SPECIAL SEMINARS

The CBI student-invited seminar is an opportunity for CBI students to choose, invite, and host a seminar speaker.

CBI seminars have included:

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Joint CBI/Chemistry seminar
"Using Electrospray Mass Spectrometry for Exploring Protein Folding and Dynamics"
Professor Lars Konermann
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Western Ontario
Student host: Vanessa Mendoza

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
As part of the “Protein Misfolding Diseases” symposium hosted by the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department
“Understanding and ameliorating age onset neurodegenerative diseases”
Professor Jeffery Kelly
Chemistry Department
The Scripps Research Institute
Student host:  Brad Pearse

Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Joint MCB/CBI seminar
“Viral Fusion Proteins”
Professor Stephen Harrison
Departments of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Student hosts: Abby Guce and Annie Marcelino

Thursday, April 28, 2005
Joint CBI/Chemistry seminar
"Chemical Tools for the Analysis of Complex Cellular Processes"
Professor Barbara Imperiali
Department of Chemistry
MIT
Student host: Rob Daniels

December 5, 2003 (and in 2000)
Joint CBI/MCB seminar
"Evolutionary Enginering of Molecules and Organisms”
Professor Andy Ellington
Department of Cell & Molecular Biology
University of Texas
Student host: Denis Drygin

Friday, October 3, 2003
Joint CBI/Chemistry seminar
LGRT 1634
"Miniature Proteomics”
Professor Alanna Schepartz
Department of Chemistry
Yale University
Student hosts: Catherine Goodman and Robert Daniels

Thursday, February 2, 2001
Joint CBI/Chemistry seminar
LGRT 1634
“The Chelate Effect in Binding, Catalysis and Chemotherapy”
Professor Ronald Breslow
Department of Chemistry
Columbia University
Student host: Edward Esposito