2011-2012

Department of Genetics and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Last updated April 26, 2012

SEPTEMBER

12 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Xin Sun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Genetics
University of Wisconsin, Madison
http://www.genetics.wisc.edu/user/71
"Dissecting the Genetic Circuity that Controls Mouse Respiratory Lineage Initiation" / CDB
26 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Mario Pirastu, M.D.
Director, Institute of Population Genetics
Italian National Research Council
Sassari, Sardinia, Italy
http://www.cnr.it/istituti/DatiGenerali_eng.html?cds=038
“Study of a Genetic Park In a Genetic Island to Define Multifactorial Diseases” / GEN

OCTOBER

3 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Richard A. Young, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biology
Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://web.wi.mit.edu/young/
“Transcriptional Control of Cell State” / GEN
10 / 12:15pm
JMB
Reunion Hall
Please note different location /

Peter Fraser, Ph.D.Nuclear Dynamics ProgrammeThe Babraham Institute, Cambridge

http://www.babraham.ac.uk/chromatin/fraser.html
“Chromatin, chromosome and nuclear dynamics; links to gene expression” / GEN
17 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / David W. Raible, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington
http://raibleweb.biostr.washington.edu/
"Sensory neuron specification from neural crest" / CDB
31 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Stuart Kim, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Developmental Biology
Stanford University
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~kimlab/
"Aging in C. elegans: Developmental Drift, Odometers and the Fish-Worm" / GEN

NOVEMBER

7 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, ÂPicower Institute for Learning and Memory
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://web.mit.edu/lhtsai/
"Epigenetic mechanisms regulating memory formation in health and disease” / CDB
14 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Kenneth J. Campbell, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Director
Division of Developmental Biology
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/research/div/dev-biology/fs/fac/kenneth-campbell.htm
"Genetic control of neural diversity and circuit formation in the developing mouse telencephalon" / GEN
21 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Susan Strome, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
University of California, Santa Cruz
http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/people/strome/Site1/Home.html
“Propagating and Antagonizing Germline Fate - Lessons from C. elegans” / GEN

DECEMBER

5 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / David L. Stern, Ph.D.
Group Leader
Janelia Farm Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
http://www.hhmi.org/research/groupleaders/stern_bio.html
“How a complex enhancer region contributes to phenotypic robustness and morphological evolution” / GEN
12 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Andrew D. Chisholm, Ph.D.
Professor
Sections of Cell and Developmental Biology and Neurobiology
University of California, San Diego
http://neurograd.ucsd.edu/faculty/detail.php?id=307
"Axon regeneration in C. elegans: screens and mechanisms" / GEN

JANUARY

9 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Wange Lu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Southern California
http://www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=94
“Molecular Mechanisms of Neural Stem Cell Self-renewal and Differentiation” / GEN
23 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / John G. Flanagan, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Harvard University
http://flanagan.hms.harvard.edu/
"Axon guidance and regeneration: transmembrane receptors and RNA-based regulation mechanisms" / CDB
30 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium /

Xi He, Ph.D.ProfessorDepartment of NeurologyHarvard Medical School

http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/he.html
“Understanding Wnt signaling and the Wnt morphogen in development and disease” / GEN

FEBRUARY

6 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Ulrike Heberlein, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anatomy
University of California, San Francisco
http://anatomy.ucsf.edu/Heberlein/Home.htm
“Flies and alcohol: How experiences affect behavior” / GEN
13 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Jef D. Boeke, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Director, High Throughput Biology Center
Johns Hopkins University
http://www.bs.jhmi.edu/MBG/boekelab/index.html
“Synthesis and scrambling of yeast chromosomes” / GEN
20 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Michael Levine, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Genetics
University of California, Berkeley
http://flydev.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/labpage/Levine_Lab/Welcome.html
"Transcriptional precision in Drosophila and evolutionary origins of the vertebrate heart and neural crest in the Ciona tadpole" / CDB
27 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Anna Huttenlocher, M.D.
Professor
Departments of Pediatrics and Medical Microbiology and Immunology
University of Wisconsin
http://www.medmicro.wisc.edu/department/faculty/huttenlocher.html
"Imaging leukocyte migration in vivo: implications to human disease" / CDB

MARCH

5 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Susan Dymecki, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Genetics
Harvard University
http://genepath.med.harvard.edu/~dymecki/people.html
"Decoding the brain serotonergic system using intersectional genetics and selective in vivo silencing" / CDB
12 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Yishi Jin, Ph.D.
Professor
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, San Diego
http://www-biology.ucsd.edu/faculty/jin.html
“Understanding excitation and inhibition balance using C. elegans” / CDB
19 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Yi Xing, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Departments of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
University of Iowa
http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/Labs/Xing/
“Evolution of Pre-mRNA Alternative Splicing” / GEN
26 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
http://zhuang.harvard.edu/
"Bioimaging on the nanoscale: Single-moleucle and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy" / CDB

APRIL

2 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Karen Oegema, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
University of California, San Diego
http://biomedsci.ucsd.edu/faculty/faculty_descrip.aspx?id=76
"Using C. elegans to dissect cell division mechanisms" / CDB
9 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / LiqunLuo, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biology
Stanford University
http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Liqun_Luo/
"Wiring Up the Olfactory Circuit" / GEN
16 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Ann Dean, Ph.D.
Gene Regulation and Development Section
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/NIDDKLabs/IntramuralFaculty/DeanAnn.htm
“Functional Organization of chromatin over long distances” / GEN
23 / 4:00pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Bernard Cohen Memorial Lecture in Genetics
CarolW. Greider, Ph.D.
Daniel Nathans Professor and Director
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
http://www.mbg.jhmi.edu/Pages/people/profile.aspx?PID=11
"The role of telomeres in stem cell failure diseases" / GEN
30 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium
/ Jon Clarke, Ph.D.
Head, Anatomy and Human Sciences
King’s College, London
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/biohealth/study/departments/anatomy/people/clarkej.aspx
“Novel aspects of cell behaviour during morphogenesis and neurogenesis in the zebrafish neural tube” / CDB

MAY

7 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Danesh Moazed, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Harvard University
http://cellbio.med.harvard.edu/faculty/moazed/
“Noncoding RNAs and RNAi in Heterochromatin Assembly” / GEN
14 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Stuart H. Orkin, M.D.
David G. Nathan Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Harvard University
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/orkin.html
“Reawakening fetal hemoglobin: reviving an old topic with modern tools” / CDB
17 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium Please note this seminar is on a Thursday / Richard Edward Green, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/people/ed
“Recent human evolution as revealed by ancient hominins” / GEN
21 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Richard Goodman, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Director, Vollum Institute
Oregon Health and Science University
http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/research/centers-institutes/vollum/faculty/faculty-profile.cfm?facultyID=122
"Activity-regulated MicroRNAs in Neuronal Growth and Maturation" / GEN

JUNE

4 / 12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium / Anthony Hyman
Director, Microtubules and Cell Division
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
http://hymanlab.mpi-cbg.de/hyman_lab/ / CDB