2009
Seminars
|
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| Dec 17 |
Geraldine Butler
University College Dublin |
TBA |
Dennis Thiele |
| Dec 10 |
Zissimos Mourelatos
University of Pennsylvania |
Piwi proteins and piRNAs |
Bryan Cullen |
| Dec 3 |
Emily Troemel
University of California, San Diego |
TBA |
Joe Heitman |
| Nov 19 |
Beverly Davidson
University of Iowa |
Noncoding RNAs and Huntington's disease |
Bryan Cullen |
| Nov 12 |
Simon Gregory
Duke University |
Allelic and functional association of the Interleukin 7 Receptor gene (IL7R) |
Joe Heitman |
| Nov 5 |
Paul Fox
Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic |
The GAIT system: A gatekeeper of inflammatory gene expression |
Jack Keene |
| Oct 29 |
Weixing Zong
Stony Brook University |
Targeting multiple cell death pathways for cancer treatment |
Jeff Rathmell |
| Oct 22 |
Jeff Gross
University of Texas, Austin |
Morphogenesis and patterning of the zebrafish eye |
Nick Poulson |
| Oct 8 |
Mari Shinohara
Duke University |
Innate immunity regulates autoimmune and infectious diseases |
Joe Heitman |
| Oct 1 |
Yibin Kang
Princeton University |
Decoding breast cancer metastasis |
Bryan Cullen, Joe Heitman |
| Sept 24 |
Robin May
University of Birmingham |
Host manipulation by the fatal fungal pathogen Cryptococcus |
Joe Heitman |
| Sept 17 |
Michael Rosbash
Brandeis University |
Circadian rhythms in flies: Circuits, cells, and molecules |
Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
| Sept 3 |
Jeff Lee
Scripps Research Institute
|
Fighting Ebolavirus: Structural insights into viral entry, fusion, and immune evasion |
Bart Haynes, Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
| June 4 |
Eng Eong Ooi
Duke-NUS in Singapore |
Defining protective humoral immunity in dengue |
Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
| May 21* |
Michael Greenberg
Harvard Medical School |
Signaling networks that regulate synapse development and cognitive function |
TBA |
| May 14 |
Mike Ehlers
Duke University Medical Center |
TBA |
Nicholas Poulson |
| May 7 |
Kasturi Haldar
Northwestern University |
Mechanisms of malarial infection |
Raphael Valdivia |
| Apr. 16* |
Lee Niswander
University of Colorado |
Finding closure: Genetics and imaging of neural tube closure |
TBA |
| Apr. 9 |
Phil Benfey
Duke University Medical Center |
Getting to the root of developmental networks |
Nicholas Poulson |
| Apr. 2 |
Anne Brunet
Stanford University |
TBA |
Anne West |
| Mar. 12 |
Karen Guillemin
Northwestern University |
Molecular dialogues with the microbiata in the Zebrafish intestine |
Raphael Valdivia |
| Mar. 5 |
Manny Ares
University of California – Santa Cruz
|
Alternative splicing in developing and diseased muscle -- CANCELED -- |
Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
| Feb. 19 |
Peter Reddien
Whitehead Institute |
Regeneration polarity and initiation in planarians |
David MacAlpine |
| Feb. 12* |
Tony Pawson
Mount Sinai Hospital |
SH2 domains and tyrosine kinases: Back to the future |
Scott Soderling |
| Jan. 22 |
Angelika Amon
MIT |
Causes and consequences of aneuploidy |
Tom Petes |
| Jan. 8 |
William Goldman
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Phase-specific genes and intracellular survival strategies of histoplasma capsulatum |
Tom Mitchell |
*Part of the Cell Biology Distinguished Lecture Series
|
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2008
Seminars
|
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| Dec. 18 |
David Page
Whitehead Institute |
Choosing sex: How germ cells take the road less traveled |
