Seminars
The Thursday Series

The Cell Biology Department conducts its seminar program jointly with the Program in Cell and Molecular Biology and the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. These seminars are held each Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in Room 147 of the Nanaline Duke Building, except as otherwise noted.


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
 

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



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