2008-2009
Biomolecular Seminar Series
Fall
2008
September 8 (MCBB/CM)
"Therapeutic
approaches to treat congenital muscular dystrophy"
Speaker:
Sweta
Girgenrath (Sargent College)
Host: Ulla Hansen
September 29
(MCBB/CM) "Rb has a DREAM: How the Retinoblastoma Proteins Regulate the
Cell Cycle"
Speaker: James
DeCaprio (Harvard Medical School)
Host: Ulla Hansen
October 6
(MCBB/CM) "Lung progenitor cell
expansion and patterning during morphogenesis"
Speaker: Wellington
Cardoso (BUSM)
Host: Horacio Frydman
October 20
(Dept Wide Seminar)
"Integrative
analysis of human and mouse oncogenomes"
Speaker: Lynda Chin (Dana Farber
Cancer Institute)
Host: Ed Loechler
October 27 (MCBB/CM) "Ignorance Isn't Bliss:
What We Don't Know About How Growth Factor Receptors Function"
Speaker: Adrian
Whitty (BU Chemistry
Host: Dean Tolan
November 3 (MCBB/CM) "Sirtuins,
Mitochondria and Metabolism"
Speaker:
Marcia
Haigis (Harvard Medical School)
Host: Liz Ewen (and Women in Biology)
November 10 (MCBB/CM) "Specificity and
Mechanism in a Diverse Superfamily of Phosphotransferases"
Speaker:
Karen
Allen (BU Chemistry)
Host: Dean Tolan
December 1 (MCBB/CM) "Epithelial Canonical
Wnt/ß-Catenin Signaling during Mammalian Craniofacial Development"
Speaker: Sean Li
(Harvard Medical School)
Host: Angela Ho
December 8 (MCBB/CM) "Regulation of synaptic
transmission in C. elegans: microRNAs and seizure"
Speaker: Joshua Kaplan
(MGH)
Host: Liz Ewen and MCBB/CM grad
students
Spring
2009
January
26 (MCBB/CM) "RIP2, NOD2 and IRF5 mediate the type I Interferon
response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection"
Speaker: Michelle
Kelliher
(UMass
Medical School)
Host: Melanie Herscovitch (and Women in Biology)
February
9 (Darwin Bicentennial
Lecture) "Species trees: the latest twist on Darwin's Tree of Life"
Speaker: Scott Edwards
(Harvard University)
Host: Chris Schneider
March 16 (Darwin Bicentennial
Lecture) "Galapagos finches and the unfinished business of Charles
Darwin"
Speaker: Jeff
Podos UMass Amherst
Host: Chris Schneider
March 23 (MCBB/CM) "The title is: RNA dynamics and
localization in bacterial cells"
Speaker: Natasha
Broude (BU Center for Advanced Biotechnology)
Host: Ulla Hansen
March 30
(MCBB/CM) "Endogenous bioelectrical controls of morphogenesis in
embryonic development, regeneration, and cancer"
Speaker: Michael
Levin (Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology)
Host: Cynthia Bradham
April 6
(MCBB/CM/PER) "Rb/E2F
and the control of cell proliferation"
Speaker: Nick Dyson
(MGH/Harvard Medical School)
Host: Ulla Hansen
April 13 (MCBB/CM) "Oxidative
stress - too much of a good thing?"
Speaker: Peter
Crack (Dept
of
Pharmacology, The University
Melbourne)
Host: John Tullai
April 27 (MCBB/CM) "Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences"
Speaker: Andrew Greytak
(MIT)
Host: Ian Callard
May 4
(Darwin Bicentennial
Lecture) "Petal development: variations on a theme"
Speaker: Vivian
Irish (Yale University)
Host: Chip Celenza
May 11
(PER) "Nanometer Resolution for intracellular imaging, brain
tumor imaging and therapy"
Speaker: Martin
Philbert (Univ of Michigan School of Public Health)
Host: Ian Callard