Seminars

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

BMB Department Seminars

Spring 2019

Wednesdays at 4 p.m. in 120 Ackert Hall

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

Date	Speaker	Affiliate	Title/PDF abstract
February 6	Allyson O'Donnell	Biological Sciences University of Pittsburgh	“Ticket to ride: Alpha-arrestin regulation of protein trafficking”
February 13	Luke Szweda	Internal Medicine University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	"Metabolic Determinants of Cardiac Disease and Renewal"
February 20	Sarah Zanders	Molecular & Integrative Physiology University of Kansas School of Medicine Stower's Institute for Medical Research	“wtf Killer Meiotic Drivers”
Thursday February 21	Joshua S. Mylne Fulbright Professional Scholar Canceled	School of Molecular Sciences & The ARC Centre for Excellence in Plant Energy Biology University of Western Australia	"A seamless process: evolution and biosynthesis of circular peptides in plants"
February 27	Josephine Chandler	Molecular Biosciences University of Kansas	“Making friends to make war: quorum sensing, cooperation and interbacterial competition”
March 6	Wayne Riekhof	School of Biological Sciences University of Nebraska, Lincoln	“Membrane lipid synthesis and remodeling in fungi: Who needs phospholipids, anyway?”
March 13	Spring Break		no seminar
March 20	Sung-O Kim Michelle Munson-Serban Simu Keystone Research Scholar	Electrical and Computer Engineering Kansas State University	"Plasma Endoscopy using Optical Fibers for Cancer Therapy"
March 27	Scott Lovell Director, Protein Structure Facility	Del Shankel Structural Biology Center University of Kansas	"A Protein Structure Medley: From Functional Studies to Inhibitor Development"
April 3	Richard Todd	Plant Pathology Kansas State University	“Transcriptional balancing of fungal metabolism: two modes of action for one transcription factor.”
April 10 Hageman Lecture	Harry Klee Eminent Scholar	Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Horticultural Sciences University of Florida	"The chemistry of tomato flavor: Integrating genetics and biochemistry to elaborate a complex phenotype"
April 17	Rebecca Roston	Biochemistry University of Nebraska, Lincoln	"Cold tolerance sensing in plants may be a continuum rather than a step."
April 24	Gloria Borgstahl Canceled	Eppley Institute University of Nebraska Medical Center	“"Perfect Crystals" of MnSOD for neutron crystallography: Where are the protons?”
May 1	Rita Miller	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Oklahoma State University	"Two new ways to regulate chromosomal loss"
May 8	Michael McMurray	Cell and Developemental Biology University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey: septin protein complexes as a model to understand multisubunit assembly in vivo”