Protein-Ligand Interactions/
Enzyme Active Site Engineering

Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Studies,

Fall 2007, Friday noon seminar series, FW 201

Date
Speaker
Title
Feb. 9 Wayne F. Anderson
Mol. Pharm. and Biol. Chemistry
The Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
The Implications of Structural Genomics - Given an Active Site, What Does it Do?
Feb. 16 Ernesto Fuentes
Dept. of Biochemistry
University of Iowa
Coupling networks in a PDZ domain protein
Feb. 23   TBA  
Mar. 2   Wei-Jen Tang
Ben May Inst. for Cancer
University of Chicago
Structural basis of protein-protein interaction revealed by bacterial adenylyl cyclase toxins and human insulin degrading enzyme
Mar. 9 Friday before Spring break  
Mar. 16 Spring Break  
Mar. 23 Jun Yin
Dept. of Chemistry
University of Chicago
Site specific protein labeling and imaging by
phosphopantetheinyl transferase
Mar. 30 TBA  
April 6 Lee M. Wetzler
Evans Biomedical Research Center
Boston University School of Medicine
Neisserial Porins as PAMPs: Effect on Antigen Presenting Cells and  Use as an Immune Adjuvant
April 13 Shahriar Mobashery
Dept. of Chem. and Biochem.
Notre Dame Univ.
Resistance to b-Lactam Antibiotics in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
April 20 Dr. Robert J. Keenan
Molecular Biosciences
University of Chicago
 Organophosphate detoxification by an engineered N-acetyltransferase
April 27 Huimin Zhao
Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
Protein Engineering of Gene Switches and Enzyme Catalysts
May 4
Ohsuk "Oscar" Kwon
Korea Res. Inst. Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)
Daejeon, Korea
Genome-wide Transcriptional Responses of Escherichia coli to Quinone (Vitamin-K and Coenzyme Q) Deficiency

*  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.