Past Seminars

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Fall 2007
Time Place Seminar Details Faculty
Host
Thurs
Aug 2
10:00 am
1220
MRB III
Matthew Michael, Ph.D.  Harvard University, Associate Professor Ellen Fanning

Spring 2007
Time
Place
Seminar Details
Faculty Host
Thurs
Jan 18th
4:10 pm

1220
MRB III

Liangbiao Zheng, Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine. Title: Innate immunity in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae

Vector Biology Faculty Candidate

Thurs
Jan 25th
4:10 pm

1220
MRB III

Hong Ji (RIP) Friedman Lab. Title: Regulation of Telomere Length by an N-terminal Region of Yeast Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase (TERT)

 
Friday
Jan 26th
2:00 pm
3131 MRB III Chunyue Yin Solnica-Krezel Lab. Dissertation defense. Title: Essential Roles of Convergence and Extension Gastrulation Movements in Zebrafish Somite Development  
Thurs
Feb 1st
4:10 pm
1220 MRB III Julian Hillyer, Ph.D. University of Minnesota, NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Post-Doctoral Fellow. Title: Host-pathogen interactions in the mosquito hemocoel Vector Biology Faculty Candidate
Thurs
Feb 8th
4:10 pm
1220 MRB III Eric Calvo, Ph.D. NIH/NIAID, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research Title: Functional Transcriptomics Reveals the Biochemical Complexity of Mosquito Salivary Glands Vector Biology Faculty Candidate
Thurs
Feb 15th
4:10 pm
1220 MRB III Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz, DVM, PhD. University of Wyoming, Department of Molecular Biology. Title: Gene and Genome Evolution of Bloodsucking Hexapoda Vector Biology Faculty Candidate
Thurs
Feb 22nd 4:10 pm
1220 MRB III Dmitri Boudko, Ph.D. University of Florida, The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience. Title: Molecular basis of nutrient transporters in disease vector mosquitoes Vector Biology Faculty Candidate
Thurs
Mar 1st
4:10 pm
4309
SC
Scott Thompson, Ph.D. University of Maryland, Department of Physiology. Title: Illuminating dendritic integration and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus with photolysis Donna Webb
Thurs
Mar 8th
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Hubert Amrein, Ph.D. Duke University, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies. Title: Perception of pheromones and their intrinsic sex-specific processing in CNS of Drosophila Larry Zwiebel
Thurs
Mar 15th
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Vanessa Auld University of British Columbia, Life Sciences Institute, Department of Zoology/CMD. Title: Should I stay or should I go now? Dynamic and static glia during nervous system development Bruce Appel
Wednesday
Mar 21st
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Amir Ayali, Ph.D. Tel Aviv University, Department of Zoology.  Title:  From single neurons in culture to the behaving animal:  A quest for general motifs in neuronal systems' form and function Willi Honegger
Thursday
March 29th
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
David Toczyski, Ph.D. UC San Francisco.  Title:  Ubiquitin ligases and checkpoint activation Kathy Friedman
Thursday
April 5th
4:10 pm
1220  MRB III Cecelia B. Moens, Ph.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, HHMI Investigator.  Title:  A necessary evil:  how vertebrate embryos use and control retinoic acid to generate spatial pattern Denise Zannino
Thursday
April 12th
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Jean Gautier, Ph.D. Columbia University, Associate Professor, Genetics and Development.  Title:  Maintenance of genome stability during S-phase Daniel Kaplan
Wednesday
April 25th
4:10 pm
4307
SC
Cliff Tabin Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics Title: Development and evolution of vertebrate morphology Josh Gamse
Thursday
April 26th
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Xin-Xin Zeng (RIP) Solnica-Krezel Lab.  Title:   Signaling by Chemokine Apelin in Early Zebrafish Development  
Thursday
May 3rd
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Todd Reynolds, Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Assistant Professor of Microbiology.  Title:  Control of yeast multicellular behavior by surface-associated environmental cues Todd Graham
Thursday
May 17th
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Catherine E. Krull, Ph.D. University of Michigan, Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology. Title: Axon guidance in the periphery Bruce Appel
Thursday
May 24th
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Richard Dorsky, Ph.D. University of Utah, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy. Title: Coordinating neurogenesis? Targets of Wnt and Tcf in the zebrafish CNS GSA
Thursday
May 31st
4:10 pm
1220
MRB III
Robert Fischer, Ph.D. UC Berkeley, Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology.  Title:  Regulation of gene imprinting by DNA demethylation in Arabidopsis Brandt Eichman

