MCMP Seminars - Fall 2009

All seminars are in RHPH 164 at 4:00 PM unless otherwise noted.

Schedules: Fall '08 | Spring '09 | Fall '09 | Spring '10

Click next to a speaker's name to read their abstract or research profile. Speakers with no university following their name are MCMP 696 students presenting a seminar to fulfill a graduate program requirement. Abstracts require Adobe® Acrobat Reader® to view. Acrobat Reader may be downloaded for free from Adobe's website.

Students should read the Student Seminar Guide. Contact Dr. Doug LaCount with any questions regarding the seminars.

Other seminar series: Interdisciplinary Life Sciences | Chemistry

Tuesday Seminars
Fall 2009
  Thursday Seminars
Fall 2009
Aug 25: No seminar   Aug 27: Available
Sep 1: Plagiarism seminar - mandatory for 1st and 2nd year students   Sep 3: Available
Sep 8: Frank Ankudey - "Natural Products and Cancer Research" Abstract   Sep 10: Pre-recorded seminar: Prof. Sir David Lane, University of Dundee, UK and the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore - "Drug discovery and target validation in the p53 pathway"
This is our first test of prerecorded seminars; we encourage all to attend.
Sep 15: Joseph Kasper - "Conformational Activation in the Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor" Abstract   Sep 17: Available
Sep 22: Mark Riofski - "Synthesis and Selection of a Library of Macrocycles Generated by DNA-Templated Organic Synthesis" Abstract   Sep 24: Fred E. Cohen, MD, Professor of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, Medicine, and Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California San Francisco - "Prion Diseases" (Prerecorded seminar) Abstract | Research
Sep 29: Changho Han - "Combating Drug Resistant Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia with Jak2 Kinase Inhibition" Abstract   Oct 1: Dr. Haojie Huang, Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Abstract | Research
Host: Chang-Deng Hu
Oct 6: Kristen Lesniak - "In vivo monitoring of drug-target interactions through the use of semisynthetic biosensors" Abstract   Oct 8: Available
Oct 13: No Seminar - October Break   Oct 15: Dr. Warren Heideman, Associate Dean for Research, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin - "Yeast and Zebrafish in Pharmacy School" Abstract | Research
Host: Dr. Tony Hazbun
Oct 20: Abdelrahman Mayhoub - "Bisphosphonates, A Novel Anti-Cancer Agent" Abstract   Oct 22: Dr. Robert Hughes, Assistant Professor, Buck Institute for Age Research - "Defining the Therapeutic Target Space for Huntington's Disease" Abstract | Research
Host: Tony Hazbun
Oct 27: Andrew Lipchik - "Small RNA Activation of Gene Expression" Abstract   Oct 29: No Seminar
Jenkins-Knevel and Kinely Awards Symposium
3:30 PM in the PMU West Faculty Lounges
Nov 3: Rachel Wright - "Disruption of Molecular Motors as a Primary Cause of Motor Neuron Degeneration in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis" Abstract   Nov 5: David M. Miller III, Ph.D., Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University - "Wiring the C. elegans motor circuit: Turning off the wrong genes to make the right connections." Abstract | Research
Host: Chang-Deng Hu
Nov 10: Steven Ouellette - "miRNA Networks: Motif Prediction, Validation and Therapeutic Implications" Abstract   Nov 12: Shaomeng Wang, Ph.D., Molecular Therapeutics Program University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan - "Targeting protein-protein interactions for new cancer therapeutics" Abstract | Research
Host: Dr. Donald Bergstrom
Nov 17: Bingjie Hu - "DDX3 as a Novel Target for HIV Therapeutics" Abstract   Nov 19: Dr. Brian M. Baker, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame - "T cell receptor cross-reactivity via by peptide-specific conformational dynamics" Abstract | Research
Host: Dr. Chiwook Park
Nov 24: Available   Nov 26: No Seminar - Thanksgiving Break
Dec 1: Available   Dec 3: No Seminar
Tyler Lecture - Stewart Center, Room 306
Dec 8: Available   Dec 10: Dr. James Inglese, Deputy Director, NIH Chemical Genomics Center and Director, Biomolecular Screening and Profiling Division, NIH Chemical Genomics Center - "Integrative Technologies Enabling Chemistry and Biology as a Public Resource for Investigational Molecular Probe Development" Research | Bio
Host: Dr. Richard Gibbs
Dec 15: Final Exams   Dec 17: Carston R. Wagner, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota - "Toward Therapeutic Self-Assembling Protein Nanostructures " Abstract | Research
Host: Dr. Donald Bergstrom

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