Fall 1998 Seminar Calendar

September 2 Ruth Nussinov NIC-FCRDC and Tel Aviv University Structural Motifs at Protein-Protein Interfaces
September 9 Angel García Los Alamos National Laboratory Protein Folding of Minimalist Models: Role of Pressure and Temperature on Hydrophobic Interactions
September 16 Michel Goldberg Université de Paris VII and Institute Pasteur The Role of Long Range Interactions at Early Stages of Protein Folding
September 23 Jonathan A. King Massachusetts Institute of Technology Folding, Misfolding and Inclusion Body Formation of Protein Synthesized in Bacteria
October 7 Keith A. Dunker Washington State University Disorder in Proteins: Structure and Function, Detection, Prevalence, Biological Significance and Prediction from Aminoacid Sequence
October 14 Mario L. Amzel Johns Hopkins University Amidation of Bioactive Peptides: The Structure and Mechanism of Peptidylglycine and Hydroxylating Monooxygenase
October 21 John Kuriyan The Rockefeller University Structural Studies on Signaling by SH2 and SH3 Domains
October 28 Helen Berman Rutgers University Sequence-structure Relationships in Collagen Peptide
November 4 Nicole Sampson SUNY at Stony Brook Enzyme Loops and Lids: The Interplay Between Structure and Catalysis
November 11 Ruth Stark College of Staten Island What NMR Can Tell About Lipid Organization and Function
November 18 Ruben A. Abagyan New York University Structure Prediction and Drug Design
November 25 Robert Callender Albert Einstein College of Medicine The Primary Dynamics of Protein Folding
December 2 Thomas O. Baldwin Texas A&M University For Protein Folding, Timing is Almost Everything
December 9 Josep Rizo University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Structure and Interactions of Proteins that Regulate Neurotransmitter Release
December 16 María Luisa Tasayco City College Disorder + Disorder = Order
Recognition Between Disordered Polypeptide Chains

The Division gratefully acknowledges the support of the Dean of Science, RCMI and the Chairman of the Chemistry Department.

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 11:45 am. Refreshments will be served at 11:30 am.

For further information contact Prof. Tasayco at (212)650-8169.

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Spring 1999 Seminar Calendar

February 2 Craig Schenk Colorado State University Structure/Function NMR Studies on Membrane Proteins
February 10 Mark Girvin Albert Einstein College of Medicine Conformational Changes of the c-subunit of E. coli ATPase Explored with NMR
February 17 Dong-Yan Zhang CCNY X-ray Structure of Dienoyl-CoA Isomerase
Andreas Dress Germany Protein Sequences & Boltzmann's Entropy
February 24 Xiquan Liang CCNY Fatty Acid Oxidation in Mitochondria: The Impact of Enzyme Organization and Aspects of Unsaturated Fatty Acids Degradation
March 3 Benoit Roux Montreal University The Environment of Biomolecules: Atomic and Mean-field Models
March 10 Michael Lisanti Albert Einstein College of Medicine Caveolæ Signaling and Cell Transformation
March 17 Gaetano T. Montelione Rutgers University Protein NMR in Structure Genomics
March 24 David Cowburn The Rockefeller University Structural Biology of Intracellular Signal Transduction
April 14 Kevin Doherty CCNY Nucleic Acid Binding Activity of Bleomycin Hydrolase
Ming Jin CCNY Urease, Staphylococcus and Asian Ulcers
April 21 Bruce Diner E. I. duPont de Nemours Photosystem II: Free Radicals & Coupling Electron Transport/H+
April 28 Richard M. Epand McMaster University Membrane Fusion Promoted by Virial Fusion
May 5 Ann McDermott Columbia University Proteins and Peptides: Solid State NMR and Membrane Proteins
May 12 Eric J. Gouaux Columbia University Structure & Function of Channel-Forming Proteins: X-ray Studies
May 19 Richard Magliozzo Brooklyn College, CUNY Probing Pyruvate Formate-Lyase with EPR

The Division gratefully acknowledges the support of the Dean of Science, RCMI and the Chairman of the Chemistry Department.

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 am. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

For further information contact Prof. Thomas Haines at (212)873-2982.