Fall, 2006
Time
Place Seminar Details Faculty Host
Thurs Aug
31st
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Daniel Funk, Ph.D. Professor Vanderbilt University  Title: "Approaches to the study of ecological specialization and ecological speciation: leaf beetles and beyond" Singleton
Thurs Sept
7th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Ashleigh Long (RIP)
Title: "Characterization of Novel Synaptic Loci in Drosophila"

Broadie Lab
Thurs Sept
14th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Peter Narins, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles.  Title: Exploring Sensory Adaptations: Adventures of an Expeditionary  Biologist
Willi Honegger
Thurs Sept
21st
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Jeffrey E. Segall, Ph.D.  Professor Albert Einstein College of Medicine.   Title: "The Role of EGF receptor family members in tumor cell  metastasis?"
Chang Y. Chung
Thurs Oct
5th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Jennifer Osterhage (RIP)
Title: "Examining the Regulation of Telomerase Assembly in Yeast"

Friedman Lab
Thurs Oct
12th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Brigid Hogan, Ph.D. Duke University, Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biology.  Title: “Genetics of lung development and repair” Lilianna Solnica-Krezel
Thurs Oct
19th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Jeremy Thorner, Ph.D. UC Berkeley, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology  Title: "DEP domains in signaling proteins: What are they and what do they do?" Todd Graham
Thurs Nov
2nd
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Warren Abrahamson, Ph.D.   Bucknell University Title:  "Sequential Radiation Through Host-race Formation: Herbivore Differentiation Leads to Differentiation of a Natural Enemy" Patrick Abbot
Thurs Nov
9th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Eric Greene, Ph.D. Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Physics at Columbia University in NY.  Title: "Visualizing DNA repair proteins in action" Chris Janetopoulos
Thurs Nov
16th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
David Pearson, Ph.D. Arizona State University
Title: “Are We Doomed to Repeat History?: A Model of the Past Using Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) and Conservation Biology to  Anticipate the Future”
Dan Duran
Mon Nov 27th
4:10pm  
1220 MRB III Faculty Search (Tim Cooper, Ph.D.) University of Auckland, NZ  Title: “Experimental evolution: A window into the mechanics of adaptation. Daniel Funk
Thurs Nov
30th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Karen McFarland (RIP)  Title: “New roles for old friends: Hedgehog and Wnt pattern the zebrafish cerebellum" Bruce Appel
Mon
Dec 4th
4:10 pm
1220 MRB III Faculty Search (Natasha Mehdiabadi, Ph.D.)  Rice University.  Title:  "Cooperation and Conflict in Social Microbes" Daniel Funk
Thurs
Dec 7th
4:10 pm
1220 MRB III Faculty Search (Thane Papke, Ph.D)  Genome Atlantic & Dalhousie University.  Title:  "Salt, sex, space, and species:  insights into the evolution of haloarchaea" Daniel Funk
Thurs
Dec 14th
2:00 pm
1220 MRB III Mary Baylies, Ph.D.  Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University.  Title:  "Making Muscle in Flies and Mammals:  Remodeling of the Actin Cytoskeleton is Required for Myoblast Fusion" Kendal Broadie
Thurs
Dec 14th
4:10 pm
1220 MRB III Faculty Search (Antonis Rokas, Ph.D.)  Harvard.  Title:  "Genomes, Trees and Traits:  Elucidating the Origin and Evolution of Fungi and Animals through Comparative Genomics" Daniel Funk
Mon
Dec 18th
12 noon
1220 MRB III Tetsuya Mori, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Charles Singleton
Thurs
Dec 21st
4:10 pm
1220 MRB III "Faculty Search" Charles Singleton
Thurs
Dec 28th
4:10 pm
1220 MRB III
"Faculty Search"
Charles Singleton

