Past BMB Seminars

Below you will find the departmental, postdoctoral and student seminars that have taken place in our department.
For current seminars, explore the menu on the right to view the details and schedule.

October 07, 2003 - Departmental Seminar

Peter Wright, Professor and Chair
Structural basis for regulation of transcription by the general coactivators CBP/p300: new paradigms for molecular recognition
Department of Molecular Biology , Scripps Institute
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

October 14, 2003 - Departmental Seminar

Yi Sun, Associate Professor
Identification and validation of novel cancer targets in P53-apoptosis and E3 ubiquitin ligase pathways
Cancer Biology Division Radiation Oncology , University of Michigan
Faculty sponsor:

October 16, 2003 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Ruslan Tsivkovskii, Research Associate
Biochemical characterization of Wilson's disease protein and the disease-causing mutation H1069Q
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

October 28, 2003 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Mary MacPartlin, Postdoctoral Fellow
Regulation of p63 Transcriptional Activity by p300 through Acetylation?
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor:

October 30, 2003 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Kate Newberry, Postdoctoral Fellow
MtaN: A minimal structure for transcription activation by the MerR family
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

December 09, 2003 - Departmental Seminar

Michael J. Petris, Assistant Professor
Regulated trafficking of mammalian metal ion transporters.
Department of Nutritional Sciences/Biochemistry , University of Missouri-Columbia
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

December 11, 2003 - Departmental Seminar

Lynn Sakai, Associate Investigator
Form and Function in the Extracellular Matrix
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , Shriner's Children's Hospital
Faculty sponsor: Thomas Shearer

December 16, 2003 - Student Seminar

Joel Walker, Ph.D. Candidate

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

January 13, 2004 - Student Seminar
*Note: THESIS DEFENSE - SPECIAL TIME: 10 a.m. at the Vollum M1441**

Youngjoo Kim, Ph.D. Candidate
Molecular Mechanism of Dephosphorylation by Dual-Specificity Phosphatases
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

January 15, 2004 - Student Seminar

Ben Brooks, Ph.D. Candidate
The Roles of Glutamates in QacR and Lipophilic Cation Induced Multidrug Resistance
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

January 18, 2004 - Postdoctoral Seminar
*Note: Will take place at noon in M1441

Mariana Marin

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty sponsor: David Kabat

January 20, 2004 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: Metal Ion Core Series

David Goodlett, Director Proteomics / Senior Research Scientist
A Review of Shotgun Proteomics
Institute for Systems Biology , Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

January 27, 2004 - Departmental Seminar

Jiri Hejnar, Department Head
Endogenous Retroviruses and Retrotransposons - a Genomic Interplay
Viral and Cellular Genetics, Institute of Molecular Genetics , Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Faculty sponsor: David Kabat

January 29, 2004 - Student Seminar

Janna LaRue, Ph.D. Candidate
Insights into the Role of the SCF-Grr1 Ubiquitin Ligase in Carbon Source Utilization
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Stefan Lanker

February 03, 2004 - Student Seminar

Jan Boitz, Ph.D. Candidate
Genetic Analysis of the Purine Salvage Pathway in Leishmania
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Buddy Ullman

February 10, 2004 - Departmental Seminar

Jane Dyson, Professor
Unfolded Proteins - A New Frontier in Structural Biology
Department of Molecular Biology , The Scripps Research Institute
Faculty sponsor: Ujwal Shinde

February 12, 2004 - Student Seminar

Scott Vanderwerf, Ph.D. Candidate
Regulation of Stress Response Pathways by Fanconi Anemia Proteins
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Grover Bagby

February 24, 2004 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: Metal Ion Core Series

Nancy Andrews, Professor
The Iron Balancing Act
Howard Hughes Medical Institute , Harvard Medical School
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

February 26, 2004 - Student Seminar

Catherine Degnin, Ph.D. Candidate
Molecular mechanism through which cleavages within the prodomain regulate the activity of mature BMP-4
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Jan Christian

March 11, 2004 - Student Seminar

Mee Min, Ph.D. Candidate
Characterization of Wilson's Disease Protein Phosphorylation
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

March 23, 2004 - Departmental Seminar

Frank Jordan, Professor
Regions too Mobile to be Defined in the X-ray Structure of Enzymes May Have Function; Case of the Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Multienzyme Complex-E1 Subunit
Dept. of Chemistry - Program in Cellular and Molecular Biodynamics , Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Faculty sponsor: Ujwal Shinde

