Presents the Friday Keck Center Teleconference*

Bacterial Gene Activation via

AAA⁺ sigma54 Activators

Xiaodong Zhang, Ph.D.,

Reader in Molecular Structure and Function,

Imperial College, London

4:00 pm Friday

March 28^th , 2008

5.521 Levin Hall

(Refreshments at 3:45)

Abstract: My work focuses on understanding macromolecular machines through structural and functional studies. I am particularly interested in how ATPases convert chemical energy to mechanic forces. One of my main research areas is to understand the transcription activation/initiation process mediated by the bacterial sigma54 factors. Our group has been working on the structures and mechanisms of the multi-functional AAA ATPase p97 and adaptor proteins. (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/xiaodong.zhang )

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

Werner Braun, UTMB

Algorithms and Software Tools for the Prediction of Allergenicity

21-Mar

No Seminar

28-Mar

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

Bacterial Gene Activation via AAA+ sigma54 Activators

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/

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