Spring, 2006
Time Place Seminar Details Faculty Host
Thurs Jan
19th,
4:10pm
1220
MRB II
Jing Xiao R.I.P. Vanderbilt, "Domain Analysis of Swa2p/Auxilin, a Co-Chaperone with Hsc70 in Regulating Clathrin Dynamics In Vivo" Doug McMahon
Thurs Jan
26th,
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Diane Sepich R.I.P. “Cellular and genetic bases of gastrulation in zebrafish” Doug McMahon
Thurs Feb
2nd,
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Samer Hattar Ph.D. Asst Prof, Johns Hopkins University.  "Role of retinal photoreceptors in non-image forming visual functions". Chris Janetoloulos
Thurs Feb 9th,
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Michael Adams Ph.D. University of California Riverside. "An Innate Behavior Programmed by Sequential Recuitment of Peptidergic Ensembles" Hans-Willi Honegger
Thurs Feb
16th,
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Randall Reiserer Ph.D. Vanderbilt Dept. of Pharmacology " Feeding Mimicry Drives the Evolution of Extreme Trophic Adaptations" Doug McMahon
Thurs Feb
23rd,
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Patrick Nosil Simon Fraser University
"Unresolved questions in the ecology of speciation"
Daniel Funk
Thurs Mar
2nd,
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Kefyn M. Catley Ph.D. Vanderbilt University
“So, you think your students understand evolution?
Adventures assessing undergraduates' knowledge and reasoning skills.”
Doug McMahon
Thurs Mar
16th,
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
 Luyuan Pan R.I.P. Vanderbilt University “Drosophila As a Model to Study the Cellular and Molecular Mechanism of Fragile X Syndrome” Doug McMahon
Thurs Mar
23rd,
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Christopher Colwell Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry, Univ of California, L.A. "Neuropeptides and Cellular Communication within the  Mammalian Circadian System" Doug McMahon
Fri Mar
24th,
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Robert Kelsh Ph.D. Univ of Bath,  “Sox10 and zebrafish neural crest development: conserved or controversial?” Bruce Appel
Thurs Mar
30th,
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Shane Hutson Ph.D. Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt Univ.  "Of Flies and Physics (and maybe a  little scientific philosophy)" Larry Zwiebel
Thur Apr
6th,
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Eric Weinberg Ph.D. Professor, Dept of Biology, Univ of Pennsylvania
"Dorsoventral Pattern generation in the zebrafish embryo"
Lilianna Solnica-Krezel
Thur Apr
13th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
(KEES) -Cornelis J. Weijer Ph.D. Professor, Univ of Dundee "Chemotactic cell movement during Dictyostelium morphogenesis and gastrulation in the chick embryo" Chris Janetopoulos
Thur Apr
20th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Hanjian Liu R.I.P. Vanderbilt University
“Human DNA Helicase B, a New Factor in DNA Damage Repair and Signaling”
 
Thur Apr
27th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Vivian Budnik Ph.D. Dept of Neurobiology, Univ of Massachusetts "GRIPping synapse formation through the Wingless pathway" Kendal Broadie
Thur May
4th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Matthew Redinbo, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Combating Antibiotic Resistance using Structural and Chemical Biology"
Brandt Eichman
Thurs May
11th
2:00pm
1220
MRB III
Leo Pallanck Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of Washington.
"Using fruit flies to understand Parkinson's disease"
Kendal Broadie
Thur May
18th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Ian Hawkins R.I.P. "Splicing Regulation
 by a Novel SR Family Member: SRrp86"
Patton Lab
Thur May
25th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Chantal Autexier Ph.D. McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
"Telomerase and telomere integrity dysfunction in cancer and aging"
Kathy Friedman


