Spring 2008 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, 1/14 (11:00 a.m.) |
Insuk Lee, Ph.D. | Network Biology Approaches to Study Complex Traits |
Murphy |
| 1/16 | Wendy Thomas, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle | Expanding Our Notion of Protein Regulation: How Mechanical Forces Control Biological Function | Bruchez |
| Thursday, 1/17 (12:30 p.m.) |
Chris Fromme, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley | Insights from a Genetic Disease Affecting Vesicle Coat Protein Assembly | Minden |
| Monday, 1/21 (12:30 p.m.) |
Arun Radhakrishnan, Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center | Protein Sensors for Membrane Cholesterol | Minden |
| 1/23 | Allan Spradling, Ph.D., Director, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Baltimore | Model Organisms to Human Biology: The Drosophila Ovary and its Stem Cells | Jones |
| Thursday, 1/24 (12:30 p.m.) |
Manojkumar Puthenveedu, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco | Intracellular Trafficking of Signaling Receptorsue Morphology | Minden |
|
1/30
|
William Fairbrother, Ph.D., Brown University, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry |
Mapping Cis-Elements in the Genome: Development of High Throughput Binding Assays to Query Nucleic Acid/protein Interactions | Lopez |
| Thursday, 1/31 (12:30 p.m.) |
Anthony P. Barnes, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, Neuroscience Center University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill |
Identification of a Signaling Pathway Controlling Neuron Polarity in the Developing Mammalian Cerebral Cortex | Minden |
| Monday, 2/4 (12:30 p.m.) |
Brian Chen, Ph.D. Harvard University |
Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Specificity | Minden |
| 2/6 | Sally Horne-Badovinac, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley | Genetic Analysis of Epithelial Morphogenesis: Apico-basal Polarity, Planar Polarity and Organ Shape | Minden |
| Monday, 2/11 (11:00 a.m.) |
James Taylor, Ph.D. | Making Sense of Genome-scale Data | Murphy |
|
2/13
|
Hugo Bellen, D.V.M., Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine |
Lou Gehrig, Flies and Worms and the Pathogenesis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | Minden |
| Monday, 2/18 (12:30 p.m.) |
Rajesh Ramachandran, Ph.D., Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute | Dynamics of Dynamin-membrane Interactions in Clathrin-mediated Endocytosis | Minden |
| Thursday, 2/21 (12:30 p.m.) |
Andrew Ewald, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco | Cellular Mechanisms and Molecular Regulation of Collective Epithelial Migration during Mammary Morphogenesis | Minden |
| Monday, 2/25 (11:00 a.m.) |
Kevin Chen, Ph.D., New York University | Macro- and Micro-evolution of Gene Regulation Mediated by MicroRNAs | Murphy |
|
2/27
|
Roy Parker, Ph.D., University of Arizona | The Eukaryotic mRNA Cycle: P-bodies and the Control of mRNA Translation and Degradation |
Woolford |
| Monday, 3/3 (11:00 a.m.) |
Han Liang, Ph.D., University of Chicago | MicroRNA Regulation in Humans: A View of Systems Biology | Murphy |
| 3/5 | Stefan Zappe, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University | Neural Stem Cell Engineering for Therapeutic Applications | Schwartz |
| Thursday, 3/6 (12:30 p.m.) |
Marc Hammarlund, Ph.D., University of Utah | A Genetic Analysis of Axon Degeneration and Regeneration | Minden |
| Monday, 3/10 (11:00 a.m.) |
Philip Kim, Ph.D., Columbia University | Jumping Scales: How 3D Structures and Molecular Genetics Meet in Protein Networks | Murphy |
| 3/12 | Spring Break | ||
| Monday, 3/17 (11:00 a.m.) |
Olivier Elementos, Ph.D., Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University | Decoding the Regulatory Genome | Murphy |
| 4/2 | Manuel Ares, Jr., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz | Global Analysis of Alternative Splicing | Woolford |
| 4/9 | Robert Reenan, Ph.D., Brown University, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry | Travels with RNA: In Search of Shape and Behavior in Hyperspace | Lopez |
| 4/16 | Kristen Verhey, Ph.D., University of Michigan Medical School | Road Signs for Motor Protein Transport | Hackney |
| 4/23 | Barry Connors, Ph.D., Brown University, Department of Neuroscience | Electrical Synapses in the Mammalian Brain | Student Invited Seminar Series (SISS) |
| 4/30 | Computational Biology Symposium | Biochemistry in the Cell | Schwartz Macbeth |
| 5/7 | Julie Phillippi, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Cardiac Surgery Division | Cellular and Molecular Analysis of Ascending Aortic Aneurysms in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Patients | Student Invited Seminar Series (SISS) |