UPenn Cell & Developmental Biology
Seminars Series - 2012 Spring Schedule
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The Department of Cell & Developmental Biology hosts a different speaker every Monday (unless otherwise noted) of the academic year, with invitees ranging from postdoctoral researchers to prominent scientists presenting a broad array of current, cell & developmental biology-related research. Our series is co-sponsored with the Department of Genetics and the Institute for Regenerative Medicine. We encourage all interested faculty, students and staff to attend.
click here for 2012 FALL Schedule
click here for 2013 SPRING Schedule
click here for Chalk Tak Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, location and time: 12:15 p.m., Biomedical Research Building II/III
To link to the speaker's laboratory, please click on their name.
| January 9 | Wange Lu, Ph.D. “Molecular Mechanisms of Neural Stem Cell Self-renewal and Differentiation” Host: Joe Zhou, Ph.D. (Genetics) |
| January 23 | John G. Flanagan, PhD "Axon guidance and regeneration: transmembrane receptors and RNA-based regulation mechanisms." Host: Ali Rosenberg, Graduate Student (CDB) |
| January 30 | Xi He, Ph.D. “Understanding Wnt signaling and the Wnt morphogen in development and disease” Host: Zhoalan Zhou, Ph.D.(Genetics) |
Thursday February 2 JMB Class of 62 |
Maralice Conacci-Sorrell, Ph.D. "Calpains and Myc: from proliferation to differentiation" Host: Mary Mullins, Ph.D. (CDB Faculty Recruitment) |
| February 6 | Ulrike Heberlein, Ph. D. “Flies and alcohol: How experiences affect behavior” Host: Thomas Jongens, Ph.D. (Genetics) |
| February 13 | Jef D. Boeke, Ph.D. “Synthesis and scrambling of yeast chromosomes” Host: Steve Liebhaber, Ph.D. (Genetics) |
Thursday February 16 1412 BRB II/III |
Jeremy Wilbur, Ph.D. "Microtubule destabilizing factors scale spindle size " Host: Mary Mullins, Ph.D. (CDB Faculty Recruitment) |
February 20 Austrian Auditorium
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Nathan W. Goehring, Ph.D. "Design principles of a cell polarity network " Host: Mary Mullins, Ph.D. (CDB Faculty Recruitment) |
| February 20 | Michael Levine, Ph.D. "Transcriptional precision in Drosophila and evolutionary origins of the vertebrate heart and neural crest in the Ciona tadpole" Host: Rachel Kadzik, Graduate Student (CDB) |
| February 27 | Anna Huttenlocher, Ph.D. "Imaging leukocyte migration in vivo: implications to human disease " Host: Erfei Bi, Ph.D. (CDB) |
| March 5 | Susan Dymecki, M.D., Ph.D. Title: "Decoding the brain serotonergic system using intersectional genetics and selective in vivo silencing." Host: Grace Lin, Graduate Student (CDB) |
| March 12 | Yishi Jin, Ph.D. Title: " Understanding excitation and inhibition balance using C. elegans " Host: Gregory Bashaw, Ph.D. and Michael Granato, Ph.D. (CDB) |
| March 19 | Yi Xing, Ph.D. Title: “Evolution of Pre-mRNA Alternative Splicing” Host: Russ Carstens, M.D. (Genetics) |
| March 26 | Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D. "Bioimaging on the nanoscale: Single-moleucle and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy" Host: Mary Mullins, Ph.D. (CDB) |
| April 2 | Karen Oegema, Ph.D. Title: " Using C. elegans to dissect cell division mechanisms " Host: Erfei Bi, Ph.D. (CDB) |
| April 9 | Liqun Luo, Ph.D. Title: "Wiring Up the Olfactory Circuit" Host: Alexandra Neuhaus-Follini, Graduate Student (Genetics) |
| April 16 | Ann Dean, Ph.D. Title: “Functional Organization of chromatin over long distances” Host: Steve Liebhaber, Ph.D. (Genetics) |
April 23 |
Carol Greider, Ph.D. Host: Stephen A. Liebhaber, Ph.D. ( Genetics Bernard Cohen Lecture) |
| April 30 | Professor Jon Clarke Title: Novel aspects of cell behaviour during morphogenesis and neurogenesis in the zebrafish neural tube Host: Michael Granato, Ph.D. (CDB) |
| May 7 | Danesh Moazed, Ph.D. Title: “Noncoding RNAs and RNAi in Heterochromatin Assembly” Host: Jessica Bryant, Graduate Student (Genetics) |
May 9 |
Tom Maniatis, Ph.D. Title: "The Role of Single Cell Diversity in the Brain: Regulation and Function of the Clustered Protocadherins" Host: Marisa Bartolomei, Ph.D. (Cell and Molecular Biology Training Grant) |
| May 14 | Stuart H. Orkin, M.D. Title:" Reawakening fetal hemoglobin: reviving an old topic with modern tools" Faculty Host: M. Celeste Simon, Ph.D. (CDB R.G. Williams Lecture) |
| May 21 | Richard Goodman, M.D., Ph.D. Title: "Activity-regulated MicroRNAs in Neuronal Growth and Maturation" Host: Zhaolan Zhou, Ph.D. (Genetics) |
| June 4 | Prof. Anthony Hyman Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Host: Erfei Bi, Ph.D. and Mary Mullins, Ph.D. (CDB Pepe Lecture) |
| June 11 | OPEN |
| June 18 | OPEN |
| June 25 | OPEN |
click here for 2011 FALL Schedule |
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