Tulane University Health Sciences Center
Department of Biochemistry
Seminar Schedule

Spring 2001

**All seminarsheld at 4:00pm in room 6001  unless otherwise noted**

For additional information on our seminar program contact Bill Wimleyor Naomi Wilson.

Month/Date
Speaker
Seminar Title
January 15
NO  SEMINAR
MARTIN LUTHER KING'S BIRTHDAY
January 22
John Tomich, Ph.D
Professor, Department  Biochemistry 
KSU Core Lab
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
"Peptide-Based Channel Replacement 
Therapy for Treating Cystic Fibrosis"

(Host:  Bill Wimley)
January 29 
Joann Sweasy, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Departments of Therapeutic Radiology and Genetics
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
"The Fidelity of DNA Synthesis by DNA Polymerase Beta"

(Host:  Joe Vaccaro)
February 5
**Time will be at 12 noon**
Vincent Hilser, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Human and Biological 
Chemistry and Genetics
Sealy Center for Structural Biology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX
"Viewing Proteins as Ensembles"

(Host:  Sam Landry)

Dr. Hilser's Web Site
February 12
Su-Chen Li, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
"Biochemical Studies of Tay-Sachs Disease"

(Host:)

 
February 19
James W. Brown, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
"RNase P in Archaea:  Looking to a warm place 
for P"
(Host:  Jim Nolan)

Dr. Brown's Web Page
February 26
NO SEMINAR
MARDI GRAS
March 5
James  B. Miller, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Human Genetics Program
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
"Title to be announced"
(Host:  Jim Karam )

Speaker's Web Page:
March 12
Tien Hsu, Ph.D.
Medical University of South Carolina
Hollings Cancer Center
Charlston, SC
"Ubiquitination-mediated proteolytic control in development"
(Host: Jim Karam)

Speaker's Web Page:
March 19
Rodney E. Kellems, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman Department of Biochemistry &
Molecular Biology
Houston Medical School
Houston, TX
"Purine Metabolism, Cell Signaling and Disease"
(Host:  Jim Karam)
March 26
Grover Waldrop, Ph.D.
Department of Biological Sciences 
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA
"Acetyl CoA Carboxylase:  Structure, Chemistry and Kinetics"
(Host:  Sam Landry)

Speaker's Web Page:
April 2
Leena  Ala-Kokko, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Gene Therapy Center
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
"The Role of Cartilage Collagens in Rare and Common Human Diseases"
(Host: Bill Wimley)
April 9
Donald K. Scott, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
LSU Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, LA
"The Regulation of Gene Expression by Gluclose in Liver Cells"
(Host:  Bill Wimley)
April 16
OPEN
"Title to be announced"
(Host:)
April 23
Karen Anderson, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology
Yale University  School of Medicine
New Haven, CT 
"Insights into Molecular Mechanisms of Inhibition and Toxicity for Nucleoside Analogs Targeting HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase"

(Host: Joe Vaccaro)
April 30
David L. Levins, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Gene Regulation Section
Laboratory of Pathology NCI, DCS
Bethesda, MD
"Regulating c-myc transcription with single strands, supercoils and TFIIH"
(Host:  Arthur Lustig)

 
May 7
Terry M. Bricker, Ph.D.
Morland Family Professor and Interim Chair
Department of Biological Sciences
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA
"Protein-Protein and Protein-Cofactor Interactions in Photosystem II"
(Host:  Bill Wimley)

Dr.  Bricker's Web Page

Last revised 5/1/01
 

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