2007-2008
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 for
MCBB/CM dates and Ian Callard for PER
dates. Click on the year to view previous seminar speakers:
2003–2004 2004-2005
2005–2006 2006–2007
Spring
2008
January 28 Special
Seminar presented by Women in Biology
and BU Women in Chemistry
Speaker: Beverly Brown (Chief
Development Officer, Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative
Technology)
Host: WIB(email)
February 4
(PER)
Speaker:
Host:
February 11 (Biology
Dept-wide Seminar) "Prader-Willi syndrome and the evolution of human
childhood"
Speaker: David Haig
(Harvard University, Dept of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology)
Host: Chip Celenza this seminar is
supported in part by BU's Superfund
Basic Research Program
February 25 (MCBB/CM) "The HBP1
Transcriptional Repressor and Invasive Breast Cancer"
Speaker: Amy
Yee (Tufts University School of Medicine)
Host: Ulla Hansen this seminar is supported in part
by BU's Superfund Basic Research
Program
March 3
(PER) "Microbial Recognition and Signaling in the Drosophila
Immune Response"
Speaker: Neal Silverman (UMass
Medical School)
Host: Kim McCall
this seminar is supported in part by BU's Superfund Basic Research Program
March
17 (Biology
Dept-wide Seminar) "Functional Dissection of the FruM-Specified
Circuitry for Male Courtship Behaviors in Drosophila"
Speaker: Bruce Baker
(Stanford University)
Host: Ayako Yamaguchi
March 24
(MCBB/CM) "Nicotinamide processing regulates reproductive development
and function in C. elegans"
Speaker:
Wendy
Hanna-Rose (Penn State University)
Host: Ulla Hansen
March 31 (MCBB/CM)
April 7 (PER)
"Does breast cancer start in the womb?"
Speaker: Ana
Soto (Tufts University)
Host: Ian Callard
April 14 (Biology
Dept-wide Seminar) "Exploring the Interface between Evolution and Human
Health"
Speaker:
Diddahally R. Govindaraju (BUSM)
Host:
April 28
(MCBB/CM)
May 5
(MCBB/CM) "Genetics of Human Leukemias"
Speaker: Gary
Gilliland (Harvard Medical School)
Host: Ulla Hansen
May 12
(MCBB/CM) "Transcriptional signatures of bone marrow stem cell
differentiation"
Speaker: Katya
Ravid (Boston University School of Medicine)
Host: Geof Cooper
Fall
2007
September 10 (MCBB/CM)
"Light at night - an environmental carcinogen?"
Speaker: Eva
Schernhammer (Harvard Medical School)
Host: Melanie
Herscovitch and
Women In Biology
September 17 (Biology
Dept-wide Seminar)
Speaker:
Host:
September 24 (PER)
Speaker:
Host:
October 1
(MCBB/CM) "Key Regulators of Actin Dynamics are Critical for Polarized
Growth in Plant Cells"
Speaker:
Magdalena
Bezanilla (UMass/Amherst)
Host: Chip Celenza
October 15
(Biology
Dept-wide Seminar) "Color Madness: The Evolution of Color and
Polarization Vision in Mantis Shrimps"
Speaker: Tom
Cronin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Host: Ayako Yamaguchi
October 22 (MCBB/CM) "Lessons from Autism: A
Metabolic Disorder of Oxidative Stress and Impaired Methylation"
Speaker: Richard Deth
(Northeastern University)
Host: Cassandra Smith
October 29 (MCBB/CM) "Cooperating oncogenesis
in ovarian cancer"
Speaker: Sandra
Orsulic (Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital)
Host: Liz Ewen and Women In Biology
November 5
(MCBB/CM) "Targeting Translation to Modulate Chemosensitivity"
Speaker:
Jerry
Pelletier (McGill University)
Host: CMLD
November 19 (Biology
Dept-wide Seminar) ""Egg or sperm? What's sex got to do with it?"
Speaker: David
Page (Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research)
Host: BGSA (Jon Winkler)
November 26
(MCBB/CM) "The Thiol Proteome: Redox Target, Redox Sensor, Redox
Effector"
Speaker:
Joseph
Loscalzo (Harvard Medical School)
Host: Melanie Herscovitch and
MCBB/CM graduate students
December 3
(PER) "The chemical biology of developmental pathways in adult
disease"
Speaker: Randall
Peterson (Harvard Medical School)
Host: Ian
Callard
December 10
(MCBB/CM) "Patterning and dynamics during branching morphogenesis"
Speaker: Celeste Nelson
(Princeton University)
Host: Joe Tien