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DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN


SEMINAR PROGRAM

WINTER/SPRING 2008

Seminars are held in the Biochemistry Library (Room 376) unless otherwise noted

 

 

Rugang Zhang, Ph.D.
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Faculty Candidate

"Chromatin Structure, Cell Senescence, Differentiation, Aging and Cancer"

Wednesday
January 9, 2008
11:00 am

Guangwei Du, Ph.D.
Stony Brook University
Faculty Candidate
"Lipid Signal Regulation of Membrane Trafficking and Oncogenesis" Tuesday
January 22, 2008

11:00 am

Ping Xie, Ph.D.
University of Iowa
Faculty Candidate

"TRAF3: A Tumor Suppressor Gene?" Thursday
January 24, 2008

11:00 am

Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans Robert Kalbitzer
University of  Regensburg
Host: Evgenii Kovriguine, Ph.D.

"TBA"

Wednesday
January 30, 2008
11:00 am

Bekir Cinar, Ph.D.
Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School
Faculty Candidate

"Lipid Rafts: Sites for Novel Protein Complexes" Tuesday
February 5, 2008

11:00 am

Ling Qin, Ph.D.
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Faculty Candidate

"EGF Receptor Signaling in Bone Metabolism and Cancer Bone Metastasis" Wednesday
February 13, 2008
11:00 am

Shama Mirza, Ph.D.
Medical College of Wisconsin
Faculty Candidate

"Development of Novel Methods and Technologies for the Comprehensive Characterization and Quantification of Cellular Proteomes" Wednesday
February 20, 2008
11:00 am

Albert Girotti, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry
Medical College of Wisconsin
 

"Translocation As A Means Of Disseminating Lipid Hydroperoxide- Induced Oxidative Damage And Effector Action" Wednesday
February 27, 2008
11:00 am

Christopher Veldkamp, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry
Medical College of Wisconsin

"Translocation As A Means Of Disseminating Lipid Hydroperoxide- Induced Oxidative Damage And Effector Action" Wednesday
March 5, 2008
11:00 am

Patricia Wilson, Ph.D.
Department of Pediatrics - Nephrology
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Host: Sally Twining, Ph.D.

"The Roles of Polycystin-Containing Multi-Molecular Complexes in Cellular Differentiation" Wednesday
March 19, 2008
11:00 am

Grant Hartzog, Ph.D.
UC Santa Cruz
Host: Jianhua Fu, Ph.D.

"Genetic Analysis of Transcription Elongation in Yeast" Wednesday
March 26, 2008
11:00 am

Francisco Asturias, Ph.D.
The Scripps Research Institute
Host: Jianhua Fu, Ph.D.

"Structure of complexes involved in transcription and chromatin regulation" Wednesday
April 2, 2008
11:00 am

Da-Zhi Wang, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host: Ravi Misra, Ph.D.

 

"microRNAs that Regulate Cardiac Development and Function"
Tuesday
April 8, 2008

10:00 am

George Wilkinson, Ph.D.
Department of Pediatrics Genetics
MCW
Host: Jong-In Park, Ph.D.

 

"Postnatal lung development and extracellular matrix integrity depend on vascular ephrinB2 function"

Wednesday
April 16, 2008
11:00 am

David Pederson, Ph.D.
University of Vermont
Host: Vaughn Jackson, Ph.D.

 

"Repair of Damaged DNA in Chromatin"

SEMINAR PRESENTED IN MEB ROOM M2050

Wednesday
April 23, 2008
11:00 am

Karen Knudsen, Ph.D.
Thomas Jefferson University
Host: Jong-In Park, Ph.D.

 

"Flipping the SWI/SNF switch in prostate cancer:  implications for AR signaling and prostate cancer growth"

Wednesday
April 30, 2008
11:00 am

Robert Kernstock, Ph. D.
Medical College of Wisconsin
MCW
Host: Jong-In Park, Ph.D.

 

CANCELLED

"The effect of sterol carrier protein-2 on glutathione peroxidase activity"

Wednesday
May 7, 2008
11:00 am

Ramani Ramchandran, Ph. D.
Department of Pediatrics Genetics
MCW
Host: Jong-In Park, Ph.D.

 

"Novel signaling molecules and pathways in vertebrate angioblast
development and disease"

Wednesday
May 14, 2008
11:00 am

Kay Ishizuka
Graduate Student


Hong Guan
Graduate Student


Department of Biochemistry
Medical College of Wisconsin

"Spatial regulation of Ras protein and DHHC palmitoyltransferases in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae"

 "Localization and Function of Protein Acyltransferases in Breast Cancer"

Wednesday
May 21, 2008
11:00 am

Wei Yong
Graduate Student

Department of Biochemistry
Medical College of Wisconsin

"Investigations Into Crystal Structure of Sarcosine Dehydrogenase, a Bi-functional Enzyme"

 

Wednesday
May 28, 2008
11:00 am

Kurt Kolander
Graduate Student

Stephanie Cossette
Graduate Student

Department of Biochemistry
Medical College of Wisconsin

"SRF enhancer drives expression in early coronary vasculature"

"Investigations in the Molecular and Cellular Basis of Cardiovascular Development"

Wednesday
June 4, 2008
11:00 am

Malathi Narayan
Graduate Student 

Luis Paniagua
Graduate Student


Department of Biochemistry
Medical College of Wisconsin

"Evidence for a Post-Translational Modification of Maspin"

 "Using proteomics to study signaling in rap1b-/- platelets"

Wednesday
June 11, 2008
11:00 am

Alicia Castonguay
Graduate Student

Dustin Whitney
Graduate Student


Department of Biochemistry
Medical College of Wisconsin

"A Tale of Two Ligans: MPR and Signaling Pathways"

 "Investigating Interchangeable Polarity Complexes:  Par-6 Edition"

Wednesday
June 18, 2008
11:00 am



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