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Fall 1999 Biochemistry Seminars

September 8 Dong-Yan Zhang CCNY Catalytic mechanisms of Enoyl-CoA isomerase and Dienoyl-CoA Isomerase from Rat liver
Huiyong Cheng CCNY Induction of Apoptosis by Phosphatidylserine
September 15 Anders Wallqvist Rutgers University Protein sequence matching using secondary structure similarities: Comparison with amino acid sequence alignments and application to fold recognition in genome databases
September 29 Neville Kallenbach New York University What determines the helical structure in proteins?
October 6 Michael Rosen Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute A mechanism of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein activation by the Cdc42 GTPase
October 20 Andrej Sali Rockefeller University Comparative protein structure modeling in Genomics
October 27 Tatyana Polenova Hunter College of CUNY Proteins in the solid state. NMR studies of molecular structure, dynamics, and function
November 3 Ming-Ming Zhou Mount Sinai School of Medicine Structure and function of protein modules in signal transduction and chromatin remodeling
November 10 Nina Gonnelli Novartis Solution structure of the catalytic domain of human stromelysin-1 complexed to a potent, non-peptidic inhibitor: Implications for drug design
November 17 Patricia Weber Schering-Plough Research Institute Crystallography in Medicine: Structure-based design of farnesyl protein transferase inhibitors
November 24 Maria-Luisa Tasayco CCNY TBA
December 1 Manfred Philipp Lehman College of CUNY Combinatorial Methods in the Search for New Blood Clotting Inhibitors
December 8 Harel Weinstein Mt Sinai School of Medicine A structural context for the biological functions of G-protein-coupled receptors in cellular signal transduction
December 15 Kevin Doherty CCNY TBA
Guoliang Qian CCNY TBA

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 am. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

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Spring 2000 Biochemistry Seminars
Chemistry Department
City College of New York

February 2 Marcos Milla U. Pennsylvania Medical School, Dept Biochem & Biophys. How does the tumor-necrosis-factor-a converting enzyme work?
February 9 Jiangxun Li University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. Oral Biology Cytoskeleton and PKC substrates in Integrin Activation and Cell Adhesion
February 16 Guoliang Qian CUNY Biochemistry TBA
Ming Jin CUNY Biochemistry TBA
February 23 Ko Kashfi Sophie Davis School for Biomedical Education Regulation of hepatic carnitine transferase I
March 1 Harvey Penefsky NYC Public Health Research Institute ATP synthesis by a molecular motor. Mechanism of action: energy transduction
March 8 Stanley J. Opella Univ. of Pennsylvania,
Dept of Chemistry 		NMR spectroscopy and functional genomics
March 15 Ron Levy Rutgers University,
Dept. of Chemistry 		Modeling of protein folding, binding, and dynamics using NMR relaxation
March 22 Joan Massague Memorial Sloan Kettering
Chair, Cell Biology 		The TGF-beta/Smad pathway in development and disease
March 29 TBA
April 5 Roman Osman Mt Sinai School of Medicine
Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics 		Specificity and catalysis of DNA repair
April 26 Cassandra Smith Boston University Specificity Genomes, Twins, and Schizophrenia: New Insights
May 3 Diomedes Logothetis Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics 		Regulation of G Protein-Sensitive K+ Channels by PIP2
May 10 Lane Gilchrist CCNY Dept. Chem. Engineering
Center for Biomedical Engineering 		Rational design of biomaterials from cellular components
May 17 Michael V. L. Bennett Chair, Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine 		Connexins: the family of vertebrate Gap-junction-forming proteins
May 24 Gunther Blobel
Nobel Prize 1999 		Rockefeller University Protein trafficking in cells (4:00 pm, Shepard Hall Room 95)

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 11:25 am. Refreshments will be served at 11:15 am.

