November 13, 2009
Hannah Klein
Title: "Regulating Rad51 Recombinase through DNA Translocases"
Host: Eric Alani
http://www.med.nyu.edu/biochem/labs/klein/
Novermber 5, 2009
2009 Racker Lecture
Joseph Schlessinger
Title: "Journey of a biophysical chemist in biomedical research"
Call Auditorium-Kennedy Hall at 8:00 p.m.
Reception to follow outside of the Auditorium
Host: David Shalloway
November 6, 2009
MBG Friday Seminar
Joseph Schlessinger
4:00 P.M. G-10 Biotech Building
Title:"Cell signaling by receptor tyrosine kinases; from molecules to cancer therapy"
Reception at 5:00 P.M. Atrium-outside of G-10
Host: David Shalloway
October 30, 2009
Natasza Kurpios
Cornell University
Title: "Trust Your Gut Instinct: Asymmetric Cell Behavior and Cell Shape Specify the Direction of Intestinal Looping"
Host: Paul Soloway
October 23, 2009
Justin Fay
Title: "Molecular basis of variable drug responses in yeast"
Host: Zhenglong Gu
http://www.genetics.wustl.edu/jflab/
October 16, 2009
Bing Ren
Title: "Decoding the human epigenome"
Host: John Lis
http://cancer.ucsd.edu/summaries/biren.asp
October 9, 2009
Joe Thornton
Title: "Functional Synthesis in Molecular Biology & Evolution: Evolution of Steriod Receptor Structure"
Host: Nathan Clark
http://www.uoregon.edu/~joet/
September 25, 2009
Bradley Bernstein
Title: "Epigenetic mechanism of pluripotency".
Host: Paul Soloway
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/Bernstein.html
September 18, 2009
Ana Maria Cuervo
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Title: "Selective Autophagy in Aging and Age-related Disorders”
Host: Sylvia Lee
http://www.aecom.yu.edu/cuervo/
September 11, 2009
Dr. Jue Chen
Department of Microbiology
University of California-Davis
Title: "Alternating access of the maltose ABC transporter"
Host: Yuxin Mao
http://chen.bio.purdue.edu/people.html
August 28, 2009
Dr. Frank Schroeder
Schroeder Research Group, Boyce Thompson Institute, and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University
Title: "Worm chemical biology: Lessons from small molecules"
Host: Volker Vogt
http://www.bti.cornell.edu/FrankSchroeder.php
May 22, 2009
Siu "Sylvia" Lee
Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics
Cornell University
Title: "Elucidating the molecular determinants of stress responses and aging"
Host: Sylvia Lee
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/ssl29/
May 15, 2009
Yang Shi
Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Harvard University
Title:"Histone Demethylases: mechanism and link to mental retardation"
Host: Sylvia Lee
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/ shi_yang.html
May 8, 2009
Mike Levine
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Title: "Transcriptional precision in the early Drosophila embryo,and heart cell migration in the Ciona tadpole"
Host: Josh Waterfall
http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/GEN/levinem.html
May 1, 2009
Raphael Kopan
Department of Developmental Biology
Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine
Title: "Redundancy in Notch signaling: quality or quantity?"
Host: Doina Tumbar
http://molecool.wustl.edu/Kopan.html
April 24, 2009
Evan Eichler
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington
Title: "Evolution and the Impact of Segmental Duplications"
Host: Dan Barbash
http://eichlerlab.gs.washington.edu/
April 20, 2009 (Monday)
The Class of 1942 James B. Sumner Lecture
Sir Alan Fersht, F.R.S., F. Med.Sci
Herchel Smith Professor of Organic Chemistry, Cambridge, UK
Title: "The Tumour Suppressor p53: from Structure to Drug Discovery"
Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall at 4:30 p.m.
Host: George Hess
http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/staff/arf.html
April 21, 2009 (Tuesday)
Sir Alan Fersht, F.R.S., F. Med.Sci
Herchel Smith Professor of Organic Chemistry, Cambridge, UK
Title: "Protein Folding Mechanisms"
G-10 Biotech Building at 4:00 p.m.
