SEPTEMBER

10

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main
Auditorium

Gavin Sherlock, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Genetics
Stanford University

"Following Adaptive Evolution in Yeast using High Throughput Population Sequencing Reveals Repeated Loss of Network Complexity"

GEN

Shanthini Sockanathan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University

"Novel mechanisms regulating neurogenesis in the developing nervous system"

OCTOBER

1

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

S. Lawrence Zipursky, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

“Cell Recognition and Wiring the Brain”

CDB

8

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Dale Dorsett, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Saint Louis University School of Medicine

"Cohesin controls Polycomb function and RNA polymerase activity at both active and silenced genes"

GEN

22

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Paul Sternberg, Ph.D.
Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
California Institute of Technology

“Genomics and Chemical Ecology of Nematode Social Communication”

GEN

NOVEMBER

5

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Xinyu Zhao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
University of Wisconsin, Madison

“Post-transcriptional regulation of neural stem cells and neurodevelopmental disorders”

GEN

12

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

CANCELLED
Mario Pirastu
Institute of Population Genetic
National Research Council
Sassari, Italy

“Ogliastra Genetic Park: analysis of multifactorial diseases in an ideal population”

GEN

Eric F. Wieschaus, Ph.D.
Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University

“The Mechanics of Cell Shape Change during Drosophila Gastrulation”

DECEMBER

3

12:15pm
JMB
Class of '62
PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN USUAL

Deborah J. Andrew, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cell Biology and Center for Cell Dynamics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

"Regulating organogenesis: From cell-type specification to production of tissue-specific gene products"

GEN

10:00am
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium
PLEASE NOTE SEMINAR ON FRI @ 10AM

Jian Xu, Ph.D.
Instructor in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Harvard Medical School

“From Genetic Association to Genetic Switches”

Tae Hoon Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics
Yale University School of Medicine

"Exploring new frontiers of transcriptional regulation"

JANUARY

7

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Thomas A. Rando, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford University

“Molecular Regulation of stem cell quiescence”

CDB

14

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

H. Joseph Yost, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
University of Utah

“Combinatorial Heparan Sulfate codes regulate cell signaling pathways during cardiovascular development”

CDB

28

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

James Manley, Ph.D.
Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Life Sciences
Columbia University

"mRNA processing and links to human disease"

GEN

FEBRUARY

4

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

CANCELLED
Michael A. Dyer, Ph.D.
Member, Department of Development Neurobiology
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Professor, Departments of Ophthalmology and Anatomy and Neurobiology University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist

“Retinoblastoma: Bridging Developmental Neurobiology and Cancer Genetics”

GEN

11

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Keith Mostov, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Anatomy and Biochemistry/Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco

"Morphogenesis and regeneration of multicellular epithelial structures"

CDB

18

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Amy Wagers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard University
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist

“Reversing dysfunction in aged tissues”

CDB

25

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Arend Sidow, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Pathology and Genetics
Stanford University

"Breast Cancer Evolution: Precursors to Carcinoma"

GEN

MARCH

4

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Sharon Y.R. Dent, Ph.D.
Interim Vice Provost for Laboratory and Basic Science
Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis
Director, Science Park
Director, Center for Cancer Epigenetics
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

“A SAGA of Gcn5 and Usp22 Functions”

GEN
and
CDB

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Angelika Amon, Ph.D.
Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor of Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

 “Causes and Consequences of Aneuploidy”

18

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Student Invited Seminar Speaker
Michael Rosbash, Ph.D.
Peter Gruber Professor of Neuroscience
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Brandeis University

“Genome-wide Approaches and Circadian Regulation of Gene Expression”

GEN

APRIL

8

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Mark F. Bear, Ph.D.
Picower Professor of Neuroscience
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Pathophysiology and treatment of fragile X and related disorders”

GEN

15

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Zena Werb, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice-Chair
Department of Anatomy
University of California, San Francisco

"Of Mice and Women: How studying mammary development informs us about breast cancer metastasis"

CDB

22

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Sean Morrison, Ph.D.

CDB

MAY

6

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Yi Zhang, Ph.D.

GEN

Bernard Cohen Memorial Lecture in Genetics

Mary-Claire King, Ph.D.
American Cancer Society Professor
Departments of Medicine (Medical Genetics) and Genome Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine

JUNE

3

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Alex Meissner, Ph.D.

GEN