Fall 2002

September 9   (MCBB/CM)    "Mechanisms Cancer Cells Use to Avoid Apoptosis"
Speaker: Craig Thompson (Univerisity of Pennsylvania)
Host: Ken Adams

September 16  (MCBB/CM)    "Engineered gene networks"
Speaker: James Collins (Boston University)
 

September 23  (PER)    date open
 

September 30  (MCBB/CM)    "Molecular events that cause genomic instability and, maybe, cancer"
Speaker: Mike Christman (BU School of Medicine)
Host: Chip Celenza
 

October 9  (MCBB/CM)    "Suppressor of Cytokine Signaling (SOCS)-2 is a negative regulator of body growth"
Speaker: Chris Greenhalgh (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute)
Host: David Waxman
                    Note: seminar is on a Wednesday at 1 pm in BRB113.
 

October 21  (PER)   date open
 

October 28  (MCBB/CM and Bioinformatics)   "New Resources for the Study of Tandem Repeats"
Speaker:    Gary Benson  (The Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
 

November 4  (MCBB/CM)  "Notch Signalling and the Control of Cell Fates in Development"
Speaker: Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas (Massachusetts General Hospital),
Host: Kim McCall
 

November 11  (BME/MCBB)   "The Mechanics of Breast Cancer Progression: the Pivotal Role of the Stroma"
Speaker:   Valerie Weaver (University of  Pennsylvania)
Host:  Joyce Wong
 

November 18  (PER)   date open
 
 

November 25  (MCBB/CM)   "Regulatory Circuits Controlling the Induction of Muscle, Heart and Cartilage"
Speaker:  Andrew Lassar (Harvard Medical School)
Host:  Frank Naya
 

December 2  (MCBB/CM)    date open
 

December 9 (MCBB/CM)   "Distinct functions of Rho and Rac are required for convergent extension during Xenopus gastrulation"
Speaker: Karen Symes (BU School of Medicine)
Host: Kim McCall
 
 

Spring 2003

January 27 (MCBB/CM)   "Mitf and transcriptional regulation in melanocyte development and melanoma"
Speaker: David Fisher (Dana Farber Cancer Institute)
Host: Ulla Hansen
 

February 3    (MCBB/CM)     "Electric embryos: voltage and pH gradients in embryonic left-right asymmetry"
Speaker:  Michael Levin (The Forsyth Institute)
Host:  Jim Deshler

February 10  (MCBB/CM)   "Tiny regulatory RNAs in animals, fungi, and plants"
Speaker: David Bartel (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research)
Host: Jim Deshler
 

February 24  (MCBB/CM)   "New roles for transcription factors in mRNA 3' end processing"
Speaker: Claire Moore (Tufts Medical School)
Host: Ulla Hansen
 

March 3 (PER)   "Thyroid hormone, brain development and the environment"
Speaker:  R. Thomas Zoeller  (UMASS/Amherst)
Host: Ian Callard
 

March 5  (PER)    "Scavenger receptor BI (SR-BI) serves as a conduit for cholesterol trafficking between cells and high density lipoprotein via a specialized plasma membrane microdomain"
Speaker: David Williams (SUNY Stony Brook)
Host: Ian Callard
                    Note: seminar is on a Wednesday at 10:30 am in BRB113.

March 17 (MCBB/CM)   "Depression of HIV infection in resting T cells:  a role for chromatin regulation in viral latency"
Speaker:   David Margolis  (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
Host: Ulla Hansen
                    Note: seminar is scheduled for 4:00 pm  in BRB113 with coffee at 3:45 pm.

 

March 24 (MCBB/CM)   "Moving electrons through proteins: studies of metalloenzymes using protein film voltammetry"
Speaker:  Sean Elliott (BU Dept. of Chemistry)
Host:  Gary Jacobson
 

March 31   (PER)  "Arsenic as an endocrine disruptor: Role in cancer, diabetes and vascular disease"
Speaker: Joshua Hamilton (Dartmouth)
Host: Ian Callard
 

April 7  (MCBB/CM)    "Regulation of tissue and blood vessel growth by Akt signaling"
Speaker:  Kenneth Walsh  (BUSM)
Host: Frank Naya
 

April 14  (PER)   The I. Alden Macchi lecture in endocrinology
"Nuclear receptor - cofactor interactions: Points of convergence between multiple signalling pathways."
Speaker: Donald McDonnell (Duke University Medical Center)
Host: Ian Callard
 

April 15  (MCBB/CM)   "Replication of S. cerevisiae chromosome III: regulation of replicator activity and maintenance of a chromosome without conventional replicators"
Speaker:   Carole Newlon  (UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School )
Host: Geoffrey Cooper
                    Note: seminar is on a Tuesday at 3:00 pm  in BRB113.  Coffee is at 2:45 pm.


April 28  (MCBB/CM)   "From expression arrays to drug candidates in scleroderma and related autoimmune diseases"
Speaker: David Strehlow  (BUSM)
Host:  Maria Burgess