Upcoming Seminars, Colloquia & Thesis Defense
TIME & LOCATION DETAILS

Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, September 25
12 NN
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Terunaga Nakagawa
University of California, San Diego
Title: Structures of Dimeric Intermediates of AMPA Receptors during Subunit Assembly
Host: Professors Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823 and Simpson Joseph 858-822-2957
Comment: Department Colloquium
Department Colloquia
Thursday, September 25
12 NN
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Terunaga Nakagawa
University of California, San Diego
Title: Structures of Dimeric Intermediates of AMPA Receptors during Subunit Assembly
Host: Professors Simpson Joseph 858-822-2957 and Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823
Comment: Biochem Division Seminar
Department Colloquia
Friday, September 26
11:00 AM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Akif Tezcan
University of California, San Diego
Title: TBD
Host: Professors Simpson Joseph 858-822-2957 and Michael Sailor 858-534-8188
Comment: Inorganic Division Seminar
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, September 26
11:00 AM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Akif Tezcan
University of California, San Diego
Title: TBD
Host: Professors Michael Sailor 858-534-8188 and Simpson Joseph 858-822-2957
Comment: Department Colloquium
Organic Seminar
Monday, September 29
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Dr. Jeffery Kelly
The Scripps Research Institute
Title: Protein Homeostasis
Host: Professor Jerry Yang 858-534-6006
Department Colloquia
Tuesday, September 30
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Judy Kim
University of California, San Diego
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Simpson Joseph 858-822-2957
Comment: Physical Division Seminar
Department Colloquia
Wednesday, October 01
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium 1205
Professor Robert Tukey
University of California, San Diego
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Simpson Joseph 858-822-2957
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, October 02
12 NN
1205 NSB
Professor Aseem Ansari
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Engineering Synthetic Triggers of Gene Expression
Host: Professors Alex Hoffmann 858-822-4670 and Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823
Comment: Refreshments will be served.
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, October 03
11:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Professor Paula Diaconescu
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Reactivity of Inert Bonds with Electrophilic Ferrocene Diamide Complexes
Host: Professor Josh Figueroa 858-822-7478
Department Colloquia
Monday, October 06
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Thomas Hermann
University of California, San Diego
Title: RNA as a Drug Target
Host: Professors Simpson Joseph 858-822-2957 and Jerry Yang 858-534-6006
Comment: Organic Division Seminar
Organic Seminar
Monday, October 06
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Thomas Hermann
University of California, San Diego
Title: RNA as a Drug Target
Host: Professors Jerry Yang 858-534-6006 and Simpson Joseph 858-822-2957
Comment: Department Colloquium
Department Colloquia
Tuesday, October 07
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Elizabeth Komives
University of California, San Diego
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Simpson Joseph 858-822-2957
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, October 09
12 NN
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor William Scott
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Ribozyme Structure, Evolution, and a New Form of Mammalian Gene Regulation
Host: Professor Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823
Comment: Refreshments will be served.
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, October 10
11:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Professor Yukio Ogata
University of Kyoto
Title: Structure Formation in Silicon
Host: Professor Michael Sailor 858-534-8188
Organic Seminar
Monday, October 13
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Daniel Palacios
University of Illinois
Title: Amphotericin B: A Small Molecule with Protein Like Function
Host: Professor Yitzhak Tor 858-534-6401
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, October 16
12 NN
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Michael Savageau
University of California, Davis
Title: Function, Design and Evolution of Gene Circuitry
Host: Professors Leor Weinberger 8585-534-8674 and Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823
Comment: Refreshments will be served.
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, October 17
11:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Professor Andrew Borovik
University of California, Irvine
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Arnold Rheingold 858-822-3870
Organic Seminar
Monday, October 20
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Masahiro Terada
Tohoku University
Title: Enantioselective Catalysis by Chiral Bronsted Acid/Base through Hydrogen Bonding as Strategic Interaction
Host: Professor Yoshi Kobayashi 858-822-5870
Department Colloquia
Wednesday, October 22
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Charles Perrin
University of California, San Diego
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Simpson Joseph 858-822-2957
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, October 23
12 NN
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor James E. Ferrell, Jr.
Stanford University
Title: The Systems Biology of Mitosis
Host: Professors Leor Weinberger 8585-534-8674 and Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823
Comment: Refreshments will be served.
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, October 24
11:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Dr. Timothy Boyle
Sandia National Lab
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Arnold Rheingold 858-822-3870
Biochemistry Seminar
Monday, October 27
12 NN
TBD
