Tulane University School of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry
Seminar Schedule

Fall 1999

**All Seminars will be held on Monday in Room 6001 at 4:00 PM unless otherwise noted**

For additional information on our seminar program, contact Delilah Vise


Month/Date
Speaker
Seminar Title
September 13 Samir S. El-Dahr, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics & Physiology,  Department of Pediatrics.  Tulane Medical Center.
 "Regulation of bradykinin B2 receptor gene expression" (Host: Dr. Wimley) 
September 20 No Seminar-Yom Kippur Holiday  
September 27 
**Dissertation Seminar ** 
Monday, 1:00 pm
Michael K. Greene
Graduate Student 
Molecular & Cellular Biology Program,  Tulane University.
"Structure and mechanism of cooperation by Eschericia coli HPS40/DnaJ and Hsp70/DnaK" 
(Host:  Dr. Landry)
October 4 Thomas C. Bishop, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor 
Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane Environmental Health Sciences and  Xavier University Division of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences.
 "Ligand-Receptor Interactions between the Estrogen Receptor and select Environmental Estrogens. 
Can we predict the estrogenic activity of a given test compound?" (Host:  Dr. Wimley) 
October 11 Peter Butko, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor 
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Southern Mississippi.
"Interaction of the cytolytic toxin CytA from Bacillus thuringiensis with lipid membranes"  (Host: Dr. Wimley) 
Dr. Butko's Web Site
October 18 George H. Lorimer, Ph.D.
Professor 
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland.
 "Chaperonins: Optimizing protein folding by unfolding"  (Host: Dr. Landry) 

Dr. Lorimer's Web Site

October 25 Vince J. LiCata, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
"Linkage of  conformation and function in aspartate transcarbamylase and mammalian lipid binding protein" (Host: Dr. Wimley)
Dr. LiCata's Web Site
November 8 Kelly Tatchel, Ph.D.
Professor 
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, LSU Medical Center, Shreveport.
 "Dynamic localization of Protein Phosphatase Type I during the cell cycle"  (Host: Dr. Hyman) 

 Dr. Tatchell's Web Site

November 15 Robert S. Lahue, Ph.D.
Associate Professor 
Eppley Cancer Institute, Department of Biochemistry and  Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center.

"Triplet repeat instability in yeast" 
(Host: Dr. Nolan) 
 
 

Dr. Lahue's Web Site

November 22 David S. Gross, Ph.D.
Professor 
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, LSU Medical Center, Shreveport.
"How heat shock factor battles nucleosomes to activate transcription in vivo"   (Host: Dr. Ehrlich) 

 Dr. Gross' Web Site

November 29 Dennis Torchia, Ph.D.
Cheif, Molecular Structural Biology Core,  NIDCR, National Institutes of Health.
"NMR studies of protein structure, function and dynamics"  (Host: Dr. Landry) 

Dr. Torchia's Web Site

December 6 Cheryl A. Nickerson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor 
Department of Microbiology and Immunology,  Tulane Medical Center.
"Mechanism of Salmonella pathogenicity" (Host:  Dr. Wimley) 

Dr. Nickerson's Web Site

December 13 Alfred D. French, Ph.D.
Research Leader, Cotton Fiber Quality Research Unit.  USDA Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans
 "Recent advances in modeling crystalline disaccarides" (Host: Dr. Li)

Dr. French's Web Site

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