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Pre-research Seminars - Fall 2007

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

Tuesday, September 4
Michael Sheetz
"Cytoskeleton Force Sensing"

Thursday, September 6
Aaron Mitchell
"Post-genomic analysis of Candida virulence"

Tuesday, September 11
No Seminar Scheduled

Thursday, September 13
(Rosh Hashanah)

Tuesday, September 18
Martin Chalfie
"Touching Worms"

Thursday, September 20
Liz Miller
"Molecular mechanisms of protein traffic from the endoplasmic reticulum"

Tuesday, September 25
Iva Greenwald
"LIN-12/Notch signaling in C. elegans development."

Thursday, September 27
No seminar scheduled

Tuesday, October 2
Ann McDermott
"TBA"

Thursday, October 4
Gary Struhl
Morphogens, pattern and polarity in Drosophila”

 

Tuesday, October 9

Brent Stockwell - (CANCELLED)
"Probing Biology with Small Molecules"

Thursday, October 11
Lawrence Chasin
"Searching for splicing signals in pre-mRNA"

Tuesday, October 16
Richard Vallee
"Motor Protein Function in live Brain, Dividing Cells and In Vitro"

Thursday, October 18
Rodney Rothstein
"Pursuing new pathways in the DNA damage response"

Tuesday, October 23 -
Richard Mann - (CANCELLED)
"TBA"

Thursday, October 25
Jean Gautier - replaced by Carol Prives- review session

Tuesday, October 30
Liang Tong
"Structural studies of fatty acid metabolism and relevance to the obesity epidemic"

Thursday, November 1
Harmen Bussemaker
"Predicting gene regulation networks from the genome sequence"

Tuesday, November 6
* no pre-research seminar (Election Day)

Thursday, November 8
Oliver Hobert
"Gene regulatory networks in neuronal development"

Tuesday, November 13
Dana Pe'er
"genetics meets genomics: genetic variation and regulation"

Thursday, November 15
Tulle Hazelrigg
"Eggless, a Drosophila Histone Methyltransferase Required for Oogenesis"

Tuesday, November 20
Daniel Kalderon
"Hedgehog Signaling and Stem Cells studied in Drosophila"

Thursday, November 22
*no pre-research seminar (Thanksgiving Day)

Tuesday, November 27
Jian Yang
"Calcium gate keepers: from structure to diseases"

Thursday, November 29
Christian Schindler
"Interferons and innate immunity"

Tuesday, December 4
Songtao Jia
"Histone modification and epigenetic control of the genome"

Thursday, December 6
No Seminar

Tuesday, December 11 *(study days)
John Hunt
"Inverse structure-function studies"

Thursday, December 13 (study days)
Darcy Kelley
"Molecular alphabets for sexual differentiation of nerve and muscle cells"

Tuesday, December 18
*no pre-research seminar (Final Exams)

 

 

 

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