2004-2005 Biomolecular Seminar Series

Fall 2004

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

Spring 2005

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

May 2  (MCBB/CM)  "Genes Involved in Creating Human Malignancies"
Speaker: Robert Weinberg  (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research)
Host: Dan Starczynowski (and MCBB/CM graduate students)