Brigid Hogan |
| Dec. 11 |
Lisa Stowers
The Scripps Research Institute |
Molecular biology of pheromone mediated innate behavior |
Hiroaki Matsunami |
| Dec. 4 |
Amita Sehgal
UPenn |
TBA |
Hubi Amrein |
| Nov. 13 |
Max Nibert
Harvard Medical School |
Membrane penetration during cell entry by reovirus |
Micah Luftig |
| Nov. 6 |
Peter Pryciak
UMASS Medical School |
Regulated membrane localization of signaling proteins in yeast: Mechanisms and implications |
Danny Lew |
| Oct. 30 |
Patricia Spear
Northwestern University |
Multiple entry receptors for herpes simplex virus: Their roles in infection and disease |
Bryan Cullen |
| Oct. 23 |
Ron Vale
University of California-San Francisco |
Engineering molecular motor probes |
TBA |
| Oct. 16 |
Jonathan Powell
Johns Hopkins
|
Regulation of T effector and regulatory T cell differentiation by mTOR |
Jeff Rathmell |
| Oct. 9 |
Virginia Miller
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pestes RovA regulons |
Raphael Valdivia |
| Oct. 2 |
Thomas E. Shenk
Princeton University |
Human cytomegalovirus pathogenicity and latency |
Bryan Cullen |
| June 5 |
Rolf Craven
Markey Cancer Center
University of Kentucky |
Conserved P450 activators that link cholesterol synthesis and cancer therapeutics |
Tom Petes |
| May. 29 |
Alejandro Aballay
Duke University |
C. Elegans as a model system to study conserved host-pathogen interactions |
Joe Heitman |
| May. 15 |
Larry Zwiebel
Vanderbilt University |
Molecular genetics of olfaction in disease vector mosquitoes |
Hubi Amrein |
| May. 8* |
Ruslan Medzhitov
Yale University |
Innate host defense strategies |
Jo Rae Wright |
| May. 1 |
Raphael Valdivia
Duke University |
Secrets of an old pathogen: Chlamydia infections and new paradigms in the cell biology of host-pathogen interacations |
Joe Heitman |
| Apr. 24* |
Davor Solter
Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology
|
Epigenetic controls of early mammalian development |
Blanche Capel |
| Apr. 17 |
Phil Zamore
UMass Medical School |
Small RNA diversity and function |
Vidong Nguyen |
| Apr. 10 |
Scott Keeney
Sloan-Kettering Institute |
Mechanism and regulation of meiotic recombination |
Sue Jinks-Robertson |
| Mar. 27 |
Elliott Kieff
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard University |
Coordinate Epstein-Barr Virus encoded nuclear protein regulation of cell gene transcription is essential for lymphocyte transformation |
Bryan Cullen |
| Mar. 20 |
Craig Garner
Stanford University |
SAP97 regulates in the sorting, trafficking and dynamics of synaptic Glutamate receptors |
Mike Ehlers |
| Mar. 13 |
Vincent Mauro
The Scripps Research Institute |
Mechanisms of eukaryotic translation initiation |
Chris Nicchitta |
| Mar. 6 |
Mark Rose
Princeton University |
Safe sex and the single cell |
Danny Lew |
| Feb. 28* |
Roy Parker
University of Arizona |
Control of the mRNA translation and degradation in eukaryotic cells |
Chris Nicchitta |
| Feb. 21 |
Benoit Chabot
University of Sherbrooke |
Splicing connections in apoptosis and cancer |
Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
| Feb. 7 |
Gerhart Wagner
Uppsala University |
Regulatory RNAs in bacteria – Biological roles and mechanisms |
Coby Slagter-Jager |
| Jan. 31* |
Cliff Tabin
Harvard University |
From signaling to morphogenesis in left-right assymetry |
Fan Wang |
| Jan. 17 |
Samuel Katz
Duke University |
Eradication of vaccine-preventable virus infections--One down? Two to go? |
TBA |
| Jan. 10 |
Robert Lamb
Northwestern University |
Understanding paramyxovirus-induced membrane fusion |
Bryan Cullen |