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Past Lectures

2002-2003 WEDNESDAY LECTURE SERIES

WINTER & SPRING 2008 WEDNESDAY LECTURE SERIES

4:00-5:00 p.m., Auditorium (Research Building)

 

 

JANUARY           9

David Threadgill (University of North Carolina)

Elucidation of Pathological Interactions among the Egfr/Erbb Gene Family Using Mouse Models

 

                          16

Jennifer Gerton (Stowers Institute for Medical Research)

The Ins and Outs of Chromosome Cohesion

 

                          23

Ed Munro (University of Washington)

Dynamics of Cell Polarization in the Early C. elegans Embryo

 

                          30

Richard Harland (University of California-Berkeley)

BMP Antagonists in Vertebrate Development

 

FEBRUARY        6

Adrian Krainer (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Oncogenic Properties of Alternative Splicing Factors

 

                          13

Nevan Krogan (University of California-San Francisco)

Unbiased Biology:  Functional Insights from Protein-Protein and Genetic Interaction Datasets

 

                          20

Orna Cohen-Fix (National Institutes of Health)

Shaping and Misshaping the Nucleus

 

                          27

David Toczyski (University of California-San Francisco)

Cell Cycle Regulation and the DNA Damage Checkpoint

 

MARCH              5

David Mangelsdorf (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Feast to Famine:  Nuclear Receptor Control of Metabolism

 

                          12

Trevor Archer (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

Steroid Receptor Mediated Transcriptional Activation within Chromatin

 

                          19

Peter Lansdorp (British Columbia Cancer Research Centre)

Loss of Telomere Function and Human Disease

 

                          26

Blanche Capel (Duke University)

The Battle of the Sexes:  Patterning the Gonad


APRIL                 2

George Daley (Children’s Hospital Boston, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Customized Pluripotent Stem Cells

 

                            9

Doug Melton (Harvard University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Pancreatic Stem Cells for Development and Diabetes

 

                          16

Kevin Struhl (Harvard Medical School)

How Proteins Find their Target Sites in vivo:  Implications for Epigenetic Inheritance

 

                          23

Todd Stukenberg (University of Virginia)

Processing Spatial Information in the Mitotic Spindle

 

                          30

Cori Bargmann (Rockefeller University)

Assembling a Circuit for Olfactory Behavior

 

MAY                    7

Josh Kaplan (Harvard Medical School)

Synaptic Signaling in C. elegans:  MicroRNAs and Seizures

 

                          14

Joe Gall (Carnegie Institution)

The Cell Biology of snRNP Biogenesis

 

                          21

William Sly (Saint Louis University)

Evolving Therapeutic Targets for Lysosomal Storage Diseases