Macromolecular Structure and Function Colloquium
Join us and participate in weekly seminar presentations on exciting topics in the fields of Structural biology and biochemistry.
Presentations Spring 2013Date: Thursday 3:30-5:00 PM - SSB 8114 (Touchscreen Room)
January 31, 2013: Mike Ungerer
Osmundson, J., Montero-Diez, C., Westblade, L. F., Hochschild, A., & Darst, S. A. (2012) Cell 151, 1005-1016.
"Promoter-Specific Transcription Inhibition in Staphylococcus aureus by a Phage Protein"
Osmundson et al.
February 14, 2013: Julie Rodriguez
P. Rompolas, P., Patel-King, R. S., & King, S. M. (2012) Mol. Biol. Cell 23, 3554-3565.
"Association of Lis1 with outer arm dynein is modulated in response to alterations in flagellar motility"
Rompolas et al.
February 21, 2013: Mena Abdelsayed
Lipkind, G. M. & Fozzard H. A. (2010) Mol Pharmacol. 78:631-8.
"Molecular model of anticonvulsant drug binding to the voltage-gated sodium channel inner pore"
Lipkind et al.
February 28, 2013: Gary Tong
McIntyre, J., Vidal, A. E., McLenigan, M. P., Bomar, M. G., Curti, E., McDonald, J. P., Plosky, B. S., Ohashi, E., & Woodgate, R. (2013) Nucleic Acids Res. 41:1649-60.
"Ubiquitin mediates the physical and functional interaction between human DNA polymerases eta and iota"
McIntyre et al.
March 14, 2013: Colin Peters
Payandeh, J., Gamal El-Din, T. M., Scheuer, T., Zheng, N., & Catterall, W. A. (2012) Nature 486, 135-139.
"Crystal structure of a voltage-gated sodium channel in two potentially inactivated states"
Payandeh et al.
April 11, 2013: Mike Kirkness
Adhikari, A. S., Chai, J. & Dunn, A. R. (2011) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 1686-1689.
"Mechanical Load Induces a 100-Fold Increase in the Rate of Collagen Proteolysis by MMP-1"
Adhikari et al.
April 18, 2013: Peter Ruben
James R. Walker, Paul A. Novick, William H. Parsons, Malcolm McGregor, Jeff Zablocki, Vijay S. Pande, and J. Du Bois (2012) PNAS 109:18102-18107
"Marked difference in saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin affinity for the human nociceptive voltage-gated
sodium channel (Nav1.7)"
Walker et al.
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