Weekly Seminar Program
2016 - 2017
Seminars are held in Becton - Dickinson Hall (W1020) at 12:00 PM, unless stated otherwise.
Previous Seminars
September 19, 2016
Yumi Kim, PhD
"Molecular control of meiotic chromosome dynamics"
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biology
September 26, 2016
Scott Keeney, PhD
"Breaking and chewing DNA in meiosis"
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
October 3, 2016
Martin Schmeing, PhD
"Structural insight into nonribosomal peptide synthetase megaenzymes"
McGill University, Department of Biochemistry
October 10, 2016
Anne Brady, PhD
"Organellar Control of Programmed Cell Death and Inflammatory Signaling"
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Molecular Microbiology
October 17, 2016
4:00 pm
Sheldon Hall, W1214
LAWRENCE GROSSMAN MEMORIAL LECTURE
Thomas J. Kelly, MD, PhD
"DNA Replication, Mutation and Cancer"
Sloan Kettering Institute of Cancer Research
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
October 24, 2016
Jun (Jay) Zhu, PhD
"Vibrio cholerae Genetic Retooling at the Intestinal Interface"
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Microbiology
November 7, 2016
Karen M. Berkowitz, MD
"CHTF18: Novel Roles in Mammalian Meiosis"
Drexel University College of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
November 14, 2016
4:00 pm
Sheldon Hall, W1214
THE 26TH ANNUAL LARRY L. EWING LECTURE
William Wright, PhD
"The Spermatogonial Stem Cell Niche in the Fertile and Infertile Testis"
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
November 28, 2016
Keith W. Caldecott, PhD, MD
"DNA strand breaks and neurological disease"
University of Sussex, UK, Genome Damage and Stability Centre
December 5, 2016
Dennis Thiele, PhD
"The role of copper at the Cryptococcus neoformans – host axis"
Duke University, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
December 12, 2016
Donita C. Brady, PhD
"Leveraging Copper Utilization by Kinases as a Novel Vulnerability in Cancer"
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Cancer Biology
January 9, 2017
Daniele Fallin, PhD
"DNA Methylation in Blood: Hope or Hype for Public Health"
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Mental Health
January 30, 2017
Christian Kaiser, PhD
"Studying protein biogenesis at the single-molecule level"
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biology
February 6, 2017
Jordan L. Meier, PhD
"New Insights into Protein Acetylation from Chemoproteomics"
National Cancer Institute, Chemical Biology Laboratory
February 27, 2017
Andrew L. Snow, PhD
"Consequences of Imbalanced CARD11 Signaling"
Department of Pharmacology & Molecular Therapeutics
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
March 13, 2017
Fernando Camargo, PhD
"Hippo/YAP Signaling in somatic stem cells and cancer"
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
March 20, 2017
John Pascal, PhD
"Structural mechanisms regulating Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase (PARP) enzymes"
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Université de Montréal
April 10, 2017
Victoria D'Souza, PhD
"Unraveling viral RNA genomes: One segment at a time"
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
April 17, 2017
Angel Byrd, PhD
"Casting a wider NET: The role of the host immune response in hidradenitis suppurativa"
Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University
April 24, 2017
Tomas Guilarte, PhD
Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, Florida International University
May 1, 2017
Tom Misteli, PhD
"Deep Imaging of Genomes"
Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute
May 15, 2017
Seth Margolis, PhD
"A membrane-bound 20S proteasome generates extracellular signaling peptides in the nervous system"
Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
May 22, 2017
John Cave, PhD
"Regulation of adult neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation through nucleic acid secondary structures"
Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine
2015 - 2016 Weekly Seminar Program