Department Seminars
If you would like to speak with any of these people during their visit, or need additional information, please contact Stephanie Scoville.
Student Seminar (BCH 501/BPH 571) for Yongchun Zhang
Yongchun Zhang - PhD Candidate
Dec 09, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
The Ribosome Determines mRNA Stability
Jeff Coller, Ph.D. - Associate Professor and Associate Director, Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Dec 03, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Eric Phizicky
Student Seminar (BCH 501/BPH 571) for Dejun Lin
Dejun Lin - PhD Candidate
Dec 02, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Oncogenic mutations-induced restriction to HCMV infection
Shihao Xu - PhD Candidate
Nov 25, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
The Molecular Tool-Kit of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
Erica Ollmann Saphire, Ph.D. - Professor of Immunology and Microbial Science, Scripps Research Institute, California Campus
Nov 19, 2014 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Host: Joshua Munger & Luis Martinez-Sobrido
HCMV-mediated activation of pyrimidine biosynthesis drives UDP-sugar synthesis to support viral protein glycosylation
Stefanie DeVito - PhD Candidate
Nov 18, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 1-7619 (Adolph Auditorium)
Coordinated Responses to Nutritional Metal Stress by Heme-Dependent Gene Expression
Mark O'Brian, Ph.D. - Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Biochemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo
Nov 12, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Mahin Maines
Structural Studies of Bacterial Transcription
Seth Darst, Ph.D. - Jack Fishman Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Nov 05, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Clara Kielkopf & Dr. Michael Gleghorn (Co-sponsored by the RNA Structure and Function Cluster)
Student Seminar (BCH 501/BPH 571) for Chinmay Surve
Chinmay Surve - PhD Candidate
Nov 04, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Structural Analyses of RNA-Small Molecule Interactions: Bacterial Riboswitches and Engineered Devices
Adrian R. Ferré-D'Amaré, Ph.D. - Senior Investigator, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD
Oct 29, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Eric Phizicky
Student Seminar (BCH 501/BPH 571) for Yinghan Fu
Yinghan Fu - PhD Candidate
Oct 28, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7616 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
ERKonomics in Metabolic Signaling
Melanie Cobb, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Oct 22, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Mahin Maines
Student Seminar (BCH 501/BPH 571) for He Fang
He Fang - PhD Candidate
Oct 21, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 1-7619 (Adolph Auditorium)
Long Lost Relatives: The Expanding PUF Protein Family
Traci Hall, Ph.D. - Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Oct 15, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Clara Kielkopf
Long Lost Relatives: The Expanding PUF Protein Family
Traci Hall, Ph.D. - Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC
Oct 15, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Clara Kielkopf (Co-sponsored by Graduate Women in Science)
Investigating the role of PGE2 receptor subtype 1 (EP1) in Mesenchymal Stem Cell (MSC) differentiation
Marina Feigenson - PhD Candidate
Oct 14, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Transcription and the Three-Dimensional Organization of the Genome
Victor Corces, Ph.D. - Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Oct 08, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: T32 Training Grant Graduate Students (Amber Cutter)
Effects of non-histone protein HMGN1 on histone tail domain interactions and H1 binding in chromatin
Kevin Murphy - PhD Candidate
Oct 07, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Flavivirus (Dengue, West Nile, etc.) - Caused Disease Depends on Structured RNA Wrenches Thrown into Protein Machines
Jeffrey Kieft, Ph.D. - Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine
Oct 01, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Joseph Wedekind
Student Seminar (BCH 501/BPH 571) for Dhruba Jyoti Basu Roy
Dhruba Jyoti Basu Roy - PhD Candidate
Sep 30, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Innovations in Research Impact Measurement and Literature Discovery
Kinga Hosszu, Ph.D. - Outreach Director - F1000 Americas, Faculty of 1000, New York, NY
Sep 24, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko
Student Seminar (BCH 501/BPH 571) for Guangze Jin
Guangze Jin - PhD Candidate
Sep 23, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 1-7619 (Adolph Auditorium)
eIF3: a Bridge Between Translation and Transcription
Jamie Cate, Ph.D. - Professor, Departments of Molecular & Cell Biology and Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Sep 17, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko
eIF3: a Bridge Between Translation and Transcription
Jamie Cate, Ph.D. - Professor, Departments of Molecular & Cell Biology and Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Sep 17, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko (Co-sponsored by Graduate Women in Science)
Student Seminar (BCH 501/BPH 571) for Rajashri Sridharan
Rajashri Sridharan - PhD Candidate
Sep 16, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BCH 501/BPH 571) for Angela Balliano
Angela Balliano - PhD Candidate
Sep 09, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BCH 501/BPH 571) for Angela Balliano
Eric Phizicky - Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Sep 09, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
The Metabolic Code
Brian Shoichet, Ph.D. - Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto; Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco; Member of the Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto
May 07, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | G-9425 (Class of '62 Auditorium)
Host: Drs. Sina Ghaemmaghami and Lynne Maquat
Liver Inflammation and Cancer
Michael Karin, Ph.D. - Professor of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego
Apr 30, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 1-9576 (Case Method Room)
Host: Dr. Mahin Maines
The Dark Side of Functional Genomics and a New Hope: Genome-Wide Screens with RNAi and CRISPR
John Doench, Ph.D. - Research Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Apr 23, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. David Mathews
Story in a Sample: How cryo-EM Unravels Multiple States of the Ribosome in a Single Experiment
Joachim Frank, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Apr 16, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko
Student Seminar (BCH 502) for Michael Sloma and Lu Han
Michael Mierzejewski - PhD Candidate
Apr 15, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BCH 502) for Michael Sloma and Lu Han
Lu Han - PhD Candidate
Apr 15, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
How Enzymes Work
Dan Hershlag, Ph.D. - Professor of Biochemistry, Chemistry and of Chemical Engineering; Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs, Stanford University
Apr 09, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Joseph Wedekind
Student Seminar (BPH 572) for Kyle Berger and Amber Cutter
Bronwyn Lucas - PhD Candidate
Apr 08, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BPH 572) for Kyle Berger and Amber Cutter
Kyle Berger - PhD Candidate
Apr 08, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
eIF5A Promotes Polyproline Protein Production
Thomas Dever, Ph.D. - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
Apr 02, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Christina Brule
Student Seminar (BPH 572) for Karl Smith and Bronwyn Lucas
Amber Cutter - PhD Candidate
Apr 01, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BPH 572) for Karl Smith and Bronwyn Lucas
Karl Smith - PhD Candidate
Apr 01, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BCH 502) for Thomas Hilimire and Owen Smith
Owen Smith - PhD Candidate
Mar 25, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BCH 502) for Thomas Hilimire and Owen Smith
Morgan Monaghan - PhD Candidate
Mar 25, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Thinking Strategically About Your Postdoc Training
Patrick Brandt, Ph.D. - Director of Science, Training and Diversity, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Dentistry
Mar 21, 2014 @ 4:00 p.m.
