2009-2010
Biomolecular Seminar Series
Fall
2009
September 28 (Darwin Bicentennial
Lecture) "The long and
short of it: Mapping complex traits in the domestic dog"
Speaker: Elaine Ostrander (NHGRI, NIH)
Host: Kim McCall
October 5 (MCBB/CM) "Systems Biology of
Tuberculosis"
Speaker:
James
Galagan
(Biomedical
Engineering,
Boston
University)
Host: Ulla Hansen
October 19 (Darwin Bicentennial
Lecture) "Crab claws and snail shells: Evolution in Action"
Speaker:
Nipam H. Patel (Dept of Molecular
& Cell Biology, UC Berkeley)
Host: Chris Schneider
November 2
(MCBB/CM) "Understanding hepatocellular carcinoma"
Speaker: Devanand
Sarkar (Dept of Human and Molecular Genetics,Virginia Commonwealth
University)
Host: Ulla Hansen
November 9 (MCBB/CM and Women in
Networks) "When oxygen runs low, life goes on: Understanding
hypoxia-response networks in C. elegans."
Speaker: Jo Anne
Powell-Coffman (Dept of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology,
Iowa State University)
Host: Kim McCall
November 16 (Darwin Bicentennial
Lecture) "What can we learn about the
origin of life from efforts to design an artificial cell?
Speaker:
Jack Szostak (Department of
Genetics, Harvard Medical School and 2009
Nobel
Prize
winner!)
Host: Kim McCall
November 23
(MCBB/CM) "Fibronectin: a
mechanically-actuated cell signaling scaffold"
Speaker:
Michael
Smith (Biomedical
Engineering,
Boston
University)
Host: Ulla Hansen
December 7 (Darwin Bicentennial
Lecture) "Natural selection in humans and
pathogens"
Speaker:
Pardis Sabeti (Harvard FAS Center
for Systems Biology)
Host: Chris Schneider
December 14 (MCBB/CM) "Reversing dysfunction
in aging using stem cells"
Speaker:
Amy Wagers
(Joslin Diabetes Center)
Host: Tyler Ford and Florencia Rago (Beckman Scholars Program)
Spring
2010
February
9 (Biology
Departmental
Seminar)
"Neurexins
and
Neuroligins
Mechanisms
of
Synaptic
Cell
Adhesion"
Speaker: Tom
Südhof (Stanford University)
Host:
Angela Ho
Please note that this is a Tuesday
February
22 (Women
in Biology and MCBB/CM) "Stem cells, systemic
factors, and the control of oogenesis by diet in Drosophila"
Speaker: Daniela
Drummond-Barbosa (Johns-Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health)
Host: Women in Biology
March
1 grad recruitment - no seminar
Speaker:
Host:
March 15
(Biology
Departmental Seminar) "Molecular Neurobiology of Social Bonding:
Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorders"
Speaker:
Larry Young
(Neuroscience,
Emory
University)
Host:
Mike Baum
Please note that this seminar will be held
in BRB 113
April 5 (MCBB/CM) "Multiple Paths to a
Single End: What Legionella pneumophila Learned from Amoebae. . .
and What it Did Not"
Speaker: Ralph
Isberg (Tufts University School of Medicine)
Host: Horacio Frydman
April
12 (Biology
Departmental
Seminar) "Presenilin, APP and the Genesis of Alzheimer's Disease"
Speaker: Dennis Selkoe (Harvard
Medical School)
Host:
Angela Ho
April 26 (MCBB/CM) "Are CIDE proteins essential
for efficient fat storage in human adipose tissue?"
Speaker: Vishwajeet
Puri (BUSM)
Host: Chip Celenza
May 3 (MCBB/CM) "Role of methylation and
phosphorylation switch in epigenetic inheritance"
Speaker: Sriharsa
Pradhan (New England Biolabs)
Host: Ulla Hansen
May 10 (MCBB/CM) "ApoE Receptors and
Reelin in Brain Development and Synaptic Plasticity"
Speaker: Uwe
Beffert (BU Department of Biology)
Host: Chip Celenza