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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