Spring 2009 Events

Feb 5, Seminar, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.

Feb 12-15 AAAS Meeting, Chicago IL

Feb 13, Premiere of “This is Science” Dances at AAAS Meeting, including Jenn Liang’s dance based on Datta & LiCata, 2003, J. Biol. Chem. 278: 5694.

Feb, 2009, Cocktail release date by Silkworm Books (http://www.silkwormbooks.com/each_titles/e_thailand/2009/cocktail.html).  US release date: May 1 from University of Washington Press.

Feb 28- Mar 4, Annual Biophysical Society Meeting, Boston, MA.

LiCata Lab Presentations:

Liu, Yang, LiCata, Thermodynamic and Structural Origins for the Extreme

Stability of Taq DNA polymerase, poster

Wowor, Datta, Thompson, and LiCata, DNA Structure Selectivity of

Escherichia coli versus Thermus aquaticus DNA Polymerase I,

poster

Deredge, Thompson Jiang, Patel, Datta, LiCata, Klenow and Klentaq DNA

Binding: the “Glutamate Effect” is primarily an osmotic effect,

poster

March 11-15, 2009, DNA Play in production, Hopkins Black Box Theater, Louisiana State University, directed by Trish Suchy.

March 28, 2009, Pepperfish, Pepperfish premiere at Outhouse Film Festival.

April 6, 2009, Seminar, Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA

April 13, 2009, John Baker Honors Thesis defense.

April 17, 2009, Hiromi Brown, Departmental Research Presentation

April 18-22, Annual American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology meeting, New Orleans, LA

LiCata Lab Presentations:

Sunday(19th)

Wowor, Datta, Thompson, LiCata, Single-stranded, primer-template, and

blunt-end DNA selectivity by Klenow and Klentaq polymerases,

poster

Deredge, Thompson, Jiang, Patel, Baker, LiCata, Osmotic enhancement of

DNA binding by glutamate: Klenow and Klentaq DNA binding

studies, poster

Baker, Deredge, Datta, LiCata, Water release upon DNA binding by E.coli

and T. aquaticus Pol I DNA polymerases, poster

Tuesday (21st)

Deredge, Thompson, Jiang, Patel, Baker, LiCata, Osmotic enhancement of

DNA binding by glutamate: Klenow and Klentaq DNA binding

studies, talk

Liu, Yang, LiCata, Thermodynamic and Structural Origins for the

Thermostability of Taq DNA Polymerase, poster

Yang, LiCata, Replication versus Repair Pathways for E. coli and T. aquaticus

Pol I DNA Polymerases, poster

April 27, 2009, Hosting Departmental Seminar Speaker Dr. David Ng, University of British Columbia

Oct 3-6, 2009, Gibbs Meeting on Biothermodynamics, Carbondale, IL

Oct 16,17, 2009, Louisiana Book Fair reading/presentation of excerpts from Cocktail

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