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Fall 2000 Biochemistry Seminars
Chemistry Department
City College of New York


September 6 Dr. Dennis Shields Albert Einstein Coll. Med. Secretory Vesicle Budding from the Golgi apparatus: the Role of Phospholipids
September 13 Dr. Arthur Palmer, III Columbia Univ. P. & S. NMR studies of protein motions and folding
September 20 Dr. Dennis Rousseau Albert Einstein Coll. Med. The Catalytic Mechanism of Cytochrome Oxidase
September 27 Dr. Isidore Rigoutsos Bioinformatics Group,
IBM Research Division 		The Emergence of Pattern Discovery Techniques in Computational Biology
October 4 Dr. Lila Gierasch Univ. of Mass., Amherst Protein Folding of a Predominantly Beta Sheet Protein
October 11 Dr. Lane Gilchrist CCNY Chem. Enginrg. Rational Design of Biomaterials from Cellular Components
October 18 Dr. Steven Schwartz Albert Einstein Coll. Med. Protein Motions, a Source of Catalysis: Theory & Practice of Promoting Vibrations
October 25 Dr. Clay Bracken Weill Medical College Characterization of Protein Dynamics and Folding using NMR
November 1 Abraham Mazur Memorial
November 8 Dr. Mark Tuckerman New York University Ab initio Path Integral Studies of Hydronium & Hydroxide Transport in Water
November 15 Dr. Philip Yeagle Univ. Connecticut 3-D structure of the membrane protein, rhodopsin, from NMR.
November 22
Postponed! 		Dr. Gerhard Wagner Harvard Medical School NMR Studies of Large Proteins
November 29 Dr. Katherine Borden Mt. Sinai School of Med. Defining Molecular Targets for the RING domain of PML
December 6 Dr. Ronald Elber Cornell University Protein Recognition by Threading
December 13 Dr. Wilma K. Olson Rutgers University DNA Base Sequence and Three-dimensional Structure

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 11:25 am. Refreshments will be served at 11:15 am.

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Spring 2001 Biochemistry Seminars
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February 7 Prof. Diana Murray Weill Medical College of Cornell University Protein/membrane interactions in biological signal transduction: A computational analysis
February 14 Prof. Robert P. Hausinger Michigan State University Bacterial urease: more than a nickel's worth
February 21 Prof. Terry Gaasterland Rockefeller University Interpreting Gene Expression Data
February 28 Dr. Giovanna Scapin Merck Structural Biology and Drug Design
March 7 Prof. Burkhard Rost Columbia University Evolution teaches structure prediction
March 14 Prof. David Gershon Technion-Israel Institute of Technology A novel mechanism of activation of the transcription factor HSF-1 in response to heat stress
March 21 Prof. Brian Chait Rockefeller University Proteomic Tools for Dissecting Cellular Function
March 28 Prof. Milton Werner Rockefeller University Understanding molecular communication in transcription and apoptosis
April 4 Prof. George Makhatadze Penn State University Designing thermostable proteins: To charge or not to charge?
April 18 Prof. Lukas Tamm University of Virginia Folding of Proteins into Membranes: A Greasy Affair
April 25 Prof. Kotha Subbaramaiah Weill Medical College of Cornell University Regulation of Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) Expression in Epithelial Cells
May 2 Prof. Min Lu Weill Medical College of Cornell University HIV-1 Membrane Fusion and its Inhibition
May 9 Prof. Bertrand Garcia-Moreno Johns Hopkins University The experimental perspective on protein electrostatics: the devil is in the details
May 16 Prof. James Hamilton Boston University Medical School Fatty acid transport in membranes: who still believes in diffusion?
May 23 Prof. Gerhard Wagner Harvard Medical School Studies of protein interactions with NMR and other methods

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12 noon. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am. Partial support for this seminar series has been provided by the Center for the Study of the Cellular and Molecular Basis of Development, an NIH RCMI facility.

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Fall 2001 Biochemistry Seminars
Chemistry Department
City College of New York


