Fall 2007 Departmental Research Seminar
Seminars are held in the Conference Room of the Mellon Institute at
3:30 p.m. on Wednesdays unless otherwise indicated.
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 12 |
Franck Polleux, Ph.D., UNC School of Medicine | "New insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal polarity during cortical development in vivo" | Crowley |
| Sept. 19 |
Leslie Vosshall, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University | "A glimpse into the odor universe of humans and flies" | Urban |
| Sept. 26 |
Jonathan P. Rast, Ph.D., University of Toronto |
"Immune gene regulatory networks and the evolution of deuterostome immunity" |
Hinman |
| Oct. 3 |
Gerard Apodaca, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine | "The uroepithelium: role of EGF receptor in regulating stretch-induced exocytosis" | Linstedt |
| Oct. 10 |
Kris Jones Prather, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology | "From metabolic engineering to synthetic biology: rational design of microbial chemical factories" | Berget |
| Oct. 17 |
Markus Deserno, Ph.D., Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University | "Uncovering biomembrane physics using coarse-grained simulations: methods and applications" | Schwartz |
| Oct. 24 |
David Sherwood, Ph.D., Duke University | "Orienting the anchor cell for invasion" | Ettensohn |
| Oct. 31 |
Michael Domach, Ph.D., Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University |
"Metabolic engineering of E. coli and B. subtilis to increase synthetic efficiency" |
Schwartz |
| Nov. 12 (12:30 p.m.) |
Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh | Minden | |
| Nov. 28 |
Michael Grabe, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh | "Insight into the Nature of Voltage Sensing in Voltage-gated Potassium Channels" | Lee |