FACULTY RECRUITMENT SEMINARS | SPRING 2013

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6

11:00 a.m. | Class of '62 Auditorium, John Morgan Building

Amit Reddi, Ph.D.

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins University

“A new role for an old copper enzyme in oxygen and glucose sensing”

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11

12:00 noon | 252 BRB II/III

Duncan Smith, Ph.D.

HHMI Fellow of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, Sloan-Kettering Institute

“Eukaryotic DNA replication: the view from the lagging strand”

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18

12:15 p.m. | 252 BRB II/III

Dipali Sashital, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute

“Structure, function and assembly of RNA-protein complexes involved in bacterial adaptive immunity and protein synthesis”

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25

12:15 p.m. | 252 BRB II/III

Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, Ph.D.

Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder

“Roles of the telomere protein complex POT1-TPP1 in chromosome end protection and end replication”

MONDAY, MARCH 4

12:15 p.m. | 252 BRB II/III

Jen Hsin , Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University

“Discovering the molecular mechanisms of the bacterial division machinery”

THURSDAY, MARCH 7

12:00 noon | Austrian Auditorium, CRB

Roberto Zoncu, Ph.D.

Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

“More than a recycle bin: mechanisms of nutrient sensing and signaling by the lysosome”

MONDAY, MARCH 11

12:15 p.m. | 252 BRB II/III

Qiong Yang, Ph.D.

HHMI Fellow of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University

"From molecules to development: revealing simple rules of biological clocks"

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20

12:00 noon | Class of '62 Auditorium, John Morgan Building

Jeremy Wilusz, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Changing dogmas of post-transcriptional control: Lessons from a noncoding RNA”