Host: George Hess
http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/staff/arf.html
April 17, 2009
Rueyling Lin
Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Title: "Transcriptional Repression in Germline Blastomeres"
Host: Kelly Liu
http://www8.utsouthwestern.edu/findfac
/research/0,2357,31720,00.html
April 10, 2009
Barbara Meyer
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Title: Chromosome counting, repression and segregation
Host: Sarah Zanders
http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/GEN/meyerb.html
April 3, 2009
Harmit Malik
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title: "Genetic conflict: the usual suspects and beyond"
Host: Nick Brideau
http://www.fhcrc.org/science/labs/malik/
March 27, 2009
Jonathan Butcher
Assistant Professor- Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University
Title: "Natural Engineering of the Heart: Developmental Paradigms that are Repeated in Postnatal Disease and Potential for Regenerative Medicine"
Host: bt16@cornell.edu
http://www.butcherlab.com
March 20, 2009
Vivek Malhotra
Centre for Genomic Regulation
Barcelona Spain
Title: "Loading collagen VII into transport carriers: skin biogenesis and metastasis"
Host: Scott Emr
http://pasteur.crg.es/portal/page/portal/Internet
March 13, 2009
Kaveh Ashrafi
UCSF Mission Bay Campus
Title: C. elegans fat and feeding regulatory circuits
Host: Sylvia Lee
http://ashrafilab.ucsf.edu/kashrafi.html
February 27, 2009
Susan Taylor
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, San Diego
Title: PKA: Dynamic Scaffold for Catalysis and Docking
Host: George Hess
http://susantaylorlab.ucsd.edu
February 25, 2009
Dr. David Gresham-MBG SEARCH CANDIDATE
Princeton University
Title: "Physiological and Adaptive Response of Genetic Networks"
Host: Chip Aquadro & John Lis
February 23, 2009
Dr. Andrew Grimson-MBG SEARCH CANDIDATE
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Title: "Animal microRNAs: their ancient origin and contemporary targets"
Host: Chip Aquadro & John Lis
February 18, 2009
Dr. Satoshi Namekawa-MBG SEARCH CANDIDATE
Massachusetts General Hospital
Title: "X-chromosome inactivation: from gamete to embryo"
Host: Chip Aquadro & John Lis
February 13, 2009
Dr. Neal Silverman
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Title: "Inside and Out: Pathogen Recognition and Signal Transduction in the Drosophila Immune Response".
Host: Brian Lazzaro
www.umassmed.edu/igp/faculty/silverman.cfm
February 6, 2009
Dr. Steve Henikoff
Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Basic Science Div
Title: “Histone variant dynamics and epigenetics”
Host: John Schmenti
http://blocks.fhcrc.org/~steveh/
February 5, 2009
Dr. Ting Wang-MBG & BSCB Faculty candidate
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: "Mobile elements shape transcriptional regulatory networks"
Seminar to be held in 226 Weill Hall at 10:00 a.m.
January 30, 2009
Dr. Ted Weinert
Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
University of Arizona
Title: “Repeat Sequences, Dicentrics and Remarkably Cool (to us) Chromosome Instability in Yeast ”
Host: Bik Tye
http://bmcb.biology.arizona.edu/weinert.html
January 23, 2009
Dr. Michael Welte
Department of Biology
University of Rochester
Title: "As the fat flies: Dynamic lipid droplets in Drosophila"
Host: Bill Brown
http://www.rochester.edu/college/bio/
professors/welte.html
December 12, 2008
Dr. Frank Stahl
University of Oregon
Title: "Crossover Interference: the Final Frontier"
Host: Eric Alani
Video Conference
December 5, 2008
Dr. Lorraine Symington
Department of Microbiology
Columbia University
Title: "A two-step mechanism for DNA double-strand break processing"
Host: Eric Alani
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/faculty-data/lorraine-symington/faculty.html
November 21, 2008
Dr. Claire Walczak
Department of Medical Sciences
Indiana University
Title: "Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics and Organization During Mitotic"
Host: Zane Bergman
http://medsci.indiana.edu/medsci/
research/walczak/walczaklab.htm
November 14, 2008
Dr. Rick Morimoto
Department of Biology
Northwestern University
Title: "Stress of Misfolded Proteins in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease"
Host: John Lis/ Sylvia Lee
http://www.biochem.northwestern.
