Seminars, Colloquia and Thesis Defense for 11-2009
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*Highlighted days indicate seminars, colloquia or defenses
TIME & LOCATION DETAILS

Biochemistry Seminar
Monday, November 02
12:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Proteins on the Edge(of the Lipid Bilayer)
Professor Melanie Cocco
University of California, Irvine
Host: Professor Stanley Opella 858-534-4929
Comment:
Organic Seminar
Monday, November 02
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Through an NMR Tube Darkly: An Empiricist's Approach to Organic Mechanism
Professor Matthew P. Meyer
University of California Merced
Host: Professor Charles Perrin 858-534-2164
Comment:
Biochemistry Seminar
Tuesday, November 03
12:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Viral Channel Forming Proteins: Structure and Beyond
Professor Wolfgang Fischer
National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Host: Professor Stanley Opella 858-534-4929
Comment:
Physical Seminar
Tuesday, November 03
4:00 PM
3500 Pacific Hall
Chemomechanics with Molecular Force Probes
Professor Roman Boulatov
University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne
Host: Professor Mike Tauber 858-534-7334
Comment:
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, November 05
12:00 PM
CMG Conference Room
Metal Export Across Two Membranes
Professor Megan McEvoy
University of Arizona
Host: Professors Stan Opella 858-822-4820 and Terunaga Nakagawa 858-534-2974
Comment: Special location. Refreshments will be served.
Biochemistry Seminar
Tuesday, November 10
12:00 PM
The Faculty Club
Regulation of the Human UGT1 Locus in Mice: Hyperbilirubinemia and Brain Toxicity
Professor Robert Tukey
University of California, San Diego
Host: Professor Robert Tukey 858-822-4200
Comment: Lunch provided
Inorganic Seminar
Thursday, November 12
10:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Perspectives in Multi-Functional Single-Molecule Magnets and Single-Chain Magnets
Professor Masahiro Yamashita
Tohoku University, Japan
Host: Professor David Hendrickson 858-534-5580
Comment:
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, November 12
12:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Role of Internal Dynamics in Substrate Recognition, Catalysis, and Inhibition of Protein Kinase A
Professor Gianluigi Veglia
University of Minnesota
Host: Professors Susan Taylor 858-534-3677 and Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823
Comment: Refreshments will be served
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, November 13
4:00 PM
3500 Pacific Hall
Spectroscopic Methods In Bioinorganic Chemistry: Blue To Green To Red Copper Sites
Professor Ed Solomon
Stanford University
Host: Professors Akif Tezcan 858-534-4862 and Mike Tauber 858-534-7334
Comment:
Physical Seminar
Friday, November 13
4:00 PM
3500 Pacific Hall
Spectroscopic Methods In Bioinorganic Chemistry: Blue To Green To Red Copper Sites
Professor Ed Solomon
Stanford University
Host: Professors Mike Tauber 858-534-7334 and Akif Tezcan 858-534-4862
Comment: Joint Inorganic/Physical Seminar
Organic Seminar
Monday, November 16
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Fatty Acid Synthesis - Not Only For Lipids
Professor John E. Cronan, Jr.
University of Illinois
Host: Professor Mike Burkart 858-534-4466
Comment:
Physical Seminar
Tuesday, November 17
4:00 PM
3500 Pacific Hall
Dynamics of the Nitrophorins of a New World Blood-Sucking Insect
Professor Ann Walker
University of Arizona
Host: Professor Judy Kim 858-534-8080
Comment:
Organic Seminar
Wednesday, November 18
2:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Peptides, Proteins, and Nanoparticles: Molecular Imaging of Integrin ±v²3 Expression
Professor Weibo Cai
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Professor Yitzhak Tor 858-534-4466
Comment:
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, November 19
12:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
The Mechanisms of a Ring-shaped Nano-machine: The Structure and Function of a Double-hexameric Helicase in DNA Replication
Professor Xiaojiang Chen
University of Southern California
Host: Professors Partho Ghosh 858-822-1139 and Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823
Comment: Refreshments will be served
Organic Seminar
Monday, November 23
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Photoinducible Bioorthogonal Chemistry: A New Tool for Chemical Biology
Professor Qing Lin
University at Buffalo-SUNY
Host: Professor Jerry Yang 858-534-6006
Comment:
Organic Seminar
Monday, November 30
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
'Symmetry versus Energy and the Role of the Environment on Molecular Structure: Symmetrical Arrangements versus Pseudo-symmetrical Arrangements in the Solid-state
Professor Robert Glaser
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Host: Professor Yitzhak Tor 858-534-6401
Comment:
 
 
Thesis Defense
Monday, November 16
2:00 p.m.
Room 1186, Pharmacy School Bldg (PSB)
Structural Basis for the Biological Diversity of the Human Chemokine CCL27
Ariane Jansma
Chair: Tracy Handel
Co-Chair: Patricia Jennings, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Members: Susan Taylor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Faik A. Tezcan, Chemistry and Biochemistry
William Gerwick, School of Pharmacy
Thesis Defense
Tuesday, November 17
11:00 a.m.
Room 3211, Natural Science Bl. (NSB 3211)
Marine-Derived Heterocycles. Structural, Synthetic and Biological Investigations
Colin Skepper
Chair: Tadeusz Molinski
Co-Chair: ,
Members: Michael Burkart, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Judy Kim, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Jerry Yang, Chemistry and Biochemistry
William Fenical, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Thesis Defense
Friday, November 20
2:00 p.m.
Urey Room, Urey Hall
Ultraviolet resonance Raman and Fluorescence Studies of Folded and Unfolded Conformations of the Membrane Protein OmpA
Katheryn Sanchez
Chair: Judy Kim
Co-Chair: ,
Members: Robert Continetti, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Douglas Magde, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Mark Thiemens, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Hector Viadiu-Ilarraza, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Melvin Okamura, Physics
Thesis Defense
Monday, November 23
3:00 p.m.
Pacific Hall, Room 4500
Mapping The Interface Between ApoE And It's Receptors
Miklos Guttman
Chair: Elizabeth Komives
Co-Chair: ,
Members: Susan Taylor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Kimberly Prather, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Hector Viadiu-Ilarraza, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Tracy Handel, Pharmacology

 

  • For more information on Chemistry & Biochemistry Seminars, please contact Versalynn Roa at (858) 534-3577 or by email vroa@ucsd.edu
  • For more information on Thesis Defense, please contact Pam Murphy at (858) 534-6871 or by email pmurphy@ucsd.edu
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