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.

CDB

14

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

H. Joseph Yost, Ph.D.

CDB

28

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

James Manley, Ph.D.”

GEN

FEBRUARY

4

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Michael Dyer, Ph.D.

GEN

11

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Keith Mostov, M.D., Ph.D.

CDB

18

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Amy Wagers, Ph.D.

CDB

25

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Arend Sidow, Ph.D.

GEN

MARCH

4

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Sharon Y.R. Dent, Ph.D.

GEN

18

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Michael Rosbash, Ph.D.”

GEN

25

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Karen Adelman, Ph.D.”

CDB

APRIL

8

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Mark Bear, Ph.D.

GEN

15

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Zena Werb, Ph.D.

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

JUNE

3

12:15pm
BRB II/III
Main Auditorium

Alex Meissner, Ph.D.

GEN