| 2004-2005 Academic Year |
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| 9/6 |
|
LABOUR DAY HOLIDAY |
| 9/13 |
Ben Duckworth |
DNA binding and
nucleotide flipping by the human DNA repair protein
AGT. Douglas S. Daniels et
al. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.
2004. 11:714-720. |
| 9/20 |
Sarmistha
Chakrabarty |
A theoretical study
of the cis-dihydroxylation mechanism in naphthalene
1,2-dioxygenase. Arianna
Bassan et al. Journal of Biological Inorganic
Chemistry, 9(4):439-452. |
| 9/27 |
Bill Gleason, PhD |
"What's up, Doc(k)?" or What can we learn about
heparin/protein interactions from docking studies? |
| 10/4 |
Teresa De la Mora |
The ternary complex
of Pseudomonas aeruginosa alcohol dehydrogenase with
NADH and ethylene glycol. Levin et al. 2004.
Protein Science, 13:1547-1556. |
| 10/11 |
Arwen Pearson, PhD |
Single crystal spectroscopy; beyond the UV/VIS.
A
bibliography. |
| 10/18 |
Brian Johnson |
|
| 10/25 |
Carrie Wilmot,
PhD |
Catching copper in the act. Discussion of
Prigge et al. 2004. Science, 304:864-7 and
Tocheva et al. 2004. Science, 304:867-70 |
| 11/1 |
|
|
| 11/8 |
Ramachandraiah Gosu, PhD |
TolC-Dependent Multi-Drug
Exporting Secondary Transporter of E.coli:
AcrAB-TolC System |
| 11/15 |
Jennifer Klein |
Complementary Spectroscopic Methods
for Intramolecular Distance Measurement |
| 11/22 |
Deb Winters |
X-ray Snapshots
of Calcium Transport by SERCA |
| 11/29 |
Edgar Arriaga, PhD |
Analysis of Individual Organelles
from Single Cells. |
| 12/6 |
Matthew Deloia |
Interaction and
Regulation of Myosin VII via a SH3 domain. |
| 12/13 |
Kris Tesh (Rigaku) |
"Sulfurs, Sulfurs Everywhere But
Not a Signal to Phase On or Why Perform Single
Wavelength X-ray Diffraction Experiments". The
reference article is: Yang, C., Pflugrath, J.W.,
Courville, D.A., Stence C.N. and Ferrara, J.D.
(2003). Away from the edge: SAD phasing from the
sulfur anomalous signal measured in-house with
chromium radiation. Acta Cryst D59, 1943-1957. |
12/20-
01/17 |
|
WINTER HOLIDAY |
| 1/24 |
Jack Surek |
An EPR method to measure the
electrostatic potential at spin labels attached to
proteins. |
| 1/31 |
Qinghua Wang |
Structural basis for distinct
roles of Lys63- and Lys48-linked polyubiquitin
chains. Genes to Cells (2004) 9, 865-875. |
| 2/7 |
Matt Devaney |
Structure and DNA binding of the
positive supercoiling domain of human DEK.
|
| 2/14 |
Susanta K. Hui, MD |
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry & an
Ultra Trace Element: Early Detection of Bone
Disease. |
| 2/21 |
J. Michael Autry, PhD |
Glimpses of a
molecular machine in motion by cryo-electron
microscopy.
A report on
the Biophysical Society National Lecture by Dr.
Joachim Frank, which was presented at the 49th
Annual Meeting in Long Beach CA (Feb 12-16,
2005). |
| 2/28 |
Ke Shi, PhD |
|
| 3/7 |
Yao Fan |
A Tale of Two Isotopes: Mechanism of
6-Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase Revealed by
Multiple Kinetic Isotope Effects.
|
| 3/14 |
Dan W. Urry, PhD |
Coupling of Hydrophobic and Elastic Mechanisms in
Protein-based Machines: Complex III/Rieske Iron
Protein, ATP synthase and Walking Protein Motors. |
| 3/21 |
Songon An |
Triple-Sieve Mechanism for Class II Prolyl-tRNA
Synthetase and YbaK protein. |
| 3/28 |
|
|
| 4/4 |
Horia
Petrache, PhD |
X-ray and
Solid-state NMR Measurements of Entropic Forces in
Biological Membranes. |
| 4/11 |
Yan Chen, PhD |
Quantitative
determination of protein-protein interaction in
living cells” |
| 4/18 |
Wasantha Ranatunga, PhD |
|
| 4/25 |
Bill Gleason, PhD |
Insights from structural biology into
the mechanism of action of the anti-cancer drugs
Gleevec and Iressa. |
| 5/2 |
Razvan Cornea, PhD |
|
| 5/9 |
Brad Elmore, PhD |
"Why blue is
red: the red copper protein from Nitrosomonas” |
| 5/16 |
|
|
| 5/23 |
Issam El Ghazi Ph.D. |
|
| 5/30 |
|
MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY |
| 6/6 |
Brian Brazeau, PhD |
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