicases. D. Minor
January 21 Andy McCammon
UCSD
Computer-aided Drug Discovery for Infectious Diseases. K. Dill
January 28 Louise Johnson
Oxford
Structural basis for regulation by protein phosphorylation' B. Stroud
February 11 Gerald Joyce
Scripps
  M. Lopez
February 25 W.E. Moerner
Stanford
Superresolution Imaging and Trapping Single Biomolecules, In and Out of Cells M. Jacobson

March 8
4 PM

Kevan Shokat Annual Andrew Braisted Lectureship
UC Berkeley
M. Marletta
March 11 Angela Gronenborn
Pittsuburgh
  J. Gross
March 18 Susan Taylor
UCSD
  M. Jacobson
J. Wells
Spring Quarter 2010
April 1 Dan Herschlag
Stanford
  M. Hicks
April 15      
April 22 Edward Holmes
UCSD
  C. Burrill
April 29 Peter Sorger
Harvard
  P. Merksamer
May 13 Phil Cole
Johns Hopkins
  D. Galonic Fujimori
May 20 Danny Tawfik
Weizmann Institute of Science
  P. Babbitt
May 27 Erik Sorensen
Princeton
Architectural Self-Construction in Nature and Chemical Synthesis B. Shoichet
June 3 Eric Gouaux
OHSU
  R. Edwards

Seminars are held weekly and are jointly sponsored by the Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Biophysics Graduate Programs. The seminars are supported in part by the Depts. of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Biopharmaceutical Science, and Biochemistry & Biophysics.