Seminar Series 2005-2006

Fall Term 2005

October 5, 2005
Peter Prevelige
University of Alabama, School of Medicine
Dept. of Microbiology
"Identification and Therapeutic Targeting of Intersubunit Interfaces in HIV"
Host: Joe Beckman

October 19, 2005
Alain Brunelle
Laboratorie de Spectrométrie
de Masse
Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles,
CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
"Molecular Imaging with MALDI and Cluster Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry"
Host: Doug Barofsky

November 2, 2005
Garry Odell
Center for Cell Dynamics
University of Washington, Friday Harbor
"Mathematical/computer modeling as a tool for comprehending cytoskeletal dynamics"
Host: Dahong Zhang

November 16, 2005
Nina Fedoroff
The Huck Institutes of Life Sciences
The Penn State University
"Signaling and Gene Expression in the Arabidopsis Oxidative Stress Response"
co-hosted with "Health and Natural Resource Biotechnology Seminar Series"

November 30, 2005
Daniel Portnoy
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
"How Listeria monocytogenes Escapes From a Vacuole, Grows and Spreads Cell-to-Cell Without Damaging its Host Cells"
Host: Luiz Bermudez

Winter Term 2006

January 25, 2006
Mark Mercola
The Burnham Institute,
La Jolla CA
"Discovery of Molecules for Lineage Selection and Differentiation of Cardiomyocytes"
Host: Chrissa Kioussi

February 22, 2006
Natasha Raikhel
Dept. of Biochemistry
University of California, Riverside
"Exploring Chemical Space in the Plant World"
Host: Valerian Dolja

March 8, 2006
Justin Borevitz
Dept. of Ecology & Evolution,
University of Chicago
"Genetics/Genomics of Light Adaptation in Arabidopsis"

Spring Term 2006

April 19, 2006
Susan Golden
Dept. of Biology
Texas A&M University
"Winding up the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock"
Host: Jaga Giebultowicz

May 3, 2006
Bruce Bowerman
Institute of Molecular Biology
University of Oregon, Eugene
"Cell Polarity and Cell Division in the Early C. elegans Embryo"
Host: Dee Denver

May 17, 2006
Peter Sarnow
Microbiology & Immunology
Stanford University
School of Medicine
"Regulation of hepatitis C virus gene expression by a liver-specific microRNA"
Host: Valerian Dolja

May 31, 2006
Claude Desplan
Dept. of Biology
New York University
"Detection and processing of color information in Drosophila"
Host: Barbara Taylor