Spring 2004 Departmental Research Seminar
Seminars are held in the Conference Room of the Mellon Institute at
3:30 on Wednesdays unless otherwise indicated.
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/14 | Partha Roy, Ph.D., Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh | "Perturbation of actin-binding proteins in the study of cell migration" | Lanni |
| 1/21 |
Ziv Bar-Joseph, Dept. of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon |
Science at the Interface: "Computational discovery of gene modules and regulatory networks" |
Jones |
| 1/28 | Phil LeDuc, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon | "Linking mechanics to biochemistry in biology and medicine: exploring the science of molecular to cellular biomechanics with nanotechnology and computational biology" | Urban |
| 2/4 | Michael Mancini, Baylor College of Medicine | "Multiplex single cell analyses and transcription" | Murphy |
| 2/11 | J. Richard Chaillet, M.D., Ph.D., Dept. of Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
"Molecular and genetic analysis of genomic Imprinting" | Ahrens |
| 2/13 *Special Seminar* |
Pavel Pevzner, University of California, San Diego |
Merck Distinguished Seminar "Transforming men into mice: lessons from human and mouse genomic sequences" |
Schwartz |
| 2/18 | Dr. Nicholas Swindale, University of British Columbia | "Coverage, polymaps and the visual cortex" | Crowley |
| 2/25 | Doug Wallace, University of California, Irvine | "Ancient origins, modern diseases; the mitochondrial connection" | Jarvik |
| 3/3 | Bartlett Mel, USC | Science at the Interface: "Modeling pyramidal neurons: from McCulloch-Pitts to multi-layer networks" |
Urban |
| 3/10 | Spring Break | ||
| 3/17 | David Deerfield, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon | "Viewing large to very large volumetric image datasets: application to the visible human, mouse, and worm" | Ho |
| 3/24 | Yoshinaga Saeki, Harvard University | "Development of HSV amplicon vector system: a versatile gene delivery tool for functional studies" | Jarvik |
| 3/31 *Special Seminar* 12:30 pm, MI Conference Room |
Dr. Marc Kirschner, Harvard Medical School, Dickson Prize Winner | "Control of actin nucleation" | Jones |
| 3/31 | Dan Simons, Dept. of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical School | "Rodent whisker barrels: Windows into cerebral cortical function" | Barth |
| 4/7 |
Dr. Peter Kolodziej,Vanderbilt University | "Actin nucleation and translational control coupled to the cytoskeleton direct repulsion at the midline" | McCartney |
| 4/14 | Dr. Barbara Trask Head, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
"The dynamics of segmental duplications containing human olfactory receptor genes" | SISS- Rajika Thakar |
| 4/21 | Norma Andrews, Yale University | "Regulated exocytosis and membrane resealing: Why lysosomes?" | Women In Science Seminar |
| 4/22 *Special Seminar* Location: MI Auditorium, 2nd floor |
Robert M. Stroud, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, & Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco | "Structure and selectivity of an ancient family of transmembrane channels: the aquaporins and others" | Ho |
| 4/28 | Yong Wan, University of Pittsburgh | "Role of proteolysis in the control of biological transition and tumor formation" | Lee |