2006-2007
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
Fall
2006
September 13 (Special Biology
Dept-wide Seminar) "Social Communication in Tungara
Frogs: Brain, Behavior, and Evolution"
Speaker: Mike Ryan (University of Texas - Austin)
Host: Karen Warkentin
Note that this
seminar is Wednesday at noon in LSE B01
September 18
(MCBB/CM) "Epigenetic mechanisms of ES cell pluripotency"
Speaker: Bradley Bernstein
(Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center)
Host: Chip Celenza
September 25 (PER) "The
iron gate: Is ferroportin the only way out?"
Speaker:
Adriana
Donovan (HMS/Children's Hospital)
Host: Ulla
Hansen
October 2
(MCBB/CM) "Hsp90 as a molecular mechanism of genetic and environmental
canalization"
Speaker: Christine
Queitsch (Bauer Center for Genomics Research Harvard
University)
Host: Chip Celenza
October 16
(MCBB/CM)
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October 23 (PER)
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October 30 (MCBB/CM) "Human myogenic cell
proliferation regulated by BMP4 and gremlin"
Speaker: Emanuela
Gussoni (Children's Hospital)
Host: Kris Muskiewicz and Elizabeth Tanner and MCBB
graduate students
November 6
(MCBB/CM) "Building
the Brain Stem - Lessons from Genetic Fate Mapping"
Speaker: Susan
Dymecki (Harvard Medical School)
Host: Frank Naya
November 13 (MCBB/CM) "Global Transcriptional
Choices of the Mucosal Pathogens N.
gonorrhoeae and N.
meningitidis in their Natural Environments"
Speaker: Caroline
Genco (Boston University School of Medicine)
Host: Chip Celenza
November 20 (PER) "NR4a Nuclear receptor
transcription factors function as novel leukemic tumor suppressors"
Speaker: Orla
Conneely (Baylor College of Medicine)
Host: Sherilyn Sawyer
November 27
(PER) "Nuclear receptor signaling: From development to endocrine
disruption and beyond"
Speaker: Bruce
Blumberg (Developmental and Cell Biology, UC Irvine)
Host: Ian Callard
December 4
(MCBB/CM) "RNAi-mediated assembly of heterochromatin"
Speaker: Danesh Moazed
(Harvard Medical
School)
Host: Chip Celenza
December 11
(MCBB/CM) "Targeting the X chromosome for dosage"
Speaker: Mitzi
Kuroda (Harvard
Medical School)
Host: Elizabeth
Tanner
co-sponsored by Women
in Biology
Spring 2007
January 25
(MCBB/CM) "Dissecting Signal Mediated Gene Expression"
Speaker: Michael Marr
(University of California at Berkeley)
Please note
that this seminar is on a Thursday at 4 pm in LSE 103
January 31
(Neuro) "Lost in Translation: How Neuronal Activity Suppresses
Local Synthesis of a Potassium Channel"
Speaker: Kimberly Raab-Graham
(University of California at San Francisco)
Please note
that this seminar is on a Wednesday at noon in LSE 103
February 1
(MCBB/CM) "Wolbachia, a
Bacterium Hitching a Ride in the Drosophila
Stem Cell Niche"
Speaker: Horacio Frydman
(Princeton University)
Please note
that this seminar is on a Thursday at 4 pm in LSE 103
February 7
(MCBB/CM) "Microtubule Dynamics in Mitosis: Investigating the
Mechanism of Poleward Flux"
Speaker: Lisa Cameron
(University of North Carolina)
Please note
that this seminar is on a Wednesday at 4 pm in LSE 103
February 12
(MCBB/CM) "Germ cells are forever"
Speaker: Ruth Lehmann
(Skirball Institute at NYU Medical Center)
Host: Elizabeth Tanner and MCBB
graduate students
February 14
(Neuro) "Novel Regulators of Dendrite Development and Diversity"
Speaker: Michael Kim
(University of California at San Francisco)
Please note
that this seminar is on a Wednesday at 2:30 pm in BRB 113
February 15
(MCBB/CM) "Assembling the network for the sea urchin
dorsal-ventral axis"
Speaker: Cynthia Bradham
(Duke University)
Please note
that this seminar is on a Thursday at 4 pm in LSE 103
February 20
(MCBB/CM) "Drosophila Let-7-Cluster microRNAs and Their
Roles in the Development of Adult Behavior"
Speaker: Nick Sokol
(Dartmouth Medical School)
Please note
that this seminar is on a Tuesday at 4 pm in LSE 103
February 21
(Neuro) "The Wallenda kinase regulates synaptic growth and
axonal transport"
Speaker: Catherine Collins (Washington University School of
Medicine)
Please
note
that this seminar is on a Wednesday at noon in LSE 103
February 28
(Neuro) "The molecular analysis of a chemosensory-related
DEG/ENaC ion channel "
Speaker: Yehuda Ben-Shahar (University of Iowa)
Please
note
that this seminar is on a Wednesday at noon in LSE 103
March 5
(PER) "Oral benzo[a]pyrene, immunosuppression and tumors: role of
the three CYP1 enzyme"
Speaker: Daniel
Nebert (University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Dept. of
Environmental Health)
Host: David Waxman
March 19 (MCBB/CM) "Mechanistic Studies of Metallo-enzymes
and their Biomedical Applications"
Speaker: Pinghua Liu
(Boston University Dept of Chemistry;
MCBB program)
Host: Chip Celenza
March 26 (Special Biology
Dept-wide Seminar) "Estrogen and
Cardiovascular Disease"
Speaker: Michael
Mendelsohn
(Tufts-New England Medical Center)
Host: Ulla Hansen
April 2 (EBE/MCBB/CM) "Ecology and
Evolution of a Stress Response Pathway -- the NF-kB System of the Sea
Anemone 'Nematostella' "
Speaker: Jim Sullivan (Boston University Dept
of
Biology; grad student in the Finnerty lab)
this
seminar is cross-listed from the EBE seminar series and takes place in
BRB 113 at noon
April 9 (PER)
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April
23 (MCBB/CM)
"Stem cells in normal lung and lung cancer"
Speaker: Carla Bender Kim
(Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard Medical School)
Host: Elizabeth
Tanner
co-sponsored
by Women
in Biology
April 30
(MCBB/CM) "Dynamics of the Smooth Muscle Cytoskeleton"
Speaker: Kathleen
Morgan
(Professor
and Chair of Health Sciences, Sargent College)
Host: Kim McCall
May 7
(MCBB/CM) "Modeling the Cell Cycle, Survival, and Death Regulatory
Networks"
Speaker:
Baltazar D. Aguda
(Mathematical
Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University)
Host: Joyce Wong