August 29 Dongyan Zhang City College of CUNY Two rat liver ß-oxidation isomerases in the unsaturated fatty acid pathway
September 5 Dr. Joachim Frank Wadsworth Center, NYS Dept of Health Cryo-EM, single-particle reconstruction;the study of molecular machines
September 12 Dr. Stuart McLaughlin SUNY Stony Brook Postponed
October 3 Dr. Klaus Gawrisch NIH, Lab. Of Biochem. & Biophys. Some receptors like it soft. Properties of polyunsaturated fatty acids
October 10 Dr. Colin Wraight U. of Illinois,Urbana Protein Control of the Quinones of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers
October 17 Dr. Stephen Burley Rockefeller University, HHMI Structural biology of eukaryotic gene expression
October 24 Dr. Terry Krulwich Mt. Sinai Medical School Tetracycline Resistance Proteins: Implications of Multiple Transport Functions
October 31 Dr. Peter Kwong NIH-NIAID, Vaccine Research Center HIV-1 gp120 envelope glycoprotein: atomic structure and vaccine design
November 7 Dr. Olga Gursky Boston University Energetics, structure, function & folding pathways of human apolipoproteins
November 14 Dr. Richard Friesner Columbia University Protein Structure Prediction
November 21 Dr. Ira Tabas Columbia University Macrophages from CCTa-deficient mice Phenotypes relevant to atherosclerosis
November 28 Dr. Stuart McLaughlin SUNY, Stony Brook Electrostatic potentials, biological membranes, and signal transduction
December 5 Dr. Carmen Manella Wadsworth Center Folding of the inner mito. membrane. Dynamics & bioenergetic implications
December 12 Dr. Marilyn Resh Sloan Kettering Center Regulation of Src Kinases and HIV-1 Gag by Fatty Acylation

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 11:30 AM. Refreshments will be served at 11:15 am. Partial support for this seminar series has been provided by the Center for the Study of the Cellular and Molecular Basis of Development, an NIH RCMI facility.

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   Phone: 212 650-8402
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Spring 2002 Biochemistry Seminars
Chemistry Department
City College of New York


February 20 James M. Ntambi U Wisconsin-Madison Regulation of the lipid metabolism genes of stearoyl CoA desaturase
March 13 R.H. Raetz Duke U Med Ctr Genomic Insights into the Biosynthesis Secretion & Functions of Membrane Lipids
March 20 Steven O. Smith SUNY Stony Brook Helix Interactions in the Activation of Membrane Receptor Proteins
April 10 Lynmarie Thompson Univ. Of Mass, Amherst NMR studies of transmembrane signaling in bacterial chemotaxis receptors
April 17 Christopher D. Stubbs T. Jefferson University Protein-protein interactions in cell signaling: studies with protein kinase C indicate the crisis to come
April 24 Monique Cosman Laurence Livermore Natl Lab Biomolecular characterization of the DNA repair proteins XPA and XPC complexed with benzo[a]pyrene-DNA adducts
May 1 Hoau-Yan Wang CUNY Medical School The role of a neuronal receptor for b-amyloid in Alzheimer's disease
May 8 David Stokes NYU Medical Center CryoEM of Ca-ATPase and Na,K-ATPase: Structural basis for ATP-dependent ion transport
May 15 Norbert Dencher Darmstadt University of Technology Structure, dynamics, and function of membrane proteins: Energy conversion, aging, and Alzheimer's disease

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
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   Phone: 212 650-8402
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Fall 2002 Biochemistry Seminars
Chemistry Department
City College of New York


September 18 Zheng Cui Wake Forest Med Ctr Immunosurveillance and complete regression of late-stage cancer in mice
September 25 Maribel Vazquez CCNY, Mechan. Eng. Optimized DNA Separations using Microfluidic devices
October 2 Ranajeet Ghose CCNY Domain interactions in Non-receptor Tyrosine kinases
October 9 Yuying Gosser Rockefeller University Rapid conformational changes of RNA-peptide complexes by NMR
October 16 Gerhard Hummer NIH Water and proton transport through hydrophobic channels: from carbon nanotubes to proteins
October 23 Daniel Wyss Schering Plough Res. Inst. Structure-based NMR screening of drug targets. Applicn. Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
October 30 Alex Couzis CCNY, Chem. Eng. Surfactant Facilitated Spreading of Aqueous Drops on Model Hydrophobic Surfaces
November 6 Katherine St. John Lehman College Computational Methods for Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction
November 13 Barbara Brodsky UMDNJ Peptide Models of Collagen: Structural Consequences of Collagen Mutations
November 20 Dixie Goss Hunter College TBA
November 27 Patrick Loria Yale University Protein dynamics by NMR: Applications to enzyme function
December 4 Judith Storch Rutgers University Structural and functional analysis of fatty acid-binding proteins
December 11 Suse Broyde New York University Environmental carcinogens and DNA damage: From structure toward function

