Date: October 7, 2015, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Rick Cooley
Affiliation: Cornell University *Hosted by: Ryan Mehl
Title: From crystal Structure to cellular physiology: uncovering the basis of bacterial biofilm regulation by a conserved signaling system
Date: October 21, 2015, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Denis Stuehr
Affiliation: Cleveland Clinic *Hosted by: Ryan Mehl
Title: New facets that regulate the maturation of soluble guanylate cyclase, the NO signaling enzyme
Date: October 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Tari Tan & Ian McLachlan
Affiliation: Harvard University *Hosted by: Kevin Ahern
Title: Tari Tan - Circuit Architecture of a Mammalian Olfactory Subsystem
Ian McLachlan - Assembling cells into organs: glial control of neuron shape in C. elegans
Date: November 4, 2015, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Michele Markstein
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts-Amherst *Hosted by: David Hendrix
Title: Drug screens on the fly: Learning how stem cells respond to chemotherapy
Date: November 18, 2015, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Sandra Loesgen
Affiliation: Oregon State University-Chemistry *Hosted by: Ryan Mehl
Title: Microbial natural products in drug discovery - new sources, screens, and targets
Date: December 2, 2015, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Songi Han
Affiliation: University of California-Santa Barbara *Hosted by: Colin Johnson
Title:Decoding surface water dynamics on biological surfaces for activity and function
Date: December 16, 2015, 11:00 a.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Rotation Talks
Affiliation: Oregon State University-BB *Hosted by: Colin Johnson
Date: January 13, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Aleksandra Sikora
Affiliation: Oregon State University-Pharmacy *Hosted by: Ryan Mehl
Title: Proteomics-driven reverse vaccinology for gonorrhea
Date: January 27, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Phil Gafken (alumni)
Affiliation: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center *Hosted by: Amanda Kelley
Title: Bringing mass spectrometry-based proteomics to the masses
Date: February 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Brad Nolen
Affiliation: University of Oregon *Hosted by: Weihong Qiu
Title: Flipping the levers on Arp2/3 complex, an branched actin filament nucleating machine
Date: February 12, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Andrew Brereton
Affiliation: Oregon State University Third Year Student Seminar
Title: Exploring "impossibilities": Capturing Reality in Protein Structure
Date: February 24, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Jianbo Hu, Shris Stoner
Affiliation: University of Oregon *Hosted by: Michael Freitag
Title: Industrial Contracts and Technology Licensing at OSU
Date: March 4, 2016, Cancelled
Date: March 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Ana Maria Cuervo
Affiliation: Albert Einstein College of Medicine *Hosted by: Viviana Perez
Title: Selective autophagy: fighting aging one protein at a time
Date: March 18, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Rotation Talks
Affiliation: Oregon State University-BB *Hosted by: Afua Nyarko
Date: April 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Robby Blizzard
Affiliation: Oregon State University Third Year Student Seminar
Title: Ideal Bioorthogonal Ligations using Tetrazine Amino Acids
Date: April 6, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Kevin Campbell
Affiliation: HHMI-Janelia Research Campus *Hosted by: Colin Johnson
Title: Novel Glycosylation and Post-translational Processing Required Dystroglycan Function
TSOO KING LECTURES
*Date: April 13, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Peter Walter
Affiliation: University of California-San Francisco Tsoo King Lecture (Kelsey Kean, lead)
(scientific lecture) Title: From Protein Folding to Cognition: the Serendipitous Path of Discovery
*Date: April 14, 2016, 7:00 p.m. – LInC 210 – Speaker: Peter Walter
Affiliation: University of California-San Francisco Tsoo King Lecture (Kelsey Kean, lead)
(public lecture) Title: A Matter of Balance: How Your Cells Cope with Stress
Date: April 20, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Myron Goodman
Affiliation: University of Southern California (USC) *Hosted by: Chris Matthews
Title: Better Living with Hyper-Mutation
Date: April 27, 2016, 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. – WNGR 245 – Speaker: Daniel Zuckermann
Affiliation: University of Pittsburg *Hosted by: Heidi Schellman (Physics) and Andy Karplus (Biochemistry and Biophysics)
Title: Biological behavior in a physical world: Understanding and applying the essential chemical physics of biomolecules
Date: April 29, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: John Gamble
Affiliation: Oregon State University Third Year Student Seminar
Title: TBA
Date: May 4, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Huiwang Ai
Affiliation: University of California-Riverside *Hosted by: Ryan Mehl
Title: Molecular Probes for Redox Signaling and Oxidative Stress
Date: May 13, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Nathan Jespersen
Affiliation: Oregon State University Third Year Student Seminar
Title: TBA
Date: May 18, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Judith Frydman
Affiliation: Stanford University *Hosted by: Viviana Perez
Title: Protein folding in the cell and the proteostasis network: biological mechanism and disease implications
Date: May 27, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Amanda Kelley
Affiliation: Oregon State University Third Year Student Seminar
Title: TBA
Date: June 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Rhiju Das
Affiliation: Stanford University *Hosted by: Michelle Wiley
Title: Towards RNA structure/function from scratch
Date: June 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: First Year Grad Student Rotation Talks
Affiliation: Oregon State University-BB *Hosted by: Phil McFadden