edu/ibis/faculty/morimoto.htm
Novermber 6, 2008
2008 Racker Lecture
Dr. H. Robert Horvitz-MIT
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
8:00 P.M. Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall
Title: "Cell Suicide: Programmed Cell Death in Development and Disease"
Reception to follow
November 7, 2008
MBG Friday Seminar
Dr. H. Robert Horvitz-MIT-2008 Racker Lecturer
12:30 P.M. G-10 Biotech Building
Title:"Genetic Control of Programmed Cell Death In C. Elegans"
Reception at 12:00 P.M. Atrium-outside of G-10
October 31, 2008
Dr. Dmitri Petrov
Department of Biology
Stanford University
Title: "High Rate of Recent Transposable Element-Induced Adaptation in /Drosophila melanogaster"
Host: Chip Aquadro
http://petrov.stanford.edu/
October 24, 2008
Shu-Bing Qian
Nutritional Sciences
Cornell University
Title: "Sensing Nutrients to Growth: the Role of Chaperone Network in mTOR Signaling"
Host: Bik Tye
http://qian.human.cornell.edu
October 17, 2008
Dr. Sabeeha Merchant
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: "Between a rock and a hard place: the cell biology of copper homeostasis"
Host: Maureen Hanson
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/merchant/
October 10, 2008
Dr. Neil Hunter
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of California Davis
Title:
Host: Paula Cohen/ Eric Alani
http://biosci2.ucdavis.edu/BioSci/FacultyAndResearch/DisplayFacultyProfile.cfm?ResearcherID=1771
Ray Wu Memorial Symposium
October 3rd-4th at Cornell University
September 26, 2008
Dr. David Ron
Skirball Institute
NYU School of Medicine
Title: "A physiological perspective on the unfolded protein response"
Host: Linq Qi-Nutritional Sciences
http://saturn.med.nyu.edu/research/mp/ronlab
September 19, 2008
Dr. Eric Siggia
Center for Studies in Physics and Biology
The Rockefeller University
Title:
Host: Bik Tye
http://uqbar.rockefeller.edu/siggia
September 12, 2008
Dr. Su-Ju Lin
Department of Microbiology
University of California-Davis
Title: "Understanding the mechanisms of calorie restriction and life span regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
Host: Sylvia Lee
http://biosci2.ucdavis.edu/BioSci/FacultyAndResearch/DisplayFacultyProfile.cfm?ResearcherID=1843
September 5, 2008
Dr. Nate Sutter
Medical Genetics-College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Title: "Size in Dogs: Using Structured Populations to Map Complex Traits"
Host: Bik Tye
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/faculty/
sutter/research.htm
August 29, 2008
Dr. Amar Klar
Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology laboratory
National Cancer Institute at Frederick
Title: "Asymmetric cell division as a mechanism for human brain laterality, hand preference, psychoses diseases and for mouse visceral laterality development"
Host: Bik Tye
http://ccr.cancer.gov/staff/staff.
asp?profileid=5697
May 23, 2008
Title: "Ligand Interactions and Domain Movements in a G Protein Coupled Receptor"
Fred Naider, College of Staten Island
Host: Scheraga
http://www.csi.cuny.edu/faculty/NAIDER_
FRED.html
May 16, 2008
Title: "Cilia and Hedgehog Signaling"
Kathryn Anderson, Sloan-Kettering Institute
Host: Garcia-Garcia
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/10173.cfm
May 9, 2008
Title: "Regulation of Receptor Trafficking by Rab GTPases"
Suzanne Pfeffer, Stanford
Host: Collins
http://biochemistry.stanford.edu/research/
pfeffer.html
May 2, 2008
Title: "Runx1-CBFß Function in Hematopoiesis and Leukemia"
Nancy Speck, Dartmouth
Host: Tumbar
http://www.cancer.dartmouth.edu/members/
Speck.shtml
April 28, 2008 (Monday, 9:30am, G01 Racker Room)
Title: "Control of Chromosome Morphogenesis by Ubiquitylaton in Meiosis"
Akira Sinohara, Osaka Univeristy
Hosts: Alani & Cornell Replication, Repair and Recombination Group
April 25, 2008
Title: "Hijacking the Ribosome: Translational Control in Viruses and Cells"
Jennifer Doudna, University of California
Host: Ke
http://rna.berkeley.edu/
April 18, 2008
Title: "Genetic Control of Sex-Specific Development and Behavior in C. Elegans"
Paul Sternberg, CALTECH
Host: Liu
http://wormlab.caltech.edu/members/paul.html
April 11, 2008
Title: "Pre-mRNA Splicing as a Control Point for Regulating Gene Expression"
