Nucleic Acid ---Protein Interactions

Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Studies,

Fall 2007, Friday noon seminar series, FW 201

Date	Speaker	Title
Sept. 21	Phoebe A. Rice Biochemistry and Mol. Biol. U. of Chicago 929 E. 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637	DNA bending meets site-specific recombination: the intertwined complex that controls Sin recombinase
Sept. 28	Rick Gourse Dept. of Bacteriology U. of Wisconsin 420 Henry Mall Madison, WI 53706	Small molecules, big effects on gene expression: Transmission of metabolic signals directly to RNA polymerase
Oct. 5	Susan A. Martinis Biochemistry U. of Illinois 600 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801	Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases: Fidelity and RNA Splicing
Oct. 12	John F. Marko Dept. of Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Dept. of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. 2205 Tech Drive Hogan 2-100 Evanston, IL 60208-3500	Micromanipulation study of protein-DNA interactions and chromosome structure
Oct. 19	TBA
Oct. 26	Gary Judd Technical Support Scientist Pierce Biotechnology Rockford, IL	Cool Shifts: Super-sensitive, non-isotopic Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assays (EMSA)
Nov. 2	Alfonso Mondragón Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology Northwestern University 2205 Tech Drive Evanston, IL 60208-3500	Topoisomerase V, a new type I topoisomerase
Nov. 9	Marc S. Wold Biochemistry U. of Iowa 375 Newton Rd., 3156B MERF, Iowa City, IA 52242	Single-stranded DNA-binding: how atomic interactions lead to complex cell functions
Nov. 16	Michael M. Cox Biochemistry U. of Wisconsin, Madison 433 Babcock Drive Madison, WI 53706-1544	Directed Evolution of Radiation Resistance in Bacteria

* The seminar series is supported by a grant from the NIU Graduate Colloquium Committee.
Public seminars are at noon in FW 201. Interested students will meet with each speaker at 2:10 in FW 400.