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
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Fall 2002 Biochemistry Seminars
Chemistry Department
City College of New York


September 18 Zheng Cui Wake Forest Med Ctr Immunosurveillance and complete regression of late-stage cancer in mice
September 25 Maribel Vazquez CCNY, Mechan. Eng. Optimized DNA Separations using Microfluidic devices
October 2 Ranajeet Ghose CCNY Domain interactions in Non-receptor Tyrosine kinases
October 9 Yuying Gosser Rockefeller University Rapid conformational changes of RNA-peptide complexes by NMR
October 16 Gerhard Hummer NIH Water and proton transport through hydrophobic channels: from carbon nanotubes to proteins
October 23 Daniel Wyss Schering Plough Res. Inst. Structure-based NMR screening of drug targets. Applicn. Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
October 30 Alex Couzis CCNY, Chem. Eng. Surfactant Facilitated Spreading of Aqueous Drops on Model Hydrophobic Surfaces
November 6 Katherine St. John Lehman College Computational Methods for Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction
November 13 Barbara Brodsky UMDNJ Peptide Models of Collagen: Structural Consequences of Collagen Mutations
November 20 Dixie Goss Hunter College TBA
November 27 Patrick Loria Yale University Protein dynamics by NMR: Applications to enzyme function
December 4 Judith Storch Rutgers University Structural and functional analysis of fatty acid-binding proteins
December 11 Suse Broyde New York University Environmental carcinogens and DNA damage: From structure toward function

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
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SPRING 2003 BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINARS

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January 29 George McLendon Princeton U. Cytochrome and the suicide hot line
February 5 Joseph Bentz Drexel University Kinetic analysis of membrane transport by the human multidrug resistance protein in confluent MDCK monolayers
February 19 Andrew Miranker Yale Protein misfolding on type II diabetes & renal failure: Causes and consequences
February 26 Zheng Huang Brooklyn College, CUNY Systematic Nucleotide O-Substitution with Se: Struct. Determination of DNA & RNA
March 5 Lynne Regan Yale Creating novel proteins by selection and design
March 12 Fevzi Daldal U. Penn. Cytochrome bc1
March 19 P. Leslie Dutton U. Penn. Length scales in oxidoreductase engineering and construction
March 26 Jung-Ja Kim Med. Coll. Wisconsin NADPH-Cyt. P450 Oxidoreductase: Prototype for FMN- and FAD- Enzymes
April 2 Tamar Schlick New York University Delineating slow (or Rate-Limiting?) conformational changes in DNA Polymerase Beta: Applications to DNA synthesis efficiency and fidelity
April 16
(new date) 		John F. Hunt Columbia A shared mechanochemical mechanism in diverse F1-related ATPases
April 30 Michael Brenowitz Albert Einstein Med. Coll Following RNA folding: One tertiary contact at a time
May 7 Burkhard Rost Columbia Evolution helps to predict protein function?
May 14 Ad Bax NIDDK, NIH Weak alignment offers new opportunities in NMR structure determination.

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

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FALL 2003 BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINARS

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September 3 Aneel Aggarwal Mt. Sinai Translation, Replication, Repair: New Structural Insights
September 10 Yaoqi Zhou SUNY Buffalo A statistical energy function for protein folding/binding
September 17 Ernest Mehler Mt. Sinai The role of solvent in modulating structure and function in proteins
September 24 Fred Naider Coll. Staten Island Biophysical Studies on a G Protein Coupled receptor
October 1 Michael F. Summers U. Maryland Baltimore New insights into retroviral genome recognition & assembly
October 8 Daniel Lane Johns Hopkins Role of malonyl-CoA in the hypothalamic control of food intake and obesity
October 15 Brian Gibney Columbia De Novo Metalloprotein Design: Modular
October 22 Tatyana Dragic Albert Einstein Coll. Med. Mechanism of HIV entry into target cells
October 29 Shelagh Ferguson-Miller Michigan State The Ins and Outs of Electrons & Protons in Cytochrome c Oxidase
November 5 Donald Engelman Yale Membrane Protein Folding and Evolution
November 12 James Prestegard U. Georgia New NMR Approaches to Protein-Protein. and Protein-Ligand Interactions
November 19 John Lenard Rutgers Cholesterol-free C. elegans
November 26 Frida Kleiman Hunter College Response to DNA damage by transcription, RNA processing and DNA repair factors
December 3 Joel Friedman Albert Einstein Coll. Med. Taming and Dissecting Protein Dynamics:. Sol-gel encapsulation of proteins
December 10 Milton Werner Rockefeller Structural basis for the assembly of a receptor-mediated apoptotic complex

