Regular seminars in Molecular Biology and Genetics are generally given at 4:00 PM on Fridays in G10 Biotechnology Building (large conference room). However, we have quite a few special seminars given on alternate days of the week, please check the date carefully. Seminars that are not held in G10 Biotechnology Building or are at a time other than 4:00 PM will be otherwise noted.

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

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

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 19, 2008
Dr. Eric Siggia
Center for Studies in Physics and Biology
The Rockefeller University
Title:  "Restarting the Cell Cycle, One Cell at a Time”
Host:  Bik Tye
http://uqbar.rockefeller.edu/siggia/

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://www.med.nyu.edu/people/D.Ron.html

October 3, 2008
Ray Wu Symposium

October 10, 2008
Dr. Neil Hunter
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of California Davis
Title:  "Resolving and dissolving Joint Molecules during meiotic recombintion, cos breaking up is hard to do"
Host:  Paula Cohen/ Eric Alani
http://biosci2.ucdavis.edu/BioSci/FacultyAndResearch/DisplayFacultyProfile.cfm?ResearcherID=1771

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 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://www.salk.edu/faculty/faculty_details.php?id=36

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/

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

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

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

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

December 12, 2008
Dr. Frank Stahl
University of Oregon
Title:  "Crossover Interference: the Final Frontier"
Host:  Eric Alani
Video Conference

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

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

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

February 6, 2009
Dr. Steve Henikoff
Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Basic Sciences Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title:  “Histone variant dynamics and epigenetics”
Host:  John Schimenti
http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/henikoff.html 

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
http://www.umassmed.edu/igp/faculty/silverman.cfm

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 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 25, 2009
Dr. David Gresham-MBG SEARCH CANDIDATE
Princeton University
Title:  "Physiological and Adaptive Response of Genetic Networks"
Host:  Chip Aquadro & John Lis

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

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

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 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

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/

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 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 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/

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

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 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 22, 2009
Siu "Sylvia" Lee
Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics
Cornell University
Title:  "Elucidating the Molecular Determinants of Aging"
Host:  Sylvia Lee
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/ssl29/