2021-04-20 – Dr. Natalie Ahn – The importance of protein dynamics for kinase activation and inhibitor design: The case of ERK2 (more…)
2020-11-12 – Tom Rapoport, Ph.D. – Mechanism of ER-Associated Protein Degradation (“ERAD”) (more…)
2018-09-25 – Tania A. Baker, PhD – AAA+ Unfoldase Motors: Powerful Protein Destroyers and Activators (more…)
2017-02-28 – Taekjip Ha, Ph.D. – Johns Hopkins University – “Single Molecule Chromatin Biophysics and Cellular Mechanics” (more…)
Joan Steitz – 11/18/14 – Yale University School of Medicine, CT – Noncoding RNAs: with a viral twist
James A. Spudich – 5/8/13 – Stanford University School of Medicine, CA – The Underlying Molecular Basis of Human Hypertrophic and Dilated Cardiomyopathies
Special Appearance by John H. Exton, Author of “Crucible of Science” – The Story of the Cori Laboratory
James A. Wells – 5/13/11 – UC, San Francisco, CA – Engineering Cells to Death
Arthur Kornberg – 9/21/04 – Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA – The Ten Commandments of Enzymology and the Importance of Inorganic Polyphosphate
In addition to the lecture given by Dr. Kornberg, the Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Department was selected by the American Chemical Society as a National Historic Chemical Landmark for the work of Carl and Gerty Cori on carbohydrate metabolism. The dedication ceremony was held on September 21, 2004.
Harry Noller – 4/30/03 – UC, Santa Cruz, CA – Crystal Structure of the Ribosome, and its Interactions with mRNA and tRNA
James Hudspeth – 4/22/02 – Rockefeller University, New York, NY – How the Ear’s Works Work: Mechanoelectrical Transduction and Amplification by Hair Cells
David Eisenberg – 3/14/01 – UCLA, Los Angeles, CA – From Genome Sequences to Protein Interactions
Peter von Hippel – 3/12/97 – University of Oregon, Eugene, OR – Regulatory Mechanism for the Control of Transcription
Frederic M. Richards – 12/13/95 – Yale University, New Haven, CT – Empty Space and the Structure of Proteins
Howard Schachman – 12/7/93 – UC, Berkeley, CA – Formation of Active Enzyme from Defective, Incomplete and Rearranged Polypeptide Chains: Aspartate Trans-carbamylase
Ed Krebs – 4/14/88 – Seattle, WA – Recent Work on Protein Phosphorylation and Signal Transduction