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Pre-research Seminars - Fall 2012

Pre-research Seminars

Pre-research seminars occur in the Fall semester on Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:10 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 4
Brent Stockwell
"Probing Cell Death with Small Molecules"

Thursday, September 6
Lars Dietrich
"Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms"

Tuesday, September 11
Christian Schindler
"Interfering with Immunity"


Thursday, September 13
Michael Sheetz
"Cell Mechanosensing of its Microenvironment"

Tuesday, September 18 - Rosh Hashanah
Richard Mann
"Fly development"



Thursday, September 20
(no pre-research seminar scheduled)

Tuesday, September 25 - Yom Kippur
Lorraine Symington
"DNA end processing and repair pathway choice"

Thursday, September 27
Richard Vallee
"Motor Proteins in Live Brain and Elsewhere"

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October

Tuesday, October 2
Jean Gautier
"Maintenance of genomic stability"


Thursday, October 4
Songtao Jia
"Epigenetic regulation of the genome"


Tuesday, October 9 - no pre-research seminar
Andrea Califano - postponed to December 11


Thursday, October 11
Virginia Papaioannou
"T-box genes in early mouse development"


Tuesday, October 16
Lawrence Chasin
"Sequence information for splicing"


Thursday, October 18
Jian Yang
"Ion channels: from structure to disease"


Tuesday, October 23
Harmen Bussemaker
"Dissecting protein-DNA recognition using high-throughput sequencing data"
 

Thursday, October 25
Rodney Rothstein
"Choreography of the DNA damage response"

Tuesday, October 30
Elizabeth Miller - postponed to November 29

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November

Thursday, November 1
Ozgur Sahin
"Imaging and modeling biology at physical extremes"

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


Thursday, November 8
John Hunt - Rescheduled from November 29!
"Adventures in experimental biophysics"


Tuesday, November 13
Iva Greenwald  - Canceled
"Cell signaling and cell fate in C. elegans"


Thursday, November 15
Art Palmer
"Protein Dynamics from NMR Spectroscopy & MD Simulation"

Tuesday, November 20
Gary Struhl
"Generating and interpreting spatial information in Drosophila"


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

Tuesday, November 27
Martin Chalfie

Thursday, November 29
 Elizabeth Miller - Canceled. First years must attend Liz Miller's Department Seminar at noon on Wed 11/28/12.

 

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December

Tuesday, December 4
Daniel Kalderon
"Studying stem cells in Drosophila"

 

Thursday, December 6
Liang Tong
"mRNA processing, degradation and quality control in eukaryotes"

 

Tuesday, December 11 (Study day)
Andrea Califano
"Everything you wanted to know about systems biology but were afraid to ask"

 

Thursday, December 13 (Study day) - Rescheduled from November 13!
Richard Baer
"Tumor suppression and hereditary breast cancer"

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