Spring 2011 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/12 | |||
| 1/17 (Monday, 12:30 p.m. in the Mellon Institute Social Room) |
Ilana Witten, Ph.D., Stanford University |
The Neuromodulatory Control of Reward: an Optogenetic Investigation |
Alison Barth, Ph.D. |
| 1/19 | DJ Kleinbaum (CMU Biological Sciences '05) and Brian Frezza (CMU Computational Biology '05), Emerald Therapeutics |
Liquid Information Processors as Next Generation Nucleic Acid Therapeutics |
Maggie Braun, Ph.D. |
| 1/24 (Monday, 12:30 p.m.) |
Co-sponsored by the CNBC Spencer Smith, Ph.D., The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London |
Maps in Neocortex |
Alison Barth, Ph.D. |
| 1/26 |
Bernardo Lemos, Ph.D., Harvard University | Heterochromatin and Population Genomics: Y Variants Tip the Chromatin Balance |
A. Javier Lopez, Ph.D. |
| 2/2 | John Pool, Ph.D., University of California, Davis |
Population Genomic Insights into Natural Selection and Altitude Adaptation |
A. Javier Lopez, Ph.D. |
| 2/7 (Monday) |
Praveen Sethupathy, Ph.D., NIH/NHGRI |
Integrative Genomic Approaches for Mapping the cis-regulatory Landscape of Human Pancreatic Islets | A. Javier Lopez, Ph.D. |
| 2/16 | No Seminar due to Bioimaging Day |
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| 2/17 (Thursday, Mellon Institute Social Room) |
Co-sponsored by the CNBC Kevin Bender, Ph.D., Oregon Hearing Research Center/Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University |
A Novel Role for Calcium in Neuronal Signaling |
Alison Barth, Ph.D. |
| 2/22 (Tuesday) |
Jesse Gray, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School |
How do Transcriptional Networks Rewire Neuronal Circuits? |
A. Javier Lopez, Ph.D. |
| 2/28 (Monday, 12:30 p.m.) |
David Margolis, Ph.D., Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich |
Stability and Plasticity of Cortical Circuit Dynamics |
Alison Barth, Ph.D. |
| 3/2 |
William Costerton, Ph.D., Allegheny-Singer Research Institute, West Penn Allegheny Health System | Microbial Biofilms in Nature and Disease |
Aaron Mitchell, Ph.D. |
| 3/9 |
Mark Histed, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School |
Connecting Cortical Representations to Behavior |
Alison Barth, Ph.D. |
| 3/16 |
Jian Lu, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University | Function and Evolution of Small RNA Targeting | A. Javier Lopez, Ph.D. |
| 3/23 |
Wah Chiu, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine |
Visualizing Chaperonin in Different Functional States by Cryo-EM |
Russell Schwartz, Ph.D. |
| 3/30 |
Joel McManus, Ph.D., University of Connecticut Health Center |
Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks in Drosophila | A. Javier Lopez, Ph.D. |
| 4/6 |
Eric Ahrens, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University |
In vivo Cytometry: An MRI-based Approach to Quantitatively Study Cell Trafficking and Function |
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| 4/13 |
Co-sponsored by CMU Biomedical Engineering Shermali Gunawardena, Ph.D., The State University of New York at Buffalo |
Deadly Pile-ups on Neuronal Highways: Investigating Axonal Transport Defects in Neurodegeneration |
Ge Yang, Ph.D. |
| 4/20 |
The Margaret Ottie, MM'28 Undergraduate Lecture Series in Biological Sciences Tony Harris, Ph.D., Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto |
Regulation of Epithelial Polarity by the PAR Complex | Brooke McCartney, Ph.D. |
| 4/27 |
Dr. Robert Langer, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT |
The Future of Regenerative Medicine, Tissue Engineering and Controlled Drug Delivery |
BioSAC Student Representative: Amy Wang |