Spring 2012 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
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Host |
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| 1/5 | Matthew Smear, Ph.D., HHMI’s Janelia Farm Research Campus |
Active Olfaction |
Alison Barth, Ph.D. & the Neurobiology Search Committee |
| 1/11 | Aryn Gittis, Ph.D., Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, UCSF |
Striatal Interneurons and the Regulation of Striatal Output Pathways |
Alison Barth, Ph.D. & the Neurobiology Search Committee |
| 1/18 | No Seminar Due to Advisory Board | ||
| 1/25 | David McCormick, Ph.D., Yale University |
Cortical Dynamics are Controlled by Inhibition |
Alison Barth, Ph.D. |
| 2/1 |
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| 2/8 | |||
| 2/15 |
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| 2/22 | |||
| 2/29 |
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| 3/1 MI Auditorium |
Erik Shapiro, Ph.D., Departments of Diagnostic Radiology, Biomedical Engineering & Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale University School of Medicine |
MRI-based Stem and Immune Cell Tracking |
Eric Ahrens, Ph.D. |
| 3/7 |
Kimberly Beatty, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
Chemical Tools for Imaging Proteins and Pathogens |
Eric Ahrens, Ph.D. |
| 3/14 |
No Seminar Due to Spring Break |
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| 3/21 |
Maxime Dahan, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris; Transcription Imaging Consortium, HHMI, Janelia Farm Research Center |
Investigating the Nuclear Exploration and Target Search of DNA-binding Proteins in Mamallian Cells at the Single Molecule Level | Marcel Bruchez, Ph.D. |
| 3/28 |
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| 4/4 |
The Margaret Ottie, MM'28 Undergraduate Lecture Series in Biological Sciences Techung Lee, Ph.D., University of Buffalo |
Lend me your Stem Cells to Heal my Broken Heart | BioSAC Student-invited Speaker Student Representative: Kaitlin Healy |
| 4/11 |
Becky Seal, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh |
Delineating the Functional Role of Cholinergic-Glutamatergic Co-transmission in the Striatum |
Alison Barth, Ph.D. |
| 4/18 |
Jennifer Lee, Ph.D., National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH |
Amyloids in Pathology and Biology: Lessons from α-Synuclein and Pmel17 |
Chien Ho, Ph.D. and Gordon Rule, Ph.D. |
| 4/25 |
Maurice Swanson, Ph.D., University of Florida |
Mechanisms of RNA-Mediated Disease | John Woolford, Ph.D. |
| 5/2 |
Melissa Rolls, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University |
Staying Alive: Strategies Used by your Neurons to Function as Long as you Do | Brooke McCartney, Ph.D. |
| 5/9 (MI Auditorium) |
Luisa Hiller, Ph.D., Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny-Singer Research Institute | Sex, War and Rumors: Driving Heterogeneity in Biofilms
Download the Seminar Poster (.pdf) |
Aaron Mitchell, Ph.D. |