Departmental Seminar Series

 

FALL 2002

  September                October                November                December

 

SPRING 2003

January                February                March                April                May                June

 

 

 

 

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Seminars in Biotechnology


College of Physicians and Surgeons
Seminar Schedule

Neurolunch

Wednesdays
4:10PM
700 Fairchild

 

 

Tuesdays
12:00PM
800 Fairchild

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 2002

Monday
September
9
12:00 p.m.

Tso-Pang Yao
Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Duke University

The unorthodox HDACs: New roles for reversible acetylation in regulation protein stability, tumor suppressor activity, and cytoskeleton organization

Rescheduled: November 20

Monday
September 16
12:00 p.m.

Diana Murray
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Computer models of phoshoinositide signaling and retroviral assembly

Wednesday
September 18
12:00 p.m.

Kevin O’Hare
Imperial College London

What can Drosophila tell us about mRNA 3' end formation?

Monday
September 23
12:00 p.m.

Cornelis Murre
Biological Sciences

UCSD

Regulation and Function of Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins in Lymphocyte Development
Wednesday
September 25
12:00 p.m.

Janet Larkin
Biological Sciences

Barnard College

The Role of Rab3D in Hepatocyte Transcytosis
Thursday
September 26
12:00 p.m.

Leslie Orgel
The Salk Institute

The RNA World and the Origin of Life
Monday
September 30
12:00 p.m.

Chris Schindler
Microbiology & Medicine

Columbia University

Interferons and Cytokine Signaling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 2002

Monday
October
7
12:00 p.m.

Haifan Lin
Cell Biology
Duke University Medical Center

Self-renewing mechanisms of stem cells in the germline

Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center

Wednesday

October 9

12:00 p.m.

Scheutze Memorial Lecture:
Jeremy Nathans

The frizzled family of Wnt receptors 

Monday
October 14
12:00 p.m.

John Petrini
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Genetic Analysis of the DNA Damage Response

Monday

October 21

 12:00 p.m.

Michael O’Donnell
DNA Replication
The Rockefeller University
Structure of a Replicating Machine and its Dynamics during Chromosome Duplication

Wednesday

October 23

 12:00 p.m.

Jerry Hurwitz
Molecular Biology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Studies of Eukaryothic DNA Replication

Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center

Monday

October 28

 12:00 p.m.

Jesup Lecture:
Lucy Shapiro
 Developmental Biology
Stanford University of Medicine
The Cell Cycle: Spatial and Temporal Control of a Multicomponent Genetic Network

Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center

Tuesday

October 29

12:00 p.m.

Jesup Lecture:
Lucy Shapiro
Developmental Biology
Stanford University of Medicine
The Control of Asymmetry and Cell Differentiation During the Cell Cycle

 

 

 

 

November 2002

Monday
November 4
12:00 p.m.

Gustavo Leone
Molecular Virology, Immunology & Medical Genetics
Ohio State University
Tumor Suppressor and Oncogene Networks in the Placenta

Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center

Monday
November 11
4:00 p.m.

Holtzman Memorial Lecture:
John Sulston
The Wellcome Trust
Sanger Institute, UK

The Common Thread

Monday

November 18

4:00 p.m.

Jeremy Luban
Microbiology
Columbia University

Cyclophilin A Function in HIV-1 and in CD4+ T Cells

Wednesday
November 20
12:00 p.m.

Diana Murray
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Computer models of phoshoinositide signaling and retroviral assembly

Monday
November 25
12:00 p.m.

Ken Miller
Physiology
UCSF

A model of the input-recipient layer of cat primary visual cortex: Circuitry and development

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 2002

Monday

December 2
12:00 p.m.

Elizabeth Grove
Neurobiology, Pharmacology, & Physiology
University of Chicago

Generating the area map in the cerebral cortex

Monday

December 9
12:00 p.m.

Joshua Trachtenberg
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Through the looking glass:

Direct observations of synaptic dynamics in the living brain

Wednesday

December 11
12:00 p.m.

