Spring 2008 Seminar Schedule

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All seminars are on Friday at 12:00 noon in 147 Nanaline Duke Bldg. unless otherwise noted. Coffee is served in the lobby at 11:45. * Memorial Lectures are held in 103 Bryan Research Building

Date/Host	Speaker	Title	Comment
January 11 / Modrich	Antoine M. van Oijen	“Under the Hood of the Replisome: A Single-Molecule View of DNA Replication”
January 18 /Greenleaf	Carl S. Thummel	“Regulation of Metabolism by Nuclear Receptors in Drosophila”
January 25 /BCH Dept.	Pei Zhou	“From Novel Antibiotics to Fast NMR”
February 22 /Raetz	Edward A. Dennis	“The LIPID MAPS Approach to Eicosanoid Lipidomics and Inflammatory Mediators”
February 29 /Rajagopalan	Dennis R. Winge	“Chaperone-Mediated Assembly of Cytochrome c Oxidase in Mitochondria”
March 7 /Rusche	Jonathan Widom	“The Genomic Code for Nucleosome Positioning”
March 14 /Greenleaf	Aseem Z. Ansari	“Deciphering and Decoupling the CTD and Histone Codes in Gene Expression”
March 21 /Pierce	Jay D. Keasling	“Synthetic Biology in Pursuit of Low-Cost, Anti-Malarial Drugs”	* Nozaki Memorial Lecture
March 28 /Donald	Bruce Tidor	“Electrostatics in Ligand Binding and Design”
April 4 /Oas	Arthur Palmer	“Protein Conformational Dynamics: Folding of the Villin Headpiece and Strand-Swapping of Type II Cadherins”
April 11 /Hsieh	Matthew R. Redinbo	“Novel Antibiotics Targeting Drug Resistant Bacteria”
April 18 /Hammes	Peter E. Wright	“Exploring the Energy Landscape: Disorder, Dynamics, and Protein Function”	* Handler Memorial Lecture
April 25 /Simon	Merritt Maduke	“Chloride Channels and Transporters — What’s the Difference?”
May 2 /Kreuzer	Toto Olivera	“From Cone Snail Venoms to Drugs: Conus Peptides and Ion Channels”	* Kamin Memorial Lecture