Spring 2005 Departmental Research Seminar
Seminars are held in the Conference Room of the Mellon Institute at
12:30 on Wednesdays unless otherwise indicated.
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/12 | Traci Hall, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/National Institute of Health | "More than one way to recognize an RNA: Structural insight into post-transcriptional gene regulation" | Rule |
| 1/19 |
Peter Strick, University of Pittsburgh |
"Unraveling the circuitry of the central nervous system with rabies virus - cerebellar loops with the cerebral cortex as an example" | Crowley |
| 1/24 (Monday) |
Danette Daniels, Stanford University | "Transcriptional regulation of the Wnt signaling pathway" | Minden |
| 1/26 | William Sullivan, University of California at Santa Cruz | "Cytokinesis, centrosomes, and membrane traffic" | Minden |
| 1/27 (Thursday) |
Zhenglong Gu, Stanford University (held in MI Social Room) |
"Evolution of duplicate genes and evolution of laboratory yeast" | Minden |
| 1/31 (Monday) |
Jeanne Hardy, Sunesis, San Francisco | "Discovery of an allosteric site in the caspases using thiol-directed ligands" | Minden |
| 2/2 | Lance Davidson, University of Virginia |
"Mechanics of morphogenesis: tissue architecture, cell motility, and the forces that shape the embryo" | Minden |
| 2/7 (Monday) |
Benjamin Eaton, UCSF | "Cellular mechanisms of synaptic stability and their relevance to neurodegenerative disease" | Minden |
| 2/9 | Fulvio Reggiori, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | "Membrane trafficking during autophagosome formation" | Minden |
| 2/16 | No Seminar - Advisory Board | ||
| 2/17 (Thursday) |
Daniela Zarnescu, Emory University (held in MI Social Room) |
"Fragile X protein couples to cell polarity complexes" | Minden |
| 2/21 (Monday) |
Andrey Krasilnikov, Northwestern University |
"Structural diversity in homologous RNAs: Two types of the specificity domain of RNase P ribozyme" | Minden |
| 2/23 | Eric Xing, Dept. of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon< | Science at the Interface: "In silico motif detection under complex genomic and evolutionary context - new Bayesian models motivated from biological principles" |
Jones |
| 3/9 | No Seminar - Spring Break | ||
| 3/14 | Veronica Hinman, California Institute of Technology |
"Developmental gene regulatory network architectures across 500 MY of echinoderm evolution" | Minden |
| 3/16 | Andrew Murray, Harvard University | "Speciation in the laboratory: evolving the mating preference of budding yeast" | Sandra Zimmerman |
| 3/23 | The Margaret Ottie Lecture Series Speaker: Michael Rout, The Rockefeller University |
"Nuclear pore complexes: the hole picture?" | Woolford |
| 3/25 (Friday) |
Karina Cramer, University of California, Irvine (held in MI 115 at noon) |
"Eph proteins and auditory system development" | Urban |
| 3/30 | John Bergeron, McGill University | "Proteomics of the early secretory pathway" | Lee |
| 4/13 | Christopher Langmead, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon | CANCELLED | Jones |
| 4/19 (Tuesday) |
Rajesh Naik, Biotechnology Group Leader, Air Force Research Laboratory Wright Patterson Air Force Base |
"The bio-nano interface: biological approaches to material science" | Jones |
| 4/20 | Stephan Zappe, Stanford University | “MEMS-based technologies for biological research: high-throughput Drosophila embryo RNAi screen” | Murphy |
| 4/26 (Tuesday) |
Computational Biology Symposium | Schwartz | |
| 4/27 | Elly Nedivi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Women in Science Seminar: "CPG2: A brain- and synapse-specific protein that regulates the endocytosis of glutamate receptors" |
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