DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY+
and
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY*
2007 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| February | |||
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2/1+ |
+Alexandra
Joyner NYU Medical Center |
Cerebellum Patterning: From Folds and Stripes to Circuits |
Grabel |
| 2/8 |
Rescheduled for Fall 08 |
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| 2/15 |
*Todd Washington |
Replication of damaged DNA in eukaryotes by specialized DNA polymerases | Hingorani |
|
2/20 |
+Ross
Upshur Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center Toronto, Canada |
Surviving SARS, preparing for pandemics: Ethics, infectious diseases and modern health care organizations | Faust |
March |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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Biology Department, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459.
| 9/6 |
*Philip Bevilacqua Chemistry Dept Penn State |
RNA Catalysis and Folding: Functional Complexity From Molecular Simplicity | Mukerji |