Fall 2011 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 & Abstract
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Host |
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| 8/31 |
The Margaret Ottie, MM'28 Undergraduate Lecture Series in Biological Sciences Lynne Maquat, Ph.D., University of Rochester |
Tales from the Cellular Underworld: Quality-control and Conditionally Regulated mRNA Decay |
Javier López, Ph.D. |
| 9/7 | Philip Benfey, Ph.D., Biology Department and IGSP Center for Systems Biology, Duke University and GrassRoots Biotechnology |
Development Rooted in Interwoven Networks |
Veronica Hinman, Ph.D. |
| 9/14 |
Veronica Hinman, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University | The Evolution of Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks Download Seminar Poster (.pdf) |
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| 9/21 | James Hurley, Ph.D., National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH | Nipped in the Bud: The Strange Ways that ESCRTs Sever Membranes Download Seminar Poster (.pdf) |
SISS Committee |
| 9/28 |
Amanda Paulovich, M.D., Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | You Can't Study What You Can't Measure Download Seminar Poster (.pdf) |
Aaron Mitchell, Ph.D. |
| 10/5 | Meyer Jackson, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin |
Exocytosis, Fusion Pores, and Membrane Bending Download Seminar Poster (.pdf) |
Manojkumar Puthenveedu, Ph.D. |
| 10/12 |
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| 10/19 |
Leslie C. Griffith, M.D., Ph.D., Brandeis University | Sleep Circuits in Drosophila Download Seminar Poster (.pdf) |
Manojkumar Puthenveedu, Ph.D. |
| 10/26 |
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| 11/2 |
Dmitry Rinberg, Ph.D., HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus | Timing in Olfaction Download Seminar Poster (.pdf) |
Nathan Urban, Ph.D. |
| 11/9 |
Tim Ryan, Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medical College |
Control of Synaptic Function Download Seminar Poster (.pdf) |
Manojkumar Puthenveedu, Ph.D. |
| 11/16 |
Paul Selvin, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Nanometer Accuracy and Resolution with Fluorescence Microscopy: Watching Molecular Motors; Cancer Therapy Download Seminar Poster (.pdf) |
Marcel Bruchez, Ph.D. |
| 11/23 |
No Departmental Seminar due to Thanksgiving Break | ||
| 11/30 |
Sandra Kuhlman, Ph.D., UCLA |
Practice Makes Perfect: Defining the Role of Inhibition in Vision and Sensory Learning Download Seminar Poster (.pdf) |
Alison Barth, Ph.D. & the Neurobiology Search Committee |
| 12/7 |
Lynne Angerer, Ph.D., NIH-NICDR |
Qwnt-essential Patterning of the Sea Urchin Embryo Download Seminar Poster (.pdf) |
Veronica Hinman, Ph.D. |
| 12/8 |
Kevin Franks, Ph.D., Columbia University |
Assembling an Odor: Cortical Integration of Olfactory Information |
Alison Barth, Ph.D. & the Neurobiology Search Committee |
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12/14 (MI Social Room) |
David Cox, Ph.D., The Rowland Institute at Harvard |
Reverse-Engineering the Neuronal Substrates of Invariant Visual Object Recognition |
Alison Barth, Ph.D. & the Neurobiology Search Committee |