| Day |
 Date |
Time |
Location |
Topic(s) |
Speaker(s) |
| Friday |
03/20/09 |
11 AM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Thermostabilisation and structure determination of a beta1 adrenergic receptor |
Chris Tate (MRC-LMB Cambridge U.K.) |
| Tuesday |
03/10/09 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
A tale of two substrates: A novel mechanism for sodium:neurotransmitter symport |
Jonathan Javitch (Columbia Univ., NY) |
| Tuesday |
02/10/09 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
The aquaporin-0 mediated membrane junction |
Tom Walz (Harvard Medical School, Boston) |
| Tuesday |
01/13/09 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Channel and transporter modes of CLC proteins |
Merritt Maduke (Stanford University) |
| Thursday |
01/08/09 |
11 AM |
B37, 6th floor conference room 6107/6041 |
Structure and gating of outer membrane proteins by NMR -- jointly with Lambda Lunch -- |
Lukas Tamm (University of Virginia, Charlottesville) |
| Thursday |
12/11/08 |
10 AM |
B37, 6th floor conference room 6107/6041 |
The bacterial chemotaxis pathway: Signaling mechanism of an ultrasensitive and ultrastable receptor array -- jointly with Lambda Lunch -- |
Joe Falke (University of Colorado, Bolder) |
| Tuesday |
12/09/08 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Structural insights into the function of TRPV channels |
Rachelle Gaudet (Harvard) |
| Thursday |
11/13/08 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
What stabilizes membrane protein structure? |
Jim Bowie (UCLA) |
| Tuesday |
10/21/08 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Mapping membrane protein interactomes: From yeast to humans |
Igor Stagljar (Univ. Toronto) |
| Tuesday |
09/16/08 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Structural studies of native membrane bound macromolecular assemblies in situ by cryo-electron tomography |
Mario Borgnia (NCI) |
| Tuesday |
06/10/08 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
GPCR ligand binding and release - Insights and mysteries |
Dave Farrens (Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR) |
| Tuesday |
05/13/08 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Crystallization and structure of photosynthetic membrane proteins |
Petra Fromme (Arizona State University, Tempe, AR) |
| Tuesday |
04/15/08 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Structure and function of rhodopsin |
Dan Oprian (Brandeis University, Waltham, MA) |
| Tuesday |
03/11/08 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Gating rearrangements in the glutamate receptor ion channel |
Lonnie Wollmuth (State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY) |
| Tuesday |
02/26/08 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
NMR solution snapshot of the integral membrane enzyme DsbB in action |
John Bushweller (UVa, Charlottesville, VA) |
| Tuesday |
02/12/08 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Using FRET to probe conformational changes in ion channels |
Jie Zheng (University of California at Davis, CA) |
| Tuesday |
01/15/08 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
A tale of membrane deformation and impossibly small holes - Applications of CryoEM in membrane biology |
Vinzenz Unger (Yale, New Haven, CT) |
| Monday |
01/07/08 |
10:30 AM |
Building 40 room 1201/1203 |
Crystal structure of the human beta-adrenergic receptor |
Brian Kobilka (Stanford, CA) |
| Tuesday |
12/11/07 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Structure and mechanism of the maltose (ABC) transporter from E. coli |
Amy Davidson (Purdue, West Lafayette, IN) |
| Tuesday |
11/13/07 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Dynamics of glutamate transport observed on a sub-millisecond time scale |
Christof Grewer (University of Miami School of Medicine, FL) |
| Tuesday |
10/16/07 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Chemical tinkering with voltage-gated K+ channel complexes |
Bill Kobertz (University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA) |
| Tuesday |
06/05/07 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Gating at the potassium channel selectivity filter |
Eduardo Perozo (University of Chicago) |
| Tuesday |
05/08/07 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Acid-base chemistry, and the structure and electrostatics of the nicotinic-receptor ion-channel pore |
Claudio Grosman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| Tuesday |
04/10/07 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Amyloid oligomers increase membrane conductance by altering dielectric structure |
Jim Hall (UC Irvine, CA ) |
| Tuesday |
03/13/07 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Regulation of ion transport |
Joao Cabral (Yale, New Haven) |
| Tuesday |
02/13/07 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Insights into Na+/Cl- dependent neurotransmitter transporters from structure / function studies of a bacterial homologue |
