Spring 2005 Seminar Schedule

Seminars are held in the Conference Room of the Mellon Institute at
12:30 on Wednesdays unless otherwise indicated




Date
Speaker
Title
Host
1/12
Traci Hall, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/National Institute of Health "More than one way to recognize an RNA: Structural insight into post-transcriptional gene regulation" Rule
1/19

Peter Strick, University of Pittsburgh

 

"Unraveling the circuitry of the central nervous system with rabies virus - cerebellar loops with the cerebral cortex as an example" Crowley
1/24
(Monday)

Danette Daniels, Stanford University

"Transcriptional regulation of the Wnt
signaling pathway"
Minden
1/26

William Sullivan, University of California at Santa Cruz

"Cytokinesis, centrosomes, and membrane traffic" Minden
1/27
(Thursday)
Zhenglong Gu, Stanford University
(held in MI Social Room)

"Evolution of duplicate genes and evolution of laboratory yeast"

Minden
1/31
(Monday)
Jeanne Hardy, Sunesis, San Francisco "Discovery of an allosteric site in the caspases using thiol-directed ligands" Minden
2/2

Lance Davidson,
University of Virginia

"Mechanics of morphogenesis: tissue architecture, cell motility, and the forces that shape the embryo" Minden
2/7
(Monday)

Benjamin Eaton, UCSF

"Cellular mechanisms of synaptic stability and their relevance to neurodegenerative disease" Minden
2/9

Fulvio Reggiori, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

"Membrane trafficking during autophagosome formation" Minden

2/16

No Seminar - Advisory Board

 

   
2/17
(Thursday)
Daniela Zarnescu, Emory University
(held in MI Social Room)
"Fragile X protein couples to cell polarity complexes" Minden
2/21
(Monday)
Andrey Krasilnikov,
Northwestern University
"Structural diversity in homologous RNAs: Two types of the specificity domain of RNase P ribozyme" Minden
2/23

Eric Xing, Dept. of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

Science at the Interface:
"In silico motif detection under complex genomic and evolutionary context
- new Bayesian models motivated from biological principles"
Jones
3/2

No Seminar

 

   
3/9

No Seminar, Spring Break

 

   
3/14 Veronica Hinman,
California Institute of Technology

"Developmental gene regulatory network architectures across 500 MY of echinoderm evolution"

Minden
3/16

Andrew Murray, Harvard University

 

"Speciation in the laboratory: evolving the mating preference of budding yeast" Sandra Zimmerman
3/23

The Margaret Ottie Lecture Series Speaker:
Michael Rout
, The Rockefeller University

"Nuclear pore complexes: the hole picture?" Woolford
3/25
(Friday)
Karina Cramer, University of California, Irvine
(held in MI 115 at noon)
"Eph proteins and auditory system development" Urban
3/30

John Bergeron, McGill University

 

"Proteomics of the early secretory pathway"

Lee
4/13
Christopher Langmead, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
CANCELLED
Jones
4/19
(Tuesday)
Rajesh Naik, Biotechnology Group Leader, Air Force Research Laboratory
Wright Patterson Air Force Base
"The bio-nano interface: biological approaches to material science" Jones
4/20 Stephan Zappe, Stanford University “MEMS-based technologies for biological research: high-throughput Drosophila embryo RNAi screen” Murphy
4/26
(Tuesday)

Computational Biology Symposium

 

  Schwartz
4/27
Elly Nedivi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Women in Science Seminar:
"CPG2: A brain- and synapse-specific protein that regulates the endocytosis of glutamate receptors"
 

Fall 2004 Seminar Series