Date: September 29, 2017, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Nicole Hams
Affiliation: 3rd year grad talk, BB, OSU *Hosted by: Colin Johnson
Title: Towards characterizing the role of otoferlin in auditory deafness: An epic single-molecule journey...and other experiments too!
Date: October 4, 2017, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Ryan Mehl
Affiliation: Oregon State University *Hosted by: Fritz Gombart
Title: Thinking Outside the Codon Wheel
Date: October 18, 2017, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Diana Bautista
Affiliation: UC Berkeley *Hosted by: Andy Karplus
Title: Itchy and Scratchy: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Acute and Chronic Itch
Date: October 27, 2017, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Alvaro G. Estevez
Affiliation: Oregon State University *Hosted by: Joe Beckman
Title: On the Life and Death of Motor Neurons
Date: November 1, 2017, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Fritz Gombart
Affiliation: Oregon State University *Hosted by: Gary Merrill
Title: Fighting infections and fat with micronutrients and natural products
Date: November 15, 2017, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Matthew Slattery
Affiliation: University of Minnesota Duluth *Hosted by: Matt Andrews
Title: The dose makes the poison: Unraveling the effects of regulatory imbalance in cytoprotective transcriptional networks
Date: November 17, 2017, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Maria C. Franco
Affiliation: Oregon State University *Hosted by: Joe Beckman
Title:Redox Signaling by Tyrosine Nitration: From Neurodegeneration to Tumors of the Nervous System
Date: December 15, 2017, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: First Year Rotation Talks
Affiliation: Oregon State University-BB *Hosted by: Colin Johnson
Date: January 17, 2018, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Anne-Marie Krachler
Affiliation: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, TX *Hosted by: Afua Nyarko
Title: May the force be with you: Mechanosensing and virulence regulation in enterohemorrhagic E. coli O157
Date: January 31, 2018, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Eric Walter
Affiliation: EMSL *Hosted by: Patrick Reardon
Title: The Prion Protein and Copper: Function and Disease
Date: February 14, 2018, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Brad Nolen
Affiliation: University of Oregon *Hosted by: Weihong Qiu
Title: Nucleating branched and linear actin filaments with Arp2/3 complex
Date: February 28, 2018, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Bil Clemons
Affiliation: Caltech *Hosted by: Andy Karplus
Title: Structural insights into the targeting of tail-anchored membrane proteins to the ER
Date: March 14, 2018, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Michael Riscoe
Affiliation: Oregon Health Sciences University *Hosted by: Kelsey Kean
Title: ELQ-300 for Treatment and Prevention of Malaria: Resistance is Futile
Date: April 11, 2018, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Diana Libuda
Affiliation: University of Oregon *Hosted by: Fritz Gombart
Title: Turning the Heat on Partner Choice: Uncovering Mechanisms of Temperature‐Induced
DNA Damage and DNA Repair in Germ Cells
Date: April 25, 2018, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Ethan Perlstein
Affiliation: CEO Perlara, industry speaker *Hosted by: Nathan Waugh, BB Grad Students
Title: Model organisms for rare disease drug discovery
Date: May 9, 2018, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Jingwei Xie
Affiliation: University of Nebraska Medical Center *Hosted by: Fritz Gombart
Title: Electrospun Nanofibers for Biomedical Applications
Date: May 23, 2018, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: William N. Zagotta, Ph.D.
Affiliation: University of Washington *Hosted by: Colin Johnson
Title: Visualizing conformational changes in membrane proteins with transition metal ion FRET
Date: May 30, 2018, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Blaine Roberts, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Florey Institute of Neuroscience, University of Melbourne *Hosted by: Joe Beckman
Title: When metalloproteins go rogue: Application of metalloproteomics to understand Alzheimer’s and motor neuron disease
Date: June 6, 2018, 3:30 p.m. – ALS 4001 – Speaker: Kelly Dawe
Affiliation: University of Georgia *Hosted by: Michael Freitag
Title: Roles of kinesin-14s in maize meiotic chromosome segregation