Fall 2009 Colloquium Series
Thursdays 11:30 - 12:20 pm, Room 101 Biochemistry (unless otherwise noted)
| Speaker | Affiliation | Date | Host | Title of Talk |
| Dr. Kazuki Saito | Chiba University | Aug. 13 1415 BPS |
Dr. Dan Jones | "Plant Metabolomics: Application to Functional Genomics in Arabidopsis and Beyond" Abstract |
| Dr. Edward E. Farmer | Universite de Lausanne | Sept. 3 | Dr. Dean DellaPenna | "A Mechanism Helping to Restrain Jasmonic Acid Accumulation in Resting, Unwounded Leaves" Abstract |
| Dr. Sabeeha Merchant | UCLA | Sept. 17 | Dr. Christoph Benning | "Analysis of the Chlamydomonas Transcriptome with RNA-Seq" Abstract |
| Dr. Kevin D. Walker | Michigan State University | Sept. 24 | Dr. Thomas D. Sharkey | "Dissecting the Substrate Specificities and Mechanisms of Enzymes Involved in Taxane Modification" |
| Dr. Matthew Posewitz | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Oct. 1 | Dorothy Tappenden, Graduate Student | "Lipids, Carbohydrates, Osmolytes and Hydrogen: Metabolic Interplay of a Biofuel Portfolio" Abstract |
| Dr. Friedhelm "Fred" Schroeder | Texas A&M University | Oct. 8 | Dr. Pam Fraker | "A Nuclear Receptor Link Between Fatty Acid and Glucose Metabolism" Abstract |
| Dr. Jeff Nickerson | Univ of Massachusetts WELLS LECTURE |
Oct. 15 | Dr. Bill Wells | The Biochemistry of mRNA Export Studied In Situ |
| Dr. Elizabeth Theil | Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute | Oct. 22 | Dr. Shelagh Ferguson-Miller | "The Ferritin Family and Fe/O: Protein Nanocage Catalysis, Iron Channels, DNA and mRNA Regulation" Abstract |
| Dr. Robert Desnick | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
Oct. 29 | Dr. Charles Sweeley | Enzyme Replacement in Fabry Disease: A Translational Story of MSU Mentorship, Glycolipid Biochemistry, and Drug Development Abstract |
| Dr. Brian Fox | Univ of Wisconsin - Madison | Nov. 5 | Dr. Eric Hegg | Protein-protein interactions and exquisite control of diiron monooxygenase reactivity Abstract |
| Dr. Beronda Montgomery | Michigan State University | Nov. 12 | Dr. Thomas D. Sharkey | Seeing the Light: Color Vision and Photomorphogenesis in Photosynthetic Organisms Abstract |
| Dr. Danny Schnell | Univ of Massachusetts TOLBERT LECTURE |
Nov. 19 | Dr. Kenneth Keegstra & Dr. Katherine Osteryoung |
"Protein Trafficking to Chloroplasts: Mechanism and Role in Plastid Development" Abstract |
| Thanksgiving Break | ||||
| Dr. Ning Zhang | Univ of Washington | Dec. 3 | Dr. Gregg Howe | "Ubiquitin Ligase Machinery: From Plant Biology to Human Disease" Abstract |
| Dr. Robert Tjian | Univ of Calif - Berkeley | Dec. 10 | Li Li, Graduate Student |
"Mechanisms Regulating Stem Cell Differentiation and Pluripotency" |
Endowed Lectureships
As part of the BMB Colloquium, the department, with the generous support of contributors, hosts four endowed lectureships each year that pay tribute to outstanding scientists from the department. Presenters for the Charles C. Sweeley Lectureship in Biochemistry, the Nathan Edward Tolbert Lectureship in Plant Biochemistry, and the William W. Wells Lectureship are selected by the BMB Colloquium committee. Presenters for the biannual John A. Boezi and R. Gaurth Hansen Alumnus Award lectures are determined by the BMB Awards Committee.Spring 2010 Colloquium Series
Thursdays 11:30 - 12:20 pm, 101 Biochemistry
| Speaker | Affiliation | Date | Host | Title of Talk | |
| Dr. Frank Slack | Yale University | Jan. 21 | Dr. David Arnosti | TBA | |
| Dr. Jeffrey Gimble | Pennington Biomedical Research Center | Jan. 28 | Dr. Pam Fraker | ||
| Dr. Andreas Weber | University of Duesseldorf | Feb. 4 | Dr. Rob Last | ||
| Dr. Sin Urban | The Johns Hopkins University | Feb. 11 | Dr. Lee Kroos | ||
| Dr. Jay Thelen | Univ of Missouri-Columbia | Feb. 18 | Dr. Susanne Hoffmann-Benning | ||
| Dr. Peter Jahns | University of Duesseldorf | Feb. 25 | Dr. Rob Last | ||
| Dr. Jeffrey Peng | Univ of Notre Dame | Mar. 4 | Dr. Honggao Yan | ||
| Dr. Scot Wolfe | Univ of Mass - Worcester | Mar. 11 | Dr. David Arnosti | ||
| Dr. Christian Whitman | Univ of Texas - Austin | Mar. 18 | Dr. Honggao Yan | ||
| Dr. John Quackenbush | Harvard University | Mar. 25 | Shannon Bell, Graduate Student |
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| Dr. Kathrin Plath | UCLA | Apr. 1 | Dr. David Arnosti | ||
| Dr. Ruma Banerjee | University of Michigan | Apr. 8 | Dr. Robert Hausinger | B12 Trafficking | |
| BOEZI LECTURESHIP | Apr. 15 | ||||
| Dr. Barry Finzel | University of Minnesota | Apr. 22 | Dr. Leslie Kuhn | ||
| Dr. Joseph P. Noel | The Salk Institute | Apr. 29 | Dr. Rob Last |