SPRING 2007 - SCHEDULE
All seminars will be held on Monday at 4:00 p.m. (unless otherwise noted), in Room 6001 (Medical School Building), with the exception of the "Adrouny Lecture", which is scheduled on Friday, April 13, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. For any additional information on our seminar program, or if you have any questions, feel free to contact Dr Jim Karam.
DATE SPEAKER TITLE January 22
Jeffrey G. Tasker, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
Tulane University - New Orleans, Louisiana"Rapid Modulation of Synaptic Transmission via Leptin and Glucocortiocoid Crosstalk Regulation of Endocannabinoid Synthesis"
Host: Samuel Landry, Ph. D. - Room 6001
January 29 Irina I. Serysheva, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas"Structure of the RyR1 Channel at Subnanometer Resolution by Single Particle CryoEM"
Host: Jim Karam, Ph. D. - Room 6001
February 5 W. T. Godbey, Ph.D.
Paul H. & Donna D. Flower Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA"Directed Apoptosis of Transitional Cell Carcinomas via Expression-Targeted Gene Therapy"
Host: Samuel Landry, Ph.D. - Room 6001
February 12
Costa Georgopoulos, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology & Molecular Medicine
Central Medical University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland"Interplays Among the Major Molecular Chaperone"
Host: Samuel Landry, Ph.D. - Room 6001
February 26
Rodney Rothstein, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Genetics and Development
Columbia University
New York, NY"Pursuing New Pathways in the DNA Damage Response"
Host: Arthur Lustig, Ph.D. - Room 6001
March 12
Marcia Newcomer, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
"Structural Biology of Animal Lipoxygenases"
Host: Samuel Landry, Ph.D. - Room 6001
March 26
April 2
April 13
10:00 a.m.
Gerald W. Hart, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Department of Biological Chemistry
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Baltimore, MDGeorge A. Adrouny Memorial Lecture
Host: Yu-Teh Li, Ph.D.April 16
Peter Kwong, Ph.D.
Chief
NIH/Vaccine Research Center
Structural Biology Laboratory
Bethesda, MD"Sulfation, Mimicry and HIV-1 gp120 Recognition - all in a Day's Work for the Antibody"
Host: Samuel Landry, Ph.D.
Last revised: 2/27/07
Link to Past Seminar Schedules