Fall, 2005
Time
Place
Seminar Details
Faculty Host
Thurs Aug
25th
4:10pm
1220
BSB/
MRB III
David Featherstone, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago. "Molecular Dissection of a Kiss: Synapse Formation and Other Tales of Romance"
Kendal
Broadie
Thurs Sept
1st
4:10pm
1220
BSB/
MRB III
Hae Chul Park, Research Associate, Biological Sciences Vanderbilt "Regulation of neural precursor specification in ventral spinal cord"
Bruce Appel
Fri Sept
9th
2:00pm
1220
BSB/
MRB III
"Dissertation Defense" Nicholas Trotta, Biological Sciences Vanderbilt Kendal Broadie
Thurs Sept
8th
4:10pm
1220
BSB/
MRB III
"Research in Progress" Fude Huang
(Broadie Lab)
Doug McMahon
Wed Sept 14th
1:40pm
1220
BSB/
MRB III
Ken Catania, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Vanderbilt, "General Principles from Specialized Species: What Star-Nosed Moles tell us about Brains, Behavior, and Evolution"  
Wed Sept
21st
4:10pm
  1220
BSB/
MRB III
Ian Billick, Director, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory "Understanding an ant-treehopper mutualism: What can current ecology tell us about origin of mutualisms?" Patrick
Abbot
Thurs Sept
22nd
4:10pm
1220
BSB/
MRB III
Hyung-Wook Kwon, Postdoc
(Zwiebel Lab)
Doug McMahon
Thurs Sept
29th
4:10pm
1220
BSB/
MRB III
Doug Cyr, Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine Todd
Graham
Thurs Oct
6th
1:45pm
1220
BSB/
MRB III
Phillip B. Carpenter, Assistant Professor, Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of
Texas-Houston Medical School
Ellen
Fanning
Thurs Oct 6th
4:10pm
1220
BSB/
MRB III
Shingo Fujii, Centre National De La Recherche
Scientifique, France. "Reconstitution of TransLesion DNA
Synthesis In Vitro"
Ellen Fanning
Thurs Oct
13th
4:10pm
1220
BSB/
MRB III
"Research in Progress" Jimann Shin, (Appel Lab)
"Analysis of ventral neural precursor specification in zebrafish"
Doug McMahon
Thurs Oct
20th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Hassane Mchaourab, Vanderbilt University
"Watching Multidrug Transporters Work"
Carl Johnson
Thurs Oct 27th, 4:10pm 1220  MRB III Edward A. Kravitz, George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.
"Genetic manipulations in the fruit fly fight club"
Willi Honegger
Thurs Nov
3rd
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Kathleen Whitlock, Assistant Professor, Developmental Biology, Cornell University Josh Gamse
Thurs Nov
3rd
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Kathleen Whitlock, Assistant Professor, Developmental Biology, Cornell University Josh Gamse
Fri Nov
4th
2:10pm
1220
MRB III
Jeffrey Rohrbough, Research Associate Prof
Broadie Lab
Doug
McMahon
Mon Nov
7th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
Todd Graham, Associate Professor/Director of Graduate Studies. Vanderbilt University  
Thurs Nov
10th
4:10pm
1220
MRB III
"Research in Progress" Chunyue Yin
(Solnica-Krezel Lab)
Doug McMahon
       