Jeffrey Pleiss, Cornell University
Hosts: Tye & Vogt
http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/cals/mbg/faculty-staff/faculty/pleiss.cfm
April 8, 2008 (Tuesday)
Title: "Resolving a Paradox: The Structural Basis of Protein Folding In Vitro and In Vivo"
Christopher M. Dobson, Unversity of Cambridge
G10 Biotechnology Building at 4:00
Contact: Hess
http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/staff/cmd.html
April 7, 2008 (Monday)
The Class of 1942 James B. Sumner Lecture
Title: "Life on the Edge: The Origins and Proliferation of Protein Misfolding Diseases"
Christopher M. Dobson, Unversity of Cambridge
Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall at 4:30
Contact:Hess
http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/staff/cmd.html
April 4, 2008
Title: "Unfolding the Unfolded Protein Response in Obesity"
Ling Qi, Cornell University
Host: Vogt
http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/DNS/qilab/index.cfm
March 28, 2008
Title: "Epigenetic Regulation of Preimplantation Development and Breast Cancer"
Scott Coonrod, Cornell
Host: Kraus
http://bakerinstitute.vet.cornell.edu/faculty/view.php?id=958
March 21, 2008
Title: "Using Mouse Coat Color Mutants to Explore the Functions of Myosin V in Melanocytes and Neurons"
John Hammer, NIH
Host: Bretscher
http://dir.nhlbi.nih.gov/labs/lcb/mcb/
March 14, 2008
Title: "Chemical Tools for the Study of NAD-Metabolizing Enzyems"
Hening Lin, Cornell University
Host: Vogt
http://www.chem.cornell.edu/faculty/index.asp?fac=63
March 7, 2008
Title: "Transcriptional Control of Pancreatic Development"
Raymond MacDonald, Southwestern Medical Center
Hosts: Lee and Long
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/findfac/research/0,2357,14520,00.html
March 3, 2008 (Monday, Candidate Seminar)
Title: "Host/pathogen Interactions in C. Elegans"
Emily Troemel, Harvard University
Hosts: Emr, Bretscher
February 27, 2008 (Wednesday, Candidate Seminar)
Title: "Insights from a Genetic Disease Affecting Vesicle Coat Protein Assembly"
J. Christopher Fromme, University of California, Berkeley
Hosts: Emr, Bretscher
February 22, 2008
Title: "Macromolecular Assemblies and Conformational Coupling in Bacterial Chemotaxis and Circadian Clock Light Sensing"
Brian Crane, Cornell University
Host: Garcia-Garcia
http://www.chem.cornell.edu/faculty/index.asp?fac=23
February 18, 2008 (Monday, Candidate Seminar)
Title: "A Fluorescence-Based Approach to Examining Mitochondrial Translocon Structure and Dynamics"
Nathan Alder, Texas A & M
Hosts: Emr, Bretscher
February 15, 2008
Title: "Molecular mechanisms of light signaling in Arabidopsis"
Haiyang Wang, Cornell University
Host: Tye
http://www.bti.cornell.edu/HaiyangWang.php
February 1, 2008
Title: "Sorting Out Membrane Traffic: Getting to Know ESCRTs and PIPs"
Scott Emr, Cornell
Host: Tye
http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/cals/mbg/faculty-staff/faculty/emr.cfm
January 25, 2008
Title: "Assembly and Release of Retrovirus Particles"
Paul Bieniasz, AIDS Research Center
Host: Vogt
http://www.adarc.org/research/bieniasz/index.htm
January 18, 2008
Title: "Cytosine Methylation and Epigenetic Variation"
Eric Richards, Washington University, St. Louis
Host: Hanson
http://www.biology.wustl.edu/faculty/FacultyPage.php?IDProf=29
December 13, 2007 (Thursday)
Title: "FRET Nanosensors for Metabolic Flux, Analysis in Bacteria, Fungi, Plants and Animals"
Wolf Frommer
Host: Stern
http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Wolf_Frommer/
December 7, 2007
Title: "Cell-to-Cell Trafficking in Plants: Viruses Touch a Nerve"
Sondra Lazarowitz, Cornell
Host: Hanson
http://www.plantpath.cornell.edu/Directory/Faculty_Info/Lazarowitz.html
November 16, 2007
Title: "Ultrasensitivity, Bistability, and Oscillations in Mitotic Control"
James Ferrell, Stanford
Host: Goldberg
http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/James_Ferrell/
November 9, 2007
Title: "Protein Interactions in Biological Complexity and Disease"
Tony Pawson
Host: Shalloway
http://pawsonlab.mshri.on.ca/
November 8, 2007
Ef Racker Lectures in Biology & Medicine
Title: "Why Science Matters (or How to get a PhD in Two Weeks)"
Tony Pawson
