Friday Lecture Series Friday, February 12, 2016 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Julie Segre, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Microbial Genomics Section, Chief, Translational and Functional Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Human Skin Microbiome in Health and Disease Recommended Reading Empirical Papers Conlan, S., Thomas, P. J., Deming, C., Park, M., Lau, A. [...]
Special Lecture Series Wednesday, February 24, 2016 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Gregory Alushin, Ph.D. Early Independent Scientist, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Cytoskeletal Structural Plasticity in Force Generation and Mechanosensation Recommended Reading Alushin, G. M., Lander, G. C., Kellogg, E. H., Zhang, R., Baker, D., & Nogales, E. (2014). High-resolution microtubule structures [...]
Special Lecture Series Wednesday, March 2, 2016 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Li Zhao, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis Evolution of Genetic Novelties in Drosophila Recommended Reading Li, X., Fan, D., Zhang, W., Liu, G., Zhang, L., Zhao, L., ... & Ding, Y. (2015). Outbred genome sequencing [...]
Special Lecture Series Thursday, March 10, 2016 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Talia Lerner, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University Distinct Information Encoding in Circuit-Defined Nigrostriatal Dopamine Neuron Subpopulations Recommended Reading Adhikari, A., Lerner, T. N., Finkelstein, J., Pak, S., Jennings, J. H., Davidson, T. J., ... & Kim, S. Y. (2015). [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, January 15, 2016 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Xiaoliang "Sunney" Xie, Ph.D. Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University Life at the Single Molecule Level: From Single Molecule Enzymology to MALBAC Babies Recommended Reading Empirical Articles Hou, Y., Fan, W., Yan, L., Li, R., Lian, Y., Huang, J., ... & [...]
Special Lecture Monday, January 25, 2016 3:45 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Priya Rajasethupathy, M.D., Ph.D. Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University Targeted Top-down Control of Memory Retrieval Recommended Reading Fiumara, F., Rajasethupathy, P., Antonov, I., Kosmidis, S., Sossin, W. S., & Kandel, E. R. (2015). MicroRNA-22 gates long-term heterosynaptic [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, February 5, 2016 3:45 p.m., Carson Family Caspary Auditorium James M. Wells, Ph.D. Professor of Pediatrics, Perinatal Institute Endowed Professor, Division of Development Biology, Director for Basic Research, Division of Endocrinology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Models of Human Gastrointestinal Development and Disease Recommended Reading Empirical Articles McCracken, [...]
Special Seminar Wednesday, February 8, 2016 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Elena Gallo MacFarlane, Ph.D. Postdoctoral and Research Fellow, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine The Vessel Wall as a Paracrine Engine in TGF-Beta-Driven Vasculopathies Recommended Reading: Chetaille, P., Preuss, C., Burkhard, S., Côté, J. M., Houde, C., Castilloux, J., [...]
Special Seminar Wednesday, February 3, 2016 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Brian Liau, Ph.D. Jane Coffins Child Memorial Fund Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Chemical Epigenetics: Discovering Chromatin Mediated Mechanisms in Cancer Using Small Molecules Recommended Reading Flavahan, W. A., Drier, Y., Liau, B. B., Gillespie, S. M., [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, January 29, 2016 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium John Kuriyan, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Control of Catalytic Activity in the EGF Receptor Recommended Reading Empirical Articles Jura, N., Shan, Y., Cao, X., Shaw, D. E., & [...]