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DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY+ and
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
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2008 SPRING SEMINAR SERIES

Date Speaker Title Host
January 31 Biology

February 7 MB&B

February 14 Joseph Fins Weill
Medical College of
Cornell University
Neuroprosthetics and Disorders of Consciousness: Formulating an Ethic of Care and Research

Bodznick
February 21 Kami Ahmed

Histone variants and gene regulation in Drosophila

Holmes
February 28

Patrick Shloss
Dept of Microbiology UMASS, Amherst

Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities with Metagenomic Sequences

Cohan
March 6 MB&B

March 27

Lorenz Studer DevelopmentalBiology Memorial Sloan Kettering

Directed differentiation of human embryonic stem cells

Grabel
April 3

Jonathan R. Warner Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Dealing with a strike in the ribosome factory McAlear
April 10

Naomi Pierce Hessl Professor of Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard

The diversification of blue butterflies and ants: pattern and process Biology graduate students
April 17 Christopher Pearson The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Genetics, Toronto, Canada DNA Replication, Repair and Epigenetics drive Disease-associated Trinucleotide Repeat Instability Mukerji
April 24

Sam Pleasure, M.D., Ph.D. Dept of Neurology UCSF

Signaling below the surface: the role of the meninges in controlling cortical development Naegele
May 1 Joann Sweasy
Yale University

Aberrant Base Excision Repair and Cancer.

Hingorani