Host: Shalloway
http://pawsonlab.mshri.on.ca/
October 29, 2007 (Monday, Candidate Seminar)
Title: "Mapping the DNA Damage Signaling Network with Quantitative Protemocis"
Marcus Smolka, Ludwig Institute
Host: Emr, Bretscher
October 24, 2007 (Wednesday, Candidate Seminar)
Title: "The Lowe Syndrome Protein OCRL in Early Steps of the Endocytic Pathway"
Yuxin Mao, Yale
Host: Emr, Bretscher
October 22, 2007 (Monday, Candidate Seminar)
Title: "Nucleating Branched Filaments: Structural,
Biochemical and Computational Insights into Actin and Arp2/3 Complex"
Brad Nolen, Yale
Host: Emr, Bretscher
October 18, 2007 (Thursday, Candidate Seminar)
Title: " Redox Pathways for Cellular Disulfide Bond
Formation: Mechanisms, Specificity and Regulation"
Carolyn Sevier, MIT
Host: Emr, Bretscher
October 12, 2007
Title: "Translational Control of Inflammatory Gene Expression"
Paul Fox, Lerner Research Institute
Host: Stover
http://www.lerner.ccf.org/cellbio/fox/
October 5, 2007
Title: "Microfluidics, Microtubules, and Cellular Pattern"
Phong Tran, PENN Medicine
Host: Huffaker
http://www.med.upenn.edu/cellbio/faculty/tran/
September 28, 2007
Title: "The Fidelity of Leading and Lagging Strand DNA Replication"
Thomas Kunkel, NIEHS
Host: Alani
http://dir.niehs.nih.gov/dirlmg/drf/home.htm
September 21, 2007
Title: "Genetic Surveys to Personal Genomes"
Richard Gibbs, Baylor College of Medicine
Host: Bustamante
Siepel
http://imgen.bcm.tmc.edu/molgen/
facultyaz/gibbs.html
September 14, 2007
Title: "Fluorescence-Detected Protein Trafficking Into and Out of the ER"
Arthur Johnson, Texas A & M
Host: Saksena
http://medicine.tamhsc.edu/wwrl/AJ.html
September 7, 2007
Title: "Whole Genome Duplication and the Evolution of Fermentation in Yeast"
Zenglong Gu, Cornell University
Host: Tye
http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/
bio.cfm?netid=zg27
August 31, 2007
Title: "Germ Cell Development and Regeneration in Planarians"
Phil Newmark, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Liu
http://www.life.uiuc.edu/newmark/
May 18, 2007
Title: "Expression Variation and Regulatory Feedback"
Rachel Brem, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Clark
http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/GEN/bremr.html
May 11, 2007
Title: "Regulation in Yeast-An Inconvenient Truth"
Gerald Fink, Whitehead Institute
Host: Tye
http://www.wi.mit.edu/research/faculty/fink.html
May 4, 2007
Title: "Cell-Cell Signaling Through Regulated Proteolysis"
David Rudner, Harvard Medical School
Host: Barbash
http://rudnerlab.med.harvard.edu/
April 27, 2007
Title: "MicroRNAs in Cancer and Aging"
Frank Slack, Yale University
Host: Lee
http://www.mcbd.yale.edu/facultystaff/slack.html
April 20, 2007
Title: "Novel Genomic Approaches Reveal a Nuclear Network Underlying Regulated Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells"
Xian-Dong Fu, University of California San Diego
Host: Lis
http://cmm.ucsd.edu/fu/
April 13, 2007
Title: "The Study of Transcriptional Regulatory Complexes by Quantitative Mass Spectrometry"
Jeff Ranish, NanoSystems Biology Cancer Center
Host: BMCB Graduate Students
http://www.caltechcancer.org/node/61
April 6, 2007
Title: "Signaling Networks in Chemotaxis and Cytokinesis"
Peter Devreotes, John Hopkins University of Medicine
Host: Bretscher
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.rog/cellbio/profiles
/profdisplay.cfm?senduserID=7&
sendpage=directory
March 30, 2007
Title: "A Comprehensive Approach to Muscle Growth"
Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School
Host: Ram
http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/~perrimon/
Special Seminar
Monday, March 26, 2007
Title: "Ultraconserved Nonsense: For an Unusual Mode of Gene Regulation"
Maki Inada, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Aquadro
March 23, 2007
Title: "Sensing metabolic Signals with Nascent RNAs"
Tina Henkin, Ohio State
Host: Ke
http://www.osumicrobiology.org/faculty/thenkin.htm
March 16, 2007
Title: "Vesicle Transport and the Removal of Apoptotic Cells in C. Elegans"
Zheng Zhou, Baylor College of Medicine
Host: Liu
http://www.bcm.edu/cmb/?pmid=2458
March 9, 2007
Title: "Mesodermal cell fate specification and diversification in C. elegans".
