CBSF Club Meetings
The CBSF Club is an informal gathering of scientists that currently meets the third Thursday of every month at 4:30 p.m. in the Mitchell Basic Science Research Building at 6767 Bertner, GSBS Small Classroom S3.8367, with an informal reception following at 5:30 p.m. The goal of this meeting is to share the latest ideas and data that pertains to biomolecular structure and function.
R.S.V.P. to Deborah Watkins at dwatkins@mdanderson.org if you will be attending our next meeting and provide the likely number of attendees from your group.
Spring 2012 Schedule
January 26, 2012
Christy Landes
Rice University
Title: Single Biomolecule Spectroscopy: Challenges and Some Solutions
February 16, 2012
Dr. Michael R. Diehl
Rice University
Title: TBA
March 15, 2012
Qian Wang
University of Houston
Title: Protein stability and folding thermodynamics in the cell-like environment
April 19, 2012
Robert Fox, Ph.D.
University of Houston
Title: TBA
May 17, 2012
Choel Kim, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: TBA
June 21, 2012
Speaker TBA
Title: TBA
Previous Meetings
February 17, 2011
Dr. John S. McMurray
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title: Converting phosphopeptides into phosphatase-stable cell-penetrating peptide prodrugs to target SH2 domains in intact cells
March 24, 2011
Dr. Senapathy Rajagopalan
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute
Title: Structural Characterization of a Novel Transcriptional Regulator - Iron Sulfer Cluster Regulator (IscR)
April 21, 2011
Dr. Kevin R. MacKenzie
University of Houston
Title: One lobe or two? Using NMR to explore modes of calmodulin and calmodulin-like protein binding to the targets RYR1 and myosin VI
May 19, 2011
Sai Hari Gandham
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Title: Designing Novel Class of Aptamers for Specific Protein Targets
June 16, 2011
Dr. Kasia Walkiewicz
Rice University
Title: Correlating changes in structure and function of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron TetX2 fitness during adaption to minocycline
September 22, 2011
Dr. Rafael Counago
University of Queensland, Australia
Title: Crystallography from down under: the structural basis for broad specificity of a poxviral chemokine binding protein
October 20, 2011
Dr. John Bruning
Rice University
Title: Streamlining Estrogen Receptor alpha Structural Biology
November 17, 2011
John Ladbury, Ph.D.
CBSF Director
Stefan Arold, Ph.D.
Investigator, Structural Biology
Todd Link, Ph.D.
Lab Manager, Protein Production Group
Loren Stagg, Ph.D.
Investigator, Protein Biophysics
MD Anderson
Title: CBSF: Bridging the structural/biophysical gap for Houston area biologists
December 15, 2011 (Rescheduled for March 16, 2012)
Mr. Qian Wang
University of Houston
Title: Protein stability and folding thermodynamics in the cell-like environment