Seminar Series 2007-2008

 
 

Fall Term 2008

October 8, 2008
Soren Impey
Oregon Stem Cell Center, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
Oregon Health and Science University
"The Trithorax Epigentic Pathway and Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal"

Host: Todd Mockler
 

October 22, 2008

Cancelled

 

November 5, 2008
Xiao-kun Zhang

Cancer Center
Burnham Institute for Medical Research
"Nongenomic Action of Retinoid Receptors and its Implication in Drug Development"

Host: Siva Kolluri

 

November 19, 2008
Magdalena Bezanilla

Biology Department
University of Massachusetts
"Molecular Control of Actin Dynamics During Polarized Growth in Plant Cells"

Host: Valerian Dolja

 

December 3, 2008

Cancelled
 

Winter Term 2009

January 7, 2009
Robert Heinzen

Coxiella Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institute of Health
“Bioinformatics Reveal Virulence Factors and Conditions Supporting Host Cell-Free Growth of the Obligate Intracellular Pathogen Coxiella burnetii"

Host: Dan Rockey
 
January 21, 2009
Roberto Kolter
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Harvard Medical School
“Cell Fate Determination in Bacterial Biofilms"
 

Cancelled
 
February 18, 2009
Martin Yanofsky
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of California, San Diego
"Genetic Control of Fruit Patterning in Arabidopsis"

Host: Jim Carrington
 
March 4, 2009
John Hamer
Burrill & Company
"Venture Capital and Company Formation in the University"

Host: Scott Givan
 

Spring Term 2009

April 1, 2009
TBA
"TBA"

Host: TBA
 
April 8, 2009
Peter Wright

Department of Molecular Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
"Exploring the Energy Landscape: Disorder, Dynamics, and Protein Function"

Host: Andy Karplus

Cancelled

April 29, 2009
John Hogenesch
Department of Pharmacology, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"Systems Approaches in the Study of the Mammalian Circadian Clock"

Host: Jaga Giebultowicz
 
May 13, 2009
Vadim Gladyshev
Department of Biochemistry, Redox Biology Center
University of Nebraska
"Selenoproteins: Roles in Redox Regulation and Genetic Code"

Host: Gary Merrill
 
May 20, 2009
Damon Lisch
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley
"Where and When: The Effects of Position and Time on Epigenetic Silencing of a Plant Transposon"

Host: John Fowler
 
May 27, 2009
Keith Adams
Centre for Plant Research, Botany Department
University of British Columbia
"Expression and Alternative Splicing of Genes Duplicated by Polyploidy"

Host: Aaron Liston