The Genetics & Genomics Department Seminars feature guest speakers.
The seminars are on Thursdays at 1 pm. unless noted otherwise.
Past Seminars:
Thursday, June 5, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room L 303.
Maize NDC80 is a Constitutive Feature of the Central Kinetochore and CENP-C targets centromeres by a novel DNA/RNA interaction
Yaqing Du, M.S.
*Post-doc candidate*
University of Georgia
Thursday, May 22, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room L 303.
Signaling interplay in regulation of cancer and longevity: Raf, 14-3-3, Akt-FoxO and nicotinamide-Sirtuins
Guri Tzivion, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Karmanos Cancer Institute & Department of Pathology
Wayne State University Medical School
Host: Zhijun Luo
Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room L 303.
Optical Fiber Microarrays
Dr. David Walt
Robinson Professor of Chemistry
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Department of Chemistry
Tufts University
Host: Shoumita Dasgupta
Thursday, May 8, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room L 303.
Order Versus Chaos in Spontaneous Mutation
John W. Drake, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator and Chief
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Host: Yuriy Alekseyev
Thursday, May 1, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room L 303.
Studies in genomic science: from AIDS to Aging
Monty Montano, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Host: Landon Moore
Thursday, April 24, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room L 303.
Mammalian reproductive organ development and disease
Richard R. Behringer, PhD
Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
**Student host: Dorothy Pazin**
Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room L 303.
Notch signalling and the control metazoan cell fates
Dr. Spyridon Artavanis-Tsakonas
Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
**Student host: Constantina Christodoulou**
Thursday, April 10, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room L 303.
Constructing tissue-to-tissue whole gene networks to map obesity, diabetes and atherosclerosis circuits
Dr. Eric Schadt
Sr. Scientific Director
Genetics Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck and Co)
Host: Martin Steffen
Thursday, April 3, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room L 303.
Meiotic chromatin cohesion and DNA damage surveillance are necessary for embryonic patterning
Vitor Barbosa, Ph.D.
Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine
Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine NYU School of Medicine
Host: Kenn Albrecht
Thursday, March 27, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room L 303.
Polyglutamine expansion and neurodegeneration
Xiao-Jiang Li, M.D., Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Department of Human Genetics
Emory University School of Medicine
Host: Zhijun Luo
Thursday, March 20, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room L303.
Molecular regulation of hematopoietic development
Fernando D. Camargo Ph.D.
Whitehead Fellow
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
**Student Host: Catalina Perdomo**
Thursday, March 13, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room L 303.
Insight of Neuronal Death by Mixed Lineage Kinase-3
Ajay Rana, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Zhijun Luo
Thursday, March 6, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room L 303.
Functional genomics, experimental models and cancer
William C. Hahn, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medical Oncology
Harvard Medical School
**Student host: Ihn Young Song**
Thursday, February 28, 2008 @ 6 pm. Room R 103.
TBA
Thursday, February 21, 2008 @ 6 pm. Room R 103.
TBA
Thursday, February 14, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room L 303.
Vascular Proteomics in Cancer and Obesity
Mikhail Kolonin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Centre for Stem Cell Research
University of Texas
Host: Yuriy Alekseyev
Thursday, February 7, 2008 @ 6 pm. Room R 115.
TBA
Thursday, January 31, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room R 115.
Visualizing Clonal Expansion of Mutant Pancreatic Cells in vivo
Bevin Engelward, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Engineering
MIT
(Host-Yuriy Alekseyev)
Thursday, January 24, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room R 115.
DNA damage tolerance during early embryogenesis in C. elegans
Matthew Michael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard Medical School
*Student Host Seminar (Host-Tovah Day)
Thursday, January 17, 2008 @ 1 pm. Room R 103.
Genetic Analysis of Breast Pre-malignancy
Carol Rosenberg, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Hematology/Oncology
Boston University School of Medicine
Thursday, December 13, 2007 @ 1 pm. Room R 103.
Systemic RNAi and intercellular RNA transport and delivery
Dr. Craig P. Hunter
Professor
Biological Laboratories
Harvard University
Thursday, December 6, 2007 @ 1 pm. Room R 103.
Managing Misfolded Proteins: LRRK2 and Parkinson's disease
Dr. Benjamin Wolozin
Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Boston University School of Medicine
Thursday, November 15, 2007 @ 1 pm. Room R103.
The Surgeon's Role in Translational Oncology
Dr. Jennifer E. Rosen
The Laszlo N. Tauber Assistant Professor of Surgery
Section of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery
Boston University School of Medicine
Thursday, November 8, 2007 @ 1 pm. Room R 103.
Regulation of LKB1, an enzyme responsible for Peutz-Jagher Syndrome
Dr. Yasuo Ido
Assistant Professor, the Diabetes Research Unit
Department of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Thursday, November 1, 2007 @ 1 pm. Room R103.
The Two Gene Breast Cancer Signature: Trials and Tribulations
Dr. Dennis C. Sgroi
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Thursday, October 25, 2007 @ 2 pm. Room R 103.
Natural selection in humans and pathogens
Dr. Pardis Sabeti
Broad Institute of MI T and Harvard
Thursday, October 18, 2007 @ 1 pm. Room R 103.
Translating the airway transcriptome into a clinically relevant biomarker for lung cancer
Dr. Avrum Spira
Assistant Professor
MED Pulmonary Center
Boston University School of Medicine
Thursday, October 11, 2007 @ 1 pm. Room R 103.
p53-MDM2-RB networking in controlling cell proliferation, apoptosis and differentiation
Dr. Jim Xiao
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine
Department of Biochemistry and Department of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Thursday, October 4, 2007 @ 1 pm. Room R 103.
Gene sequences regulating reactive oxygen intermediates induction of inflammation
Dr. Daniel Remick
Chairman
Department of Pathology
Boston University School of Medicine
Thursday, September 20, 2007 @ 1 pm. Room R 103.
TBA
Thursday, September 13, 2007 @ 1 pm. Room R 103.
The role of the Werner syndrome protein (WRN) in mediating DNA damage responses to replicative stress at telomeres
Dr. Mark Eller
Research Associate Professor
Department of Dermatology
Boston University School of Medicine
Thursday, September 6, 2007 @ 1 pm. Room R 103.
Genome-scale mapping of transcription networks: Applications to bioenergy and infectious disease
Dr. Timothy Gardner
Assistant Professor
ENG Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
Thursday, May 11, 2006 @ 1 pm. Room R103.
Rise of the actin machines: mechanisms underlying cell morphogenesis
Dr. Bruce Goode
Associate Professor
Rosensteil Basic Medical Science Research Center
Department of Biology
Brandeis University
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 @ 2 pm. Room R103.
Interrogating the Transcriptome: Applications for Whole Genome Tiling Arrays
Alicia Burt
Senior Marketing Manager
Affymetrix
