The Molecular Biology Department’s seminar program is one of the very best on campus.
We make a strong effort to bring in visiting scientists who can provide a entertaining,
enlightening, and current research report on an important area of molecular biology.
Shown below is a listing of the current semester’s seminar speakers. Note that departmental
seminars during Spring 2008 semester will start at 2:10 pm. in room 103 of the Animal
Science/Molecular Biology building.
Date
Speaker & Affiliation
Seminar Title
Host
1/18/08
Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Genetic Modification of Insect Vectors of Disease: Past Accomplishments and Future
Prospects
Christoph Geisler
Graduate student
1/25/08
Byron Caughey
Rocky Mtn Labs
Prion diseases: agent characterization, detection and treatment
Lewis
2/1/08
Dr. Carol Blair
Colorado State University
RNA interference as an innate immune response to arboviruses in mosquitoes
Jarvis
2/8/08
Mark Gomelsky
Sabbatical report
Liberles
2/15/08
Hiten Madhani
UCSF
Chromatin fine structure determinants and their implications for gene control
Amit Thakar
Postdoc
2/22/08
Oliver Rando
UMass Medical School
Static and dynamic genome-wide views of yeast chromatin
Zlatanova
2/29/08
Tim Galitski
Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
Systems Genetics
Wall
3/7/08
Mary Hunzicker-Dunn
Washington State University
Glycoprotein hormone signaling pathways in ovarian granulosa cells
Amy Albertson
Graduate student
3/14/08
Erik Nielsen
University of Michigan
A Role for Phosphoinositides in Polar Secretion During Root Hair Development
Daniel Hill
Graduate student
3/28/08
Valeria Souza
UNAM – Mexico
Cuatro Cienegas Coahuila a microbial Galapagos
Jackson & Ward
4/4/08
Bruce Lahn
University of Chicago
Probing the genetic basis of human brain evolution
Liberles
4/11/08
Dan Gold
Favrille, Inc.
Immunotherapy of Non-Hodgkin’s B cell lymphoma; an Intersection of Basic and Applied
Science
Jarvis
Reinvite from last semester
4/18/08
Carla Koehler
Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry, UCLA
Understanding how defects in mitochondrial assembly lead to disease
Thorsness
4/25/08
Belinda Chang
University of Toronto
Reconstructing ancestral visual pigments
Steven Massey
Postdoc
5/2/08
Pete Okkema
U. Illinois @ Chicago
Transcriptional control of C. elegans pharyngeal development and function
Fay
