2011-2012 Biomolecular Seminar Series
Fall 2011
September 12 (MCBB/CM) "Designing Biology with Computers”
Speaker: Douglas
Densmore (Boston University, BME)
Host: Ulla Hansen
September
19 (Biology Department-wide
seminar) "Neuron-glia
signaling after brain injury in Drosophila"
Speaker: Marc
Freeman (UMass Medical School)
Host: Kim McCall
September 26 (MCBB/CM) "Using a worm to study filamin
function and mechanotransduction in vivo"
Speaker: Erin
Cram (Northeastern University)
Host: Chip Celenza
October 3 (MCBB/CM)
October 17 (Biology
Department-wide seminar) "Genetic
evidence for interbreeding between archaic and modern humans"
Speaker: David
Reich (Harvard University)
Host:
Chip Celenza
October 24
(MCBB/CM) "Synaptic dysfunctions and
activity-dependent neurodegeneration in mice lacking Cysteine
String Protein-alpha"
Speaker: Rafael
Fernandez-Chacon (Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla)
Host: Angela Ho
October 31 (MCBB/CM)
November
7 (MCBB/CM) "Communication and
collective behavior in unicellular organisms"
Speaker:
Pankaj Mehta
(Boston University, Physics)
Host:
Chip Celenza
November 14 (MCBB/CM) (reserved for Department-wide talk)
November 21
(MCBB/CM)
November 28 (MCBB/CM) "Transcriptional
regulation of heart growth and development"
Speaker: William Pu (Department of
Cardiology, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA)
Host: Frank Naya
December 5
(MCBB/CM) "Systemic RNAi in C.
elegans and Intercellular RNA Transporters"
Speaker: Craig
Hunter (Harvard University)
Host: Colleen Drapek (on behalf of the Beckman Scholars
Program)
December 12 (MCBB/CM)
"MicroRNAs
and early zygotic transcription are necessary for plant
embryogenesis"
Speaker:
Michael Nodine (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research)
Host:
Chip Celenza
Spring
2012
January
26
(Systems Biology Search) "The molecules and
mechanisms of microbial interspecies interactions"
Speaker: Elizabeth Shank
Please note that this seminar is at
4 PM and in BRB 113
February 2 (Systems
Biology Search)
Speaker: Ted Karginov
Please note that this seminar is at
4 PM and in LSE 103
February 9 (Systems
Biology Search)
Speaker: Trevor Siggers
Please note that this seminar is at 4 PM and in LSE 103
February 13 (reserved for
Department-wide talk)
Speaker:
Host:
February 16 (Systems
Biology Search)
Speaker: Sam Gu
Please note that this seminar is at 4 PM and in LSE 103
February
21
(Systems Biology Search)
Speaker: Sylvia Fischer
Please note that this seminar is at 4 PM and in LSE 103
March 1 (Systems
Biology Search)
Speaker: Laurence Ettwiller
Please note that this seminar is at 4 PM and in LSE 103
March 5 (Department-wide talk)
Speaker: Rick Harrison
(Cornell University)
Host: Sean Mullen
April 30 (MCBB/CM) "Do mice forget where they parked the
car? A window into neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease"
Speaker: Tara
Spires-Jones (MGH)
Host: Larissa Jarzylo (Women
in Biology)
May 7 (Department-wide
talk) "Insights into the evolution of novel floral
morphology"
Speaker: Elena
Kramer (Harvard University)
Host: Sanda Zolj (Women in Biology)