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Pre-research Seminars - Fall 2009

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.

Directory of Classes Course listing: Biol G9301

 

September

Thursday, September 10
Songtao Jia
"Epigenetic control of genome organization"

Tuesday, September 15
Darcy Kelley
"Defining gene networks for vocal communication"

Thursday, September 17
Christian Schindler
"Interferons, Macrophages & Innate Immunity"

Tuesday, September 22
Richard Mann
"Analyzing animal development at high resolution"

Thursday, September 24
Jean Gautier
"Maintenance of genome integrity"

Tuesday, September 29
Martin Chalfie
"Neuronal differentiation and function in C. elegans"

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October

Thursday, October 1
Jian Yang
"Ion channels: from structure to disease"

Tuesday, October 6
Harmen Bussemaker
"Building quantitative models of gene expression regulation using high-throughput functional genomics data"

Thursday, October 8
Eric Greene
"Visualizing Protein-DNA interactions with single molecule optical microscopy"


Tuesday, October 13
Lawrence Chasin
"The splicing code"

Thursday, October 15
Richard Vallee
"Live brain and single molecule imaging to discover the role of LIS1 in cytoplasmic dynein regulation"

 
Tuesday, October 20
Elizabeth Miller

"The art and design of intracellular traffic: sculpting a transport vesicle
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Thursday, October 22
Rodney Rothstein
"Exploring cellular processes in budding yeast"

Tuesday, October 27 - no seminar scheduled

Thursday, October 29   
John Hunt -- postponed until Nov 24
"Biophysics as a tool for discovery biology"

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November

Tuesday, November 3 - no pre-research seminar (Election Day)

Thursday, November 5
Daniel Kalderon
"Cell Signaling in Drosophila: (1) Hedgehog Signaling and (2) Stem Cell regulation"

Tuesday, November 10
Thomas Jessell
"Circuits for Motor Control"

Thursday, November 12
Oliver Hobert
"Making and breaking dopamine neurons"


Tuesday, November 17 - no pre-research seminar (Horwitz Prize lectures)

Thursday, November 19
Lorraine Symington
"Mechanisms of double-strand break repair"


Tuesday, November 24
John Hunt 
"Biophysics as a tool for discovery biology"

Thursday, November 26 - no pre-research seminar (Thanksgiving Day)

 

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December

Tuesday, December 1
Iva Greenwald
"LIN-12/Notch signaling in C. elegans"

Thursday, December 3
James Manley

"mRNA processing and links to disease"

Tuesday, December 8

Thursday, December 10

Tuesday, December 15 - (study day)

Thursday, December 17 - no pre-research seminar (final examinations)

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