Satinder Singh (Vollum Institute, Portland) |
| Tuesday |
12/12/06 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Protein interactions at the bacterial cell surface |
James Coulton (McGill, Montreal) |
| Tuesday |
11/07/06 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Type III secretion machines: bacterial devices for protein delivery into eukaryotic cells |
Jorge Galan (Yale, New Haven) |
| Thursday |
10/12/06 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Turnover and coupling in a ClC-type Cl-H+ exchanger |
Chris Miller (Brandeis, Waltham) |
| Tuesday |
09/12/06 |
1 PM |
Building 35 BB room 1000 |
Magnesium transport in Salmonella virulence and the crystal structure of the CorA magnesium channel |
Michael Maguire (Case Western, Cleveland) |
| Tuesday |
05/09/06 |
11 AM |
Building 50 room 1328/1334 |
Domain motions in membrane proteins – the case of the complex II superfamily |
Tina Iverson (Vanderbilt University) |
| Wednesday |
04/12/06 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Crystal structure of an integral membrane metalloenzyme that oxidizes methane |
Amy Rosenzweig (Northwestern University) |
| Wednesday |
02/15/06 |
12:30 PM |
Building 50 main auditorium |
Increasing throughput of membrane protein structures |
Jeff Abramson (UCLA) |
| Wednesday |
12/14/05 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Transport of hydrophobic molecules across the bacterial outer membrane |
Bert van den Berg (University of Massachusetts Medical School) |
| Wednesday |
11/16/05 |
11 AM |
Building 50 main auditorium |
Homology model for the glucose transporter Glut1, and insights on its function |
Jorge Fischbarg (Columbia University) |
| Wednesday |
10/12/05 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Regulation of b2-adrenergic receptor dephosphorylation by ubiquitination: A mechanism for membrane receptor degradation |
Wei Liang (LMCN, NINDS) |
| Friday |
06/17/05 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Structure of the G-protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin and metarhodopsin I |
Gebhard Schertler (MRC-LMB Cambridge, UK) |
| Wednesday |
05/11/05 |
1 PM |
Building 50, main auditorium |
Computational studies of membrane channels |
Klaus Schulten (University of Illinois, Urbana) |
| Wednesday |
04/13/05 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Structure / function relationships within the mitochondrial citrate transport protein |
Ron Kaplan (Finch University, North Chicago) |
| Wednesday |
03/16/05 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Conformational changes in ClC chloride transporters probed with site-directed fluorescent probes |
Joe Mindell (NINDS) |
| Wednesday |
01/12/05 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Biological role of extracellular nucleotides: Molecular recognition in P2Y receptors |
Kenneth Jacobson (NIDDK) |
| Wednesday |
12/15/04 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Dynamics and conformational changes of a membrane transport protein determined by site-directed spin labeling |
David Cafiso (UVa, Charlottesville) |
| Friday |
11/19/04 |
11 AM |
Building 50, main auditorium |
X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy as complementary methods in membrane protein structure determination |
Werner Kühlbrandt (Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt) |
| Wednesday |
11/10/04 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Study of membrane proteins using designed peptide detergents |
Shuguang Zhang (MIT, Cambridge) |
| Friday |
10/22/04 |
10 AM |
Building 50, main auditorium |
What can we learn from 2D crystals of membrane proteins ? |
Andreas Engel (Biozentrum Basel) |
| Wednesday |
05/19/04 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
The unexpected complexity of signal sequences |
Harris Bernstein (NIDDK) |
| Wednesday |
04/14/04 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
TonB-dependent outer membrane transport: Structural answers & mechanistic questions |
Michael Wiener (UVa Charlottesville) |
| Thursday |
02/26/04 |
3 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Amphipols and hemifluorinated surfactants: Novel tools for membrane biologists |
Jean-Luc Popot (Paris) |
| Friday |
02/13/04 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
YidC/Oxa1/Alb3 membrane chaperones facilitate membrane protein insertion |
Ross Dalbey (Ohio State University, Columbus) |
| Wednesday |
02/11/04 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
NIH Roadmap and membrane proteins |
Michael Gottesman (NIH/OD) |
| Wednesday |
01/14/04 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Functional analysis of the AMPA subtype glutamate receptor ligand binding core dimer interface |
Michelle Horning (NICHD) |
| Wednesday |
12/10/03 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
