Fall 2004 Departmental Research Seminar
Seminars are held in the Conference Room of the Mellon Institute at
12:30 on Wednesdays unless otherwise indicated.
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 1 *Special Time* 3:30 pm |
Amy Burkert, Carnegie Mellon | For Biology Seniors: "Making the most of your senior year: Preparation for graduate school, professional school or the job market" |
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| Sept. 8 | Yikang Rong, National Cancer Institute, NIH | "Genome maintenance by the ATM checkpoint kinase and the Mre11 DNA repair protein in Drosophila" | Csink |
| Sept. 15 | Michele Perella, Department of Science and Biomedical Technology, University of Milan |
"Crucial roles of ligation analogs in the understanding of hemoglobin cooperativity" | Ho |
| Sept. 22 | Olivera Finn, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh | "Cancer immunity, cancer vaccines and cancer prevention" | Ahrens |
| Sept. 29 | Jenny Hinshaw, National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, NIH | "Structural properties of dynamin reveal a mechanism for membrane constriction" | Lee |
| Oct. 13 | Peter Espenshade, Johns Hopkins University | "Regulation of cellular cholesterol homeostasis: New connections to oxygen-sensing" | Linstedt |
| Oct. 20 | Sarah Tishkoff, University of Maryland | "Genetic History of Africa" | Women in Science Seminar |
| Oct. 27 | Daniel Jay, Tufts University | "Functional proteomic screens for proteins required for metastasis" | Minden |
| Nov. 3 | Yixian Zheng, Carnegie Institution of Washington | "Cell division and mitotic spindle morphogenesis" | Lee |
| Nov. 10 | Yolanda Sanchez, University of Cincinnati | "Genome integrity via signaling networks: Lessons from the budding yeast" | Miles |
| Nov. 17 | Richard Carthew, Northwestern University | "Gene Silencing by Small RNAs" | Woolford |
| Nov. 24 | NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving Holiday | ||
| Dec. 1 | Mariano Garcia-Blanco, Duke University | "Alternative splicing of FGFR2 transcripts: biology and mechanism" | Lopez |
| Dec. 8 | Karen Arndt, University of Pittsburgh | "Transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II: exploiting the genetic and biochemical toolbox of yeast" | Woolford |