Spring 2015 Schedule: This Week in CNAST
"This Week in CNAST" was held Tuesdays 2:30-3:50 p.m. in the MI Conference Room during Spring 2015.
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Jan. 13 This Week in CNAST: The Hinman Group
Hosted by: The Hinman Group
Title 1: How Transcriptions Factors Evolve and What This Means for Development
Speaker 1: Veronica Hinman
Title 2: Gene Expression Changes During Larval Sea Star Regeneration
Speaker 2: Greg Cary
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Jan. 20 This Week in CNAST: The Van Houten Group
Hosted by: The Van Houten Group
Title 1: Single-molecule studies of Rad4 on defined DNA substrates reveal a multi-step damage recognition process
Speaker 1: Ben Van Houten
Title 2: Watching PARP1-DNA interaction at the single molecule level
Speaker 2: Lili Liu
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Jan. 27 This Week in CNAST: Nucleic Acid Interactions in Human Pathogens
Hosted by: The Chakrabarti Group
Title 1: Molecular intimacy at the host-pathogen interface
Speaker 1: Kausik Chakrabarti
Title 2: Dissecting the cross-talks between Telomerase, Telomere and Sub-telomiric Chromatin in Malaria Pathogen Plasmodium falciparum
Speaker 2: Samantha Sanford
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Feb. 10 This Week in CNAST: The Achim Group
Hosted by: The Achim Group
Title 1: Metal Incorporation in PNA triplexes
Speaker 1: Catalina Achim
Title 2: Synthesis of Chiral PNAs for Spintronics Applications
Speaker 2: Selma Ulku
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Feb. 17 This Week in CNAST: The Lopez Group
Hosted by: The Lopez Group
Title: Aging and Oxidative Stress-Related Alternative Splicing
Speaker: Javier Lopez
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Feb. 24 This Week in CNAST: Fluorogenic Dyes and the RNA Aptamers that Love Them
Hosted by: The Armitage Group
Speakers: Bruce Armitage & Xiaohong Tan
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March 3 This Week in CNAST: The Silence of the Genes
Hosted by: The Whitehead Group
Title: Lipid-siRNA nanoparticles for RNA Interference Therapy
Speakers: Lisa Kasiewicz and Chris Knapp
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March 17 This Week in CNAST: The Bruchez Group
On & Off Again: Adventures in PNA Binding
Hosted by: The Bruchez Group
Title 1: Reversible Translation Control using γPNA
Speaker 1: Taylor Canady
Title 2: Improving PNA Thermodynamic Models through Data Mining
Speaker 2: Jonathan deWerd
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March 24 This Week in CNAST: The Ly Group
Exploratory Work: Design of Bifacial Nucleic Acid Recognition Codes
Hosted by: The Ly Group
Speakers: Danith Ly, Shivaji Thadke, and Alinakhi
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April 7 This Week in CNAST: The Lee Group and studies of lncRNA biology in cancer
Hosted by: The Lee Group (guest speakers from the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, The University of Pittsburgh)
Title: SNHG7 is a growth factor inducible lncRNA critical for cell growth
Speakers: Adrian Lee and David Boone
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April 21 This Week in CNAST: The Leuba Group
Hosted by: The Leuba Group (guest speakers from the Department of Cell Biology, The University of Pittsburgh)
Title: Nucleic acid molecular motors, one-at-a-time
Speaker: Sanford Leuba
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April 28 This Week in CNAST: The Kaufman Group
Hosted by: The Kaufman Group (guest speakers from the Vascular Medicine Institute, The University of Pittsburgh)
Speaker: Brett Kaufman