March 25, 2004 - Student Seminar

David Murray, Ph.D. Candidate
Regulation of Nitrogen Metabolism in Bacillus subtillis: Structure/Function Studies of Glutamine Synthetase and TnrA.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

March 30, 2004 - Departmental Seminar

James Berger, Assoc. Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Structural Mechanisms of Helicase Loading
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology , UC Berkeley
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

April 01, 2004 - Student Seminar

Minsun Hong, Ph.D. Candidate
Structure-Function Studies on the OhrR, Bacterial Transcription Regulator
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

April 06, 2004 - Student Seminar
*Note: THESIS DEFENSE: Noon in Vollum M1441**

Jay M. Janz, Ph.D. Candidate
Rhodopsin Structural Dynamics: Relationships Between Retinal Schiff Base Integrity and Receptor Signaling States
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

April 08, 2004 - Student Seminar

Martha Sommer, Ph.D. Candidate
Structural Dynamics of Arrestin Binding and Release from Rhodopsin
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

April 13, 2004 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: Faculty Recruitment Candidate

Michael Fried, Professor
Surprising Binding Activities of a DNA-Repair Enzyme
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center College of Medicine
Faculty sponsor: Thomas Shearer

April 15, 2004 - Student Seminar

Ezhilkani Subbian, Ph.D. Candidate

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Ujwal Shinde

April 22, 2004 - Student Seminar

Lara Shamieh, Ph.D. Candidate
Herstatin, an Autoinhibitor of the EGF Receptor Family: The Story of a Retained Intron
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Gail M. Clinton

April 26, 2004 - Student Seminar
*Note: MASTER'S THESIS DEFENSE - SPECIAL Day/Time/Location: 10 a.m. MRB 634**

Gregory Barton, Master's Student
Site Directed Mutagenesis of Residue Lysine 157 of the Hypoxanthine-Guanine Phosphoribosyltransferase Gene from Leishmania donovani; and Kinetic Analysis and comparison of site directed mutants with the recombinant Wild Type enzyme.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty sponsor: Buddy Ullman

April 27, 2004 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: SEMINAR CANCELED - TO BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE

Weidong Wang, Chief Investigator
Multiprotein Complexes Involved in Chromatin-remodeling and Human Genomic Instability Diseases
National Institute on Aging , National Institutes of Health
Faculty sponsor:

April 29, 2004 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: Faculty Recruitment Candidate

Jason Brickner, Ph.D.
Dynamic, regulated colocalization of a gene with the nuclear envelope upon transcriptional induction.
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics , University of California, San Francisco
Faculty sponsor: Thomas Shearer

May 04, 2004 - Departmental Seminar

Hua Huang, Assistant Professor
Signaling and Transcriptional Mechanisms that Regulate Development of CD4+ T Helper Cells and T Helper-like Innate Cells
Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy , Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine
Faculty sponsor:

May 05, 2004 - Student Seminar
*Note: THESIS DEFENSE: Special Day/Time: 1:30 p.m. BSc 4340 **

Shirin Arastu, Ph.D. Candidate

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Buddy Ullman

May 06, 2004 - Student Seminar

Martha Johnson, Ph.D. Candidate
Regulation of Transferrin Receptor 2 by Transferrin
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Caroline Enns

May 11, 2004 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: Faculty Recruitment Candidate

Eric First, Associate Professor
Was tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase a target of "chemical warfare" between primordial eukaryotes and bacteria?
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , Lousiana State University Health Sciences Center
Faculty sponsor: Thomas Shearer

May 18, 2004 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: SEMINAR CANCELED - TO BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE

Adrian Ferre D'Amare, Asociate Member
Structural Studies of Catalytic RNA and RNA Modification
Division of Basic Sciences , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

May 25, 2004 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: Faculty Recruitment Candidate

Paul Boehmer, Associate Professor
Mechanisms of DNA Replication and Recombination in Herpes Simplex Virus
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , University of Miami School of Medicine
Faculty sponsor: Thomas Shearer

May 27, 2004 - Student Seminar

Jayme Gallegos, Graduate Student
A Potential Role for the SSRP-1 Protein in Tumorigenesis
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor:

June 08, 2004 - Student Seminar

Yanping Li, Graduate Student
Characterization of SSRP1 Function
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor:

June 09, 2004 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: Faculty Recruitment Candidate ** SPECIAL SEMINAR DAY / TIME **

