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Seminars

Faculty Seminars

Meetings are held in the Fall and Spring on Mondays at 4:00PM in room MS 326 of the Van Nuys Medical Science Building on the campus of Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, unless otherwise specified.


Student Seminars

Meetings are held in the Spring on Wednesdays at 12:00 NOON in room MS 326 of the Van Nuys Medical Science Building on the campus of Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, unless otherwise specified.


Research Seminars

Meetings are held on select Thursdays at 12:00 NOON in room MS-B16 of the Van Nuys Medical Science Building on the campus of Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, unless otherwise specified.


Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Seminars

Meetings are held on Mondays at 11:00 AM in room HITS1110 in the Health Information and Translational Sciences Building, unless otherwise specified. 
 

Faculty Seminars
All seminars held in room MS 326 can be viewed from this link... 
Date
Room
Time
Speaker
Title
 Host
9/12/11
MS 326
4 PM
 Beth R. Pflug, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Melvin & Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, IN
"Pathobiology of Prostate Cancer and Targeting Molecular Signaling Pathways"
Zhang
9/19/11
MS 326
4 PM
Xin Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Medical & Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
"Genetic Analysis of FGF Signaling"
Lu
 9/26/11
MS 326
4 PM
Douglas Mann, M.D., Lewin Professor and Chief, Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine, Cardiologist-in-Chief, Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
"Tumor Necrosis Factor and the Heart: A Talk of Two Cytokines"
Harrington
10/03/11
EH 304
4 PM
Mansoor M. Amiji, R.Ph., Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Co-Director, Nanomedicine Education and Research Consortium (NERC), School of Pharmacy, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
"Multifunctional Nano-Medicine: From Diagnostics to Targeted Therapy"
Lu
10/10/11
MS 326
4 PM
Xiao-Ming Xu, M.D., Ph.D., Scientific Director, Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Group, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Professor and Mari Hulman George Chair of Neurological Surgery, Vice Chair for Research, Department of Neurological Surgery, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
"Neuroprotective and Regenerative Strategies for Repair after Spinal Cord Injury"
Ye
10/17/11
MS 326
4 PM
Richard G. Gardner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"How disorder maintains order in nuclear protein homeostasis"
Dunker
10/24/11
MS 326
4 PM
Giles Duffield, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
"Molecular basis for circadian rhythms in mammals and mosquitoes"
Dong
10/31/11
MS 326
4 PM
James C. Clemens, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
"Activated Cdc42 Kinase: an anti-apoptotic kinase with links to neurodegenertation and cancer"
Zhang
11/14/11
MS 326
4 PM
Constance Jeffery, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Moonlighting Proteins"
Dunker
11/21/11
MS 326
4 PM
Daniel Finley, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
"Regulation of the proteasome by ubiquitin chain editing"
Takagi
12/05/11
MS 326
4 PM
Scott Briggs, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
"Charge-based Interactions in Histone Methylation"
Mosley
12/12/11
MS 326
4 PM
James P. Reilly, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
"New Protein Analysis Methods and their Application to Bacterial Proteomes"
Ye
1/23/12 MS 326 4 PM Peter Roach, Ph.D, Distinguished Professor, Chancellor's Professor, Director of Center for Diabetes Research, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
 "The new glycogen metabolism: phosphorylation, vesicular trafficking and Lafora disease" Takagi
1/30/12 MS 326 4 PM Murray Korc, M.D., Myles Brand Chair in Cancer Research Professor, Department of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Director, Pancreatic Cancer Research Program, IU Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN "Biochemical and genetic analysis of the role of glypican-1 in PDAC: translational implications" Zhang
2/6/12 MS 326 4 PM Tom Hurley, Ph.D., Chancellor’s Professor, Associate Chairman, Director of Center for Structure Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN "Activators and Inhibitors of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase: A random walk through a small molecule wilderness" Hoang
2/13/12 MS 326 4 PM Bill Sullivan, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Microbiology & Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN "An integrated stress response mediates microbial latency in parasitic protozoa" Takagi
2/20/12 MS 326 4 PM John Turchi, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Associate Director for Research in the Division of Hematology & Oncology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN "Chemical synthetic lethality and biology-based combination cancer therapy" Takagi
2/27/12 MS 326 4 PM Dr. Howard Masuoka, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN "Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease:  Apoptosis, ER Stress, and Vitamin E" Wek
3/5/12 MS 326 4 PM Eri Hashino, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Ruth C. Holton Scholar, Department of Otolaryngology, HNS Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN "Directed Neural Differentiation from Pluripotent Stem Cells: Epigenetics and Small Molecules" Hudmon
3/19/12 MS 326 4 PM Amy Barrios, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT "Chemical probes put tyrosine phosphatase activity in the
spotlight"		 Zhang
3/26/12 MS 326 4 PM Dr. Tony Futerman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, The Weitzman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Isreal "Sphingolipids in health and disease" Petrache
4/2/12 MS 326 4 PM Michael Ibba, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology, Co-Director CMB Training Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH "Translating Salmonella's deadly alphabet" Wek
4/9/12 MS 326 4 PM Jeffrey D. Parvin, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Louis Levy Professor for Cancer, Co-Director of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH "Effects of BRCA1 variants/mutants on protein function and on breast cancer" Dunker
4/16/12 MS 326 4 PM Phoebe A. Rice, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Structure and mechanism in DNA recombination"
 Georgiadis
4/23/12 MS 326 4 PM Christopher Counter, Ph.D., Professor, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC "Torturing Oncogenic Ras" Quilliam
4/30/12 MS 326 4 PM Rajesh Khanna, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
 "Exploiting Ca2+ channel protein-protein interactions for development of therapeutics for pain and neuroprotection" Zhang
5/7/12 MS 326 4 PM Nina Raben, M.D., Ph.D., Staff Scientist, National Institute of Arthritis and Muscloskeletal and Skin Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD "Lysosomal and autophagic defects in Pompe disease" Roach
5/14/12 MS 326 4 PM Gregory A. Petsko, Ph.D., Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, and Chair, Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University; Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurology and Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Associate Member, Tufts-NEMC Cancer Center, Waltham, MA "A New Approach to the Treatment of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
Diseases"		 Hoang
 
