Cell & Developmental Biology

UPenn Cell & Developmental Biology

Seminars and Chalk Talks

If you are interested in receiving e-mail notices and reminders regarding seminars and events sponsored by the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, please e-mail Kim Sheppard.

Department events are also listed on the School of Medicine Events Calendar.

Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

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.

Cell & Developmental Biology Chalk Talks

The Department of Cell & Developmental Biology hosts monthly Chalk Talks, scheduled on selected Thursdays. We encourage all interested faculty, students and staff to attend. See the list of chalk talks below.

 

2009-2010 Seminar Series

To link to the speaker's laboratory, please click on their name.

November

23 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Susan R. Wente, Ph. D.
Chair and Professor
Cell and Developmental Biology
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Senior Associate Dean for
Biomedical Sciences
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Title: "Regulation of nucleocytoplasmic transport"

Host: Mary Mullins, Ph.D.

CDB
30 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Martha L. Bulyk, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Medicine Pathology and Health Sciences & Technology
Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard
Medical School

Host: Jonathan Epstein, M.D.

CDB

December

7 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Yimin Zou, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Section of Neurobiology
University of California, San Diego

Title: “Wnt and Cell Polarity Signaling
Pathways in Growth Cone Guidance”

Host: Michael Granato, Ph.D.

CDB

 

 

TOP

14 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Anne E. West, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Duke University Medical Center

Host: Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou, Ph.D.

Genetics
21  
No Seminar Scheduled
 
28  
No Seminar Scheduled
(Winter Break - University Closed)
 

January

4 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Julie Baker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Genetics
Stanford University Medical Center

Host: Daniel S. Kessler, Ph.D.

CDB
11 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Jeremy S. Dasen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Smilow Neuroscience Program
Department of Physiology and Neuroscience
New York University School of Medicine

Host: Douglas Epstein, Ph.D.

Genetics
18  

No Seminar Scheduled
(MLK Day - University Closed
)

 

 
25 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Leonard Zon, M.D.
HHMI Investigator
Director, Stem Cell Research Program
Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital Boston

Title: "Pathways affecting stem cell self-renewal"

Host: Mary Mullins, Ph.D.

CDB
27 Annenberg Auditorium
IRM

February

1 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

John A. Stamatoyannopoulos M.D.
Assistant Professor
Departments of Genome Sciences and
Medicine
University of Washington

Host: Steve Liebhaber, M.D.

Genetics
8 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Cecilia Moens, Ph.D.
HHMI Investigator
Associate Member
Division of Basic Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Host: Michael Granato, Ph.D.

CDB
15 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Cliff Tabin, Ph.D.
George Jacob and Jacqueline Hazel Leder
Professor and Chair,  Genetics
Harvard University

Title: "The Development and Evolution of Vertebrate Morphology"

Host: Alex Brown

CDB Student Invited Seminar
22 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Lynne E. Maquat, Ph.D.
J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Director, University of Rochester Center for RNA Biology: From Genome to Medicine
Chair, University of Rochester Graduate
Women in Science
School of Medicine and Dentistry
University of Rochester

Host: Dustin Hancks
Graduate Student

Genetics Student Invited Seminar

March

1 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Zhigang He, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Neurology
Kirby Neurobiology Center
Children's Hospital
Harvard University

Host: Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou, Ph.D.

Genetics
8 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Robert E. Kingston, Ph.D.
Professor, Genetics
Department of Molecular Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Host: Tom Kadesch, Ph.D.

Genetics
15 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Ian Chambers
Group Leader, Embryonic Stem Cell Biology
Institute for Stem Cell Research
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine
University of Edinburgh

Host: Kenneth Zaret, Ph.D.

IRM
22 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

 

Eric J. Nestler, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair,  Neuroscience
Director, Brain Institute
Professaor, Psychiatry
Professor,  Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

Host: Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou, Ph.D.

Genetics
29 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Paul Forscher, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Yale University

Host: Michael O'Donnell
Graduate Student

CDB Student Invited Seminar

 

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April

5 12:15pm
JMB Class of 62

Daniela Zarnescu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
University of Arizona

Host: Aaron Gitler, Ph.D. and
Thomas Jongens, Ph.D.

CDB/Genetics
12 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Lucy Shapiro, Ph.D.
Professor, Biology and Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research
Stanford University School of Medicine

Host: Erfei Bi, Ph.D.

CDB Pepe Lecture / Microbiology Seminar
19 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Leah Cowen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Toronto

Host: Aaron Gitler, Ph.D.

CDB
26 4:00pm
CRB Austrian Auditorium

Haifan Lin, Ph.D.
Professor, Cell Biology
Yale University

Host: M. Celeste Simon, Ph.D.

CDB
28 (W) TBD
BRB II/III
Auditorium

Margaret (Minx) Fuller, Ph.D.
Professor, Developmental Biology,
Professor, Genetics
Member, Bio-X
Member, Cancer Center
Stanford School of Medicine

Host: Shannon Fisher, Ph.D. and
Stephen DiNardo, Ph.D.

CDB
R.G. Williams Lecture

May

3 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Richard H. Goodman, M.D., Ph. D.
Director and Senior Scientist
Vollum Institute
Oregon Health & Science University

Host: Klaus Kaestner, Ph.D.

Genetics
10 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Sean Carroll, Ph.D.
HHMI Investigator
Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
University of Wisconsin

Host: Tom Kadesch, Ph.D.

Genetics
12 (W) 8:00-5:00pm
BRB II/III Auditorium
CDB Symposium
CDB
17 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Utpal Banerjee, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Molecular Cell & Dev. Biology
Professor, Biological Chemistry
Co-Director, Broad Stem Cell Center HHMI Professor
University of California, Los Angeles

Host: Nancy Speck, Ph.D.

CBD
24 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Bradley Bernstein M.D., Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Cancer Research at
Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor Pathology
Harvard Medical School

Host: Kenneth Zaret, Ph.D.

IRM
31  
No Seminar Scheduled
(Memorial Day - University Closed)
 

June

7 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Yang Shi, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School

Host: Kenneth Zaret, Ph.D.

IRM
14 12:15pm
BRB II/III Auditorium

Ross L. Cagan, Ph.D.
Professor, Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Professor, Oncological Sciences
Professor, Ophthalmology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Title: "Fly models of cancer and diabetes: a novel search for therapeutics"

Host: Morris Birnbaum, M.D., Ph.D.

CDB
21

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Auditorium

Jeannie T. Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Molecular Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Department. of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Host: Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou, Ph.D.

Genetics

2009 - 2010 CDB Chalk Talk Series

To link to the PI's laboratory, please click on their name.

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December 3

4:00 p.m.
251 BRB II/III
Granato Lab

January 7

TBD

Berger Lab

February 4

TBD Kessler Lab

March 4

TBD Gitler Lab

April 1

TBD Millar Lab

May 6

TBD Bi Lab

June 3

TBD

Tran Lab

Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology
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Tel: (215) 573-9306
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