Gregory B. Melikyan, Associate Professor
Coupling of Membrane Fusion to Refolding of Viral (HIV-1) Glycoproteins
Molecular Biophysics and Physiology , Rush Medical College
Faculty sponsor: David Kabat

June 10, 2004 - Student Seminar

Katherine Hoffmann, Ph.D. Candidate
Structure-Function Studies on Two Families of Transcriptional Regulators
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

June 11, 2004 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: SPECIAL LECTURE: Howard S. Mason Lecture in Molecular Biochemistry

Robert G. Roeder
Function of Diverse Coactivators in transcriptional Regulation in Animal Cells
Laboratory in Biochemistry and and Molecular Biology , Rockefeller University, New York NY
Faculty sponsor:

June 16, 2004 - Student Seminar
*Note: WEDNESDAY - Special Date for Student Seminar

Steven Mansoor, Ph.D. Candidate

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

June 17, 2004 - Student Seminar

John Eisses, Ph.D. Candidate

, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

September 02, 2004 - Departmental Seminar

Ute Moll, Professor
p53 exerts a rapid and direct apoptogenic role at the mitochondria
Pathology , Stony Brook University Hospital
Faculty sponsor:

September 07, 2004 - Departmental Seminar

Shimon Weiss, Professor
In-vitro and In-vivo Single Molecule Rulers
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , UCLA
Faculty sponsor: Ujwal Shinde

September 13, 2004 - Departmental Seminar

Julius Lukes
Functional analysis of proteins involved in RNA editing in Trypanosoma brucei
Institute of Parasitology , Czech Academy of Sciences
Faculty sponsor: Maria Schumacher

September 28, 2004 - Departmental Seminar

David Clarke, Professor Canada Research Chair in Membrane Biology
Multidrug Resistance P-glycoproteinand Pharmacological Chaperones: What is the Connection?
Department of Medicine and Department of Biochemistry , University of Toronto
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

September 30, 2004 - Student Seminar

Jacqueline Wirz, Graduate Student
CtBP regulation by dinucleotide binding
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: James Lundblad

October 08, 2004 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE: Friday October 8 at 2PM in BSC 4340

Matthew Bogyo, Assistant Professor
Chemical tools for Functional Analysis of Cysteine Proteases in Apiconplexan Parasites
Department of Pathology , Stanford University
Faculty sponsor: Buddy Ullman

October 14, 2004 - Student Seminar

Chiu-Liang Kuo, Candidate
The role of fibrillin-1 C-terminal propeptide: A folding chaperone or an assembly initiator?
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Lynn Sakai

October 26, 2004 - Departmental Seminar

Pei Jin, Ph.D
Discovery and functional analysis of novel splice variants
, Receptor BioLogix Inc.
Faculty sponsor: Gail M. Clinton

October 28, 2004 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Kirsten Mattison, Post Doctorate Fellow
Structure of the FitB protein responsible for slowing the rate of transcytosis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

November 04, 2004 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Jennifer Rychlik, Post Doctorate Fellow
The interaction of transcription factors Hand2 and Phox2a with target genes in the noradrenergic cell
Biochemistry Faculty sponsor:

December 02, 2004 - Student Seminar
*Note: Will take place at 2pm

Janna LaRue, SCF(Grr1)-Mediated Ubiquitination of Gis4 Modulates Glucose Repression

Faculty sponsor: Stefan Lanker

December 07, 2004 - Departmental Seminar

Rajini Rao, Ph.D.
Intracellular Ion Transporters from Yeast and Human
Professor of Physiology , The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

December 09, 2004 - Student Seminar

Benjamin Brooks, Structural Mechanisms of Ligand Recognition by Multidrug Recognition by QacR

, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

December 14, 2004 - Departmental Seminar

Kun-Liang Guan, Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute
The TSC-mTOR pathway in cell growth control and human disease.
Department of Biological Chemistry , University of Michigan Medical School
Faculty sponsor:

January 04, 2005 - Departmental Seminar

David Farrens, BMB Assistant Professor
Shutting off GPCR signaling: Insights gained from Dynamic Studies of Rhodopsin
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

January 11, 2005 - Departmental Seminar

Uttam (Tom) RajBhandary , Lester Wolfe Professor
Initiator tRNAs and proteins carrying unnatural amino acids
Molecular Biology , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

