Keck Center Events

November 7, 2008

Keith R. McCrae , MD

Professor of Medicine

Case Western Reserve University

School of Medicine

Cleveland, OH

"TBA"

Friday, October 31, 2008

Charles T. Esmon, PhD

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

Oklahoma City, OK  

"Modulation of Immune and Cellular Responses by Components of the Protein C Pathway - A Potential Novel Approach to Correcting the Dysfunctional Pathway in Disease"

Friday, April 25, 2008

Sirinart Ananvoranich, PhD

University of Windsor

"RNA Tools in Toxoplasma "

Friday, April 18, 2008

Enrico Di Cera, MD

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, PhD

Professor of Biochemistry

University of Illinois at Urbana/Champagne

"Structure, Functioning and Engineering of T Cell Receptors "

Friday, November 16, 2007

Cynthia B. Peterson, PhD

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, PhD

Chief, Proteases and Tissue Remodeling Unit

Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Branch

National Institue of Dental and Craniofacial Research

Natinal Institutes of Heath/NIDCR

Bethesda, MD

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

Friday, October 12, 2007

Joelle Pelletier, PhD

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 PhD

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, PhD

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, PhD

Director, Center for Structural Biology

Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

University of Illilnois at Chicago

Chicago, IL

"New Twists on Serpin-Proteinase Interactions"

Monday, December 4, 2006

Jack Lawler, PhD

Beth Israel Deaconess

Medical Center

Boston, MA

"Regulation of Angiogenesis and Tumor Progression by Thrombospondin-1"

Friday, November 10, 2006

Peter Chivers, PhD

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, MO

"Sensing Nickel in a Bacterial Cell"

Friday, October 20, 2006
Eleanor Pollak, MD
Associate Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
"Functional Polymorphisms in Human Procoagulant Factor VII"

Friday, October 13, 2006
Sririam Krishnaswamy, PhD
Stokes Investigator
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
“Protease Specificity and Function in Coagulation”

Monday, September 11, 2006
Wolfram Ruf, PhD
Professor of Immunology
The Scripps Research Institute
LaJolla, CA
“The Tissue Factor Pathway in Cancer and Angiogenesis”

Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Yongzhang Luo, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry
Department of Biological Sciences & Biotechnology
Tsinghuya Unviersity
Bejing, China
“From Protein Folding to Drug Development”

Thursday, May 11, 2006
Jonathan Ho, Licensing Associate
Elizabeth Spencer, Director, Technology Transfer
Office of Research, University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
“Technology Transfer:  Evaluating, Protecting, Marketing and Licensing Intellectual Property”

Monday, May 1, 2006
Frederick Maxfield, PhD
Israel Rogosin Professor of Biochemistry
Chairman, Department of Chemistry
Weill Medical College
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
“Intracellular Distribution and Transport of Cholesterol and Lipids”

Friday, April 7, 2006
Kathleen L. Berkner, PhD
Department of Molecular Cardiology/NB50Lerner Research Institute
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH
"Surprises in the Mechanism and Role of the Vitamin K-dependent carboxylase”

Friday, March 31, 2006
Joseph Moskal, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
“Glycosyltransferase and Glycosylhydrolase Gene Expressions in Brain Tumors:  Therapeutic Implications”

Friday, March 24, 2006
Renny T. Franceshi, PhD
Department of Dentistry and Biological Chemistry
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
"The Transcriptional Control of Bone Formation"

Friday, January 20, 2006
Elliot D. Rosen, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN
“Genetic Analysis of FVII and FX in vivo”