Fall 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, 8/19 (1 – 3 p.m.) |
Ben Jantzen, Coordinator of Graduate Student Programs, Eberly Center | Overview of Student Cognition | |
| 8/25 | Maggie Braun, Ph.D., Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs and Special Faculty Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University | Preparing for Your Senior Year at Carnegie Mellon (For Undergraduate Students) |
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| 9/1 | |||
| 9/8 |
Nathan Urban, Head, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University |
Navigating NIH Funding (For Graduate Students) |
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| 9/15 | |||
| 9/16 (2 p.m.) |
Chris Bakal Ph.D., Institute for Cancer Research in London |
Signaling Networks that Regulate Morphological Noise and Promote Exploratory Behavior |
Robert Murphy, Ph.D. co-sponsored by the Ray and Stephanie Lane Center for Computational Biology |
| 9/22 |
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| 9/29 | |||
| 10/6 |
Aylin Hanyaloglu, Ph.D., Imperial College, London |
Unravelling the Trafficking Code of G protein-coupled Receptors (GPCRs): Impact on Hormonal Signaling and Reproduction |
Manojkumar Puthenveedu, Ph.D. |
| 10/13 |
The Margaret Ottie, MM'28 Undergraduate Lecture Series in Biological Sciences Katrin Karbstein, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute |
Dissecting 40S Ribosome Assembly |
John Woolford, Ph.D. |
| 10/20 |
Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah |
Planarians, Stem Cells, and Regeneration |
SISS Committee |
| 10/27 |
Steve Cresawn, Ph.D., James Madison University | Fostering Bacteriophage Genomics in the Classroom and Beyond |
Jonathan Jarvik, Ph.D. |
| 11/3 |
Jeff Schloss, Ph.D., Program Director for Technology Development Coordination, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIH |
A Revolution in DNA Sequencing Technologies -- Challenges & Opportunities |
Nathan Urban, Ph.D. |
| 11/10 |
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| 11/17 |
Mark von Zastrow, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco | Regulation of Signaling Receptors by Endocytosis |
Manoj Puthenveedu, Ph.D. |
| 11/24 |
No Seminar due to Thanksgiving Break |
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| 12/1 |
Ed Lein, Ph.D., Allen Brain Institute |
Neuroanatomical Transcriptomics: Large Scale Gene Expression Mapping in the Developing Mammalian Brain | Alison Barth, Ph.D. |
| 12/3 (11 a.m., 6115 Gates-Hillman Center) |
Klaus Palme, Freiburg Inst. For Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg (Germany) |
The Magic Role of Auxin and Beyond |
The Lane Center for Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, and Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology Seminar |