January 20, 2005 - Student Seminar

Kate Hoffmann
Characterization of the Multiple Transferable Resistance Regulator (MtrR) from Neisseria gonorrheaea
, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

January 27, 2005 - Student Seminar

Minsun Hong
Structure of an OhrR-DNA complex, operator recognition by a MarR family member
, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

February 03, 2005 - Student Seminar
*Note: Thesis Defense Seminar, 2pm in Vollum 1441

Joel Walker
Molecular Mechanisms of Copper Transfer from the Metallochaperone Atox1 to the Wilson Disease Protein
, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

February 08, 2005 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Mariana Marin, Research Assistant Professor
A Host-Virus Arms Race: Cytidine Deaminases versus HIV-1 Vif
Faculty sponsor: David Kabat

February 10, 2005 - Student Seminar

Scott Vanderwerf

Faculty sponsor: Grover Bagby

March 03, 2005 - Student Seminar

Mee Min
"Regulation of Wilson Disease Protein in the Cell"
, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

March 09, 2005 - Student Seminar
*Note: At 2PM in the Vollum

Ezhilkani Subbian, Thesis Defense
Understanding the Constraints of Sequence, Structure, and Energy on Protein Folding
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, OHSU Faculty sponsor: Ujwal Shinde

March 10, 2005 - Student Seminar

Martha Sommer
"Dynamics of Arrestin and Retinal Release from Rhodopsin"
, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

March 15, 2005 - Departmental Seminar

John Coffin, American Cancer Society Research Professor
Retrovirus Evolution
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology , Tufts University
Faculty sponsor: David Kabat

March 29, 2005 - Departmental Seminar

Vinzenz Unger, PhD
Tales of Molecular Warfare and Copper Transport - or how to use Electron CryoMicroscopy for Studying the Structure of Membrane Proteins and Their Macromolecular Complexes
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry , Yale University
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

April 04, 2005 - Postdoctoral Seminar
*Note: at 12:00 PM in MRB 634

Jinhui Dong, Postdoctoral Candidate
“Functional dynamics of ABC transporter MsbA”
Dept of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics , Vanderbilt University
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

April 07, 2005 - Student Seminar

Yanping Li
Characterization of SSRP1 Function
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor:

April 08, 2005 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: At 12:00 PM in MRB 634

Oleg Dmitriev, PhD
Structure of the Proton Channel of the ATP Synthase: Insights from NMR and Molecular Modeling
Biomolecular Chemistry , University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

April 14, 2005 - Student Seminar

Steve Mansoor

Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

April 28, 2005 - Student Seminar

Martha Johnson
Regulation and localization of transferrin receptor 2
Faculty sponsor: Caroline Enns

May 19, 2005 - Student Seminar
*Note: at 2PM in the Vollum

Lara Shamieh, Thesis Defense
Receptor Binding Interactions of Herstatin and Its Intron-Encoded Domain
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, OHSU Faculty sponsor: Gail M. Clinton

May 26, 2005 - Student Seminar

Jayme Gallegos
ßTRCP-1 is an E3 ubiquitin ligase for p63
, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor:

June 02, 2005 - Student Seminar
*Note: at 2PM in the Vollum

John Eisses, Thesis Defense

Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

June 09, 2005 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Igor Landais
The fate of SSRP1 during apoptosis: coupling apoptosome and ubiquitin-proteasome pathways
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, OHSU Faculty sponsor:

June 16, 2005 - Student Seminar

Thomas Dunham

Faculty sponsor: Maria Schumacher

July 14, 2005 - Student Seminar
*Note: At 2:00 PM in Shriner's Hospital Auditorium, 7th Floor

Chiu-Liang Kuo, Thesis Defense
Structure, Function and Assembly of Fibrillin Microfibrils
Faculty sponsor: Lynn Sakai

September 08, 2005 - Departmental Seminar

Adrian Ferré- D'Amaré, PhD, Affiliate Associate Professor
Rigidity and plasticity of RNA: structural studies of ribozymes and RNA chaperones
Department of Biochemistry , University of Washington
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

September 09, 2005 - Student Seminar
*Note: At 2PM in Vollum M1441

Minsun Hong
Thesis Defense
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

October 11, 2005 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: Seminar Cancelled

Faculty sponsor: Mathew Thayer

October 18, 2005 - Departmental Seminar

Olga Boudker, PhD
Structural insights into the mechanism of glutamate transporters
Department of Physiology and Biophysics , Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Faculty sponsor: Buddy Ullman

