Seminar Schedule, Winter 2015
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Room 2268, Scott Hall
Noon - 1 pm
1/13/2015
Dr. Harley Y. Tse, Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Wayne State
University
Title: "Antigen-specific T Cell Responses in Atherosclerosis Reflects the Autoimmune Nature of the
Disease"
Host: Jianjun Wang
1/20/2015
No seminar
1/27/2015
Dr. Mai T. Lam, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College Engineering and
School of Medicine, Wayne State University
Title: “Using Mechanics to Improve Translation of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Techniques”
Host: Jianjun Wang and Bharati Mitra
2/03/2015
Dr. Haipeng Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials
Science, Wayne State University
Title: “Engineering Lymph node Targeting Cancer Vaccines through 'Albumin-hitchhiking”
Host: Jianjun Wang and Bharati Mitra
2/10/2015
Dr. Domenico Gatti, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine
Title: "Tools for the simulation and detection of coevolving positions in multiple sequence
alignments"
2/17/2015
Dr. Michael Chopp, Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Health System
Title: TBA
Hosts: Jianjun Wang & Bharati Mitra
2/24/2015
Dr. Domenico Gatti, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine
"Tools for the simulation and analysis of enzymatic reactions."
Hosts: Jianjun Wang & Bharati Mitra
3/03/2015
Dr. Hani Sabbah, Director of Cardiovascular Research, Professor of Medicine, Henry Ford Health
System
Title: “Bioenergetics of the Failing Heart”
Hosts: Jianjun Wang & Bharati Mitra
3/10/2015
Qing Robert Miao, PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric
Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute,
Milwaukee, WI
Title: “Nogo-B Receptor: A New Ras Modulator in Development and Cancer”
Host: Chunying Li
3/17/2015
Orten Lecture: Professor Eric Wieschaus
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Title: TBA
Host: BMB graduate students (and Domenico Gatti)
The Orten lecture will be at noon – venue to be determined later
3/24/2015
No seminar (Dr. Mark Spaller’s seminar has been postponed)
3/31/2015
Dr. Kang Chen, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Wayne State
University
Title: TBA
Host: Chunying Li
4/07/2015
Dr. Laszlo Kurti, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Title: TBA
Host: Dr. Ladislau Kovari
4/14/2015
Dr. Athar Ansari, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University
Title: TBA
Host: Richard Needleman
4/21/2015
Dr. Mustapha Kandouz, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Wayne State University
Title: TBA
Hosts: Jianjun Wang & Bharati Mitra
4/28/2015
Dr. Rodrigo Fernandez-Valdivia, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Wayne State
University
Title: TBA
Hosts: Jianjun Wang & Bharati Mitra
5/05/2015
Dr. Kalyan C. Kondapalli, Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Department of Natural Sciences,
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Title: "An Inside Job: Emerging links between endosomal pH regulation and neurological diseases"
Host: Jianjun Wang & Bharati Mitra