Presents the Friday Keck Center Teleconference*

Kerry Fuson

Houston Area Molecular Biophysics Training Program predoctoral fellow,

UT Medical Branch at Galveston

The mechanical properties of human synaptotagmin 1 C2 domains

Jochen J. Heyd

Computational Biology and Medicine (NLM) postdoctoral fellow,

UT Health Science Center Houston

Hessian filtering for docking of atomic structures into 3D cryo-electron microscopy

Robert D. Malmstrom

Pharmacoinformatics Training Program predoctoral fellow, UT Medical Branch at Galveston

Discovering dengue drugs-together: improving drug discovery tools

Elizabeth Ostrowski

Computational Biology and Medicine (NLM) postdoctoral fellow, Rice University

Natural variation in the genes underlying social behavior of Dictyostelium discoideum

4:00 pm Friday

Feb. 15^th , 2008

(Refreshments at 3:45)

5.521 Levin Hall

Abstract: Keck Annual Research Conference Poster Winners, Part 2: The winners of the Keck Annual Meeting Poster Contest will each present a short seminar on their winning poster entry.

The Keck Friday Seminar*

Schedule for Spring 2008

11-Jan

Monte Pettitt, Hugh Roy and Lille Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of Houston

The Hydrophobic Effect: What it is and what it is not

18-Jan

Susan Amara, Thomas Detre Professor and Chair, Dept. of Neuroscience, Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Neurotransmitter transporters: A dance of domains and substrates

25-Jan

Keck Annual Research Conference Poster Winners, Part 1

Constantinou, Mankiewicz, Ofek, Parikh, Zhang

1-Feb

Jennifer L. West, Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering, Rice University

Biomimetic Strategies in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

8-Feb

No Seminar

15-Feb

Keck Annual Research Conference Poster Winners, Part 2

Fuson, Heyd, Malmstrom, Marsh, Ostrowski

22-Feb

Jonas S. Almeida, Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Integrative Bioinformatics - a lot of coding or a lot of talking?

29-Feb

Robert Powers, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Functional and Therapeutic Analysis of Novel Proteins by NMR

7-Mar

No Seminar

14-Mar

TBA

TBA

21-Mar

No Seminar

28-Mar

Xiaodong Zhang, Reader in Molecular Structure and Function, Imperial College, London, UK

TBA

4-Apr

Richard Gibbs, Wofford Cain Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine

TBA

11-Apr

Jin Wang, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Physics, State University of New York at Stoney Brook

TBA

18-Apr

Pamela A. Silver, Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

TBA

KECK/HAMP Friday Seminars: http://xray.utmb.edu/keck

Archived Friday Seminar Webcasts Available: http://cohesion.rice.edu/centersandinst/gcc/

*Improved clearer images: Now with POLYCOM's DUAL STREAMING H.239 technology for clear high-resolution slides plus video.