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August 4, 2010

I-Chu Tseng, M.S., Ph.D.

Greenebaum Cancer Center

University of Maryland

Baltimore, Maryland

"Molecular Mechanisms Governing Matriptase"

June 1, 2010

Sharon Stack Ph.D.

Professor of Cancer Research and Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences

University of Missouri

Columbia, MO

"Regulation of Adhesion and Proteolysis in the Tumor Microenvironment"

March 5, 2010

Eric Gouaux, Ph.D. (Reilley Lecture Series)

Senior Scientist

Vollum Institute

Oregon Health and Science University

Portland, Oregon

"Of Minds and Molecules: How Nerve Cells 'Talk' to Each Other"

"The Astonishing Architecture and Symmetry of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors"

"Molecules Mechanisms Underpinning the Action of Neurotransmitter Transporters"

March 29, 2010

Kathleen M. Sakamoto, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor

Division of Hematology-Oncology

Mattel Children's Hospital, UCLA

Los Angeles, California

"The Role of GM-CSF Signaling and CREB in Myelopoiesis and Leukemogenesis"

March 25, 2010

James Geiger, Ph.D.

Assoicate Professor

Department of Chemistry

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan

"Case Studies in the Stereo-electronic Consequences of Protein/Ligand Interactions: i. The Structure and Substrate Specificity of Glycogen Branching Enzyme and the Mechanism of Color Perception in Vision"

April 24, 2009

Wendy M. Campana, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Anesthesiology

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA

"The Role of LRP-1 in Peripheral Nerve Injury"

March 26, 2009

T. Joseph Kappock

Assistant Professor

Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences

Purdue University

West Lafayette, IN

"Burning Acetate and Making Citrate"

November 7, 2008

Keith R. McCrae , M.D.

Professor of Medicine

Case Western Reserve University

School of Medicine

Cleveland, OH

"Regulation of Angiogenesis by Kininogen:  Initial Characterization of Murine Kininogen Deficiency "

Friday, Septemer 26, 2008

Herman Vandenburgh, Ph.D.

Brown University

Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology & Biotechnology

Providence, RI

"High Content Drug Screening with Tissue Engineered Muscle"

Friday, April 25, 2008

Sirinart Ananvoranich, Ph.D.

University of Windsor

"RNA Tools in Toxoplasma "

Friday, April 18, 2008

Enrico Di Cera, M.D.

Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

Professor of Medicine

Washington University Medical School

St. Louis, MO

"Thrombin Allostery"

Friday, April 11, 2008

David M. Kranz, Ph.D.

Professor of Biochemistry

University of Illinois at Urbana/Champagne

"Structure, Functioning and Engineering of T Cell Receptors "

Friday, November 16, 2007

Cynthia B. Peterson, Ph.D.

The University of Tennessee

M407 Walters Life Sciences Building

Knoxville, TN

"One Step at a Time:  Interactions Between Vitronectin and PAI-1"

Monday, November 5, 2007

Thomas Bugge, Ph.D.

Chief, Proteases and Tissue Remodeling Unit

Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Branch

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

National Institutes of Health/NIDCR

Bethesda, MD

"Transmembrane Serine Proteases and Their Transmembrane Inhibitors:  Balancing Pericellular Proteolysis in Epithelial Development and Carcinogenesis"

Friday, October 12, 2007

Joelle Pelletier, Ph.D.

University of Montreal

Montreal, Quebec

"Enzyme Active-site Mutations:  Engineering Drug-resistance"

Friday, September 21, 2007

Benjamin F. Cravatt

Professor

Department of Cell Biology and Chemistry

The Scripps Research Institute

10550 North Torrey Pines Road

La Jolla, CA 

"Mapping Biochemical Pathways in Human Disease by Integrated Proteomics and Metabolomics"

Friday, June 15, 2007

Mark Mulvhihill Ph.D.

Associate Director of Chemistry, Oncology

OSI Pharmaceuticals

Farmingdale, NY

"Oncology Drug Discovery at OSI Pharmaceuticals:  The Discovery of a Series of Novel, Highly Potent and Selective Quinolinyl-Derived Imidazopyrazine Insulin-like Growth Factor-I Receptor Inhibitors"

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Craig Townsend, Ph.D.

Alsoph H. Corwin Professor

Departments of Chemistry & Biology & Biophysics

John Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

"Pursuit of Cancer Chemotherapy in a Research University"

Friday, April 13, 2007

Peter G. W. Gettins, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Structural Biology

Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

University of Illilnois at Chicago

Chicago, IL

"New Twists on Serpin-Proteinase Interactions"