Presentations Fall 2011

October 6, 2011: Rosemary Cornell
Hansen, S.B., Tao, X., and MacKinnon, R. (2011) Nature :477:495
"Structural basis of PIP2 activation of the classical inward rectifier K+ channel Kir2.2"
Hansen et al.

October 13, 2011: Kelly Kim
Cho, J-H. et al (2011) Nature Struct. Molec. Biol. 18: 550
"Tuning protein autoinhibition by domain destabilization"
Cho, J-H. et al.

October 27, 2011: Suraaj Aulakh
Kaan, H. Y. K., Hackney, D. D., and Kozielski, F. (2011) Science 333: 883-885
"The structure of the Kinesin-1 motor-tail complex reveals the mechanism of autoinhibition"
Kaan et al.

November 3, 2011: Matthew Brolich
Appleby-Tagoe et al. (2011) Journal of Biological Chemistry, 286, 34440-34447
"Highly Efficient and More General cis- and trans-Splicing Inteins through Sequential Directed Evolution"
Appleby-Tagoe et al.

November 17, 2011: Svetla Taneva
Tim Bartels, Joanna G. Choi & Dennis J. Selkoe. Nature (2011) | 107, 107-110 1 September 2011
"Alpha-Synuclein occurs physiologically as a helically folded tetramer that resists aggregation"
Selkoe et al.

December 1, 2011: Linda Wang
Kyoung et al. (2011) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108, E304-313.
"In vitro system capable of differentiating fast Ca2+-triggered content mixing from lipid exchange for mechanistic studies of neurotransmitter release"
Kyoung et al.

Edgar Young (postponed)
Selvaratnam R, Chowdhury S, VanSchouwen B, Melacini G. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 108:6133-8.
"Mapping allostery through the covariance analysis of NMR chemical shifts"
Selvaratnam et al.

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