Departmental Seminars

Fall 2009

Date	Speaker	Affiliate	Title/Abstract
September 2	Juergen Richt	Department of Diagnostic Medicine/ Pathobiology Kansas State Unviersity	Swine Influenza in North America: 1918-Present
September 9	Don Becker	Department of Biochemistry University of Nebraska - Lincoln	“Flavin redox switching of protein function and membrane/DNA binding"
September 16	John Karanicolas	Department of Molecular Biosciences University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS	"Designing protein-protein interfaces"
September 23	Neal Dittmer	Department of Biochemistry Kansas State University	Proteomic and transcriptomic analysis of the cuticle from the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum
September 30	Ashim K. Mitra	Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Research; Curator's Professsor of Pharmacy; and Chairman, Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Missouri - Kansas City	Transporter and receptor mediated drug delivery to the eye- A new paradigm in drug design
October 7	Lawrence Davis	Department of Biochemistry Kansas State University	Rooting around in the dark, seeking enlightenment
October 14	Richard Kriwacki	Associate Member, Structural Biology St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital Memphis, TN	Role of intrinsic protein flexibility in regulatory mechanisms
October 21	Kathrin Schrick	Division of Biology Kansas State Unviersity	Plants on Steroids: Structural and signaling functions of sterols in the green world
October 28	Margaret L. Kirby	Scientific Director, Neonatal Perinatal Research Institute Professor of Pediatrics, Cell Biology amd Biology Duke University, Durham, NC	"Congenital Heart Defects from the Perspective of Heart Fields"
November 4	Rhett Kovall	Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, and Microbiology University of Cincinnati, OH	Structure and Function of Notch Pathway Transcription Complexes
Novermber 11	Fariba Behbod	Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS	An intra-ductal human-in-mouse (HIM) transplantation model mimics the subtypes of ductal carcinoma in situ
November 16* Monday	May R. Berenbaum Hageman Lecture	Division of Entomology University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	"Gut reactions--how insects eat plants"
November 25	Thanksgiving Break
December 2	Thomas Roche	Department of Biochemistry Kansas State University	PDC regulation; PDK3 (comparisons PDK2) binding to E2 structures and evidence for “hand-over-hand” walking of PDK3 (some extent PDK2) on E2 60mer to access and phosphorylate the E1 component
December 9	Roberto De Guzman	Department of Molecular Biosciences University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

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