October 20, 2005 - Student Seminar

Martha Sommer
Regulation of Rhodopsin Photochemistry by Arrestin
, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

October 25, 2005 - Departmental Seminar

Ann Dean, PhD, Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology
Long Range Gene Activation
NIDDK , National Institutes of Health
Faculty sponsor: Peter Rotwein

November 01, 2005 - Departmental Seminar

Dennis Winge, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry
Novel mitochondrial matrix pool of copper used in the assembly of cytochrome c oxidase and superoxide dismutase within the mitochondrion
, University of Utah Health Sciences Center
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

November 04, 2005 - Student Seminar
*Note: At 2PM in Vollum M1441

Ben Brooks
Thesis Defense: Analysis of Substitutions of Glutamate 90 and Glutamate 120 in the Multidrug Resistance Regulator QacR Reveals New Modes of Ligand Binding
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

November 15, 2005 - Departmental Seminar

James D. Bangs, PhD
GPI valence regulates secretory trafficking in African trypanosomes
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology , University of Wisconsin, Madison
Faculty sponsor: Buddy Ullman

November 16, 2005 - Student Seminar
*Note: At 2PM in Vollum M1441

Jan Boitz
Thesis Defense-“A Genetic Analysis of the Purine Salvage Pathway of L. donovani”
Faculty sponsor: Buddy Ullman

November 17, 2005 - Postdoctoral Seminar
*Note: At 2:30 PM in MRB 634

Julie Heck
Analysis of Conditional DNA Mismatch Repair Defects in Budding Yeast
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Faculty sponsor: Maureen Hoatlin

November 17, 2005 - Student Seminar

Mee Min
“Characterization of Wilson Disease Protein & Ceruloplasmin Localization: Implications for Copper Homeostasis”
, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

November 22, 2005 - Departmental Seminar

David Evans, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Growth Dependent Regulation of Mammalian Pyrimidine Biosynthesis by the MAP kinase and PKA Cascades
, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Faculty sponsor: Buddy Ullman

November 29, 2005 - Departmental Seminar

Ann Hubbard, PhD, Professor of Cell Biology, Medicine
Copper homeostasis and Copper ATPases in Polarized Epithelia
, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

December 01, 2005 - Student Seminar

Martha Johnson

, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Caroline Enns

December 01, 2005 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Thomas Ellen, PhD, Postdoctoral Candidate for the Lutsenko Lab
The Mechanism of Interaction of the Linker Histone with DNA, the Nuclesome, and Chromatin
Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , Colorado State University
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

December 06, 2005 - Departmental Seminar

Yingming Zhao, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Proteomics technologies for dissection of protein-protein interactions and protein modifications
, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Faculty sponsor:

December 15, 2005 - Student Seminar

Steve Mansoor

Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

January 05, 2006 - Student Seminar

Scott Vanderwerf
Signaling Functions of Fanconi Anemia Proteins
, OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Grover Bagby

January 12, 2006 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Yetao Jin, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
14-3-3γ binds to MDMX that is phosphorylated by UV-activated Chk1, resulting in p53 activation
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor:

January 17, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Michael Chapman, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry

, Kasha Laboratory of Biophysics, Florida State University
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

February 02, 2006 - Student Seminar

Steve Mansoor
Studying GPCR Self-Association in Membranes
, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

February 07, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

William Morgan, PhD, Professor and Director, Radiation Oncology Research Laboratory
Radiation Induced Genomic Instability
Radiation Oncology Research Laboratory , University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore
Faculty sponsor: Mathew Thayer

February 14, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Moosa Mohammadi, Associate Professor

Department of Pharmacology , New York University School of Medicine
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

February 16, 2006 - Student Seminar

Thomas Dunham
Biochemical and Structural studies on the P1 Plasmid Partition Factor A (ParA)
Faculty sponsor: Peter Rotwein

March 07, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Stephen Kowalczykowski, Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, and of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Recombinational DNA Repair: Visualization at the Single-Molecule Level
, University of California, Davis
Faculty sponsor: Maureen Hoatlin

March 08, 2006 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: at 12:00 PM in BSC 4340

Thomas Hurley, BMB Faculty Candidate
Molecular Aspects of Glycogen Initiation
, Indiana University School of Medicine
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

March 13, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Tatiana Kutateladze, PhD, Assistant Professor

Department of Pharmacology , University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

March 16, 2006 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: At 2PM in Vollum M1441