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Department of Chemistry
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SPRING 2004 BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINARS

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Feb 4 Serafin Pinol-Roma CUNY Med. School RNA-protein complexes in nuclear & mitochondrial gene expression
Feb 11 Frederick Maxfield Cornell Medical School Intracellular trafficking of lipids and cholesterol
Feb 18 Ann Shinnar Barnard College Immunity in primitive fish: Antimicrobial peptides in Hagfish
Feb 25 TBA
Mar 3 TBA
Mar 10 Michael Hecht Princeton U. Beyond proteomics: de novo proteins from designed combinatorial libraries
Mar 17 Michael Schlame New York Univ. Mitochondrial cardiolipin and Barth's Syndrome
Mar 24 Daniel Raleigh SUNY Stony Brook A high resolution view of Protein Folding
Mar 31 Dale F. Mierke Brown Univ. Transmembrane receptor/protein Interactions characterized by NMR
Apr 14 Erwin London SUNY Stony Brook The membrane organization: lipid rafts & transmembrane proteins
Apr 28 Gary Budvig Yale Univ. Water-splitting chemistry of PSII; The inner sanctum of photosynthesis
May 5 Jerard Hurwitz Mem Sloan Kettering Studies on Eukaryotic DNA replication
May 12 James Lear U Penn Membrane protein folding: What's different?

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
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FALL 2004 BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINARS

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Sep 8 Suzanne Scarlata SUNY Stony Brook Activation of phospholipase C by heterotrimeric G-proteins
Sep 15 Dale F. Mierke Brown University Transmembrane receptor/protein interactions characterized by NMR
Sep 22 Robert Tycko NIDDK/NIH Molecular structure of amyloid fibrils insights from solid state NMR
Sep 29 Dinshaw Patel Memorial Sloane Kettering Protein-RNA recognition events
Oct 6 Robert Callender Albert Einstein Role & contribution of the dynamical nature of proteins to enzymatic catalysis
Oct 13 John Macor Bristol Myers-Squibb Efforts to make a better Viagra
Oct 20 Harold Scheraga Cornell Univ. Physics-based ab initio computation of protein structure & folding pathways
Oct 27 Andrew Robertson Univ. of Iowa Role of insertions & deletions in structural divergence among ubiquitin-like proteins
Nov 3 Iban Ubarretxena-Belandia CCNY Three-dimensional structure of the bacterial multidrug transporter EmrE
Nov 10 Ashis Basu Univ. of Connecticut Effects of nitro-aromatic compounds: The interface of Chemistry and Biology
Nov 17 David Eliezer Cornell U. Med. School NMR studies of proteins associated with neurodegenerative disorders
Dec 1 TBA
Dec 8 Peter Agre Johns Hopkins Med. School 12pm: Aquaporin water channels from atomic structure to Medicine
6pm: Aquaporins: Where do we go from here? (NAC building)

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

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SPRING 2005 BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINARS

( Past Seminars )

