Seminar Series

Mondays, 12:00-1:00 PM
Eppley Science Hall - Room 3010 (unless otherwise noted below)

2012-2013 Seminar Series Coordinator: Dr. Kaustubh Datta 

If you have any questions regarding the website or need additional information, please contact Jennifer Pace at jpace@unmc.edu.  

 January 14, 2013 "Metabolic Pathways and Regulators in Pancreatic Cancer"

Joint BMB/Eppley Institute Seminar

Pankaj Singh, PhD
Assistant Professor
Eppley Institute
University of Nebraska Medical Center

 January 21, 2013 - NO SEMINAR - Martin Luther King Jr Day

January 28, 2013 "Elucidating the Role of EHD-Family Endocytic Regulators in ErbB Receptor Traffic and Signaling"

Fourth-Year Seminar

Eric Tom, BS
Graduate Student, Dr. Hamid Band's Laboratory
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department
University of Nebraska Medical Center

February 4, 2013 "Metaproteomics of a Microbial Community: Who is There, and What are They Doing, When?"

Laurey Steinke, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department
Director, Protein Structure Core Facility 
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Thursday, February 7, 2013 "Studies of Cancer Metabolism using Drosophila as a Model System"

Faculty Candidate Seminar - To be held in Wittson Hall Amphitheatre

Jason Tennessen, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Human Genetics
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT

February 11, 2013 "Golgi Targeting and Recycling of Glycosyltransferases" 

Armen Petrosyan, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dr. Pi-Wan Cheng's Laboratory
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department
University of Nebraska Medical Center

February 18, 2013 "Loss of Intestinal Mucin-Type O-Glycans causes Colitis and Colorectal Tumor in Mice"

Lijun Xia, PhD
Merrick Foundation Distinguished Scientist
Cardiovascular Biology Research Program
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City

February 25, 2013 "Dopamine-Mediated Regulation of Morphology and Functions of Tumor Blood Vessels"

Sujit Basu, PhD
Associate Professor
Pathology Department
Ohio State University - Columbus

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 "Histone H2B Monoubiquitylation Promotes DNA Replication by Facilitating Nucleosome Assembly"

Faculty Candidate Seminar - To be held in ESH Auditorium

Kelly Trujillo, PhD
Staff Scientist
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Albuquerque, NM

March 4, 2013 "Database and Structure-based Design of Potent Compounds to Combat Life-threatening Superbugs"

Guangshun Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Pathology & Microbiology Department
University of Nebraska Medical Center

 Friday, March 8, 2013 "Analysis of Initiating Events in Inversionn 16 Acute Myeloid Leukemia"

Faculty Candidate Seminar - to be held in ESH Auditorium 

R. Katherine Hyde, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

March 11, 2013 "Pinning Down MicroRNA Targets In Vivo"

Amy Pasquinelli, PhD
Associate Professor
Molecular Biology Section, Division of Biology
University of California - San Diego

CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER

March 18, 2013  - NO SEMINAR - Spring Break

March 25, 2013 "Entering with Friends: Clathrin-independent Endocytosis of Clustered Cell-surface Molecules"

Deborah Brown, PhD
Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Stony Brook University, SUNY

Thursday, March 28, 2013 "Cross-Talk of Signaling Pathways: Prediction of Resistance to Target Therapy"

To Be Held in DRC 1002

Mien-Chie Hung, PhD
Chair and Professor
Department of Molecular & Cellular Oncology
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Sponsored along with TMEN Program

April 1, 2013 "Structural Analysis of a Polymorphism in Human Inosine Triphosphate Pyrophosphatase (ITPA)"

To be held in DRC 1002

Gloria Borgstahl, PhD
Professor
Eppley Institute
University of Nebraska Medical Center

April 8, 2012 "New Concepts in Mitochondrial Biology and Translational Bioenergetics"

Joint Seminar with FRMP - To be held in DRC 1002 at 4 p.m.

Victor Darley-Usmar, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Alabama - Birmingham

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - "Biophysical Characterization and Effects of pH and Phosphorylation on the Secondary Structure of the Intrinsically Disordered Connexin43 Carboxyl-Terminus Attached to the 4th Transmembrane Domain"

Graduate Student Oral Dissertation - to be held in Sorrell Center - MSC 2014

Rosslyn Grosely, BA, MS
Dr. Paul Sorgen's Laboratory
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department
University of Nebraska Medical Center

 Friday, April 12, 2013 - "Structural Characterization of the Connexin45 Carboxyl-Terminal Domain and its Interactions with Molecular Partners"

Graduate Student Oral Dissertation - to be held in Sorrell Center - MSC 2010

Jennifer Kopanic, BS
Dr. Paul Sorgen's Laboratory
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department
University of Nebraska Medical Center

April 15, 2013 "Title TBA"

To be held in DRC 1002

Justin Mott, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department
University of Nebraska Medical Center

April 22, 2013 "Title TBA"

Joyce Solheim, PhD
Professor
Eppley Institute
University of Nebraska Medical Center