Date/Location	Host Division	Invited Speaker	Host Faculty
Wed, Sept 3 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	Grad Faculty Candidate	Dr. Louis Mansky, Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Minnesota HIV therapeutics: viral mutagenesis and novel drug targets.	BMBB
Wed, Sept 10 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	Grad Faculty Candidate	Dr. Edgar Arriaga, Chemistry Dept., University of Minnesota Investigating the roles of Giant Mitochondria in Aging.	BMBB
Wed, Sept 17 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	RB	Dr. Paul Pilch, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA Adipocyte caveolae and lipid metabolism.	David Bernlohr
Wed, Sept 24 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	BMBB - P&T	Dr. Timothy Griffin, University of Minnesota New Discoveries in Cancer and Cellular Regulation Via Interdisciplinary Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics.	BMBB
Wed, Oct.. 1 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	MB	Dr. Anthony Schwacha, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA MCM2-7: A complicated helicase.	Anja Bielinsky
Wed., Oct. 8 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	MB	Dr. Saba Valadkhan, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Probing into the Dark Matter of the Genome: Lessons from Spliceosome and Neurogenesis.	Reuben Harris
Wed, Oct. 15 105 Cargill 4-5 PM	Dagley Lecture	Dr. Stephen Withers, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Sugars are good for you: their roles as therapeutics.	BMBB
Thur, Oct 16 105 Cargill 4-5 PM	Dagley Lecture	Dr. Stephen Withers, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Engineering and evolution of old enzymes for new tasks: glycoside assembly.	BMBB
Wed, Oct 22 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	SB	CANCELLED! Dr. Celia Schiffer, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA Combating Drug Resistance: Lessons from HIV-1 Protease.	Hiroshi Matsuo
Wed, Oct 29 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	MB	Dr. Scott Dehm, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota	Michel Sanders
Tues, Nov. 4 2-137 Jackson Hall 12:20 PM	Lerner Lecture	Dr. Bernhard Hering, Dept. Surgery, University of Minnesota	David Bernlohr
Wed, Nov 12 2-137 Jackson 12:20-1:10 PM	MBB
Mon, Nov 17 105 Cargill 3 pm	Henderson Lecture	Dr. Jose M. Ordovas Tufts University, Boston MA Genome-guided nutrition: fact or fancy	FScN
Wed, Nov 19 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	SB	Dr. Yuri L. Lyubchenko, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE Molecular Mechanism of DNA Recombination. Insight from the Single Molecule Studies.	Hiroshi Matsuo
Wed, Nov 26		No Seminar
Wed, Dec 3 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	Grad Faculty Candidate	Dr. Zigang Dong, University of Minnesota, Hormel Institute, Austin, MN Molecular Mechanism of UV-Induced Skin Cancer.	BMBB
Wed, Dec 10 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	2008 Boyer-Peter Award recipient	Dr. Nathaniel Traaseth (Veglia Lab) Membrane Protein Structure Determination by Solid-State NMR.	Gianluigi Veglia
Wed, Dec 17		No Seminar
Wed, Dec 24		No Seminar
Wed, Dec 31		No Seminar
Wed, Jan 7		No Seminar
Wed, Jan 14		No Seminar
Wed., Jan 21 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	MBB	Dr. Maria Sunnerhagen, Linköping University, Sweden Ubiquitination and Antibody Binding in Sjögrens Disease: Molecular Regulation of E2-E3 Recognition.	David Bernlohr
Wed, Jan 28 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	RB	Dr. Mondira Kundu, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN Ulk1 and Autophagy in Mitocjondrial Clearance: Using Reticulocytes as a Model..	Do-Hyung Kim
Wed, Feb 4 2-137 Jackson 4-5 PM	SB	Dr. Mei Hong, Iowa State University, Ames, IA Structure and Dynamics of the Influenza M2 Protein in Lipid Bilayers from Solid-State NMR.	Gianluigi Veglia
Wed., Feb 11 2-137 Jackson 4-5 PM	Graduate Faculty Nominee	Dr. Meri Firpo, University of Minnesota	Anja-Katrin Bielinsky
Wed, Feb 18 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	MB	Dr. Marvin P. Wickens, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI mRNA Regulation Finding Partners and Making Memories.	Vivian Bardwell
Wed, Feb 25 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	Goldberg Lecture	Dr. Peter Roach, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN Glycogen, and old dog new trick? From multisite protein in phosphorylation to glycogen phosphorylation to Lafora disease.	Alex Lange
Wed, Mar 4 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	2008 Boyer-Peter Award Recipient	Dr. Elena Harjes (Matsuo Lab) Extended Structure of the APOBEC3G Catalytic Domain.	Hiroshi Matsuo
Wed, Mar 11 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	SB
Wed, Mar 18	Spring Break	No Seminar
Wed, Mar 25 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	SB	Dr. P. Andrew Karplus, Oregon State University, Corvillas, OR	Doug Ohlendorf
Wed, Apr 1 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	MB	Dr. John Petrini, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York City, NY Genetic Analysis of Chromosome Break Metabolism.	Eric Hendrickson
Wed, Apr 8 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	RB	Dr. Edwin Chapman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Nanomechanics of Ca2+-triggered Membrane Fusion.	Jim Ervasti
Wed, Apr 15 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	2008 Boyer-Peter Award recipient	Dr. Naixia Zhang (Walters Lab) NMR Studies of Ubiquitin Receptors: S5a and Rpn13.	Kylie Walters
Wed, Apr 22 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	SB	Dr. Andrej Sali, University of California, San Francisco, CA	Carrie Wilmot
Wed, Apr 29 2-137 Jackson Hall 4-5 PM	MB	Professor Matthias Gotte, McGill University, Montreal, CA Counteracting Resistance to Nucleosiden Analogue Inhibitors of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase.	Reuben Harris
Wed, May 6 1-5 PM Coffman Memorial Union	Bollum Symposium		MB