Feb 2 Christodoulos Floudas Princeton Structure prediction in protein folding
Feb 9 Maria Luisa Tasayco City College Studies on the unfolded state of proteins by DSC and NMR analysis
Feb 16 Kenneth Kirk NIDDK/NIH Inhibition of amine oxidases by fluorinated aryl cyclopropylamines
Feb 23 Wayne Hendrickson Columbia Structural basis for FSH Stimulation of its Receptor
Mar 2 Joshua Wand U Penn Protein Dynamics and Thermodynamics: A View Emerging from NMR Relaxation
Mar 9 Marc Ceruso College of Staten Island Unraveling allosteric communication pathways with simulation
Mar 16 Christopher Lima Sloan Kettering E3-Mediated Conjugation of the Small Ubiquitin-Like Modifier SUMO
Mar 23 Vern Schramm Albert Einstein Med. School Transition state analogues in cancer and malaria
Mar 30 Blake Hill Johns Hopkins The role of Fis1 in mitochondrial fission
Apr 7 R.V. Hosur TATA Institute,India NMR of unfolded proteins
Apr 13 Seth Darst Rockefeller Structural studies on prokaryotic transcription
Apr 27 Xiangpeng Kong New York University Ring-shaped clamp proteins: replication recombination and lipid domains
May 4 Yueming Li Sloan Kettering Chemical biology of secretase
May 11 John Hunt Columbia Protein structure determination from the Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
Marshak Science Building J-1024
The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
   Phone: 212 650-8402
Fax: 212 650-6107

URL: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry
Email: chem@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
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FALL 2005 BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINARS

( Past Seminars )

Aug 31 Scott Blanchard Weill Cornell Single-molecule observations of aminoacyl-tRNA selection on the ribosome
Sep 7 K. V. Lakshmi College of Staten Island TBA
Sep 14 Vern Schramm Albert Einstein COM Transition state analogues in cancer and malaria
Sep 21 Gary Gerfen Albert Einstein COM Protein Structure: EPR Determination of Endogenous & Introduced Electron Spins
Sep 28 CCNY faculty presentations
Oct 19 Charalampos Kalodimos Rutgers Unraveling allosteric mechanisms in biological processes by NMR
Oct 26 TBA
Nov 2 David Fushman U of Maryland Polyubiquitin: Insights into structural basis of specificity in ubiquitin-mediated signaling
Nov 9 Victor Munoz U of Maryland Protein Folding in the Low-Barrier Limit
Nov 16 Andrei Alexandrescu U Conn Residual structure in initial states of protein folding probed by NMR
Nov 23 Student seminars
Nov 30 Karen Flemming Johns Hopkins Thermodynamics of membrane protein interactions
Dec 7 Virginia Cornish Columbia Co-opting Nature's Machineries for Chemical Synthesis and Discovery

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
Marshak Science Building J-1024
The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
   Phone: 212 650-8402
Fax: 212 650-6107

URL: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry
Email: chem@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Comments to: Chemistry Dept;  Comments to: webmaster.
Last modified: September 2000.
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Spring 2006 Biochemistry Seminars

( Past Seminars )

Feb 1 Anant Menon Weill Cornell GPI Biosynthesis
Feb 8 Michael Koelle Yale G prot. mechanism for neurotransmission & asymmetric cell division in C. elegans
Feb 15 Alan Finkelstein Albert Einstein COM Protein translocation through the Anthrax toxin channel
Feb 22 Ron Liem Columbia Role of the cytoskeleton in Cell Biology Neurodegenerative diseases
Mar 1 William Jorgensen Yale Computer-Aided Lead Generation and Optimization for Efficient Drug Design
Mar 8 Lizbeth Hedstrom Brandeis IMP dehydrogenase and the dynamics of drug selectivity
Mar 15 John Carradonna Boston U The active site of phe hydroxylase: Toward understanding PKU
Mar 22 Andrew Harris UMDNJ Connexin channels: probing the pore with second messengers & blockers
Mar 29 Nicolas Nassar Stony Brook Ras, cycling and inhibition
Apr 5 Julio Fernandez Columbia Single-molecule-force-spectroscopy provides a new view of protein conformations
Apr 19 Marvin Gershengorn NIDDK Discovery of low molecular weight ligands for glycoprotein hormone receptors
Apr 26 Hao Wu Weill Cornell Structural and functional studies of protein caspase inhibitors
May 3 Yujia Xu Hunter College Molecular properties of the collagen triple helix
May 10 Student Seminars

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
Marshak Science Building J-1024
The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
   Phone: 212 650-8402
Fax: 212 650-6107

URL: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry
Email: chem@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Comments to: Chemistry Dept;  Comments to: webmaster.
Last modified: September 2000.
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Fall 2006 Biochemistry Seminars

