BMB Department Seminars

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

BMB Department Seminars

Spring 2013

Wednesdays at 4 p.m. in 120 Ackert Hall

Coffee and cookies available at 3:45 p.m. in 168 Chalmers Hall.
Note: Time and location may differ; see abstract for more information.

Date	Speaker	Affiliate	Title/PDF abstract
January 23	Doug Barrick	T.C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics Johns Hopkins University	Using repeat proteins to learn about cooperativity, folding pathways, and sequence determinants of stability
January 30	Jim Riviere DVM, PhD (IOM) MacDonald Endowed Chair in Veterinary Medicine	Department of Anatomy and Physiology Kansas State University	Novel Approach to Characterize Nanoparticle Interactions with Biomolecules
February 6	Jun Li	Department of Chemistry Kansas State University	Interfacing Materials Sciences and Biochemistry at Electrified Nanoelectrodes
February 13 Advanced Distinguished Lecture Series	Sandra Hofmann M.D., Ph.D.	Department of Internal Medicine UT Southwestern Medical Center	Protein palmitoylation in neuronal function and dysfunction
February 20 Canceled	Chris Culbertson	Department of Chemistry Kansas State University
February 27	Maureen Gorman	Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Kansas State University	Multicopper oxidase-1: a newly identified ferroxidase essential for iron homeostasis in insects
March 6	Christian Schöenich Takeru Higuchi Distinguished Professor and Chair	Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of Kansas	Cysteine residues as catalysts for covalent post-translational protein modification: a role for thiyl radicals?
March 13	Yoonseong Park	Department of Entomology Kansas State University	Mechanisms controlling tick salivary secretion
March 20	Spring Break
March 27	Gerald Reeck	Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Kansas State University	PROBING APHID SALIVA – THE (PARTIAL) STORIES OF THREE PROTEINS
April 3	Jay Thelen	Department of Biochemistry University of Missouri	Plant phosphoproteomics: from discovering phosphorylation sites to identifying kinase client relationships.
April 10	Audrey Lamb	Department of Molecular Biosciences University of Kansas	Structure informs on function: the thiazolinyl imine reductase of siderophore biosynthesis
April 17	No Seminar
April 24	Lorena Passarelli	Division of Biology Kansas State University	Going viral: Propagation strategies and redox assembly requirements of baculoviruses
May 1	Lisa Wilken	Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Kansas State University	Bioprocessing of Plant-derived Products: Challenges & Opportunities
May 8	Jay Shockey Research Plant Geneticist	Southern Regional Research Center USDA-ARS New Orlean, LA	A place for vegetable oils in a bio-based economy: a career spent learning about lipid metabolism in plants.