Past Seminars
Review the archive of CBSD sponsored seminars.
Academic Year 2021-2022
Oct. 25, 2021 - Seminar
Speaker: Arne Gennerich, Head, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Title: Single-Molecule Dissection of Cytoplasmic Dynein Motion and Force Generation
Location/Time: CHEM 212; 4:00 p.m.
Academic Year 2019-2020
Nov. 8, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: John Froehlich, Harvard Medical School
Title: Development of a Glycoproteomic Toolkit and its Application to Challenges in Urology (Hosted by the Department of Computer Science)
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11 a.m.
Oct. 7, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: Deane Mosher, University of Wisconsin
Title: Structure of myeloid-derived growth factor (C19orf10)(Hosted by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Location/Time: Chemistry 212, 4 p.m.
Sept. 30, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: Changjian "Jim" Feng, University of New Mexico
Title: Dissecting mechanism of conformationally controlled electron transfer in nitric oxide synthases (Hosted by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Location/Time: Chemistry 212, 4 p.m.
Sept. 27, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: Paul T. Edlefsen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title: Genomics and comparative genomics of HIV-1 for vaccine evaluation (Hosted by the Department of Computer Science)
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Academic Year 2018-2019
April 19, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: Gautam Basu, Bose Institute
Title: Rare conformations involving proline
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
April 5, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: Seemay Chou, University of California - San Francisco
Title: Friend or foe: the dual nature of tick-borne pathogens (Hosted by the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Feb. 22, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: Ian de Vera, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Title: Coactivator-nuclear receptor interaction is synergistically modulated by ligand and DNA (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Feb. 8, 2019 - Seminar
Speaker: Tim S. Bugni, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title: Leveraging MS-based metabolomics for natural products drug discovery (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Nov. 5, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: Adam Fiedler, Marquette University
Title: Characterization of Short-Lived Intermediates in the Reaction of Synthetic Dioxygenase Models with Dioxygen (Hosted by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Location/Time: Chemistry 212, 4:00 p.m.
Oct. 26, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: Vinicius M. Gadotti, University of Calgary
Title: Activation of Neuroimmune Responses Mediate Anxiety-Related and Depressive-like Behaviors Following Acute Colitis (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Oct. 5, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: Jeffrey Thorne, North Carolina State University
Title: Incorporating disease data and Interlocus Gene Conversion into evolutionary inference (Hosted by the Department of Computer Science)
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Sept. 14, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: Martin Frith, University of Tokyo
Title: Finding genetic sequence rearrangements in evolution and disease (Hosted by the Division of Biological Sciences and Department of Computer Science)
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Academic Year 2017-2018
April 27, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: Pavan Muttil, University of New Mexico
Title: Environmental toxicants affect vaccine efficacy: Is there a value in altering the route of immunization (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 12:00 p.m.
April 20, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: Michael McAlpine, University of Minnesota
Title: 3D Printing Functional Materials & Devices (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
April 13, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: Josh Adkins, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Title: Applications of multi-omics methods to aid in understanding protein function (Hosted by the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
March 5, 2018 - Seminar
Speaker: Archibald Perkins, University of Rochester
Title: Role of PR domain proteins in cancer: Potential targets for therapy? (Hosted by the Department of Chemistry)
Location/Time: Chemistry 212 at 4:00 p.m.
Nov. 17, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: Jia Song, University of Delaware
Title: Regulatory roles of microRNAs in early development (Hosted by the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Nov. 13, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: Yisong (Alex) Guo,
Title: Spectroscopic and kinetic studies of catalytically versatile nonheme iron enzymes (Hosted by the Department of Chemistry)
Location/Time: Chemistry 212, 4:00 p.m.
Oct. 6, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: Michelle Reniere, University of Washington
Title: How an intracellular pathogen recognizes the host cytosol (Hosted by the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location/Time: Skaggs 169, 11:00 a.m.
Sept. 1, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: Huang-Xiang Zhou, University of Illinois - Chicago
Title: "Integrated Computational and Experimental Studies on the Structure and Function of Ion Channels" (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location: Skaggs 117, 12:00 p.m.
Academic Year 2016-2017
May 1, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: Alexey Arkov, Murray State University
Title: "From RNA-Protein Complexes to Germline Biology: Structure and Function of Germ Granule Nanoparticles in Drosophila" (Hosted by the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: Chemistry 212, 12:00 p.m.
April 21, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: Barbie Ganser-Pornillos, University of Virginia
Title: "The HIV-1 Capsid: Assembly and Restriction by TRIM5alpha" (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location: Skaggs Building 169, 12:00 p.m.
April 17, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: Theodore (Ted) Jardetzky, Stanford University
Title: "Structural insights into herpesvirus entry and neutralization" (Hosted by the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: Chemistry 212, 12:00 p.m.
April 3, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: Brett Keiper, East Carolina University
Title: "Selective control of mRNA translation in gametes and embryos" (Hosted by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Location: Chemistry 212, 4:00 p.m.
April 3, 2017 - Seminar
Speaker: Meghan Lybecker, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
Title: "Uncovering the function of regulatory RNAs in E. coli and the Lyme disease spirochete" (Hosted by the Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology Graduate Program of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: Chemistry 212, 12:00 p.m.