Helen Wood Hall | 1W304
Using Microsoft Word to Format Your Dissertation
Patrick Brandt, Ph.D. - Director of Science, Training and Diversity, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Dentistry
Mar 21, 2014 @ 9:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 1-6823 (Neuman Room)
Mechanism and Regulation of DNA Double-Strand Break Repair
Lorraine Symington, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University
Mar 19, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Elaine Sia and Lynne Maquat
Student Seminar (BPH 572) for Rakesh Chatrikhi and Mallory Scott
Rakesh Chatrikhi - PhD Candidate
Mar 18, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BPH 572) for Rakesh Chatrikhi and Mallory Scott
Mallory Scott - PhD Candidate
Mar 18, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Stepwise Analysis of RNA Interference by Single Molecule and Single Cell Platform
Sua Myong, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Department, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Mar 12, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Dmitri Ermolenko
Student Seminar (BCH 502) for Matthew Payea and Morgan Monaghan
Matthew Payea - PhD Candidate
Mar 11, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BCH 502) for Matthew Payea and Morgan Monaghan
Jerry Madukwe - PhD Candidate
Mar 11, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Mechanisms of Human Translation and mRNA Turnover Regulation
Jens Lykke-Andersen, Ph.D. - Professor, Division of Biological Science, University of California, San Diego
Mar 05, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Yi-Tao Yu
Student Seminar (BCH 502) for Christina Brule and Jerry Madukwe
Christina Brule - PhD Candidate
Mar 04, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BCH 502) for Christina Brule and Jerry Madukwe
Jerry Madukwe - PhD Candidate
Mar 04, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Synthetic Molecular Evolution of Membrane Active Peptides
William C. Wimley, Ph.D. - Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University School of Medicine
Feb 26, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. Alan Grossfield
Student Seminar (BCH 502) for Shihao Xu and Clarence Ling
Clarence Ling - PhD Candidate
Feb 25, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BCH 502) for Shihao Xu and Clarence Ling
Shihao Xu - PhD Candidate
Feb 25, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Science and News: A Marriage of Convenience
Joe Palca, Ph.D. - Science Correspondent, NPR News, Washington, D.C.
Feb 20, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | G-9425 (Class of '62 Auditorium)
Host: Dr. Lynne E. Maquat
Student Seminar (BCH 502) for Yongchun Zhang and John Vadas
John Vadas - PhD Candidate
Feb 18, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BCH 502) for Yongchun Zhang and John Vadas
Yongchun Zhang - PhD Candidate
Feb 18, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
piRNA Primary Transcripts: A New Class of Long Non-coding RNA
Xin Zhiguo Li, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Associate, University of Massachusetts, Medical School/HHMI
Feb 17, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Student Seminar (BPH 572) for Dejun Lin and Sarah Loerch
Sarah Loerch - PhD Candidate
Feb 11, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BPH 572) for Dejun Lin and Sarah Loerch
Dejun Lin - PhD Candidate
Feb 11, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Integrative Approaches for Decoding the Function of Long Non-coding RNAs in Human Cancer
Yiwen Chen, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health
Feb 10, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Student Seminar (BCH 502) for Stefanie DeVito and Chinmay Surve
Chinmay Surve - PhD Candidate
Feb 04, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BCH 502) for Stefanie DeVito and Chinmay Surve
Stefanie DeVito - PhD Candidate
Feb 04, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Student Seminar (BPH 572) for Nicholas Leioatts
Nicholas Leioatts - PhD Candidate
Jan 28, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Mechanistic Studies of Eukaryolic Translation Initiation
Sarah Walker - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry at John Hopkins University School of Medicine; Research Fellow in the Intramural Program of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the NIH
Jan 27, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Unraveling the Effects of microRNAs: Targets and mRNP Remodeling
Olivia Rissland, D.Phil. - Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Jan 22, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Student Seminar (BPH 572) for Yinghan Fu
Yinghan Fu - PhD Candidate
Jan 21, 2014 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)
Assessing the Orientation of Vaccine Candidate P6 in Nontypable Haemophilus Influenza
Lea Vacca Michel, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
Jan 15, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Dr. David Mathews
Small RNA Sorting is Critical for Germline Surveillance and Fertility
Carolyn Phillips, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School
Jan 13, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
The Role of RNA- and DNA-Binding Proteins in Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation and Innate Immunity
Manuel Ascano, Jr. Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Associate, Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology at the Rockefeller University
Jan 08, 2014 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)