Dan Kosman, Professor of Biochemistry
Managing Iron Under Air and In Water: Budding Yeast Shows Us the Way
Deparment of Biochemistry , SUNY/Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

March 16, 2006 - Student Seminar

Xiao-Xin Sun

, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor:

March 27, 2006 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: at 4PM in Vollum M1441

Yi Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor
Role of histone modifications in transcription and cancer
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Faculty sponsor:

April 04, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Christoph J. Fahrni, PhD, Associate Professor
Visualizing trace elements: the subcellular topography of copper
Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Georgia Institute of Technology
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

April 11, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Kiran Madura, PhD, Associate Professor, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
The ubiquitin/proteasome system at the nuclear envelope
Biochemistry , Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Faculty sponsor: Ujwal Shinde

April 18, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Stephen Doxsey, Professor
Centrosomes, membrane traffic, cytokinesis and aneuploidy
Program in Molecular Medicine , University of Massachusetts Medical School
Faculty sponsor: Mathew Thayer

April 20, 2006 - Student Seminar

Yanping Li
Human SSRP1 has Spt16-dependent and independent roles in gene transcription
Faculty sponsor:

April 21, 2006 - Student Seminar
*Note: At 2PM in Vollum M1441

Martha Sommer, Thesis Defense
Dynamics of Arrestin-Rhodopsin Interactions
, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

April 25, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Mark Kelley, PhD

Wells Center for Pediatric Research , Indiana University School of Medicine
Faculty sponsor: Maureen Hoatlin

April 27, 2006 - Student Seminar

Jayme Gallegos

Faculty sponsor:

May 02, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Rachel Klevit, PhD

, University of Washington, Seattle
Faculty sponsor: Maureen Hoatlin

May 16, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Junjie Chen, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
DNA damage checkpoints and tumorigenesis
, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Faculty sponsor:

May 19, 2006 - Student Seminar

Damian Curtis
at 2PM in Vollum M1441
Faculty sponsor: James Lundblad

May 25, 2006 - Student Seminar

Abhinav Sinha
Dynamics of CB2-bArrestin Interaction: Design and Approach
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

July 06, 2006 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: at 4pm in Old Library room 217

Steven Ealick, PhD
S-Adenosylmethione Decarboxylase: Structural Studies and Strategies for Inhibitor Design
Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Cornell University
Faculty sponsor: Buddy Ullman

August 01, 2006 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: at 12:00 PM in MRB 634

Eric Gouaux, Senior Scientist
Architecture and mechanism at chemical synapses
Vollum Institute , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Peter Rotwein

August 17, 2006 - Student Seminar
*Note: at 12:00 PM in BSC 4320

Katherine Hoffmann
Thesis Defense: DNA Recognition by Prokaryotic Transcriptional Regulators
Faculty sponsor: Richard G. Brennan

September 06, 2006 - Student Seminar
*Note: At 2PM in Vollum M1441

Martha Johnson
Thesis Defense: Regulation of transferrin receptor 2 stability and trafficking in hepatoma cells
, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Caroline Enns

September 19, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Haian Fu, PhD, Professor
14-3-3-mediated cell survival and its therapeutic implications
Dept. of Pharmacology , Emory University School of Medicine
Faculty sponsor:

October 03, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Paul Bieniasz, PhD, Associate Professor
The cell's defense against retroviruses
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center , The Rockefeller University
Faculty sponsor: David Kabat

November 07, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Ron Kopito, Ph.D., Professor
Surveying the damage: protein quality control mechanisms in health and disease
Department of Biological Sciences , Stanford University School of Medicine
Faculty sponsor: Linda Musil

November 14, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Xiao-Fan Wang, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Extracellular proteins and Tumor Metastasis
Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology , Duke University
Faculty sponsor:

November 30, 2006 - Student Seminar

Scott Vanderwerf

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Grover Bagby

December 05, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Nabil G. Seidah, Ph.D., Research Unit Director
The ever expanding saga of the proprotein convertases and their pathological implications
Biochemical Neuroendocrinology , University of Montreal
Faculty sponsor: Ujwal Shinde

December 12, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Ning Zheng, PhD, Assistant Professor
Ubiquitin Ligase Machinery
Dept. of Pharmacology , University of Washington, Seattle
Faculty sponsor: David Kabat

December 19, 2006 - Departmental Seminar

Xiaodong Wang, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry

Assistant Investigator, , Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Faculty sponsor:

