Biochemistry

Seminars

April 17, 2009:   ADROUNY LECTURE by  Stephen Sligar, Ph.D.
Director, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Department of Biochemistry,Chemistry, College of Medicine and
Beckman Institute University of Illinois, Urbana
"Elucidating the Structure and Function of Membrane Proteins through Nanotechnology"

April 27, 2009:    David Roberts, Ph.D. 
Cancer Center for Research  Bethesda, MD
"Regulation of nitric oxide signaling and injury responses by thrombospondin-1 and CD47"

May 18, 2009:    Andrew Bradbury, Ph.D. 
Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM   
"Phage antibody libraries: creation and use"  

August 17, 2009:  Bapi Pahar, D.V.M., M.V.Sc., Ph.D.
(Covington, LA)
CANCELLED

August 24, 2009:   Bin Shan, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor Medicine-Pulmonary Disease
Tulane Medical School
(New Orleans, LA)
"Histone Deacetylase 6, a Molecular Target for Diseases beyond Cancer"

September 14, 2009:  Gregory Warr, Ph.D.
Program Director
Cellular Systems Cluster
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
National Science Foundation
(Arlington, VA)
"NSF Funding Opportunities in the Biological Sciences"

September 21, 2009:  Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Science
Tulane Medical School
(New Orleans, LA)
Speakers are:
Neville Prendergast, DipEd. MLS Director
Mary J. Holt, MLS Coordinator, Information System
Barbara Volo, MLIS Monographs Librarian
"Resources for Researchers: More than MEDLINE"

October 5, 2009:   Alison A. Bertuch, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology/Oncology 
Baylor College of Medicine 
(Houston, TX)
"End Negotiations: The Roles of the Ku Heterodimer at Telomeres and Double Strand Breaks"

October 12, 2009:   Frank Raushel, Ph.D. 
Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Faculty of Toxicology; Center for Advanced Biomolecular Research Chemistry/Biology Training Program
Texas A&M University
(College Station, TX)
"Annotating Proteins of Unknown Function"

October 19, 2009:    Stewart Shuman, M.D.,  Ph.D.
Molecular Biology Program
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
(New York, NY)
"Mechanisms of DNA break repair in mycobacteria"

November 2, 2009:   Neil Osheroff, Ph.D.
John Coniglio Professor of Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 
(Nashville, TN)
"Dietary Topoisomerase II Poisons: The Good, THe Bad, and the Bioflavonids" 

November 9, 2009:  Mary Ann Osley, Ph.D. 
Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
University of New Mexico
(Albuquerque, NM)
"Cellular roles of H2B ubiquitylation"

November 16, 2009:   Sanjay I. Bidichandani, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
(Oklahoma City, OK)
"The epigenetic defect in Friedreich ataxia"

November 23, 2009:  Thang Chiu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
LSUHSC, School of Medicine
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
(New Orleans, LA)
"Structural studies of prolyl peptidases"

December 7, 2009: John M. Mansfield, Ph.D.
Professor of Bacteriology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
(Madison, WI)

December 14, 2009: Robert L. Elliott, M.D., Ph.D.
Founder: The Elliott-Elliott-Head Breast Cancer Research and Treatment Center
Adjunct Professor
Tulane University HSC
Department  of Biochemistry
(Baton Rouge, LA)