General Biology Seminar

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Dissecting neural computation in the fruit fly
Thomas Clandinin, Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology, Stanford University
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Making faces: what epigenomics can teach about human development and variation
Joanna Wysocka, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford School of Medicine
Thursday, January 10, 2013
4:00 pm
100 Broad Center
Development and evolution of form in the vertebrate limb
Kimberly Cooper, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Outer Membrane Biogenesis in Gram-Negative Bacteria
Thomas Silhavy, Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professor , Molecular Biology Department , Princeton University
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Using Fixed Circuits to Build Flexible Behaviors
Cori Bargmann, Investigator, Torsten N. Wiesel Professor, Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Conceptual Advance: the Hidden Syntax of Scientific Publication
Charles Yokoyama, Director, Research Administration, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Thursday, January 24, 2013
4:00 pm
100 Broad Center
Variability in longevity and the origins of individuality
Zachary Pincus, Postdoctotal Fellow , Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Gene regulatory mechanisms that generate neuronal diversity – lessons learned from C. elegans and beyond
Oliver Hobert, Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University
Thursday, January 31, 2013
2:00 pm
24 Beckman Labs
Reprogramming Development - Mechanisms and Trans-generational Implications
Yoav Soen, Senior Scientist, Dept. Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute
Friday, February 1, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
"A molecular geneticist's strategy for understanding the fly brain"
Gerry Rubin, Vice President and Executive Director, Janelia Farm Research Campus
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Monday, February 11, 2013
2:00 pm
24 Beckman Labs
Regulation of metabolic dormancy by reversible phosphorylation of translational GTPases
Jonathan Dworkin, Associate Professor, Dept. Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University
Monday, February 11, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
“Intracellular Fibroblast Growth Factors: Novel Regulators of Neuronal Excitability
Jeanne Nerbonne, Alumni Endowed Professor, Dept. of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
"Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance in Circuits of Mouse Visual Cortex"
Andreas Burkhalter, Professor, Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Regeneration in the animalia: from analysis to synthesis
Yuval Rinkevish, Postdoctotal Fellow, Inst. for Stem Cell Biology & regenerative Medicine, Stanford University
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Principles of function in cellular protein networks
Kimberly Reynolds, PhD, Green Center for Systems Biology - Dept. Pharmacology, Univ. of Texas, SW Medical Center
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Cell surface remodeling and the ART of endocytosis
Jason MacGurn, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology, Cornell University
Thursday, February 28, 2013
4:00 pm
100 Broad Center
Stimulus selection for spatial attention: Neural building blocks
Shreesh Mysore, Postdoctotal Fellow, Dept. of Neurobiology, Stanford University
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Bioactive peptides: from protein synthesis to neural circuits
Jennifer Garrison, Postdoctotal Fellow, Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
A Quantitative View of the Bacterial Proteome
Gene-Wei Li, Postdoctotal Fellow, Dept of Cellualr and Molecular Pharmacology, UC San Francisco
Thursday, March 7, 2013
3:00 pm
Beckman Institute auditorium
The road to become CD4+ helper T cells
Ichiro Taniuchi, Group Director, Laboratory of Transcirptional Regulation, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Thursday, March 7, 2013
4:00 pm
100 Broad Center
Unraveling the transcriptional network controlling biofilm development in Candida albicans
Clarissa Nobile, Postdoctotal Fellow, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, UCSF
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Encoding and decoding of touch perception in cortical circuits
Samuel Andrew Hires, Postdoctoral Associate, Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Functioning of the Proteasome: from protein breakdown to cancer therapy
Alfred Goldberg, Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Thursday, March 14, 2013
4:00 pm
100 Broad Center
More than a recycle bin: nutrient sensing and signaling by the lysosome
Roberto Zoncu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitehead Inst. for Biomedical Research, MIT
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
New views of transcription and its regulation
John Lis, Barbara McClinktock Professor , Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Single cell genomics
Steve Quake, Co-Chair, Professor, Dept. of Bioengineering, Stanford University
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Cell and tissue mechanics in zebrafish gastrulation
Carl-Phillip Heinsenberg, Professor, IST Austria
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
The HIV Vaccine Problem
Michel Nussenzweig, Sherman Fairchild Professor; Investigator, HHMI, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Cellular mechanics and cell shape change during drosophila gastrulation
Eric Weischaus, Squibb Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Princeton University
Friday, April 12, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Dynamical design principles for developmental patterning in live Drosophila embryos
Hernan Garcia, Postdoctoral Fellow, Biophysics Dept. , Princeton University
Monday, April 15, 2013
4:15 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Nucleosomes and the logic of gene regulation
Mark Ptashne, Program Leader, Molecular Biology Program, Center for Stem Cell Research, Sloan-Kettering Institute
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
2:00 pm
24 Beckman Labs
The genetic basis of neural circuit development
Kevin Wright, Postdoctotal Fellow, Dept of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
MicroRNAs and developmental robustness in C. elegans
Victor Ambros, Co-director, RNA Therapeutics Institute Silverman, Professor of Natural Sciences, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Gradient and time-dependent mechanisms that pattern the Drosophila embryo
Stephen Small, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Biology, New York University
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Motility and directed migration of primordial germs cells in zebrafish
Erez Raz, Institute of Cell Biology, ZMBE
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Ian Nauhaus, Postdoctotal Fellow, Systems Biology Labs, Salk Institute
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
CLARITY and beyond: towards complete structural and molecular investigation of the intact brain.
Kwanghun Chung, BWF-CASI Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering Dept. , Stanford School of Medicine
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Mutation, drift and the origin of subcellular features
Michael Lynch, Distinguished Professor , Dept. of Biology, Indiana University Bloomington
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
GATA foctor regulation of HSC homeostasis and T cell development
Doug Engel, G. Carl Huber Professor and Chair, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Intrisic biophysical diversity and connectivity of neuronal circuits
Troy Margrie, Wellcome Trust Investigator, Head of Division of Neurophysiology, National Institute for Medical Research - London
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
Phil Sharp, Institute Professor , Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
4:00 pm
119 Kerckhoff
TBA
Bonnie Bassler, Professor , Department of Molecular Biology , Princeton University