Jun Kelly Liu, Cornell University
Host: Kemphues
http://mbg.cornell.edu/cals/mbg/faculty-staff/faculty/liu.cfm
March 2, 2007
Title: "One-Dimensional Diffusion: Visualizing Individual Proteins as They Move on DNA"
Eric Green, Columbia University
Host: Alani
http://cumc.columbia.edu/dept/gsas/biochem/faculty/greene.html
February 23, 2007
Title: "Mechanisms Regulating Lung Development and Repair"
Bridgid Hogan, Duke University Medical Center
Host: Tumbar
February 19, 2007
Title: "Human Ribozymes"
Andrej Luptak, Massachusetts General Hospital
RNA Biology Candidate
Host: Barbash
February 15, 2007 AT 12:30 PM
(POSTPONED 2/14/07 DUE TO UNIVERSITY CLOSING)
Title: "Role of Arginie-Serine-Rich (RS) Domains in Pre-mRNA Splicing"
Haihong Shen, University of Massachusetts Medical School
RNA Biology Candidate
Host: Hanson
February 12, 2007
Title: "Regulation of Gene Expression by Pre-mRNA Splicing in Response to Environmental Stress"
Jeffrey Pleiss, Unversity of California, San Francisco
RNA Biology Candidate
Host: Soloway
February 7, 2007
Title: "Dissecting Dicer: Mechanistic Insights into Gene Silencing by RNAi"
Ian MacRae, University of California, Berkeley
RNA Biology Candidate
Host: Ke
February 5, 2007
Title: "microRNAs in Cancer Biology:
Small RNAs with Big Impact"
Lin He, Cold Spring Harbor
RNA Biology Candidate
Host: Lis
February 2, 2007
Title: "A Mouse with a Dimple: Studying
Gastrulation through ENU Mutagenesis".
Maria Garcia-Garcia, Cornell University
Host: Vogt
http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/cals/mbg/faculty-
staff/faculty/garcia-garcia.cfm
January 26, 2007
Title: "Getting Into Shape: the Role of Shroom Family Proteins in Cellular Architecture and Embryo Morphogenesis"
Jeffrey Hildebrand, University of Pittsburgh
Host: Garcia-Garcia
http://www.pitt.edu/~biohome/Dept/Frame/Faculty/hildebrand.htm
December 8, 2006
Title: "Genomic Analysis of Experimental Evolution in Yeast"
Maitreya Dunham, Princeton University
Host: Fox
http://www.genomics.princeton.edu/dunham/
December 1, 2006
Title: "Egg or Sperm-How's a Mouse to Decide?"
