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Pre-research Seminars - Fall 2011

Pre-research Seminars

Pre-research seminars occur in the Fall semester on Tuesdays & Thursdays, at 6 pm, room 800 Fairchild Center. Duration: about 45 minutes to one hour. Pizza or sandwiches will be provided for the class and faculty speaker.

September

Tuesday, September 6
Debby Mowshowitz
(10 minutes)

&
Michael Sheetz
"Mechanical control of cell function"

Thursday, September 8
Rafael Yuste
"Imaging the structure and function of neocortical circuits"

Tuesday, September 13
Christian Schindler
"Interfering with Interferons"


Thursday, September 15
Martin Chalfie
"Touching Worms"

Tuesday, September 20
Darcy Kelley

"
Models systems: why and what"

Thursday, September 22
Oliver Hobert
"How to make neurons"
 

Tuesday, September 27
Rodney Rothstein

"Choreography of the DNA damage response"


Thursday, September 29 
Lars Dietrich
"Bacterial Multicellularity"

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October

Tuesday, October 4
Jean Gautier



Thursday, October 6
Richard Vallee
"Motors on the Move"



Tuesday, October 11
Iva Greenwald
"LIN-12/Notch signaling in development and disease"

Thursday, October 13
Richard Mann



Tuesday, October 18
Stephen Goff
"Retrovirus Replication and Restriction"


Thursday, October 20
Virginia Papaioannou
"T-box genes in mouse development"
 

Tuesday, October 25
Harmen Bussemaker
"Dissecting protein-DNA recognition using high throughput sequencing"

Thursday, October 27
Lawrence Chasin - CANCELED
"Exon recognition pre-mRNA splicing"

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November

Tuesday, November 1
Carol Prives
"Lessons learned from studying the p53 tumor"

Thursday, November 3
Andrea Califano

 

Tuesday, November 8 - (Election Day)
Lawrence Chasin
- RESCHEDULED
"High throughput mutational genetics"


Thursday, November 10
Daniel Kalderon
"Exploring stem cell regulation in Drosophila"


Tuesday, November 15
Songtao Jia
"CSI:NY-Keeping chromosome segregation in order"

Thursday, November 17
Jian Yang
"Ion channels from structure to disease"


Tuesday, November 22
Eric Greene
"High throughput single molecule imaging of protein-DNA interactions"

Thursday, November 24 - no pre-research seminar (Thanksgiving Day)

 

Tuesday, November 29
John Hunt

 

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December

Thursday, December 1
Joachim Frank
"The dynamics of translation"

Tuesday, December 6
Jonathan Dworkin
"Signaling through Ser/Thr phosphorylation in bacteria"

Thursday, December 8
Julio Fernandez
"Single Protein Biochemistry"


Tuesday, December 13 (study day) 
Ozgur Sahin
"Mechanics of biological systems: Imaging, modeling, and applications"

Thursday, December 15 - (study day) available

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