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Visualization of Transcription Factor Interactions in Living Cells - (Henry Stewart Talks)

Transcription regulatory proteins; Combinatorial control of gene expression; Visualization of transcription factor interactions and modifications in living cells; New methods development; Bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assays

Visualizing and manipulating phosphoinositide and phospholipid signaling - (Henry Stewart Talks)

Making/using phosphoinositide phosphate (PIP) affinity probes; Effects of exogenous PIPs; Metabolically-stabilized PIPs; New tethering strategies; Signaling proteomics; Antibodies to PIPs; Visualizing phospholipase A and D activity with fluorogenic probes

Vitamin D and prostate cancer - (Henry Stewart Talks)

"Vitamin D actions: classical view and expanded view; Vitamin D metabolic pathways; Vitamin D and cancers; Vitamin D-deficiency hypothesis; Sunlight, vitamin D and prostate cancer risk; Importance of local production of calcitriol"

Vitamin D Endocrine System: Basics - (Henry Stewart Talks)

What is a vitamin?; What is a hormone?; Vitamin D biology fundamentals; Calcium homeostasis; Classical biological actions of vitamin D; Vitamin D and endocrine system; Key discoveries in the field; Kidney as an endocrine gland for hormone-D

Vitamin D Endocrine System: Mechanisms to Produce Biological Responses - (Henry Stewart Talks)

"Optimal ligand shapes; Modes of action of hormone-D; Shape of ligand for VDRNUC; Three dimensional shape of the VDR; Shape of ligand for DBP; DBP structure domains A, B, C; Shape of ligand for rapid responses; Steroid receptor superfamily"

Vitamin D Endocrine System: VDR Binding, Nutrition and Drugs Development - (Henry Stewart Talks)

VDR conformational ensemble; A vitamin D receptor ensemble model; X-ray crystal structure of the nuclear vitamin D receptor; VDR G- and A-pocket; Vitamin D nutrition for good health; Sources of vitamin D; How much vitamin D do we need?

Vitamin E regulation: mechanisms to control plasma atocopherol concentrations - (Henry Stewart Talks)

Factors that alter vitamin E status in humans; Oxidative stress and vitamin E; Vitamin E pharmacokinetics and metabolism; Xenobiotic metabolism

Voltage-Dependent Calcium Channels - (Henry Stewart Talks)

Introduction to voltage-gated calcium channels; Correlation of known structural features to function; Subtypes of calcium channels and their physiological correlates; Pharmacology of voltage-gated calcium channels

What Causes Primary Biliary Cirrhosis? - (Henry Stewart Talks)

Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC): pathology and serological characteristics; Etiology: genetic and environmental factors; Mitochondrial antigens of PBC; Do autoreactive T cells play a role in the pathogenesis of PBC?

What to do in Therapy in the Face of HIV Drug Resistance? - (Henry Stewart Talks)

Drug resistance in HIV disease can occur for each drug used in therapy; Drug resistant forms of HIV can be sexually transmitted; Drug resistance can be selected by antiviral drugs; HIV mutations can interact with one another to affect phenotype

Whole-genome association studies: practical advice and considerations - (Henry Stewart Talks)

What are whole-genome (genome-wide) association studies and why do them?; Steps in WGA study; HIV setpoint; Phenotype definition; Setpoint; Whole genome genotyping panels; PLINK; Cryptic population stratification; PCA and EIGENSTRAT

Why Medicine Needs Evolutionary Biology - (Henry Stewart Talks)

"How evolution is useful to medicine; Why doctors don't know evolution; The body: perfect and pathetically flawed; Proximate and evolutionary explanations; Explain vulnerability, not diseases; Six reasons for vulnerability; Darwinian medicine growing fast"

Why we Cook with Spices: Preventative Darwinian Medicine - (Henry Stewart Talks)

Evolution of chemicals that give spices their unique flavors; All spices have antimicrobial properties; Use of spices in human cultures; Foodborne illnesses;

Widespread Structural Variations in the Human Genome - (Henry Stewart Talks)

Genetic differences and similarities between normal individuals; Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs); Structural variants in human genome; Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH); Clinical genetic diagnostics; Copy Number Variation (CNV); Overlapping

Yeast and fungal prions: a help or a hindrance? - (Henry Stewart Talks)

[URE3] and [PSI+] not found in wild strains indicating they are harmful; [Het-s] may benefit its host or may result from “meiotic drive”; Some “prion domains” cannot be prions; “Prion domains” have non-prion functions

Yeast plasmid: a highly persistent selfish DNA element - (Henry Stewart Talks)

The yeast plasmid as a highly optimized design for a multi-copy selfish DNA element; The need for an active partitioning system for the segregation of a high copy plasmid; Coupling between plasmid segregation and chromosome segregation

Yeast prions and protein chaperones - (Henry Stewart Talks)

Role of protein chaperones in protein folding; Yeast prions as amyloid forms of cellular proteins; Requirement of chaperone machinery for prion propagation; Chaperone mutants adversely affect prions and provide insight into chaperone/amyloid interactions