David Page, Whitehead Institute
Host: Flores
http:www.wi.mit.edu/research/faculty/page.html
November 17, 2006
Title: "The Use of a Single Molecule and Genetic Approaches to Study DNA
Mismatch Repair and its Link to Hereditary Forms of Coloreactal Cancer"
Eric Alani, Cornell University
http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/cals/mbg/faculty-
staff/faculty/alani.cfm
November 16, 2006-Cancelled
Racker Lecture
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Director and Professor at Max-Planck-Institut in Germany
Host: David Shalloway & Rick Cerione
November 10, 2006
Title: "Lipid Droplet Associated Proteins and the Control of Triacylglycero Metabolism"
Dawn Brasaemle, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
Host: Brown
http://nutrition.rutgers.edu/faculty/
brasaemle.html
November 3, 2006
Dr. Sarah Elgin
Washington University In St. Louis
Title: "Targeting Heterochromatin Formation and Gene Silencing in Drosphila Melanogaster"
Host: Daniel Barbash
October 27, 2006
Dr. James Goodrich
University of Colorado at Boulder
Title: "The Regulation of Mamalian mRNA Transcription by Noncoding RNA's"
Host: John Lis
October 20, 2006
Dr. Kenneth Marians
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Title: "Mechanisms of Replication Fork Reactivation"
Host: Jeffrey Roberts
October 13, 2006
Dr. Kevin Peterson
Biological Sciences
Dartmouth College
Title: "MicroRNAs and Metazoan Evoluation"
Host: William Crepet
October 6, 2006
Dr. Richard Padgett
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Rutgers University
Title: "Growth Control by TGFB and MicroRNA's"
Host: Kelly Liu
September 29, 2006
Dr. Andrew McCallion
McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Title: "Illuminating the Control of Critical Genes in Development and Disease: learning Lessons from RET and Others"
Host: John Schimenti
September 22, 2006
Adam Siepel
Department of Biological Statistics
and Computational Biology
Cornell University
Title: Searching for Novel Functional Elements in Mamalian Genomes by Comparative Genomics"
Host: Bik Tye
September 15, 2006
Dr. Holger Sondermann
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Title: "Regulation of Cellular Signal Transuction: Son of Sevenless"
Host: Volker Vogt
September 8, 2006
Dr. Lewis Cantley
Department of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School
Title: "Phosphoinositide 3 Kinase and Human Disease"
Host: Richard Cerione and the Provost Office
September 1, 2006
Jason Mezey
Department of Computation Biology
Cornell University
Title: Quantitative Genetics and Modeling of Wing Vein Position in Drosophila"
Host: Bik Tye
May 12, 2006
Dr. Peter Maloney
Department of Physiology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Title: The biology and biophysics of OxlT, a virtual proton pump"
Host: Nadia Drake
May 5, 2006
Dr. Daniel Gottschling
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington
Title: "Nuclear incontinence: The effects of old age on the genome"
Host: Tim Huffaker,
April 28, 2006
Dr. Barbara Funnell
Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology
University of Toronto
Title:"Plasmid and Chromosome Segregation in Bacteria: Architecture pf P1 plasmid partition"
Host: Eric Alani
Jeff Roberts
Joe Peters
Seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Microbiology
April 21, 2006
Dr. Elizabeth Craig
Department of Biochemistry
Washington University
Title: Hsp70 Molecular chaperones: Beyond protein folding"
Host: Heather Lumppio
April 14, 2006
Dr. David Zarkower
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development
University of Minnesota
Title: "Doublesex-related genes and the establishment of sexual Dimorphism"
Host: John Schimenti
April 7, 2006
Dr. Michael Krause
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
National Institutes of Health
Title: "Transcriptional Regulation of myogenesis: Lessons from the worm"
Host: Jun Liu
SEMINAR CANCELLED
March 31, 2006
Dr. Peter Devreotes
Cell Biology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Title: "Signaling networks in chemotaxis and cytokinesis"
Host: Tony Bretscher
March 29, 2006 (Wednesday)
Dr. Jianhua Fu
Molecular Biology & Genetics
Cornell University
Title: "Determining RNA polymerase II-capping enzyme complex structure using a novel approach for large complex crystallography"
Seminar will be held at 3:00 PM in Biotech G10
March 24, 2006
Dr. Blaine Bartholomew
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Southern Illinois University
Title: "ATP-dependent remodeling of chromatin"
Host: Lee Kraus
March 17, 2006
Dr. Michael L. Dustin
Department of Pathology
NYU Medical Center
Title: "Journey to the center of immunological synapse - cell biology of T activation"
