General Biology Seminar

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

"VEGF signaling pathways in vascular morphogenesis"
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, UCLA
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

The quipucamayocs of ubiquitin: deciphering a cellular code
Michael Rape, Asst. Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology, Univ. of California - Berkeley
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

"Recent Advances in Redox Regulation by Thioredoxin and Glutaredoxin Systems"
Arne Holmgren, Senior Professor , Biochemistry, Karolinska Institute
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

May the force be with you: searching for ion channels that respond to pressure
Ardem Patapoutian, Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

Wiersma Lecture

Thermo TRP ion channels: what garlic, mint, and wasabi tell us about sensing temperature and pain
Ardem Patapoutian, Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute
Sunday, February 5, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

on Hold
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

Wiersma Lecture

“A systems biology view of the nervous system"
Daniel Geschwind, Director, Center for Autism Research and Treatment, UCLA
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
2:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

The Tsc-mTOR pathway: an activity-dependent regulator of hippocampal synaptic plasticity and network excitability
Helen Bateup, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Thursday, March 15, 2012
2:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

The olfactory-specific and activity-dependent histone variant Hist2h2be modulates neuronal life span
Stephen Santoro, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Monday, March 19, 2012
4:00 pm
100 Broad Center

Wiersma Lecture

“Autism Genetics: From gene to brain to cognition and behavior"
Daniel Geschwind, Director, Center for Autism Research and Treatment, UCLA
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
2:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Polarization of Migrating Neurons by Reelin via Rap1 and N-Cadherin to Control Lamination in the Neocortex
Yves Jossin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

CANCELLED "Dynamics of neuronal circuits in the developing neocortex of wild type and fragile X mice"
Carlos Portera-Cailliau, Professor, Neurology and neurobiology, UCLA
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
2:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Exploring the molecular basis of normal memory storage and age-related memory loss
Elias Pavlopoulos, Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
Monday, March 26, 2012
2:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Activation of Visual Pigments by Light and Heat
Donggen Luo, Research Associate, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Using induced pluripotent stem cells to study autism and neuronal development
Ricardo Dolmetsch, Professor, Neurobiology, Stanford University
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
2:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Neural Dynamics of Cognitive Functions
Tim Buschman, Postdoctoral Fellow, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

A mechanism to detect vacuolar pathogens and its role in promoting pro- and anti-bacterial immune responses during TB infection
Jeffrey Cox, Asso. Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
2:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Understanding how synaptic plasticity shapes neural representations
Stijn Cassenaer, Broad Scholar, California Institute of Technology
Monday, April 9, 2012
2:00 pm
24 Beckman Labs

General Biology Seminar

“Action potentials and myelination in activity-dependent plasticity and development.”
Doug Fields, Chief, Nervous System Development and Plasticity Section, NIH, NICHD
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

"The cellular and molecular basis for planarian regeneration"
Peter Reddien, Asso. Professor, Biology, MIT
Monday, April 16, 2012
4:00 pm
100 Broad Center for the Biological Sciences

General Biology Seminar

Learning to Tolerate the Microbial Self
Sarkis Mazmanian, Assistant Professor, Biology, Caltech
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Mechanisms of transcription factor evolution: the next dimension of developmental evolution
Gunter Wagner, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, Yale University
Gunter Wagner, Prof. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Systems Biology Institute, Yale University
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Organization and Assembly of Neural Circuits
Liqun Luo, Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University
Thursday, April 26, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Reward Prediction
Jeremiah Cohen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Evolution of RNA viruses in changing environments
Paul Turner, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

"Molecular and cellular mechanisms of memory allocation in neuronal networks"
Alcino Silva, Professor, Gonda Neuroscience and Genetics Center, ULCA
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

What fruit flies teach us about RNA silencing
Phillip Zamore, Prof. of Biomedical Sciences, University of Mass.
Monday, May 21, 2012
4:00 pm
100 Broad Center

General Biology Seminar

Raffi Aroian, Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

"Guidance laws and neural circuit dynamics underlying dragonfly prey capture"
Leonardo Anthony, Group Leader, Janelia Farm
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

"Cortical representations of olfactory input by transsynaptic tracing
Kazunari Miyamichi, Research Specialist, HHMI Dept of Biology, Stanford University
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

The genetics and mechanics of cell shape determination
Maria Leptin, Professor and Director, EMBO - European Molecular Biology Organization
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

"Gene regulatory networks orchestrating developmental checkpoints and effector states in the immune system"
Harinder Singh, Senior Director, Immunology, Genentech
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Gene regulatory networks programming blood stem cell ontogeny
Roger Patient, Associate, Oxford Stem Cell Institute, Professor, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

High Resolution, Quantitative Proteomics Applied to Cell Biology and Cancer Research
Matthias Mann, Director & Prof. , Dept. of Proteomics and Signaltransduction, Max Planck Insitute for Biochemistry
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Cellular strategies for coping with protein aggregation
Bernd Bukau, Director, ZMBH
Thursday, August 16, 2012
2:00 pm
151 Braun Labs

General Biology Seminar

Towards understanding how epigenetic networks control genome organization and function
Karsten Rippe, German Cancer Research Institute (DKFZ)
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Part I - Design Principles in Biology
Uri Alon, Professor, Dept Molecular Cell Biology & Dept Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
5:15 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar - Part II

Part II - Love and Fear in the Lab: guitar and discussion of the importance of the subjective and emotional sides of doing science
Uri Alon, Professor, Dept Molecular Cell Biology & Dept Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

Neurobiology Seminar

Functional Modules: what good are they, and how do we get them?
Margaret Livingstone, Professor, Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

Wiersma Lecture

What art can tell us about the brain
Margaret Livingstone, Professor, Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Stochastic and self-organizing behaviors during the regeneration of hair stem cells
Maksim Plikus, Assistant Professor, Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California - Irvine
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

Horowitz Seminar

Neurobiology of social behavior in the mouse
Catherine Dulac, Higgins Professor , Dept. of Molecular and Cellualr Biology, Harvard University
Friday, December 7, 2012
11:00 am
24 Beckman Labs

General Biology Seminar - Informal

Complex decisions of immune cells:parallels with engineering
Nir Friedman, Professor, Dept. of Immunology, Weizmann Institute
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff

General Biology Seminar

Solving the antibody paradox: the diverse roles of Fc receptors in immunity
Jeffrey Ravetch, Theresa and Eugene Lang Professor, Dept. Molecular Genetics and Immunology, The Rockefeller University