Fall 2009 Departmental Research Seminar-Department of Biological Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University

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Fall 2009 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
8/26	Maggie Braun, Ph.D. and Amy Burkert, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon	Making the Most of Your Senior Year
9/2	Sachdev Sidhu, Ph.D., Ontario Institute for Cancer Research	Deciphering and Modulating Cellular Signaling with Combinatorial Biology	Jonathan Jarvik, Ph.D.
9/9	Lewis Kay, Ph.D., University of Toronto	Seeing the Invisible by Solution NMR Spectroscopy	Chien Ho, Ph.D.
9/16	Martha Cyert, Ph.D., Stanford University	Calcineurin, the Ca2+/calmodulin Regulated Phosphatase, Recognizes Conserved Docking Sites in its Substrates	Tina Lee, Ph.D.
9/23	No Seminar
9/30	Craig Roy, Ph.D., Yale University	Manipulation of Host of Membrane Transport Pathways by the Intracellular Pathogen Legionella pneumophila	Manoj Puthenveedu, Ph.D.
10/7	Leo Belluscio, Ph.D., National Institute of Health (NIH)	Odorant-Induced Plasticity in the Neural Circuits of the Mammalian Olfactory Bulb	Nathan Urban, Ph.D.
10/14	Eric Phizicky, Ph.D., University of Rochester Medical Center	tRNA Quality control	John L. Woolford, Ph.D.
10/21	Christoph Wuelfing, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	Spatiotemporal Patterning as a Regulator of Lymphocyte Activation	Robert F. Murphy, Ph.D.
10/28	Stefan Duensing, M.D., University of Pittsburgh	Dangerous Duplications: Genomic Instability Induced by the HPV-16 E7 Oncoprotein	Frederick Lanni, Ph.D.
11/4	Michael Ehlers, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, Duke University	Membrane and Protein Dynamics in Neuronal Plasticity	Jing Wen, representing the SISS committee
11/11 (12:30 p.m.)	Shohei Koide, Ph.D., University of Chicago	Design and Engineering of Synthetic Binding Proteins and Sensors	Alan Waggoner, Ph.D.
11/11	Tracy Johnson, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego	Pre-mRNA Splicing and Histone Modification: A "tail" of the Coordinated Control of Gene Expression	Alison Barth, Ph.D.
11/18	Brenda Andrews, Ph.D., University of Toronto	Deciphering Cellular Networks and Pathways Using Yeast Functional Genomics	Aaron Mitchell, Ph.D.
11/25	No Seminar
12/2	Katherine Roche, Ph.D., National Institute of Health (NIH)	Molecular Mechanisms Regulating NMDA Receptor Trafficking	Manoj Puthenveedu, Ph.D.