UTSA Cell & Molecular Biology Seminar Series

Fall, 2007

August 27

Manjeet Rao

Univ. TX Hlth. Sci. Ctr. San Antonio

“Transgenic RNAi: A lesson learned from microRNA”

Sept 3

Labor Day, no seminar                                                                                              

Tao Wei

UTSA

“Computer modeling and empirical evidence for multicellularity of a unicellular organism in response to DNA replication stress”

 Phil Carpenter

Univ. TX Hlth. Sci. Ctr. Houston

“53BP1: linking the DNA damage response to chromatin function”

Mike Kolomiets

Texas A&M University

“Lipid-mediated cross-kingdom communication determines the outcomes of maize

interactions with fungi and levels of seed contamination with carcinogenic

mycotoxins”

 Daniel Voytas

Iowa State University

“Transposable element target specificity:  Finding a home in the genome”

No Seminar

 Hai Rao

Univ. TX Hlth. Sci. Ctr. San Antonio

“Ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis: mechanism and function”

Charles Long

Texas A&M University

"Animal cloning and transgenics: Applications of RNA interference"

David Fitzgerald

National Cancer Institute

"Characterization of leucine aminopeptidase as a potential virulence factor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa"

 Rockford Draper

Univ. TX at Dallas

"Cholera toxin and the endoplasmic reticulum"

Bonnie Bartel

Rice University

“Using Arabidopsis to find new roles for peroxisomes and peroxins”    

Thaddeus Golos

Wisconsin National Primate Research Center

“Embryonic stem cell models for trophoblast differentiation and placental

morphogenesis”