Spring 2010 Departmental Research Seminar-Department of Biological Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University

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Spring 2010 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
1/13	Takis Benos, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Department of Computational Biology	The Non-coding DNA Strikes Back: DNA Motifs, microRNA Genes and Regulatory Networks	Veronica Hinman, Ph.D.
1/20
1/27	Sarah Gaffen, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Department of Immunology	Straight from the Mouse's Mouth: Signaling and Biology by a New Cytokine Receptor Family	Aaron Mitchell, Ph.D.
2/3	Subha Das, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Chemistry	Expanding the (Bio)Chemical Toolkit: RNA Labeling, Ligation and Splicing Intermediates	Mark Macbeth, Ph.D.
2/10 (Rescheduled for 2/24 due to weather.)	Alex Evilevitch, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics	Biophysics of Viral Infectivity: Matching Genome Length and Virus Size	Russell Schwartz, Ph.D.
2/17	Willi Halfter, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Department of Neurobiology	Basement Membranes in the Developing and Aging eye	Justin Crowley, Ph.D.
2/18 (9 a.m. 2210 Doherty Hall)	Michael Platt, Ph.D., Duke University, Department of Neurobiology and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience	From Brain to Society: Neuroethology and Neuroeconomics of Social Behavior	Undergraduate Student-invited Seminar Speaker
2/24	Alex Evilevitch, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics	Biophysics of Viral Infectivity: Matching Genome Length and Virus Size	Russell Schwartz, Ph.D.
3/3	Deborah Chapman, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Department of Biological Sciences	Transcriptional Regulation of Mouse Mesoderm Formation by T-box Factors T and Tbx6	Brooke McCartney, Ph.D.
3/10	No Seminar Due to Spring Break
3/17
3/24	Lance Davidson, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh	Unraveling the Physical Mechanics of Morphogenesis	Chuck Ettensohn, Ph.D.
3/31	Ge Yang, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Lane Center for Computational Biology	Computational Analysis of Kinesin Dynein Coordination in Cytoskeletal Dynamics	Brooke McCartney, Ph.D.
4/6 (10:30 a.m. in the Lane Center Conference Room - Mellon Institute 409)	Inke Näthke, Dundee Cancer Centre, University of Dundee	The Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Protein as a Cytoskeletal Architect in Interphase and Mitosis: Implications for Tissue Organisation and Tumourigenesis	Brooke McCartney, Ph.D.
4/7	Angelike Stathopoulos, Ph.D., CalTech	Differential Gene Expression within a Field of Cells: Patterning Mechanisms and the Control of Cell Movement in Drosophila Embryos	Veronica Hinman, Ph.D.
4/14	Kelvin Gregory, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering	Phenomenology Meets Molecular Ecology: Bacterial Respiration in Electrochemical Cells for Renewable Energy and Environmental Restoration	Aaron Mitchell, Ph.D.
4/21	Katherine Kalil, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison	Wnt5a Regulates Cortical Axon Outgrowth and Guidance through Calcium Signaling Mechanisms	Justin Crowley, Ph.D.
4/28	Helen Blau, Ph.D., Stanford University	Regulation of Stem Cell Fate	SISS Committee