2012-2013 Biomolecular Seminar Series
The
Biomolecular
Seminar
Series at Boston University is
sponsored by the Cell
& Molecular Biology and Physiology,
Endocrinology & Reproduction groups of the Biology Department
as well as the Program in
Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry.
Unless noted otherwise, seminars are on Mondays at 12 noon
in the LSE basement seminar room (LSE B01) preceded by
refreshments at 11:45 AM. If you are are interested in
inviting and hosting a seminar speaker please contact Chip Celenza. Click on
the year to view previous seminar speakers: 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012
Spring
2013
January 15 (Tuesday) "Fighting malaria with engineered
symbiotic bacteria from the mosquito midgut"
Speaker: Marcelo
Jacobs-Lorena (Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School
of Public Health)
Host: Horacio Frydman
Please
note that this talk is on a Tuesday and will be at noon in
LSEB 103
February 4 "Optogenetics and neural circuit
mapping" (12 noon)
Speaker: Xue Han (BME)
Host: Ulla Hansen
February 4 Microbial Ecology Search (4 pm
in LSEB 103) "Microbial interactions and the population biology of
wild bacterioplankton"
Speaker: Otto Cordero-Sanchez (MIT)
Host: Adrien Finzi
February 11 "Growing versatility:
mechanisms of cilia differentiation in echinoid embryos" (12 noon)
Speaker: Robert
Morris (Wheaton College)
Host: Cyndi Bradham
February 11 Microbial Ecology Search (4 pm in LSEB
103)
Speaker: Ashley Shade (Yale University)
Host: Adrien Finzi
February 14
Microbial Ecology Search (Thursday 4 pm in LSEB 103)
Speaker: Kristen DeAngelis (UMASS/Amherst)
Host: Adrien Finzi
February 25 Microbial Ecology Search (4 pm in LSEB
103)
Speaker: Jennifer Talbot (Stanford University)
Host: Adrien Finzi
March 18 "Pathways regulating stem cell
self-renewal and migration"
Speaker: Leonard Zon
(Harvard Medical School)
Host: Eva Fast
April 1 (Biology department-wide seminar) "Food for thought:
Cheese as a model microbial ecosystem"
Speaker: Rachel Dutton
(Harvard University)
Host: Claire
Schenkel and the Beckman
Scholars
Chip Celenza and the Dept of
Biology
April 8 (CM/MCBB) "Comparative gene regulatory networks: Insight
into network robustness and evolution of animal body plans"
Speaker: Joel
Smith (Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole)
Host: Cyndi Bradham
April 22
(Biology department-wide
seminar)
April 29
Fall 2012
September 10 (CM/MCBB) "Engineering T
cells for cancer therapy"
Speaker: Wilson Wong
(BME)
Host: Ulla Hansen
September
17
September 24 (CM/MCBB)
"Systems level understanding of single and collective cellular
migration in complex native environments"
Speaker: Muhammad Zaman
(BME)
Host: Ulla Hansen
October 15 (Biology department-wide seminar)
October 22
(CM/MCBB)
"Synthetic networks for programming eukaryotic transcription and
cellular microenvironments"
Speaker: Ahmad Khalil
(BME)
Host: Ulla Hansen
October 29 (CM/MCBB) Cancelled
November 5 (CM/MCBB) "A role for the
cellular prion protein in both prion and Alzheimer’s diseases"
Speaker: David
Harris (BUMC Biochemistry)
Host: Angela Ho
November 12 (Biology department-wide seminar)
Speaker: Andy Bass
(Cornell University)
Host: Michael Baum
November 19
(Special Seminar) "Multiplexed digital quantification of
nucleic acids without sample amplification"
Speaker: Erroll Rueckert
(nanoString Technologies)
Host: Trevor Siggers
November 26 (CM/MCBB) "Using mouse
models to improve cancer therapy"
Speaker: Michael
Hemann (MIT Department of Biology)
Host: Alla Yalonetskaya
December 3
(Biology department-wide seminar)
Speaker: Alice Ting
(MIT Department of Chemistry)
Host: Hengye Man