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