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Department of Biochemistry

Seminar Program

Spring 2005

All seminars will be held at 4:00 p.m. in room 6001 (Medical School), unless otherwise noted.
For additional information on our seminar program, please contact Dr Jim Karam or Nicolette Solano.
 
 

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
January 10	Michael McEachern, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Genetics University of Georgia Athens, GA	"Extreme Makeover- Telomere Edition: Recombination Rebuilds Chromosome Ends" Host: Arthur Lustig, Ph.D.
January 17	NO SEMINAR	Martin Luther King Jr Holiday
January 24	Zhaoxia Sun, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Genetics Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT	"Zebrafish as a Model System for Kidney Development and Disease." Host: Frank Jones, Ph.D.
January 31 local speaker
February 7	NO SEMINAR	Mardi Gras Holiday
February 14	Girish Shah, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Department of Pharmacology University of Louisiana Monroe, LA	"Pituitary Calcitonin: A Novel Physiological Inhibitor of Prolactin Gene Expression" Host: David Hurley, Ph.D.
February 21 local speaker	Patrice Delafontaine, M.D. Professor Department of Med-Cardiology Tulane University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, LA	"IGF-1 and Cardiovascular Disease" Host: Jim Karam, Ph.D.
February 28	David Gross, Ph.D. Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Louisiana State University HSC Shreveport, LA	"Novel Mechanisms of Gene Activation and Repression in Chromatin" Host: Arthur Lustig, Ph.D.
March 7	Thomas Seyfried, Ph.D. Professor Department of Biology Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA	"New Therapeutic Strategies for Brain Ganglioside Storage Diseases" Host: YT Li, Ph.D.
March 14 local speaker
March 21	NO SEMINAR	Spring Break Holiday
March 28	David Worthylake, Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Louisiana State University HSC New Orleans, LA	"Structural Basis for the Activation of Rho-family GTPases by Dbl Proteins" Host: Sam Landry, Ph.D.
April 4	Fred Winston, Ph.D. Professor Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School Boston, MA	"Analysis of Transcription and Chromatin Structure in Yeast" Host: Arthur Lustig, Ph.D.
April 11	Vivian Bardwell, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Genetics Cell Biology University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN	"The Role of the BCOR Corepressor Complex in Chromatin Modifications, Cancer and Development" Host: Charles Hemenway, Ph.D.
April 18	Peter Cheung, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Medical Biophysics University of Toronto Ontario, Canada	"The Roles of Histone Phosphorylation and Histone Variants in the Regulation of Gene Expression" Host: Frank Jones, Ph.D.
April 25 local speaker Room 5150	S. Michal Jazwinski, Ph.D. Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Louisiana State University HSC New Orleans, LA	"Multiple Facets of Mitochondrial Action in Yeast Aging" Host: Arthur Lustig, Ph.D.
May 19 Room 5150	Bridget Williams Ph.D. Candidate Department of Biochemistry Tulane University HSC New Orleans, LA	"Recombinational Interactions at Telomeres"

 

Last revised: 5/5/05

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