Charles Greer
Yale University Medical School

Early Development in the Olfactory Pathway

Rescheduled: May 19
Monday
December 16
12:00 p.m.

Fred Winston
Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Analysis of large coactivator complexes that control transcription and chromatin in yeast

 

 

 

 

 

January 2003

Monday

January 20
12:00 p.m.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

No seminar

Monday

January 27
12:00 p.m.

David Ferster

Neurobiology & Physiology
Northwestern University

Assembly of Receptive Fields in Cat Visual Cortex

 

 

 

 

 

February 2002

Monday

February 3
12:00 p.m.

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Cell Biology & Metabolism Branch
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, NIH

In vivo analysis of protein trafficking through the Golgi apparatus: Evidence for a mass action process involving cargo-based membrane partitioning

To Be Rescheduled
Monday

February 10
12:00 p.m.

Laura Landweber

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University

From scrambled genes to altered codes: Microbial diversity and perversity in ciliates

To Be Rescheduled
Monday

February 17
12:00 p.m.

Louis Brus
Chemistry
Columbia University

Nanocrystals and nanotubes

Monday

February 24
12:00 p.m.

Charles Wilson
Biology
University of Texas at San Antonio

Cholinergic Interneurons in the Striatum:

Why do they fire like they do?

 

 

 

 

 

March 2003

 Monday

March 3
12:00 p.m.

John Ngai
Molecular & Cell Biology

Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
University of California, Berkeley

Gene Expression Profiling in the Developing Central Nervous System

 Wednesday

March 5
12:00 p.m.

 Michael Levine
Cell & Developmental Biology
U.C. Berkeley

Gene networks governing dorsal-ventral patterning in the Drosophila embryo and notochord differentiation in the Ciona tadpole

 Monday

March 10
12:00 p.m.

 Salih Wakil
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine

The role of Acetyl CoA Carboxylases 1 and 2 on lipid metabolism and energy homeostasis

 Monday
March 17
12:00 p.m.

 Robert T. Sauer
Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Energy-Dependent Protein Degradation

 Monday

March 24
12:00 p.m.

Benjamin G. Neel
Cancer Biology Program

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Tyrosine Phosphatases and their Binding Proteins in Health & Disease

 Monday
March 31
12:00 p.m.

Alan Verkman
Medicine & Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute

University of California-San Francisco

Solute diffusion and interactions in cells measured by light microscopes

 

 

 

 

April 2003

Monday

April 7
12:00 p.m.

Eduardo Perozo
Molecular Physiology & Biological Sciences
University of Virginia

The Mechanics of Mechanosensitive Channel Gating

Monday

April 14
12:00 p.m.

 Primal de Lanerolle
Physiology
University of Illinois at Chicago

Destabilizing the cytoskeleton induces apoptosis:
 In vitro and in vivo studies

Monday

April 21
12:00 p.m.

 Rick Aldrich
Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Stanford University School Of Medicine

Mechanisms of gating in calcium activated potassium channels

Monday

April 28
12:00 p.m.

Bonnie Brassler
Molecular Biology
Princeton University

 Small Talk: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria

 

 

 

 

May 2003

Monday

May 5
12:00 p.m.

Paul Feinstein

 TBA

Monday

May 12
12:00 p.m.

 John Burke
University of Vermont

Hairpin and hammerhead ribozymes: Structure and catalysis

Monday

May 19
12:00 p.m.

Fred Winston

Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Analysis of large coactivator complexes that control transcription and chromatin structure in yeast

 

 

 

 

June 2003

Monday

June 9
12:00 p.m.

William Bialek

 TBA

Wednesday

June 18
12:00 p.m.

 Takao Hensch

 TBA

 

 

All seminars are held in 700 Fairchild, unless otherwise noted.
Please call (212)854-4581 with any questions.
For directions to our building, please see the Campus Map.

 

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