( Past Seminars )

Aug 30 Charles Dismukes Princeton Nature's Renewable Energy Blueprint: Future Fuel from Photosynthesis & Biohydrogen
Sep 6 Stevan Hubbard NYU Structural basis for protein recruitment to the Activated Insulin Receptor
Sep 13 Olaf S. Andersen Weill Cornell Lipid bilayers as allosteric regulators of membrane protein function.
Sep 20 Thomas Sakmar Rockefeller Receptor Dynamics in Bilayers: Ligand Channeling and Receptor Mixing
Sep 27 Leemor Joshua-Tor Cold Spring Harbor TBA
Oct 4 Vinzenz Unger Yale What can we learn from the structure of the Human Copper Transporter, hCTR1?
Oct 11 Thomas Steitz Yale Motion in RNA and DNA Enzymes
Oct 18 David Fushman U Maryland NMR studies of polyubiquitin chains The structural basis for its diversity
Oct 25 Lila Gierasch U Mass Amherst Folding and aggregation of a N2-Clam protein in the test tube and in the cell
Nov 1 Timothy Springer Harvard Signaling by Receptors with Two Transmembrane Domains
Nov 8 Ming-Ming Zhou Mt Sinai Deciphering the Epigenetic Histone Code: A Structural Biology Approach
Nov 15 David Lawrence Albert Einstein COM Signal Transduction Chem. & Cell Biology: Manipulating the Chemistry of Living Cells
Nov 22 Student Seminars
Nov 29 Victor Batista Yale Water to O2: QM/MM Studies of the O2 Evolving Complex of Photosystem II
Dec 6 K. Alexandropoulos Columbia Regulation of T-cell function by adaptor proteins & macromolecular signaling complexes
Dec 13 Neville Kallenbach NYU Order in the unfolded state of proteins

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
Marshak Science Building J-1024
The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
   Phone: 212 650-8402
Fax: 212 650-6107

URL: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry
Email: chem@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Comments to: Chemistry Dept;  Comments to: webmaster.
Last modified: September 2000.
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Spring 2007 Biochemistry Seminars

( Past Seminars )

Jan 31 Gerhard Wagner Harvard NMR studies of protein interactions regulating gene expression
Feb 7 Thomas Huber Rockefeller Principles of molecular recognition in biomembranes
Feb 14 Armen Y. Mulkidjanian Moscow State Proton transfer by membrane proteins: a search for common mechanisms
Feb 21 Bongsup Cho Univ Rhode Island 19F NMR Conformational studies of carcinogen- DNA adducts: Repair and Replication
Feb 28 Philip Cole Johns Hopkins Chemical approaches to sorting Out cellular signaling
Mar 7 Stewart Shuman Sloan Kettering RNA Repair
Mar 14 Michael Dustin Skirball, NYU A dynamic view of the immunological synapse
Mar 21 Angus Nairn Yale Protein kinase and protein phosphatase machinery at excitatory synapses
Mar 28 Liang Tong Columbia Structure studies of pre-mRNA 3'-end processing
Apr 4 Yigong Shi Princeton Insights into Programmed Cell Death by Structural Biology.
Apr 11 Thomas Tuschl Rockefeller Mechanism of double-stranded, RNA-triggered gene regulation
Apr 18 David Knaff Texas Tech Stereospecific, structural & mutational studies on nitrite reductase.
Apr 25 Tatyana Polenova U Delaware Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Metalloproteins and Biomaterials
May 2 Student seminars
May 9 Albert Mildvan Johns Hopkins Structures and Mechanisms of NUDIX (Nucleoside-Diphosphate-X) Hydrolases

Unless otherwise announced, all seminars will take place in room J-1027 (Marshak Building) at 12:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 11:45 am.

Department of Chemistry
Marshak Science Building J-1024
The City College of New York, CUNY
Convent Avenue & 138th Street
New York, New York 10031
   Phone: 212 650-8402
Fax: 212 650-6107

URL: www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry
Email: chem@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Comments to: Chemistry Dept;  Comments to: webmaster.
Last modified: September 2000.
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