Professor David Bartel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Whitehead Institute/Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Title: TBD
Host: Professors Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823and Karen Oegema
Comment: Joint seminar with Cellular & Molecular Medicine/Ludwig Institute series
Organic Seminar
Monday, October 27
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Muhammad Yousaf
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Title: Interfacing Surface Chemistry with Cell Biology: From Microfluidic Lithography to Peptide Nanoarrays
Host: Professor Jerry Yang 858-534-6006
Department Colloquia
Wednesday, October 29
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Yoshi Kobayashi
University of California, San Diego
Title: TBA
Host: Professor Simpson Joseph 858-822-2957
Organic Seminar
Monday, November 03
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Jon Rainier
University of Utah
Title: Targeting Marine Natural Products at 4700 Feet Above Sea Level
Host: Professor Jerry Yang 858-534-6006
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, November 06
12 NN
1205 NSB Auditorium
Dr. Phineus Markwick
University of California, San Diego
Title: Studying Bio-molecules in the Virtual Laboratory: Something Fast... Something Slow....
Host: Professors Betsy Komives 858-534-3058 and Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823
Comment: Refreshments will be served.
Department Colloquia
Thursday, November 06
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Haim Weizman
University of California, San Diego
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Simpson Joseph 858-822-2957
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, November 07
11:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Professor Linda Doerrer
Boston University
Title: Late Transition Metal Complexes with Fluorinated Aryloxide and Alkoxide Ligands
Host: Professor Josh Figueroa 858-822-7478
Organic Seminar
Monday, November 10
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Alex Dieters
North Carolina State University
Title: Regulation of Biological Processes with Light
Host: Professor Jerry Yang 858-534-6006
Department Colloquia
Wednesday, November 12
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Jerry Yang
University of California, San Diego
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Simpson Joseph 858-822-2957
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, November 13
12 NN
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Charalampos Kalodimos
Rutgers University
Title: Structure and Dynamics of Supramolecular Protein Machineries by NMR
Host: Professors Betsy Komives 858-534-3058 and Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823
Comment: Refreshments will be served.
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, November 14
11:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Professor Lloyd Bumm
University of Oklahoma
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Michael Sailor 858-534-8188
Organic Seminar
Monday, November 17
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
TBD
TBD
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Jerry Yang 858-534-6006
Department Colloquia
Wednesday, November 19
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Wei Wang
University of California, San Diego
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Simpson Joseph 858-822-2957
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, November 20
12 NN
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Partho Ghosh
University of California, San Diego
Title: The Virulence and Crossreactivity of Group A Strep M1 Protein
Host: Professor Ulrich Muller 858-534-6823 and Terunaga Nakagawa 858-534-2974
Comment: Refreshments will be served.
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, November 21
11:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Professor Warren Piers
University of Calgary
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Josh Figueroa 858-822-7478
Organic Seminar
Monday, November 24
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
TBD
TBD
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Jerry Yang 858-534-6006
Organic Seminar
Tuesday, December 02
4:00 PM
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Matthew Francis
University of California, Berkeley
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Jerry Yang 858-534-6006
Biochemistry Seminar
Thursday, December 04
12 NN
1205 NSB Auditorium
Professor Thomas Walz
Harvard Medical School
Title: Lipids - Visualized by Electron Crystallography and Used as a Tool for Single Particle EM
Host: Professor Terunaga Nakagawa 858-534-2974
Inorganic Seminar
Friday, December 05
11:00 AM
4500 Pacific Hall
Dr. John Norman
Air Products
Title: TBD
Host: Professor Arnold Rheingold 858-822-3870
Special Seminar
Monday, February 09
4:00 PM
CMG Large Conference Room
Professor Andrew Hamilton
Yale University
Title: TBA
Host: Professor Yitzhak Tor 858-534-4466
Comment: This is a special 2009 Goodman Endowed Lecture
Special Seminar
Monday, February 23
4:00 PM
TBD
Professor Ada Yonath
Weizmann Institute
Title: TBA
Host: Professor Yitzhak Tor 858-534-4466
Comment: This is a special 2009 DeLuca Lecture
 
 
Thesis Defense
Thursday, September 11
11:00 a.m.
Pacific Hall 4500
Methods for Measurement of Heterogeneous Materials with Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS).
Andrew Effenberger
Chair: Steven Buckley
Co-Chair: Kim A. Prather, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Members: Douglas Magde, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Jerry Yang, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Judy Kim, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Paul K. L. Yu, Electrical Computer Engineering (ECE)
Thesis Defense
Friday, September 12
10:00am
Natural Science Bld, Rm. 1205
Structural Investigation and Allosteric Properties of a Unique Disulfide Bond in C-terminal Src Kinase
Jamie Mills
Chair: Patricia Jennings
Co-Chair: ,
Members: Simpson Joseph, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Wei Wang, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Douglas Magde, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Joseph Adams, Pharmacology

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