Departmental Seminars

The Molecular Biology Department’s seminar program is one of the very best on campus. We make a strong effort to bring in visiting scientists who can provide a entertaining, enlightening, and current research report on an important area of molecular biology. Shown below is a listing of the current semester’s seminar speakers. Note that departmental seminars during Spring 2008 semester will start at 2:10 pm. in room 103 of the Animal Science/Molecular Biology building.

 

Molecular Biology Spring 2008 SEMINARS
Date	Speaker & Affiliation	Seminar Title	Host
Jan. 18	Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena Johns Hopkins School of Public Health	Genetic Modification of Insect Vectors of Disease: Past Accomplishments and Future Prospects	Christoph Geisler Graduate student
Jan. 25	Byron Caughey Rocky Mtn Labs	Prion diseases: agent characterization, detection and treatment	Lewis
Febr. 1	Dr. Carol Blair Colorado State University	RNA interference as an innate immune response to arboviruses in mosquitoes	Jarvis
Febr. 8	Mark Gomelsky	Sabbatical report
Febr. 15	Hiten Madhani UCSF	Chromatin fine structure determinants and their implications for gene control	Amit Thakar Postdoc
Febr. 22	Oliver Rando UMass Medical School	Static and dynamic genome-wide views of yeast chromatin	Zlatanova
Febr. 29	Tim Galitski Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle	Systems Genetics	Wall
March 7	Mary Hunzicker-Dunn Washington State University	Glycoprotein hormone signaling pathways in ovarian granulosa cells	Amy Albertson Graduate student
March 14	Erik Nielsen University of Michigan	A Role for Phosphoinositides in Polar Secretion During Root Hair Development	Daniel Hill Graduate student
March 21	Spring break
March 28	Valeria Souza UNAM – Mexico	Cuatro Cienegas Coahuila a microbial Galapagos	Jackson & Ward
April 4	Bruce Lahn University of Chicago	Probing the genetic basis of human brain evolution	Liberles
April 11	Dan Gold Favrille, Inc.	Immunotherapy of Non-Hodgkin’s B cell lymphoma; an Intersection of Basic and Applied Science	Jarvis Reinvite from last semester
April 18	Carla Koehler Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry, UCLA	Understanding how defects in mitochondrial assembly lead to disease	Thorsness
April 25	Belinda Chang University of Toronto	Reconstructing ancestral visual pigments	Steven Massey Postdoc
May 2	Pete Okkema U. Illinois @Chicago	Transcriptional control of C. elegans pharyngeal development and function	Fay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    See previous seminar schedules here.

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