THURSDAYS, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm in the W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater, The Beckman Center for Chemical Sciences (unless otherwise noted).
A chemical biology approach to developing modulators for mitochondrial biogenesis
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 3:30p
Dr. Carla Koehler
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
Host: Dr. Luke Wiseman
Consequences of aneuploidy
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 3:30p
Dr. Angelika Amon
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Host: Dr. Curt Wittenberg
Mechanisms and regulation of cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 3:30p
Dr. Raymond J. Deshaies
Professor, Caltech, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Division of Biology
Host: Dr. Curt Wittenberg
DNA makes RNA makes heterochromatin: silencing in fission yeast
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 3:30p
Dr. Hiten Madhani
Biochemistry and Biophysics , UCSF
Host: Dr. Supryia Srinivasan
Springy steps: the role of inter-head tension in kinesin walking
Thursday, April 05, 2012 at 3:30p
Dr. William O. Hancock
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Department of Bioengineering, Penn State University , PA
Host: Dr. Sandra Encalada
Mediator of Transcription Regulation: structural and functional interactions
Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 3:30p
Dr. Yuichiro Takagi
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
Host: Dr. Francisco Asturias
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater
Sponsored by MCBAG and SCAGS
New Insights into Dynactin Structure and Function
Thursday, May 03, 2012 at 3:30p
Dr. Trina A. Schroer
Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Host: Dr. Ron Milligan
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater
Sponsored by MCBAG
From muscle to the inner ear: cytoplasmic actins in cellular function and disease
Monday, September 24, 2012 at 12:00p
Dr. James M. Ervasti
Professor, University of Minnesota, National Skeletal Muscle Research Center
Host: Dr. Velia Fowler
Contact: Lorraine Lathrop
Location: CARRB - 3215 Merryfield Row, Room CB107
Sponsored by MCBAG
New Opportunities for Personalized Medicine to Treat Misfolding Disease Using Organoids
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 3:30p
Dr. Jeffrey Beekman
Principal Investigator, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology / Immunology, Centre for Molecular and Cellular Intervention, University Medical Center Utrecht, Member of the Eureka Institute for Translational Research , Utrecht, The Nethe
Host: Dr. William E. Balch
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: MB Committee Lecture Hall
Sponsored by MCBAG
Protein tuning of ligand pathways and metal centers in the heme-copper terminal oxidases
Thursday, November 08, 2012 at 3:30p
Dr. Olof Einarsdottir
Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry Department , UC Santa Cruz
Host: Dr. Dave Stout
Contact: pamelahb@scripps.edu
Location: W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater
Sponsored by SGAG/MCBAG
Mechanisms of 40S Ribosome Maturation
Monday, November 12, 2012 at 4p
Dr. Katrin Karbstein
Associate Professor of Cancer Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida
Host: Dr. Curt Wittenberg
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: MB Committee Lecture Hall
Sponsored by MCBAG
Karbstein Graphical Abstract
Mitochondria, the More the Merrier
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 11:45p
Dr. Alicia Kowaltowski
Alicia J. Kowaltowski, MD, PhD. , Department of Biochemistry. , University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil,
Host: Dr. Claudio Joazeiro
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: MB Committee Lecture Hall
Sponsored by MCBAG
Role of Sweet Taste Receptors in Adipocyte Differentiation and Metabolism
Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 3:30p
Dr. Ormond A. MacDougald
John A. Faulkner, Collegiate Professor of Physiology,, Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Brehm Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Host: Dr. Enrique Saez
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater
Sponsored by MCBAG
Imaging Phagocytosis: Receptors, Phospholipids and the Cytoskeleton
Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 3:30p
Dr. Sergio Grinstein
University of Toronto, Professor, Biochemistry, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Host: Dr. Sergio Daniel Catz
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: W.M Keck Foundation Amphitheater
Sponsored by MCBAG
The mechanism of signaling by the T cell receptor
Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 3:30p
Dr. Ron Vale
Professor, UCSF School of Medicine, Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF
Host: Drs. Sandra Encalada and Ron Milligan
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater
Sponsored by MCBAG
Transcriptional Architecture and Dynamics of the Mammalian Circadian Clock
Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 3:30p
Dr. Joseph Takahashi
Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Host: Dr. Katja Lamia
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater
Sponsored by MCBAG
Going with the flow: fluid shear stress signaling by endothelial cells and atherosclerosis
Friday, February 01, 2013 at 2p
Dr. Martin Schwartz
Martin A. Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor, Division of Cardiology and Dept. of Cell Biology Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Host: Dr. Ardem Patapoutian
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: W.M. Keck Amphitheater
Sponsored by MCBAG
Regulating Mitochondrial Movement and why it Matters to a Neuron
Friday, February 08, 2013 at 10:00a
Dr. Thomas Schwarz
Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology, Department of Neurology Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Host: Drs. Sandra Encalada / Franck Polleux
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: DNC Conference Center, 3528 General Atomics Court
Sponsored by MCBAG & DNC Neuroscience Seminar Series
New Insights into Proteasome Function: from Protein Degradation to Cancer Therapy
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 2p
Dr. Alfred L. Goldberg
Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Host: Dr. William E. Balch
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: MB Committee Lecture Hall
Sponsored by MCBAG
Targeting nuclear receptors regulated metabolic processes for treatment of cancer
Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 3:30p
Dr. Thomas Burris
Professor, Molecular Therapeutics, Scripps Florida
Host: Dr. Anastasia Kralli
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: W.M. Keck Amphitheater
Sponsored by MCBAG
Systems biology meets protein synthesis: global analysis of translation
Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 3:30p
Dr. Jonathan Weissman
Professor, Howard Hughes Investigator, UCSF School of Medicine, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, San Francisco, CA
Host: Dr. Claudio Joazeiro
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater
Sponsored by MCBAG
How Flies Fly: Myosin function, folding and disease in skeletal and cardiac muscles
Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 3:30p
Dr. Sanford Bernstein
Professor, Department of Cell Biology, San Diego State University
Host: Drs. Claudio Joazeiro & Velia Fowler
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater
Sponsored by MCBAG
The contribution of bone to whole organism physiology
Thursday, May 02, 2013 at 3:30p
Dr. Gerard Karsenty
Chairman, Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Genetics & Development, New York, NY
Host: Dr. Supriya Srinivasan
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: W. M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater
Sponsored by MCBAG
TBA
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 3:30p
Dr. Javier Martinez
IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Science - GmbH, Vienna, Austria
Host: Drs. Xiang-Lei Yang & Anton Maximov
Contact: nancyw@scripps.edu and ellab@scripps.edu
Location: DNC Conference Center, 3528 General Atomics Court
Sponsored by MCBAG and DNC
Drosophila as a model for intestinal homeostasis in health and disease
Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 3:30p
Dr. Nicolas Buchon
Assistant Professor of Insect Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca
Host: Dr. Nathalie C. Franc
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheather
Sponsored by MCBAG
Fighting disease by selective autophagy of aggregate-prone proteins
Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 3:30p
Dr. Anne Simonsen
Associate Professor, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway
Host: Dr. Takanori Otomo
Contact: ellab@scripps.edu
Location: W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater
Sponsored by MCBAG