X-ray structure and mechanism of the glycerol-3-phosphate transporter GlpT from E. coli |
Da-Neng Wang (Skirball NYU) |
| Tuesday |
11/18/03 |
4 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Receptor-mediated protein import: Structure of the complex of the cobalamin receptor and the receptor-binding domain of colicin E3 |
Bill Cramer (Purdue Univ.) |
| Wednesday |
10/15/03 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Structure and mechanics of voltage-gated ion channels |
Kenton Swartz (NINDS) |
| Wednesday |
09/24/03 |
4:15 PM |
Building 50, main conference room |
X-ray structure and transport mechanism of the lactose permease of Escherichia coli |
Ronald Kaback (HHMI, UCLA) |
| Friday |
09/12/03 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
The 3D architecture of the multidrug transporter EmrE determined by cryo-EM |
Chris Tate (MRC-LMB, Cambridge UK) |
| Wednesday |
06/04/03 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Analysis of G-protein-coupled receptor function: One piece at a time |
Kevin Ridge (NIST) |
| Wednesday |
05/21/03 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Structural studies of the serotonin receptor 5HT-2c |
Filippo Mancia (Columbia University / HHMI, New York) |
| Friday |
05/02/03 |
2 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Iron transport : Fluorescence and crystallographic studies of the ferric pyoverdine receptor FpvA from Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Nicholas Folschweiller (Strasbourg, France) |
| Wednesday |
03/12/03 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Gating of glutamate receptor ion channels: Crystal structures and functional analysis |
Mark Lee Mayer (LCMN, NICHD) |
| Wednesday |
02/19/03 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Light-driven ion pumping and signaling with microbial rhodopsins |
Hudel Luecke (University of California, Irvine) |
| Wednesday |
01/15/03 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Citrate-mediated iron-transport in E. coli: A crystallographic study |
Wyatt Yue (LMB, NIDDK) |
| Wednesday |
12/11/02 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Analysis of G-protein-coupled receptor function: One piece at a time |
Kevin Ridge (NIST) |
| Wednesday |
11/13/02 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Structure and function of ClC chloride channels |
Joe Mindell (NINDS) |
| Wednesday |
10/16/02 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Surface plasmon resonance binding assays of G-protein-coupled receptors in a lipid environment |
Evan Behre (Biacore) |
| Wednesday |
09/18/02 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
no talk |
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| Wednesday |
09/04/02 |
3 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Probing ligand structure in membrane proteins by solid-state NMR |
Marc Baldus (Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany) |
| Tuesday |
06/25/02 |
3 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
The FOF1 ATP synthase: efficient coupling in a rotary motor |
Robert Nakamoto (University of Virginia, Charlottesville) |
| Friday |
06/21/02 |
3 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Biogenesis of a model type IV secretion system required for interkingdom translocation of oncogenic DNA |
Peter Christie (UT-Houston Medical School) |
| Wednesday |
06/12/02 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Crystallization of the membrane transporter NhaA with monoclonal antibody fragments |
Miro Venturi (VRC) |
| Wednesday |
05/15/02 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
The biogenesis of inner membrane proteins in E. coli |
Harris Bernstein (NIDDK) |
| Wednesday |
04/17/02 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
How a Purple Membrane lipid can control the structure, function and photocycles of the bacteriorhodopsin proton pump |
Richard W. Hendler (NHLBI) |
| Wednesday |
03/13/02 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Mechanism of action of mutlidrug resistance-linked P-glycoprotein |
Suresh V. Ambudkar (NCI) |
| Wednesday |
02/20/02 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Crystal structure of the bc1 complex |
Di Xia (NCI) |
| Wednesday |
01/16/02 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Molecular architecture of the bacterial oxalate transporter OxlT |
Jürgen Heymann (NCI) |
| Wednesday |
12/12/01 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Topology studies of the Na-K-2Cl cotransporter (NKCC1) and aquaporin 1 (AQP1) |
Jim Turner (NIDCR) |
| Wednesday |
11/14/01 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
No talk on 14 November 2001 |
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| Wednesday |
10/10/01 |
1 PM |
Building 5, room 127 |
Three dimensional reconstruction of dynamin in the constricted state |
Jenny E. Hinshaw |