Wednesday, January 14
3-120 MCB
4-5 PM

RB

Faculty Candidate

Do-Hyung Kim (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT,
Cambridge, MA)

Nutrient Sensing and Growth Control by the TOR Pathway.

Thursday, January 15
6-135 Jackson Hall
9-10 AM

Do-Hyung Kim

Chalk Talk

Wednesday, January 21
3-120 MCB
4-5 PM

RB

Faculty Candidate

Keith Vosseller (University of California, San Francisco)

Cytosolic and Nuclear Glycosylation (O-GlcNAc) in Signaling:
Studies onInsulin Resistance and Mass Spectrometry Based Site-Mapping/Proteomics.

Keith Vosseller

Chalk Talk

RB

Faculty Candidate

Yibin Kang (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)

Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis: Molecular Basis of Tissue Tropism.

Yibin Kang

Chalk Talk

Wednesday, January 28
3-120 MCB
4-5 PM

RB

Faculty Candidate

Terry Combs (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY)

Sex Differences in Lipid and Glucose Metabolism.

Thursday, January 29
6-135 Jackson Hall
9-10 AM

Terry Combs

Chalk Talk

RB

Faculty Candidate

Paul Cullen (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR)

Role of Cdc42 in Signal Transduction and Morphogenesis in Yeast.

Thursday, February 5
6-135 Jackson Hall
9-10 AM

Paul Cullen

Chalk Talk

Morris Birnbaum (School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania)

Title: "The Coordinated Control of Growth and Metabolism"

RB

Faculty Candidate

David Steger (University of California, San Francisco)

Regulation of Chromatin Remodeling by Inositol Polyphosphates.

David Steger

Chalk Talk

Tim Read (Microbial Genomics Group, The Institute for Genomic Research - Rockville, MD)

The Genome of Biodefense Pathogen Bacillus Anthracis, and Beyond.

Martin Bollinger (Depts. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University)

Stalking Intermediates in Oxygen activation by Non-heme Iron Enzymes

Vytas Bankaitis (Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Diverse Roles for Phosphatidylinositol Transfer Protein Signaling in Regulation of Membrane Trafficking.

Wednesday,March 24
3-120 MCB
4-5 PM

Joshua LaBaer (Harvard Institute of Protemoics, Harvard Medical School)

Harnessing the Human Proteome.

Wednesday, March 31
3-120 MCB
4-5 PM

Matthew Weitzman (Salk Institute, University of California - San Diego)

Lessons from the Battleground of Virus-Host Interactions.

Constantine Londos (Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, NIDDK-NIH)

The PAT Family of Proteins and Lipid Metabolism from Flies to Mammals.

Wei Jiang (Cancer Genetics & Epigenetics, Burnham Institute - La Jolla, CA)

Regulation of Cytokinesis by a Cdk Substrate, PRC1.

Wednesday, April 21
3-120 MCB
4-5 PM

Thomas Floss (German Genetrap Consortium, GSF Institute of Developmental Genetics - Munich)

16,000 Pre-fabricated Knockouts: Functional analysis of the Mouse Genome by Gene Trapping.

Dr. Natalia Tretyakova (Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Mass Spectrometry Studies of Chemically Modified DNA.

Diane Robins (Human Genetics, University of Michigan)

Multiple Mechanisms of Male-specific Gene Regulation.

Seminars are scheduled each week at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesdays during the Fall and Spring semesters.

Disability accommodations will be provided upon request. Please call Ann Johnson, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Minneapolis office, 626-2127.