January 30, 2007 - Departmental Seminar

Xin-Hua Feng, PhD, Assistant Professor

Depts. of General Surgery and Molecular and Cellular Biology , Baylor College of Medicine
Faculty sponsor:

February 01, 2007 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Emily Platt

Faculty sponsor: David Kabat

February 08, 2007 - Student Seminar

Jayme Gallegos

, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor:

February 15, 2007 - Student Seminar

Yanping Li

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty sponsor:

February 22, 2007 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Martina Ralle, Research Assistant Professor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

February 27, 2007 - Departmental Seminar

Ted Weinert, PhD, Associate Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology

, University of Arizona, Tucson
Faculty sponsor: Mathew Thayer

March 01, 2007 - Student Seminar

Jonathan Fay

, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

March 06, 2007 - Departmental Seminar

Richard I. Morimoto, Director, Rice Institute for Biomedical Research

Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology , Northwestern University
Faculty sponsor: Linda Musil

March 13, 2007 - Departmental Seminar

Tatiana Kutateladze, PhD, Assistant Professor
Phosphoinositide and histone codes
Department of Pharmacology , University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

March 18, 2007 - Departmental Seminar

Judith Frydman

Department of Biological Sciences and BioX Program , Stanford University
Faculty sponsor: William Skach

March 20, 2007 - Departmental Seminar

Andrew L. Harris, PhD, Professor
Insights About Connexin Channels From Molecular Permeability Studies
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology , UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School
Faculty sponsor: Linda Musil

April 03, 2007 - Departmental Seminar

R. Kiplin Guy, PhD, Chair, Chemical Biology & Therapeutics
Synthesis and Screening for Antimalarials
, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Faculty sponsor: Buddy Ullman

April 05, 2007 - Student Seminar

Damian Curtis

, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: James Lundblad

April 06, 2007 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: At 2PM in Vollum M1441

Frank McCormick, OHSU MD/PhD Program Keynote Address
New Approaches to Cancer Therapy
Associate Dean, UCSF School of Medicine , David A. Wood Distinguished Professor of Tumor Biology and Cancer Research, UCSF
Faculty sponsor: Peter Rotwein

April 10, 2007 - Departmental Seminar

Jeffrey Pessin, Chairman and Professor
Regulation of insulin sensitivity by the non-receptor tyrosine kinase, Fyn
Pharmacological Sciences , State University of New York at Stony Brook
Faculty sponsor: Peter Rotwein

April 16, 2007 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: at 12PM in the Old Library Auditorium

Richard W. Hanson
Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase: The Joy of Thinking outside the Box
, Case Western University School of Medicine
Faculty sponsor: Peter Rotwein

April 19, 2007 - Student Seminar

Christopher Severyn, MD PhD Student

Faculty sponsor: Peter Rotwein

May 03, 2007 - Student Seminar

Mahta Nili

Faculty sponsor: Peter Rotwein

May 08, 2007 - Departmental Seminar

Karlene Cimprich, PhD, Associate Professor
The DNA Damage Checkpoint: What's the Turn On?
Chemical and Systems Biology , Stanford University School of Medicine
Faculty sponsor: Maureen Hoatlin

May 17, 2007 - Student Seminar

Larry Gray

, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

May 31, 2007 - Student Seminar

Chayne Piscitelli
Substrate Specificity of a Neurotransmitter Transporter Homolog: Structural and Functional Analysis of LeuTAa
, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Eric Gouaux

June 07, 2007 - Student Seminar

Eric Stoffegren
Genetic Analysis of Chromosome Replication Timing and Genomic Instability
Faculty sponsor: Mathew Thayer

June 14, 2007 - Student Seminar
*Note: At 2PM in Vollum M1441

Steve Mansoor, Thesis Defense
Site-Directed Fluorescence Spectroscopy: New Applications for Studying Protein Structure and Receptor Self-Association.
, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

June 21, 2007 - Student Seminar

Abhinav Sinha

, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

June 26, 2007 - Student Seminar
*Note: At 2PM in Vollum M1441

Yanping Li, Thesis Defense

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty sponsor:

September 25, 2007 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Alex Sobeck, Postdoctoral Fellow

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty sponsor: Maureen Hoatlin

October 11, 2007 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: Co-sponsored with PMCB

Robert Tampe, Ph.D.
Membrane translocation machineries in adaptive immunity
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , J.W. Goethe University
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

