Fall 2005 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 31 | No Seminar | ||
| Sept. 7 | Jeffrey Hildebrand, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh | "Controlling tissue morphogenesis via the regulation of cell shape" | Lee |
| Sept. 14 | Amy Burkert, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon |
"Preparing for the next step: understanding the graduate and professional school process" |
|
| Sept. 21 | Norbert Perrimon, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School | "Cell signaling and morphogenesis in Drosophila" | Minden |
| Sept. 28 | Kirsten Benjamin, Ph.D., Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, CA. | "Quantitative cell signaling: A combined experimental and computational approach" | Barth |
| Oct. 5 | No Seminar | ||
| Oct. 12 | Danith Ly, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University | "An effort towards determining the cellular origins of cancer" | McCartney |
| Oct. 19 | Enrique de la Cruz, Ph.D., Yale University |
"Mechanisms of myosin motors: It's all in the timing" |
Hackney |
| Oct. 26 |
Joseph Martens, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh |
"Control of gene expression by intergenic transcription" | Woolford |
| Nov. 2 | Susan Gottesman, National Institutes of Health | "Integrating regulation by small RNAs into biological circuits and stress responses" | Jones |
| Nov. 9 | K. Dane Wittrup, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology | "Protein engineering in biomedicine" | Waggoner |
| Nov. 16 | Janet Heasman, Ph.D., Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation |
"Control of embryonic development- a new look at old problems" | Ettensohn |
| Nov. 23 | NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving Holiday | ||
| Nov. 30 | Ehud Isacoff, Ph.D., University of California, Berkley | "Optical control of channels and receptors" | Waggoner |
| Dec. 7 |
Chris Burge, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Science at the Interface "Towards an RNA splicing code" |
Christine Wang |