This monthly series features UCSC researchers. Each seminar has two speakers.
Between the two talks, pizza and sodas are sponsored by Invitrogen.

Next year's series starts in February 2006 and has a new corporate sponsor, Fisher Scientific.

Contact Rhonda Perriman for more information, to volunteer to speak, or to suggest an outside speaker.

MORE...see the schedule for 2006

Schedule

The second Thursday of the month at 4:00 pm (last meeting in 2005 is November 10)
Sinsheimer 123

March 10
Jonathon Trent (NASA Ames Research Center) and Lisa Trevino (Ares Lab)

April 14
James Schweppe (potential postdoc for the Scott lab), "Characterization of the S.cerevisiae ribosomal protein L30e RNA-protein interactions using an in vivo reporter system."
Todd Lowe (Lowe lab), "Finding the 'missing' transfer RNA genes"

May 12
Rhonda Perriman (Ares lab), "Assembling a U2 snRNP—what is required?"
Tiffani Quan (Hartzog lab), "CHD1: connecting chromatin remodeling and transcription elongation"

June 9
Laura Lancaster (Noller lab), "Contribution of the interaction between conserved G-C pairs in initiator tRNA and the 16S rRNA bases G1338 and A1339 to the mechanism of tRNA discrimination by initiation factor IF3"
Jakob Skou Pederson (Haussler lab), " Identification and classification of conserved RNA secondary structures in the human genome"

July 14
Jennifer Kabat (Zahler lab), "Using evolutionary conservation to find alternative splicing regulators"
Sofie Salama (Haussler lab), " Characterization of ultraconserved elements in the POLA-ARX region of the genomes"

August 11
Robert Giegerich (Bielefeld University, Germany), "The magic of abstract shape analysis"
Kausik Chakrabarti (Ares Lab), "Mining malaria for RNAs"

September 8
Carrie Davis (Ares lab), "Accumulation of unstable promoter-associated transcripts in yeast lacking a key exosome component "
Lucas Horan (Noller lab), "Bolting together ribosomal domains"

October 13
John Little (Jurica lab), " Wanted: spliceosome-associated protein crystals for x-ray crystallography. Will pay grad-student stipend."
Manny Ares (Ares lab), "See RAN run! Run RAN Run!"

November 10
Andrei Korostelev (Noller lab), "A new crystal form of the 70S ribosome"
Sam Gu (Zahler lab), "RNA cleavage activity of microRNA complex"