DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY+
and
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY*
2002 SPRING SEMINAR SERIES

Seminars are held in Shanklin Room 107 at 12 NOON on Thursdays, unless otherwise indicated in red.

Date Speaker and Title Host

January
Jan. 24

Cliff Tabin
Harvard Medical School

 Patterning the Chick Embryo Bio Graduate Students
Jan. 31 Gordon Keller
Mt Sinai School of Medicine
Institute for Gene Therapy & Molecular Medicine		 Commitment of Embryonic Stem Cells to the Hematopoietic and Endothelial Lineages Grabel

February
Feb. 7 Anindya Dutta
Harvard Medical School		 p21 and geminin: lessons from two inhibitors of the cell cycle Hingorani
Feb. 14

Kathleen Donohue
Dept. of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

 Evolution of Plasticity and Parental Effects in Natural Plant Populations Sultan
Feb. 21

Robin Wharton
Dept. of Genetics
Duke University

 Translational repressors and size regulation in Drosophila Weir
Feb. 28 Jennifer Wernegreen
Marine Biological Lab		 Evolution of Insect Endosymbionts: Insights From Phylogenetics and Genomics Cohan

March
Mar. 7 Richard Sinden
Texas A&M		 Triplet Repeats Mukerji
Mar. 21

 

Bik K. Tye
Dept. of Mol. Biol. & Genetics
Cornell University

 

 Coordination of Genome Expression and DNA Replication in Proliferating Cells: The Multiple Roles of the MCM Proteins in Eukaryotes McAlear
Mar. 28 TBA

April
Apr. 4 Brian Oliver
National Institutes of Health

Functional Genomics of Drosophila Sexual Dimorphism

 Weir
Apr. 11

 

Carl Anderson
Brookhaven National Lab

 

 Regulation of the p53 tumor suppressor: Understanding the Posttranslational Modification Code MBB Grad Students
Apr. 18

 

Richard Mooney
Dept. of Neurobiology
Duke University

 

 Synaptic Mechanisms for Song Learning: Auditory-Evoked Inhibition and Vocal Plasticity in Songbirds. Devoto
Apr. 25 MBB Mukerji

May
May 2

Brant M. Weinstein
Lab of Molecular Genetics
NICHD, NIH

 Fish Tales: Studying Blood Vessel Formation in the Developing Zebrafish Devoto

+Biology Department Seminars
*Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Department Seminars

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9/6 *Philip Bevilacqua
 Chemistry Dept
 Penn State		 RNA Catalysis and Folding: Functional Complexity From Molecular Simplicity Mukerji