Journal Club | Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics

2016-2017

Mondays at Noon, E2036

Date	Presenter	Title
9/12	Kimberly Dodge-Kafka	Functional and Structural Mimicry of Cellular Protein Kinase A Anchoring Proteins by a Viral Oncoprotein
9/19	Dipika Gupta	Ki-67 acts as a biological surfactant to disperse mitotic chromosomes
9/26	open	title
10/3	HOLIDAY	Rosh Hashanah
10/10	HOLIDAY	Columbus Day
10/17	Chris Heinen	Replication of human noroviruses in stem cell–derived human enteroids
10/24	Matt Zambrello	Reliable resonance assignments of selected residues of proteins with known structure based on empirical NMR chemical shift prediction
10/31	Mitali Adlakha	Lipid Biosynthesis Coordinates a Mitochondrial-to-Cytosolic Stress Response
11/7	Savithri Weerasooriya	Classical non-homologous end-joining pathway utilizes nascent RNA for error-free double-strand break repair of transcribed genes
11/14	Bibben Paul	Iron Uptake via DMT1 Integrates Cell Cycle with JAK-STAT3 Signaling to Promote Colorectal Tumorigenesis
11/21	HOLIDAY	Thanksgiving Week
11/28 CANCELED	Melissa Caimano	A Diguanylate Cyclase Acts as a Cell Division Inhibitor in a Two-Step Response to Reductive and Envelope Stresses
12/5 CANCELED	Ashley Groshong	ppGpp Binding to a Site at the RNAP-DksA Interface Accounts for Its Dramatic Effects on Transcription Initiation during the Stringent Response
12/12	Justin Radolf	Spirochaete flagella hook proteins self-catalyse a lysinoalanine covalent crosslink for motility
1/16	HOLIDAY	MLK
1/23	Stephen King	Assembly and activation of dynein–dynactin by the cargo adaptor protein Hook3
1/30	Peter Setlow	The GerW protein is essential for l-alanine-stimulated germination of Bacillus subtilis spores The GerW Protein Is Not Involved in the Germination of Spores of Bacillus Species
2/6	Ashley Groshong	ppGpp Binding to a Site at the RNAP-DksA Interface Accounts for Its Dramatic Effects on Transcription Initiation during the Stringent Response
2/13	Sandy Weller	Promyelocytic Leukemia Protein (PML) ControlsListeria monocytogenes Infection
2/20	HOLIDAY	Presidents Day
2/27	Larry Klobutcher	What? Organisms that use all 64 codons to specify amino acids
3/6	Melissa Caimano	Catabolite and Oxygen Regulation of EnterohemorrhagicEscherichia coli Virulence
3/13	Spring Break
3/20	Adam Schuyler	NMR and Computation Reveal a Pressure-Sensitive Folded Conformation of Trp-Cage
3/27	Betty Eipper	Impaired Amino Acid Transport at the Blood Brain Barrier Is a Cause of Autism Spectrum Disorder
4/3	Alex Rizzo	Persistent microbiome alterations modulate the rate of post-dieting weight regain
4/10	David Manz	SREBP1 Contributes to Resolution of Pro-inflammatory TLR4 Signaling by Reprogramming Fatty Acid Metabolism
4/17	Sanjiv Kumar	Structure of the BAM complex and its implications for biogenesis of outer-membrane proteins
4/24	EB	title
5/1	Suzy Torti	Cell-Line Selectivity Improves the Predictive Power of Pharmacogenomic Analyses and Helps Identify NADPH as Biomarker for Ferroptosis Sensitivity
5/8	open	title
5/15	Irina Bezsonova	The RNF168 paralog RNF169 defines a new class of ubiquitylated histone reader involved in the response to DNA damage

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