Host: Tony Bretscher
March 10, 2006
Dr. Kathleen Gould
Department of Cell Biology
Vanderbilt Medical Center
Title: "Split decisions:regulating cytokinesis in fission yeast"
Host: Tim Huffaker
March 3, 2006
Dr. Shiv Grewal
Chromosome Biology Section
National Cancer Institute
Title: "RNAi-mediated epigenetic control of the genome"
Host: Lee Kraus
February 27, 2006 (Monday)
Dr. Terry Lechler
Rockefeller University
Title:"Layers of Complexity-Morphogenesis of the Skin"
Host:Bill Brown
February 22, 2006(Wednesday)
Dr. Matthew Gibson
Harvard Medical School
Title:"Epithelial Morphogenesis in Drosophila: Pattern, Proliferation and Pascal's Triangle"
Host:Ken Kemphues
February 15, 2006 (Wednesday)
Dr. Alison Frand
Harvard Medical School
Seminar Title: " Functional Genomics of C. elegans Molting"
Host: Sylvia Lee
February 13, 2006(Monday)
Dr. Stefan Westermann
University of California, Berkeley
Title:"Connecting chromosomes to microtubules: Formation of a dynamic Kinetochore Interface inBudding Yeast"
Host:Tim Huffaker
February 10, 2006
Dr. Richard W. Padgett
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Waksman Institute
Title: "Growth control by TGFß and microRNAs"
Host: Jun Liu,
February 8, 2006 (Wednesday)
Dr. Melissa Rolls
University of Oregon
Title: "Investigating neuronal compartmentalization in invertebrate model organisms"
Host:Tony Bretscher
February 6, 2006(Monday)
Dr. Michael Rape
Harvard Medical School
Title:"At the core of the cell cycle: regulation of the anaphase-promoting complex in mitosis and G1"
Host: Mike Goldberg
February 3, 2006
Cancelled
January 27, 2006
Dr. Eddie Holmes
Department of Biology
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
Title: "The molecular evolution and phylodynamics of RNA viruses"
Host: Colin Parrish
January 20, 2006
Dr. Marta L. Wayne
Department of Zoology
University of Florida
Title: "Genetic architecture of gene expression in Drosophila"
Host: Mariana Wolfner
December 16, 2005
Dr. Arne Stenlund
Cancer Research
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Title: How hexameric DNA helicases work - Insights from how a viral helicase is constructed"
Host: Bik Tye
December 9, 2005
Dr. Paula Cohen
Biomedical Sciences
Cornell University
Title: "Mismatch repair proteins in mammalian meiosis"
Host: Eric Alani
December 2, 2005
Dr. Steve Hahn
Basic Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Title: "Structure of the RNA Polymerease II transcription preinitation complex and identification of transcription activator targets withing the Pol II machinery"
Host: John Lis
November 18, 2005
Dr. Leroy Hood
President
Institute for Systems Biology
Title: "Systems Biology: Tramsforming Biology and Medicine
Host: Rick Cerione
November 11, 2005
Dr. Andrew Belmont
Department of Cell and Structural Biology
University of Illinois
Title: "Large-scalechromatin structure and dynamics"
Host: Tudorita Tumbar
Racker Lecture
November 4, 2005
Dr. John Schimenti
Biomedical Sciences
Cornell University
Title: "Molecular genetic analysis of mutations perturbing genome stability and meiotic progression in mice"
Host: Tim Huffaker
October 28, 2005
Dr. David Drubin
Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Title: "Harnessing actin dynamics for endocytic trafficking events"
Host: Tim Huffaker
October 21, 2005
Dr. Gary Ward
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
University of Vermont
Title: "New approaches to studying host cell invasion by the protozoan parasite, Toxoplasma gondii"
Host: Tony Brestcher
October 14, 2005
Dr. Bruce Levin
Department of Biology
Emory University
Title: "Non-inherited Resistance to Antibiotics and the Evolution of Ancestor Killing: a Double Feature"
Host: Todd Schlenke
October 7, 2005
Dr. David Russell
Microbiology and Immunology
Cornell University
Title: "Fatty Acids, phagosomes and tuberculosis"
Host: Tim Huffaker
September 30, 2005
Dr. Daniel Hartl
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
Title: "Selection without adaptation: Finicky proteins and compensatory mutations"
Host: Andy Clark
September 23, 2005
Dr. Sue Lovett
Life Sciences
Brandeis University
Title: "Bacterial G proteins, cell cycle and response to replication fork arrest"
Host: Eric Alani
September 16, 2005
Dr. Peter Walter
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco
Title: "How the endoplasmic reticulum talks to the nucleus"
Host: Tony Brestcher
September 9, 2005
Dr. Charles Barlowe
Department of Chemistry
Dartmouth Medical School
Title: "Mechanisms of protein sorting in the early secretory pathway"
Host: Susan Henry
September 2, 2005
Dr. Daniel Barbash
Molecular Biology & Genetics
Cornell University
Title: "Do genes cause hybrid lethality?"
Host: Tim Huffaker