2005-2006 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:  2002–2003  2003–2004  2004-2005

Special Seminar
June 1 (MCBB/CM)   “Understanding Tumor Addiction to BCL-XL:  Metabolic implications of BCL-XL function”
Speaker: Pamela Schwartz  (Hockenbery Laboratory, Clinical Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Host: David Waxman
Note time and location: 4 pm in LSE103


Spring 2006

January 23  (PER) "The Ah receptor triology:  Adaptation, toxicity and development"
Speaker:  Chris Bradfield   (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Host: Gloria Callard

January 30  (MCBB/CM)   “Form from the formless: the awesome power of the embryo”
Speaker: Hazel Sive  (The Whitehead Institute)
Host: Chip Celenza 


February 6   (MCBB/CM) "RNAi and other Ancient Pathway Programmed by Small RNA"
Speaker:  Phil Zamore  (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
Host: Jim Deshler


February 7  (MCBB/CM)  "RNAi and Chromatin Regulation in C. elegans"
Speaker:  Alla Grishok (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
                                   Please note that this seminar is on a Tuesday at 12 noon in BRB 113


February 13   (MCBB/CM)  "A Role for the micro-RNA/RISC Pathway in Long-term Memory"
Speaker:  Shovon Ashraf (Harvard University)


February 21   (MCBB/CM)  "Genome-scale Characterization of Chromatin Structure in Yeast"
Speaker:  Oliver Rando (Harvard University - Bauer Center for Genomics Research)
                                   Please note that this seminar is on a Tuesday at 12 noon in LSE B01

February 23  (MCBB/CM)  "Cellular Senescence in Cultured Cells and Aging Primates: It All Starts Where it Ends"
Speaker:  Utz Herbig (Brown University)
                                   Please note that this seminar is on a Thursday at 4 pm in LSE 103

February 27   (MCBB/CM)  "Genetic, physiological and pharmacological characterization of serotonin signaling using C. elegans"
Speaker:  Ji Sze (University of California, Irvine)

March 2  (MCBB/CM)  "Tough Bones and Transcription factors"
Speaker:  Tamara Alliston (University of California, San Franscisco)
                                   Please note that this seminar is on a Thursday at 4 pm in LSE 103


March 13   (PER) “The identification of cell type-specific genes and novel expression patterns in fetal mouse ovaries"
Speaker:  Kenn Albrecht (Dept of Medicine, Dept of Genetics and Genomics, BUSM)
Host: Joe St. George

March 20  (MCBB/CM)  "Signaling Pathway Control Through the Ubiquitin Proteasome Pathway"
Speaker:  Wade Harper  (Dept of Pathology, Harvard Medical School)
Host: Ulla Hansen


March 27  (MCBB/CM)    "Genetic Analysis of Human Neurodegenerative Diseases in Drosophila"
Speaker:   Mel Feany  (Dept of Pathology, Harvard Medical School)
Host: Kim McCall

April 3  (Special Biology Dept-wide Seminar)   "Development and Evolution of Feathers"
Speaker:  Richard Prum (Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University)
Host:  Pam Templer

April 10  (MCBB/CM)  "RNAi screening identifies stem cell and regeneration regulators in planarians"
Speaker:  Peter Reddien  (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research)
Host: Kim McCall


April 24  (PER) "Mechanisms of inhibitory arylhydrocarbon receptor-estrogen receptor cross talk"
Speaker: Stephen Safe  (Texas A&M)
Host: Ian Callard


Fall 2005

September 19  (MCBB/CM)  "Stem Cells and Their Lineages in Skin"
Speaker:  Elaine Fuchs  (The Rockefeller University)
Host: Tara Peters and MCBB/CM graduate students

September 26  (PER) "Deconstructing and Manipulating the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche"
Speaker:  David Scadden  (Center for Regenerative Medicine and Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital)
Host: Ulla Hansen


October 3  (MCBB/CM) "Immunological Diversity in Fungi is Controlled by Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms"
Speaker: Gerald Fink  (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research)
Host: Gabe Sholder and MCBB/CM graduate students
                                     Please note that this seminar is at 4 pm and that refreshments will be available after the talk


Special Event!
October 12   Life Science and Engineering Building Symposium
The symposium begins at 9:15 am - click here for details


October 17   (MCBB/CM) "MDM2 and the Control of Retinoblastoma Protein"
Speaker: Jim Xiao (Boston University School of Medicine)
Host: Ulla Hansen


October 24    (PER)


October 31  (MCBB/CM)

November 7  (MCBB/CM) "Regulation of Exit from Mitosis"
Speaker: Angelika Amon  (MIT Department of Biology)
Host: Chip Celenza

November 14  (MCBB/CM) 


November 21   (PER) "Signaling the Toxicant-induced Testicular Injury Response"
Speaker: Kim Boekelheide  (Brown University)
Host: Gloria Callard

 November 28  (MCBB/CM) "Toward a new understanding of the interface between blood and the vascular endothelium"
Speaker:  Edward Damiano  (Boston University Department of Biomedical Engineering)
Host: Kim McCall
 
December 5  (MCBB/CM)   "Programmed cell death in C. elegans"
Speaker: Barbara Conradt   (Dartmouth Medical School)
Host: Kim McCall

  
December 12 (MCBB/CM)  "Chromosomes as Mechanical Objects"
Speaker: Nancy Kleckner  (Harvard University)
Host: Chip Celenza