Oct. 28, 2016
Speaker: Donald Backos, University of Colorado
Title: "Applications of Computational Modeling to Biomedical Research" (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location: Skaggs Building 169, 12:00 p.m.
Sept. 26, 2016
Speaker: Timothy Jackson, Kansas University
Title: "Insights into Metalloenzyme Function from Bio-inspired Manganese Complexes" (Hosted by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Location: CHEM 212, 4:00 p.m.
Sept. 9, 2016
Speaker: Michael Harms, University of Oregon
Title: "Physical origins and evolutionary effects of high-order epistasis in genotype-phenotype maps" (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location: SB 169, 12:00 p.m.
Academic Year 2015-2016
May 2, 2016
Speaker: Stephen G. Sliger, University of Illinois
Host: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Location: CHEM 212, 4:10 p.m.
April 25, 2016
Location: CHEM 212, 4:10 p.m.
Location: ISB 110, 12:10 p.m.
April 18, 2016
Speaker: P. Scott Hefty, University of Kansas
Host: Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology Graduate Program of the Division of Biological Sciences
Location: ISB 110, 12:10 p.m.
April 11, 2016
Speaker: Joanne Yew, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Host: Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology Graduate Program of the Division of Biological Sciences
Location: ISB 110, 12:10 p.m.
March 14, 2016
Speaker: Alexander Grishaev, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Title: "Protein structure determination with solution X-ray scattering data: increasing the accuracy of model selection." (Hosted by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Location: CHEM 212, 4:10 p.m.
Dec. 7, 2015
Speaker: Michael M. Cox, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: "Evolution of Cellular Recombination Systems" (Hosted by the Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology Graduate Program of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110, 12:10 p.m.
Academic Year 2014-2015
May 4, 2015
Speaker: Richard Marconi, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Title: "Treponema denticola, complement dysregulation and periodontal disease" (Hosted by the Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology Graduate Program of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
May 1, 2015
Speaker: John Hepler, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology
Title: "RGS14 at the Interface of Hippocampal Signaling and Synaptic Plasticity" (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 12:10 p.m.
April 20, 2015
Speaker: Andy Borovik, University of California-Irvine, Department of Chemistry
Title: "Synthetic Chemistry as a Window into Biology" (Hosted by the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
April 17, 2015
Speaker: Jon Clardy, Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Title: "Aligning Chemical Ecology and Drug Discovery" (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 12:10 p.m.
April 7, 2015 - President's Lecture Series
Speaker: David Baltimore, President Emeritus, Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology
Location: Dennison Theatre at 8:00 p.m.
Feb. 26, 2015
Speaker: Larry Que, University of Minnesota, Department of Chemistry
Title: "Peroxodiiron Intermediates of Oxygenases Involved in Cell Proliferation and Chloramphenicol Biosynthesis, and Related Synthetic Models" (Hosted by the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Feb. 2, 2015
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
Jan. 26, 2015
Speaker: Andrea Stierle, University of Montana, Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Title: "Mining for microbial metabolites that inhibit enzyme pathways associated with inflammation and metastasis" (Sponsored by the Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology Graduate Program of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
Dec. 5, 2014
Speaker: Olga Boudker, Cornell University, Department of Physiology & Biophysics
Title: "Dance Lessons for Proteins: Structures, Dynamics, and Thermodynamics of a Glutamate Transporter Homologue" (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 12:10 p.m.
Dec. 1, 2014
Speaker: Jane Ishmael-Leid, Oregon State University, College of Pharmacy
Title: "Natural Products as Chemical Probes for the Study of Autophagy and Cell Death." (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences & the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Nov. 24, 2014
Speaker: P. Shing Ho, Colorado State University, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title: "Halogen bonds: A new paradigm for molecular recognition." (Hosted by the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Nov. 3, 2014
Speaker: Doug Allan, University of British Columbia, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Title: "Identification and functional testing of BMP-dependent genomic enhancers in the Drosophila nervous system." (Hosted by the Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology Graduate Program of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
Oct. 27, 2014
Speaker: Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title: "Genetic conflicts during meiosis and the evolution centromeres and species in Drosophila." (Hosted by the Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology Graduate Program of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
Summer 2014
July 29, 2014
Speaker: Brian Weitzner, Johns Hopkins University
Title: "Next-generation modeling: using all of the above approaches to improve antibody structure prediction."
Location: ISB 110 at 12:00 p.m.
July 24, 2014
Speaker: Louis J. DeFelice, Virginia Commonwealth
Title: "How Amphetamine Releases Dopamine: Current Models of Drug Abuse" (Hosted by the Center for Structural and Functional Neuroscience)
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 11:00 a.m.