Spring, 2005
Thur
Jan 6th,
4:10pm
1220 BSB/ MRB III         “Fission yeast cytokinesis: Formin’ actin filaments de novo that can not be capped”.
David Kovar, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, Yale University
Charles Singleton
Thur Jan 20th,
4:10pm
1220 BSB/ MRB III "The Clathrin Coat: Not a Straitjacket!"
Sherri Newmyer,Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
Charles Singleton
Mon Jan 24th,
4:10pm
1220 BSB/ MRB III "Polarity Circuits in Migrating and Dividing Cells"  Chris Janetopoulos, Ph.D., Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Charles Singleton
Thurs,  Jan 27th
1220 BSB/ MRB III
12:15pm“Developmental Neurogenetics in Zebrafish: Cell Specification in the Dopaminergic and Noradrenergic Systems.” presented by Wolfgang Driever, Hans Spemann Professor of Developmental Biology, Freiburg University, Germany.

1:30 pm: "A Novel Role for DNA Ligase IV in Telomere Maintenance and End Protection in Arabidopsis thaliana." Rachel Idol,Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, Ph.D.
Sponsored by the Department of Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology Program and Fish Initiative




Ellen Fanning
Wed, Feb 2nd,
1:30pm
1220 BSB/ MRB III "RanGTPase and rebuilding the Nuclear Envelope."
Iain Mattaj  Ph.D., FRS
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, GERMANY
Larry Zwiebel
Thurs Feb 17th, 4:10pm
1220 BSB/ MRB III “Conotoxins: From Venomous Snails to Ion Channel Function”
Baldomero Olivera, Ph.D., Department of Biology, University of Utah
Willi Honegger, Kendal  Broadie
Thurs Feb 24th, 4:10pm 1220 BSB/ MRB III Research In Progress Seminar: “Chromatin organization at a mammalian origin of DNA replication”
Steven J. Gray (Fanning Lab), Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University

Todd Graham
Thurs March 10th
2:00 pm
1220 BSB/ MRB III  “Altered endocytic trafficking in sphingolipid storage diseases: Role of stored cholesterol and its effect on selected Rab proteins” Richard E. Pagano,Ph.D. Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine
Kendal Broadie
Fri March 11th
11:00am

1220 BSB/ MRB III “Characterization of spontaneous Pol zeta-dependent mutagenesis in budding yeast” Brenda Minesinger, Ph.D., Emory University
Ellen Fanning
Thurs March 17th, 4:10pm 1220 BSB/ MRB III "Genetic control of synaptogenesis in the C. elegans motor neuron circuit" David Miller, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology    

Solnica-Krezel
Thurs March 23rd, 2pm
RM 206 (PRB)
Dissertation Defense: "Choreographing the initiation of SV40 DNA replication" Vitaly Klimovich, Fanning Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Ellen Fanning
Thurs March 31st, 4:10pm
1220 BSB/ MRB III
Research In Progress Seminar: “New roles for a PDZ-RhoGEF in vertebrate development” Jennifer R. Panizzi, Solnica-Krezel Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Todd Graham
Thurs April 14th, 4:10pm
1220 BSB/ MRB III
"Quality Control in mRNA Export from the Nucleus" Anita Corbett, Ph.D.,  Emory University
Kathy Friedman
Thurs April 21st, 4:10pm 1220 BSB/ MRB III "Structure theorems and the dynamics of nitrogen catabolite repression in yeast"
Erik Boczko,Ph.D. Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
Charles Singleton
Thurs April 28th, 4:10pm 1220 BSB/ MRB III Research in Progress: "Regulation of alpha-tropomyosin pre-mRNA splicing" Barry Crawford (Patton Lab). Vanderbilt University
Todd Graham
Thurs May 5th, 4:10pm
1220 BSB/ MRB III "Genetic analysis of chromosome break metabolism in eukaryotic cells" John H. J. Petrini, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,Laboratory of Chromosome Biology, NY

 
Larry Zwiebel
Thurs May 12th, 3:30pm
1220 BSB/ MRB III Research In Progress Seminar: “Analysis of Cell Polarity and Migration during Zebrafish Gastrulation”  Jason Jessen  (Solnica-Krezel Lab),  Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University    
Todd Graham
Thurs May 19th 4:10pm 1220 BSB/ MRB III
“Regulating the Strength and Size of a Glutamatergic Synapse”  Aaron Diantonio,Ph.D.,Washington University
   

