Fall Term, 2016 |
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Date |
Speaker |
Presentation Title |
Affiliation |
Host |
October 5, 2016 |
Michael Freitag | "Chromatin - Everything is true but nothing is accurate" | Oregon State University | Fritz Gombart |
October 19, 2016 |
Justine Liepkalns | "Strengthening community: Use of social media in undergraduate classes and career discussions within a graduate student program" | Department of Biology | Kevin Ahern |
November 2, 2016 |
Viviana Perez | "New insights into the cellular mechanisms of aging: implications for health - and life-span" | Oregon State University | Fritz Gombart |
***November 10, 2016 |
BB Students | Poster Presentations | Elisar Barbar | |
***November 10, 2016 |
Angela Gronenborn | "Fluorine NMR - protein folding, structure and applications to drug binding" |
Department of Structural Biology and Pittsburgh Center for HIV- Protein Interaction, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
Elisar Barbar |
November 16, 2016 |
Colin Johnson | “Can you hear me now? Characterizing the essential role of otoferlin in deafness and the molecular biology of hearing” | Oregon State University | Fritz Gombart |
November 18, 2016 |
Mike Tyka | "Proteins and neural networks: Adventures in art and science." | BB Students | |
***November 29, 2016 |
Eric Schreiter | "How to see what we are thinking" (Public lecture) | Tsoo King Lecture Series | BB Graduate Students |
***November 30, 2016 |
Eric Schreiter | "Permanent marking and selective manipulation of active neurons" (Scientific lecture) | Tsoo King Lecture Series | BB Graduate Students |
December 2, 2016 | Joerg Bormann | “Tame a virus: a novel defense gene controls virus spread in the cereal pathogen Fusarium graminearum." | University Hamburg, Biozentrum Klein Flottbek, Molecular Phytopathology | Michael Freitag |
***December 12, 2016 Located in ALS 4001 at 11:00 am |
Chelsea Holman | "Initial in vitro and in vivo characterization of the membrane trafficking protein Fer1L6" | Oregon State University, Thesis Defense | Colin Johnson |
***December 13, 2016 Located in ALS 4001 at 9:30 am | Sara Codding |
“Elucidating the biochemical properties of dysferlin” |
Oregon State University, Thesis Defense | Colin Johnson |
December 14, 2016 | Roger Sutton | "How homologous proteins can have different functions: Structural and Biochemical differences between Dysferlin and Myoferlin" | The University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX | Colin Johnson |
***December 16, 2016 in ALS 4001 at 11:00 am |
1st Year Grad Students | Oregon State University First Year Grad Student Rotation Talks | ||
Winter Term, 2017 |
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Date |
Speaker |
Presentation Title |
Affiliation |
Host |
January 25, 2017 | Dr. Kristen Verhey | “Engineering Kinesin Motor Proteins” | University of Michigan | Weihong Qiu |
February 8, 2017 | Cynthia McMurray | "Death by DNA repair: the rise and fall of oxidative damage in Huntington disease" | Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory | Students, Alumni Speaker |
February 22, 2017 | Michael S. Cohen | "Decoding Protein ADP-ribosylation Networks in Cells Using Chemical Genetic Approaches" | Oregon Health Science University | Ryan Mehl |
March 24, 2017 | Oregon State University First Year Grad Student Rotation Talks | |||
Spring Term, 2017 |
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Date |
Speaker |
Presentation Title |
Affiliation |
Host |
April 12, 2017 | Nikolaos Sgourakis | "Studying dynamics of protein complexes involved in the Immune recognition of viruses and tumors using NMR and computational modeling" | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz | Sarah Clark (grad in Barbar lab) |
April 26, 2017 | Sharyn Endow | "Forces and Motors in the Spindle" | Professor of Cell Biology, DUMC, Professor of NBD, Duke-NUS | Weihong Qiu |
April 28, 2017 | Erin Dueber | "Exploring activation mechanisms: how do key signaling proteins get switched on?" | Senior Scientist at Genentech | Lillian Padgitt-Cobb |
May 10, 2017 | Dr. Joerg Gsponer | "Intrinsically Disordered Regulators: from Autoinhibition to Protein Phase Separation" | University of British Columbia | Elisar Barbar |
May 24, 2017 | Richard Morimoto | "Regulation of Protein Quality Control by Proteostasis and the Heat Shock Response" | Northwestern | Viviana Perez / Bharath |
May 26, 2017 | Andrew Popchock | "Single-molecule studies of the mechanism and regulation of the mitotic Kinesin-14 KlpA” | Oregon State University Third Year Student Seminar | Weihong Qiu |
June 7, 2017 | Michael Parra | "The Influence of Structural Diversity on Chromatin Dynamics." | Heritage University, Yakima, Washington | Michael Freitag |
June 16, 2017 | Oregon State University First Year Grad Student Rotation Talks | Afua Nyarko |