September 13 (MCBB/CM)
September 20
(MCBB/CM)
September 27 (PER)
October 4
(MCBB/CM) "Leishmaniavirus: From hypothesis to the delineation
of the viral life cycle"
Speaker: Jean Patterson (Southwest
Foundation for Biomedical Research)
Host: Ulla Hansen
October 18
(MCBB/CM) "The role of MEF2C in early
cardiovascular development"
Speaker: John
Schwarz (Albany Medical College)
Host: Frank
Naya
October 25 (PER)
November 1 (MCBB/CM)
November 8
(MCBB/CM) "Defining the positions of troponin and tropomyosin on
skeletal muscle thin filaments"
Speaker: Bill
Lehman (Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University
School of Medicine)
Host: Dean Tolan
November 15 (MCBB/CM) "Cell cycle control by the
cyclin E/CDK2/p220-NPAT/HiNF-P signaling cascade"
Speaker: Andre van
Wijnen (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
Host: Ulla Hansen
November 22 (PER)
November 29
(MCBB/CM) "Arabidopsis Stress Responses to the
Environmental Pollutants
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons"
Speaker: Adán
Colón-Carmona (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Host: Chip Celenza
December 6
(MCBB/CM)
"Inflammation and NF-kB signaling in insulin resistance and muscle
wasting"
Speaker: Steven
Shoelson (Joslin Diabetes Center)
Host: Susan Kandarian
December 13
(MCBB/CM) "Hippocampal neurogenesis and behavior in the chronic
mild stress mouse model of depression"
Speaker: Wim
Crusio (University
of Massachusetts Medical
School)
Host: Cassandra Smith
January 24 canceled
January 31 (MCBB/CM) "If at first you don't
succeed.....Pathways for
fructose utilization by E. coli."
Speaker: Sir
Hans Kornberg (Boston University Department of Biology;
University Professors Program)
February
7 unavailable at this time
February 14 unavailable at this time
February 28 (Neurobiology search)
"Molecular mechanisms of NMDA receptor-dependent synapse development
and remodeling"
Speaker: Kimberley Tolias
(Children's Hospital, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School)
March 14 (PER)
March 21 (MCBB/CM) "Commitment, cannibalism, and
multicellularity by a bacterium"
Speaker: Richard Losick
(Harvard University)
Host: Gary Jacobson
March 28 (MCBB/CM) "Alternative pre-mRNA splicing
and protein modification converge to control MEF2 function"
Speaker: Todd Gulick (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Host: Frank
Naya
April 4
(MCBB/CM) "A Multi-Modular Molecular Network Model for Cancer"
Speaker: Sam Thiagalingam (BUSM Dept. of Genetics and
Genomics)
Host: Chip Celenza
April 11 (PER) "Sleep and performance in diurnal
species: role of melatonin"
Speaker: Irina
V. Zhdanova, MD, PhD (Dept. Anat & Neuroanatomy, BUSM)
Host: Sherilyn Sawyer (graduate
student host)
April 25 (MCBB/CM)
"Regulation of apoptosis and telomere function by the Drosophila p53
pathway"
Speaker: Michael
Brodsky (University
of Massachusetts Medical School)
Host: Kim
McCall