Kendal Broadie
Thurs May 26th, 4:10pm  
1220 BSB/ MRB III "Flipping and Flopping of Fungal Phospholipids"
Wylie Nichols, Ph.D., Emory University School of Medicine    



Todd Graham

Fall, 2004

Time
Place
Seminar Details
Faculty Host
Thursday
 21st Oct
12:10pm

1220 MRB III
"Molecular and Functional Diversities of Drosophila Dscam"
Jian Wang, Ph.D.
, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jointly Sponsored by the Department of Biological Sciences and The Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.
Charles Singleton
Monday
25th 
Oct 
4:10pm
 
1220 MRB III "The Giant Fiber System at the Crossroads: a Model for Central Synapse Formation and Neurological Disorders"
 
Tanjja A. Godenschwege, Ph.D. HIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Massachusetts Jointly Sponsored by the Department of Biological Sciences and The Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.
Charles Singleton
Wednesday
27th Oct
10:00a.m.
5202 MRBIII
Dissertation Defense: "Structure-Based Discovery of Protein Function: HP0222 of Helicobacter pylori"
Andrei Popescu,  Doctoral Candidate,  Krezel Laboratoty
Sponsored by the Department of Biological Sciences Graduate Committee email for information, or call Roz Johnson at 3-3076
Andrzej Krezel
Thursday 28th Oct
4:10pm
1220 MRB III "The Migration Machinery: Moving Memories and Cells"
Donna J. Webb, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia
Jointly Sponsored by the Department of Biological Sciences and The Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.
Charles Singleton
Monday
1st Nov
4:10pm
1220 MRB III "Transcription control of Human embryonic Left and Right Cortical Asymmetry"
Tao Sun, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Jointly Sponsored by the Department of Biological Sciences and The Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.
Charles Singleton
Thursday
4th Nov
4:10pm
1220 MRB III "Argonaute: the secret life of Slicer"
Leemor Joshua-Tor, Ph.D.  Associate Professor, Keck Structural Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Jointly Sponsored by the Department of Biological Sciences and The Center for Structural Biology. email for more info
 Ellen Fanning
Thursday 11th Nov
4:10pm
1220 MRB III "Molecular Analysis of Mammalian Circadian Rythms"
Charles Weitz, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School
Carl Johnson
Thurs 18th Nov 4:10pm
1220 MRB III
"Specification of Neural Precursers and Stem Cells in Zebrafish"
Bruce Appel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University 
Charles Singleton
Thurs
2nd Dec 4:10pm

1220 MRB III  
 "Function and Evolution of Dietary Sensing Receptors in C. elegans: Fat Regulation, Gene Duplication, and more..."  Marc Van Gilst, Ph.D. University of California, San Fransisco
Charles Singleton
Thurs 9th Dec
4:10pm
1220 MRB III "Mechanisms of Human Metapneumovirus Replication"
Timothy R. Peters, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Vanderbilt University
Katherine Friedman
Mon Dec 13th, 4:00pm 1220 MRB III "How to fix a broken chromosome--studies with the Drosophila DmBlm helicase."
Mitch McVey,Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Charles Singleton
Thurs Dec 16th, 4:10pm 1220 MRB III “Signal Integration in Photomorphogenesis”
Jennifer Nemhauser, Ph.D., Salk Institute
Charles Singleton
Fri Dec 17th, 12:00p.m U7202
MCN
"A Dynamic Approach to Study the Mechanisms of Circadian Gene Expression in Mammals: Development of Cell Culture-Based Real-Time Monitoring System"  Mariko Izumo,  Ph.D. Candidate, Dissertation Defence.  Carl Johnson
 



For more information, please contact The Department of Biological Sciences.
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