Spring 2009 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/14 |
Joel Rothman, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara |
Life, Death and the Architecture of Regulatory Switches in C. Elegans | Adam Linstedt, Ph.D. |
|
Monday, 1/19 |
Li-Na Wei, Ph.D., University of Minnesota Medical School |
Signaling Pathways Regulating the Action of Nuclear Receptors and Coregulators |
Adam Linstedt, Ph.D. |
| Thursday, 1/22 (12:30 p.m.) |
Julie Canman, Ph.D., Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research | Using Conditional Genetics to Dissect the Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Division | Charles Ettensohn, Ph.D. |
| Monday, 1/26 (12:30 p.m.) |
Edwin Munro, Ph.D., University of Washington |
Dynamics of Cell Polarization and Morphogenesis in Early Embryos | Charles Ettensohn, Ph.D. |
| Thursday, 1/29 (12:30 p.m.) |
Andrew Kusmierczyk, Ph.D., Yale University |
A Protein Complex and a Complex Protein: Insights into the Assembly of the Eukaryotic Proteasome | Charles Ettensohn, Ph.D. |
| Thursday, 2/5 (12:30 p.m.) |
Craig Kaplan, Ph.D., Stanford University Medical Center |
Mechanism and Regulation of Transcription Elongation by RNA Polymerase II | Charles Ettensohn, Ph.D. |
| Monday, 2/9 (12:30 p.m.) |
C. Andrew Frank, Ph.D., University of California at San Francisco |
Molecules and Mechanisms Underlying the Rapid Induction and Sustained Expression of Synaptic Homeostasis | Charles Ettensohn, Ph.D. |
| 4/1 | Johnny Huard, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh |
Regenerative Medicine Based on Muscle Stem Cells: Potential for Skeletal Muscle Regeneration and Repair | Tina Lee, Ph.D. |
| 4/8 | Brenda Bass, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah |
The dsRNA Binding Proteins of RNAi: Lessons of Specificity without Sequence | Jason Talkish, representing the SISS committee |
| 4/15 | Beth Roman, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh |
How to Make an Arteriovenous Malformation: Fishing for Answers | Adam Linstedt, Ph.D. |
| 4/22 | Computational Biology Symposium |
Evolution | Veronica Hinman, Ph.D. and Russell Schwartz, Ph.D. |
|
4/29 CANCELLED
|
Katherine Kalil, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison | Signaling Mechanisms in Cortical Axon Branching, Growth and Guidance | Justin Crowley, Ph.D. |