 

Student Seminars
Meetings are held in the Fall and Spring on Wednesdays at 12:00 NOON in room MS 326 of the Van Nuys Medical Science Building on the campus of Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, unless otherwise specified.
Date First Speaker Second Speaker
August 24 Introduction - Anna DePaoli-Roach, Millie Georgiadis  Thomas Baird
August 31 Raleigh Malik  
September 7 Yasmeen Rahimi  
September 14 Justin Johnson  
September 21 Christopher Contreras  
September 28 Soyoung Park  
October 5 Dorothy Lo  
October 12 Jyothi Mahadevan  
October 19 Chandra Karthik  
October 26 Meeting with New IBMG students (room B13/14)
November 2 Wei-Lun Shu  
November 9 Yunpeng Bai Hyojin Kim
November 16 Wenjuan Liao Latha Ramalingam
November 30 Jacob Adler Bibek Parajuli
December 7 Derek Woods  
January 11 Melanie Fox  
January 18 Lauren Bringman  
January 25 Jeff Gehlhausen  
February 1 Cindy Morgan  
February 8 Jeremiah Hendricks  
February 15 Jiyoon Lee  
February 22 Jacquelyn Lajiness  
February 29 Qiujia Chen  
March 7 Heng Zhao  
March 21 Yang Lin  
March 28 Brandon Lane  
April 4 Fei Huang  
April 11 Luke Meador  
April 18 Brandon Downing  
April 25 Derrick Johnson  
May 2 Punitee Garyali  
 

Research Seminars
Meetings are held on select Thursdays at 12:00 NOON in room MS-B16 of the Van Nuys Medical Science Building on the campus of Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, unless otherwise specified.