2010-2011
Biomolecular Seminar Series
Fall
2010
September 13
September
20 (reserved for
Department-wide talk)
September 27 (MCBB/CM) "Microbe,
Microbe,
toxic microbe, How does your cell wall grow?"
Speaker: Deborah
Perlstein (Dept of Chemistry,
Boston University)
Host: Ulla Hansen
October 4 (MCBB/CM) "Metallothionein, a
stress response protein with potential roles in chemical,
biological
and psychological immunomodulation"
Speaker: Michael Lynes (Dept of
Molecular
and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut)
Host: Eric Widmaier
October 18 (reserved for Department-wide talk)
October 25
(MCBB/CM)
"Endocytosis-Mediated Cell Death in Drosophila Photoreceptors"
Speaker: Patrick
Dolph
(Dartmouth College)
Host: Kim
McCall
November 1
"Roles of AhR and ER in Sexual Differentiation of the Brain:
TRIPping
the Switch from Female to Male"
Speaker: Sandra
Petersen (UMass Amherst)
Host: Mara
Feld and Women
in Biology
November
8
November 15 (Department-wide talk) "How Human
Health Depends on Biodiversity"
Speaker: Eric
Chivian (Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the
Global
Environment)
Host: Tom Kunz
November 22
November 29
December 6
“Genetic Forms of Parkinson's
Disease"
Speaker: Sreeganga
Chandra (Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration
and
Repair, Yale University)
Host:
Angelo Ho
December 13
"Bromodomain Coactivators in
Obesity, Cancer and Inflammation"
Speaker:
Gerald
Denis
(Cancer Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine)
Host: Tom Gilmore
Spring 2011
January
24
January
31
(MCBB/CM)
“Neural circuit analysis enabled by a new generation of
genetic & optical technologies, optogenetics”
Speaker: Xue
Han
(BU Biomedical Engineering)
Host:
Angelo Ho
February 9
(reserved for Department-wide
talk) Please note that this is a
Wednesday.
February
14
March 7 (reserved for Department-wide talk) speaker
pending
March 21
(MCBB/CM) "Regulation of actin
dynamics during tumor progression"
Speaker: Frank
Gertler (MIT - Biology)
Host: Carolyn Ritterson Lew
March 28 (MCBB/CM) "Insights into evolution of the
nuclear receptor superfamily and circadian regulation from the sea
anemone Nematostella vectensis"
Speaker: Ann
Tarrant (WHOI)
Host: Mara Feld
April 4 (Department-wide talk) "Forward Planning
for
good
mothering: Epigenetic co-adaption of brain and placenta"
Speaker: Barry
Keverne (University of Cambridge)
Host: Michael Baum
April 11 "Molecular
control of
synapse assembly by adhesive SynCAM interactions"
Speaker: Thomas Biederer
(Dept. Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University)
Host: Angelo Ho
April 25 (MCBB/CM) "Fishing for novel
regulators of liver development and regeneration"
Speaker: Wolfram
Goessling (Harvard Stem Cell Institute/Harvard Medical
School)
Host: Ulla Hansen
May 2 (MCBB/CM)
"miRNAs in heart and skeletal muscle"
Speaker: Da-Zhi Wang
(Harvard
Medical School)
Host: Frank Naya