June 22-25, 2014
CBSD
Symposia Leader: Stephen R. Sprang
Symposia Leader: Bruce E. Bowler
Symposia Leader: Edward Rosenberg
Symposia Leader: Valeriy Smirnov
Symposia Leader: J.B. Alexander (Sandy) Ross
Symposia Leader: Orion Berryman
Spring 2014
April 21, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Madeline A. Shea, Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Title: "Calcium-Triggered Conformational Switching of
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
April 14, 2014
Speaker: Richard Roller, Microbiology, University of Iowa
Title: "
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
April 11, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Bal Ram Singh, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
Title: "Role of Structure and Dynamics in the Unique Selectivity and Effectiveness of the Most Poisonous Poison - The Botulinum Neurotoxin" (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 a.m.
March 24, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Wes Sundquist, Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah
Title: "The ESCRT pathway in HIV budding and cell division." (Hosted by Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology Graduate Program of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
Feb. 3, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Rohit Pappu, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
Title:"Biophysical complexities of polyglutamine aggregation and implications for Huntington's disease" (Hosted by Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Jan. 9, 2014
Speaker: Joachim E. Schultz, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Tubingen
Title: "Regulating Adenylyl Cyclase activity by extracellular ligands." Special seminar hosted by CBSD.
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Fall 2013
Nov. 25, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Fraser Hof, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria
Title: "The supramolecular and medicinal chemistry of post-translational modifications and epigenetics" (Hosted by the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Nov. 4, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Wenying Shou, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Title: "Survival of the Most Cooperative" (Hosted by the Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology Graduate Program of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 12:10 p.m.
Nov. 1, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Mathew Jones, Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: "The simplest possible theory of allostery in the GABA-A receptor" (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Co-sponsored by the Center for Structural & Functional Neuroscience)
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 p.m.
Oct. 4, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Roger Sunahara, Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan
Title: "Allosteric modulation of hormone binding by G proteins: unraveling the mechanism underlying high affinity agonist binding" (Hosted by the Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
Sept. 30, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Ann Karen Brassinga, Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba
Title: "New Developments in the Pathogenesis of Legionnaires' Disease" (Hosted by the Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology Graduate Program of the Division of Biological Sciences)
Location: ISB 110 at 12:10 p.m.
Sept. 23, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Ann Karen Brassinga, Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba
Title: "New access to complex glycoconjugates through engineering and evolution of glycosyltransferases and glycosynthases" - Abstract (Hosted by the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Location: CHEM 212 at 4:10 p.m.
July 19, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Eric Gouaux, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Vollum Institute
Title: "Molecular choreography of signaling at chemical synapses" (Co-sponsored by the Center for Structural & Functional Neuroscience)
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 a.m.
Spring 2013
May 2, 2013
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Location: Skaggs Building 117 at 11:10 a.m.
April 18, 2013
Speaker: Dr. John Gerdes, Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Montana
Title: "Discovery and development of a tool box of PET imaging tracers for in life studies"
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
April 15, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Abhinav Nath, Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University
Title: "Disease-related Self-Assembly of Disordered and Dynamic Proteins: Biophysical Characterization and Pharmacological Modulation" (Sponsored by the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences: CSFN and CBSD)
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 a.m.
April 11, 2013
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 1:10 p.m.
March 29, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Ken Mackie, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Indiana
Title: “Receptors Gone Wild: CB2 cannabinoid receptor functional selectivity and its implications” (Sponsored by the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Location: Skaggs Building 169 at 11:10 a.m.
March 28, 2013
Speaker: Labe A. Black, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, University of Montana
Title: "Conformational Changes and Dynamics of the Alpha Subunit for Heterotrimeric G Proteins During Receptor Independent Cell Signaling"
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
March 21, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Scott Samuels, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana
Title: “Gene regulation in the Lyme disease spirochete”
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
March 7, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Celestine Thomas, Division of Biological Sciences, Center for Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics,, University of Montana
Title: “Beauty in Disorder; Mechanism of Receptor independent G-protein activation”
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Feb. 28, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Ron June, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Montana State University
Title: "Mechanobiology, modeling, and drug delivery for understanding and treating joint disease."
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Feb. 21, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Elan Eisenmesser, Department of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado-Denver
Title: "The untold truth of protein motions and function as revealed by NMR." (Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry)
Location: ISB 110 at 4:10 p.m.
Fall 2012
Nov. 15, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Andrea Stierle, Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Montana
Title: "The use of enzyme inhibition assays to isolate compounds with anti-inflammatory and anticancer activity from symbiotic bacteria of the human gut."
Location: CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
Nov. 8, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Aseem Z. Ansari, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: "Engineering Synthetic Gene Switches to Control Cell Fate" (Co-
Location: CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
Oct. 25, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Tatiana Kutateladze, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado - Denver
Title: "Molecular Insight into Epigenetic Regulation" (Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry, University of Montana)
Location: CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
Oct. 18, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Jose R. Tusell, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Montana
Title: "DFT study of the catalytic core of mammalian adenylyl cyclase"
Location: CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
Oct. 4, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Michael Eck, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University
Title: "Toward development of mutant-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitors: Insights from structural and mechanistic studies of EGFR and Jak kinases"
Location: CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.
Sept. 20, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Grant Mauk, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia
Title: "New Reactivities and Inhibitors for an Emerging Drug Target: Indoleamine 2,3– Dioxygenase" (Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry, University of Montana & the Department of Chemistry, Montana State University)
Location: CHEM 123 at 4:10 p.m.