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2011-2012

2011 *enrolled for credit
October 5 Grant Kemp: "Lethal Injection: Understanding the bacteriolytic type VI secretion system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
October 26 Dr. Bernie Lemire: "ER Lends a Helping Hand in Mitochondrial Division"
November 9 Dr. Joanne Lemieux: "Cut the FlaK: crystal structure of a GXGD family intramembrane protease, a relative of presenilin Intramembrane"
November 16 Melissa Morrison*: "Crystal Structure of Mammalian GIRK2: Insights on the K+ channel and its regulation by G-proteins, PIP2 and Na+.
November 23

Delaine Ceholski: " Wrestling with SUMO in the ER: SERCA2a is a new target

for SUMO1"

December 7 Joanne Jung
2012  
January 18 John Githaka*
February 8 Paramita Chaudhuri Basu
February 15 Daniel Prins*
March 7 Jonathan Pan*
March 14 Andrew Locke*
March 21 Aruna Augustine*
March 28 Arghya Basu
April 4 Sampath Loganathan
   
2010-2011
2010  

September 29

Pam Bonar: "Keeping Podocytes in Shape: The Role of KAE1 in the Glomerulus"
October 27 Howard Young: "A simple mechanism connects CLC channels and transporters".

November 03

Grant Kemp:" Lysosomes SNAREed by cholesterol in lysosomal storage disorders".
November 10 Bernie Lemire: "The Mitochondrial Unfolded Protein Response (UPRmt)".
November 17 Larry Fliegel: "Discovery and characterization of novel Na+/H+ Antiporter family that is a candidate gene for essential hypertension".
November 24 John M. Githaka: "EGFR‐Clathrin mediated endocytosis (CME) mechanisms".
December 01 Arghya Basu: "Fluorescence to enlighten conformational changes in LeuT, a neurotransmitter transporter homologue".
December 08 Paramita Chaudhuri Basu: "An alternative ion pathway in Na+/ K+ pump: implications for other ion pumps".
2011  
January 26 Nicolas Touret: "Superresolution Localization of Single Functional IP3R Channels Utilizing Ca2+ Flux as a Readout".
February 02 Natalia Volodko: "Human mtDNA evolution and mtDNA‐encoded proteins"
February 09 Christelle Lazareno-Saez*: "Revealing the hidden side of the respiratory chain: the X‐ray structure of the membrane domain of complex I".
February 16 Sampath Kumar Loganathan*: "Allegory of the Cave? ‐ Structure of the monomeric ClC transporter Clc‐ec".
March 02 Padmapriya Sampathkumar*: “Septin diffusion barrier and its role in ciliary membrane protein distribution”.
March 16 Ayodeji Odunewu*: "Exploring the unknown: a look into the regulation of mitochondrial protein transport".
March 23 Andrew Locke: "Stimulating the Right Calcium Channel: Reciprocal Regulation of Orai and Cav1.2 Channels by STIM1".
March 30 Yanfei Zhang*: "Electron transfer from living cells to inorganic materials".
2009-2010  
2009  
September 16 Heiko H. Heerlkotz: "Biophysical Studies of the Interactions of Surfactants with Lipid Model and Biological Membranes: The Question of Lipid Rafts"
October 28 Aleksandra Janowicz*: "Kiss-and-run exocytosis of post-Golgi Vesicles"
November 4 Christelle Lazareno-Saez : "First crystal structure of a signal peptide peptidase".
November 18 Quang Tran: "Starting a FAD: Sdh5 is involved in the flavination of Complex II".
November 25 Allison Kraus: "A Cellular Shortcut: Membrane Protein Receptors are Differentially Sorted Through a Novel Secretory Pathway in Neurons".
December 2 Huipo Tang: "Yellow LIght in Treating Cystic Fibrosis (CF) with Curcumin".
2010  
January 13 Joel Weiner
January 20 Bernard Lemire: "Mobile phone radiation induces mitochondrial production of reactive oxygen species and DNA fragmentation."
February 3

Stacey Reinke: "The Role of Atg32 in Mitophagy"

February 10 Delaine Ceholski: "Structure of the outer membrane complex of a type IV secretion system".
February 24 Brittany Brown
March 3 Justin Fedor: "Using tethered bilayer lipid membranes to study quinone oxidoreductases by protein film voltammetry."
March 10 Jennifer Tzeng*: "Ca2+/CaM Regulation of the Voltage Gated Sodium Channel".
March 17 John Paul Glaves: "Delivering tail‐anchored membrane proteins: Get’er done".
March 24 Jody Groenendyk: "Survey of endocytosis using siRNA screening, automated high resolution confocal microscopy, image analysis and high performance computing.  How can we compete?"
March 31 Przemyslaw Gorski
April 7 Amira Fitieh*
2008-2009  
2009  
January 7 Amira Fitieh
January 14 Ron McElhaney

January 21

Grant Kemp*

January 28

Sam Szeto
February 4 Helen Coe
February 11 Maryam Zarepour

February 25

Huipo Tang*
March 4 Joanna Jung*
March 11 Gonzalo Vilas:  "Umami, Socks and Sandals: It's just a matter of taste".
March 18 Brian Lee*: "LeuT structural studies and mechanistic implications"
March 25 Maxime Ndayizeye
April 1 Allison Kraus: "A New Exit Strategy: TANGO1 and ER Cargo Loading"
April 8 Arghya Basu: "Ammonium transport by Rhesus protein RHCG"