Spring 2006 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/10 (Tuesday) |
Wei Cheng, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley | "Breaking an RNA "ladder" - molecular mechanisms of the hepatitis C virus NS3 helicase" | Woolford |
| 1/16 (Monday) |
Mark Macbeth, Ph.D., University of Utah | "Structural and functional characterization of the inositol hexakisphosphate requirement of adenosine deaminases that act on RNA" | Woolford |
| 1/18 | Susan Rosenberg, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine | Women in Science Seminar Series "Three tales of genome instability: regulation of evolvability, spontaneous DNA Breakage, and a new paradigm for RecQ helicases" |
Christine Wang |
| 1/23 (Monday) |
Nicole LaRonde-LeBlanc, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute at Frederick | "Structural studies of the RIO kinases, essential proteins required for ribosome biogenesis" | Woolford |
| 1/25 | Gloria Culver, Ph.D., Iowa State University | "Studies of 30S ribosomal subunit architecture: conformational changes and chaperones" | Woolford |
| 1/30 (Monday) |
Andrew Feig, Ph.D., Indiana University | "Understanding Hfq: a central player in Bacterial RNA metabolism" | Woolford |
| 2/6 | Melanie Ohi, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School | "Structural analysis of the spliceosome by cryo-electron microscopy" | Woolford |
| 2/8 | Hideki Aihara, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School | "A structural basis for allosteric control of DNA recombination by lambda integrase" | Woolford |
| 2/15 | Fernando de La Torre, Ph.D., The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University | "Component analysis for classification, clustering and modeling high dimensional data" | López |
| 2/22 | Christopher Langmead, Ph.D., School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon | "Towards formal verification of biological models" | |
| 3/15 | Spring Break - No Classes | ||
| 3/22 | David Drubin, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley | "Harnessing actin dynamics for membrane trafficking events" | Woolford |
| 3/23 (Thursday) |
David Drubin, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley | "Formation of a dynamic kinetochore-microtubule interface through assembly of the Dam1 ring complex" | Woolford |
| 3/29 | Karl Kandler, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh | "Development and plasticity of sound localization circuits" | Crowley |
| 4/5 | The Margaret Ottie Lecture Series Speaker Paul Worley, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
"Immediate-early genes and synaptic plasticity" | Barth |
| 4/12 3:30 p.m. |
The Margaret Ottie Lecture Series Speaker Dan Kiehart, Ph.D., Duke University |
"Biophysical and genetic analysis of morphogenesis" | Minden |
| 4/19 | Erin Schuman, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology | "Local protein synthesis and degradation at neuronal synapses" | Roger Clem |
| 4/26 | David Lewis, M.D., University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | "The neurobiology of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia: dissecting the disease process" | Barth |
| 5/5 (Friday,12:30 p.m.) |
Oliver Smithies, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | "Simple computer solutions to complex biological problems" | Byron Ballou |