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) 
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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)
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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)
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September 24  (PER)
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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