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DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY⁺
and
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY*
2007 SPRING SEMINAR SERIES

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

Date	Speaker and Title		Host
February
2/1+	+Alexandra Joyner   NYU Medical Center	Cerebellum Patterning: From Folds and Stripes to Circuits	Grabel
2/8	Rescheduled for Fall 08
2/15	*Todd Washington   University of Iowa	Replication of damaged DNA in eukaryotes by specialized DNA polymerases	Hingorani
2/20 Tuesday	+Ross Upshur  Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center  Toronto, Canada	Surviving SARS, preparing for pandemics: Ethics, infectious diseases and modern health care organizations	Faust
March
3/1	+Sam Pleasure   Neurology Dept   UCSF	The meninges are a distributed signaling center controlling multiple steps of cortical development	Naegele
3/8	*Canceled
3/29	+Gerald Downes   UMass	From behavior to genes: Development of locomotive behavior in Zebrafish	Devoto
April
4/5	*Vinod Makhijani   Life Sciences Corp.   Brandford, CT	Massively-parallel high-throughput whole genome sequencing technology	McAlear
4/12	+Jennifer Mansfield   Barnard College	Hox genes, microRNAs and patterning in the vertebrate embryo	Burke
4/19	*Leroy Hood   Institute for Systems Biology   Seattle, WA	Systems biology and medicine: Towards predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory medicine.	Lane
4/26	+Mary Baylies   Sloan Kettering Institute	Making muscle in fly and mammals: Remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton is required for myoblast fusion	Devoto
May
5/3	*Steven L. Jacques  Oregon Health & Sciences University	Biomedical optics and lasers in medicine: How light affects tissues and tissues affect light	MBB Graduate Students

⁺Biology Department Seminars
*Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Department Seminars

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