Department of Biochemistry
Seminar Schedule 2014-2015
Tuesdays at noon
Thursday, Dec. 4 at 12:00(CW106)
Michael Kemp, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC
“DNA Excision Repair and sedDNA Processing
During the Cellular Response to Genotoxic Stress”
Tuesday, December 2 at 12 noon (3A)
Jose Javier Bravo-Cordero Ph.D.
Associate
Gruss-Lipper Biophotonic Center
Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Yeshiva University
“Shedding Light on Rho GTPase Signaling During Metastasis”
Thursday, November 20 at 2:00 pm (3A)
Sarah Walker, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
“Rethinking First Impressions:
New Insights into eIF4B Function During Translation Initiation”
Tuesday, November 11 at 2:00 pm (3A)
James Jackson, Ph.D.
Instructor
Department of Genetics
University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
“Mutant p53: Breast Cancer’s Vulnerability?”
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 @ 12:00 noon (3A)
Carol Dieckmann, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Cellular & Molecular Biology
University of Arizona
“Cellular Asymmetry & Organelle Biogenesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii”
Tuesday August 5, 2014 at 12 noon (3A)
Victor Faunzez, M.D., PhD
Professor,
Emory University School of Medicine
Department of Cell Biology
"Endosome Mechanisms of Schizophrenia Susceptibility Genes."
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 @ 2:00 PM(3A)
Christian Rocheleau, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
McGill University Health Centre Research Institute
“Regulation of EGFR Localization and Signaling in C. elegans Epithelial Cells by Arfs and
Dynein”
Tuesday May 20th 2014 @ noon (3A)
Gregory Pazour, Ph.D.
Professor
Program in Molecular Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Title: “New Roles for an Ancient Organelle: Ciliary Defects Cause Cystic Kidney Disease and
Structural Birth Defects”
Tuesday April 22nd 2014 @ noon (3A)
John Hill, PhD
Principle Scientist
Department of Therapeutic Discovery
Amgen, Inc
Title: " A Biophysical Basis for Assessing On-Cell Binding Interactions in Therapeutic
Discovery Research.”
Tuesday April 1, 2014 @ noon (3A)
Stanley V. Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Proteomics Director, Mass Spectrometry Core Facility
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Title: "Targeted Proteomics and MRM-Based Expression Analysis Using Mass Spectrometry"
Tuesday February 25th, 2014 @ noon (3A)
Michael R. Garrett, PhD, MBA, FAHA
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Director, Molecular and Genomics Core
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Title: "Genomic Technologies at UMMC: The stuff that dreams are made of…"