October 16, 2007 - Departmental Seminar

Charles L. Brooks III, PhD, Professor of Chemistry

Dept. of Molecular Biology , The Scripps Research Institute
Faculty sponsor: Michael Chapman

October 23, 2007 - Departmental Seminar

Gail Mandel, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Senior Scientist

Vollum Institute , Vollum Institute
Faculty sponsor: Maureen Hoatlin

October 30, 2007 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Igor Landais

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Maureen Hoatlin

November 06, 2007 - Departmental Seminar

Herbert Y. Lin, MD, PhD, FASN

Program in Membrane Biology/Division of Nephrology , Harvard Medical School
Faculty sponsor: Peter Rotwein

November 13, 2007 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Jason Burkhead, Postdoctoral Fellow

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

November 27, 2007 - Departmental Seminar
*Note: Co-sponsored with PMCB

David S. Roos, PhD

Dept. of Biology , University of Pennsylvania
Faculty sponsor: Buddy Ullman

December 04, 2007 - Departmental Seminar

York Marahrens, Ph.D.

Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development , University of Minnesota
Faculty sponsor: Mathew Thayer

December 11, 2007 - Departmental Seminar

Thomas S. Scanlan, PhD, Professor

Physiology and Pharmacology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Maureen Hoatlin

December 18, 2007 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Phil Wilmarth

Faculty sponsor: Larry David

January 08, 2008 - Departmental Seminar

A. Dusty Miller, PhD, Affiliate Professor
Lung cancer biology probed by using oncogenic sheep
Department of Pathology , University of Washington, Seattle
Faculty sponsor: Michael Chapman

January 15, 2008 - Student Seminar

Damian Curtis

, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: James Lundblad

January 22, 2008 - Student Seminar
*Note: Thesis Defense, in BSC 2324

Jayme Gallegos, PhD Candidate
Regulation of the Transcription Factor p63 by betaTrCP
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , OHSU
Faculty sponsor:

January 22, 2008 - Departmental Seminar

Marc Kantorow, PhD, Professor

The Charles E. Schmidt College of Biomedical Science , Florida Atlantic University
Faculty sponsor: Larry David

January 29, 2008 - Postdoctoral Seminar

Sheetal Golem, Postdoctoral Fellow

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty sponsor: David Kabat

February 05, 2008 - Departmental Seminar

Mirit I. Aladjem, PhD

Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, DNA Replication Group , National Cancer Institute, U.S. National Institutes of Health
Faculty sponsor: Mathew Thayer

February 12, 2008 - Student Seminar

Chayne Piscitelli

Faculty sponsor: Eric Gouaux

February 19, 2008 - Departmental Seminar

William E. Balch, PhD, Professor

Dept. of Cell Biology , The Scripps Research Institute
Faculty sponsor: Svetlana Lutsenko

February 26, 2008 - Student Seminar

Abhinav Sinha

, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

March 04, 2008 - Departmental Seminar

Rebecca W Heald, PhD, Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology

Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology , UC Berkeley
Faculty sponsor: Maureen Hoatlin

March 11, 2008 - Student Seminar

Jeremy Logue

, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: John Scott

March 18, 2008 - Departmental Seminar

Judith Frydman, PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Biological Sciences and BioX Program , Stanford University
Faculty sponsor: William Skach

April 01, 2008 - Student Seminar

Chris Severyn

Faculty sponsor: Peter Rotwein

April 08, 2008 - Departmental Seminar

Armando Jardim, PhD, Professor

The Institute of Parasitology , McGill University, Quebec Canada
Faculty sponsor: Buddy Ullman

April 15, 2008 - Student Seminar

Mahta Nili

, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: Peter Rotwein

April 22, 2008 - Departmental Seminar

Chris A. Kaiser, PhD, Professor and Head

Department of Biology , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty sponsor: William Skach

April 29, 2008 - Student Seminar

Jon Fay

, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,OHSU
Faculty sponsor: David Farrens

May 06, 2008 - Departmental Seminar

Robert S. Fuller, PhD, Professor and Associate Chair

Biological Chemistry , University of Michigan Medical School
Faculty sponsor: Ujwal Shinde

Past seminars:

For more information about the graduate studies program please contact the graduate program director David Farrens, Ph.D., (farrensd at ohsu.edu). Other inquiries can be dircted to Guy Super, department administrator, at superg@ohsu.edu.
Last modified: November 6, 2007.