Presentations Archive

2012

April

Jose Olucha (graduate student, Lamb lab) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled "Structural, Functional and Computational Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Siderophore Biosynthetic Pathway Accessory Proteins PchB and PvdA" on March 30.

Jeff Skredenske (graduate student, Egan lab) successfully defended his Master's thesis entitled "Identification and Characterization of a Small-Molecule Inhibitor of AraC-Family Virulence Activators" on March 30

Liang Xu (associate professor) gave a presentation entitled "Molecular therapy targeting cancer and cancer stem cells" in the University of Kansas Cancer Center Seminar Series at KU Medical Center on March 13.

Maged Zeineldin (graduate student, Neufeld lab) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled "The tumor suppressor APC: nuclear functions and regulation by heat shock response" on March 28.

March

Eric Deeds (assistant professor) gave a presentation entitled "Optimizing ring assembly: the strength of weak interactions" at the Systems Biology and Bioenergetics Symposium, Centre for Systems Biology and Bioenergetics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands on February 13 and a second presentation entitled "The dynamics of assembly in biological networks" in the Département d'Informatique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France on February 15.

Liang Xu (associate professor) gave a presentation entitled "Molecular cancer therapy targeting cancer stem cells" in the department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas School of Pharmacy on
February 14.

February

Berl Oakley (professor) gave a presentation entitled "Accessing the fungal secondary metabolome to improve human health" in the Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Ohio State University School of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio on January 11. He also gave a presentation entitled "Accessing the fungal secondary metabolome—a rich source of medically important compounds" in the Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas on January 19.

January

Amanda Ernlund (graduate student, Neufeld lab) successfully defended her Master's thesis entitled "Small and large intestines of Musashi1 knockout mice reveal differential homeostatic response and contribution of APC to phenotypes" on November 30.

Sudharsan Parthasarathy (graduate student, Kuczera and Benson labs) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled "Evolutionary divergence in proteins: experimental and theoretical studies on the stability and electrochemical properties of cytochrome b5" on December 16.