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September '12
5
    3 2pm - 3pm Labor Day
    10 2pm - 3pm "Mechanics and Mechanotransduction of Tumorigenic Cells" Ning Wang, Mechanical science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Champaign.
CRB, Austrian Auditorium
    17 2pm - 3pm Dynamic Behavior of Tau on the Microtubule Surface. Christopher L. Berger, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, CRB, Austrian Auditorium
    24 2pm - 3pm "Microenvironment stiffness and intracellular force in cell cycling and cardiovascular disease" Richard Assoian, MD, PhD, Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania, CRB, Austrian Auditorium

October '12
5
    1 2pm - 3pm “Mechanotransduction in 3D microtissues- Modeling the role of geometry and stiffness” Vivek Shenoy, Ph.D. Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, CRB Austrian Auditorium.
    8 2pm - 3pm "New strategies for uncovering how chromosomes are segregated during mitosisA" Charles Asbury, PhD, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington, CRB, Austrian Auditorium
    15 2pm - 3pm “Deciphering microtubule-based positioning strategies in vitro" Marileen Dogterom, Ph.D. Marileen Dogterom, PhD, Department of Physics of Biomolecular Systems, The Netherlands FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), CRB, Austrian Auditorium
    22 2pm - 3pm John Crocker, Ph.D., Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, CRB, Austrian Auditorium
    29 2pm - 3pm “Tropomyosin directed regulation of the actin cytoskeleton in time and space: Toward a physiology of the actin cytoskeleton and development of anti-cytoskeleton chemotherapeutics” Peter Gunning, Ph.D. Oncology Research Un it, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales

November '12
5
    5 2pm - 3pm "A curious role for the microtubule cytoskeleton in control of cell proliferation…..it's not just about mitosis" Lynne Cassimeris, PhD, Dept of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University
    12 2pm - 3pm CANCELLED-Matt Lord, PhD, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, CRB, Austrian Auditorium
    19 2pm - 3pm Dianqing Wu, PhD, Department of Pharmacology, Yale University, "New Insights into Cell Migration Regulation" CRB, Austrian Auditorium.
    26 2pm - 3pm CANCELLED-David J. Sharp, Ph.D. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, "Microtubule mechanisms of cell migration" CRB, Austrian Auditorium

December '12
5
    3 2pm - 3pm Jim Holaska, PhD, Department of Medicine (Cardiology), University of Chicago, "Dynamic organization of the nucleus during muscle stem cell differentiation." CRB, Austrian Auditorium
    10 2pm - 3pm Hilary Coller, PhD, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, CRB, Austrian Auditorium. "Cells: The Secret Life of Quiescent Fibroblasts"
    17 2pm - 3pm ASCB
    24 2pm - 3pm NO SEMINAR
    31 2pm - 3pm Winter Break

January '13
5
    7 2pm - 3pm Jodi Nunnari, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis
    14 2pm - 4pm Christopher A.G. McCulloch, Ph.D., Professor, Matrix Dynamics Group, Faculty of Dentistry 
    21 2pm - 3pm MLK Day
    28 2pm - 3pm Harold A. Fisk, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Special Fellow of the Leukemia and Lymphona Society, Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University

February '13
5
    4 2pm - 3pm Biophysical Society Meeting
    11 2pm - 3pm Avital Rodal, PhD. Assistant Professor of Biology, Brandeis University
    18 2pm - 3pm David Sharp, Ph.D.,Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
    25 2pm - 3pm Daniel J. Tschumperlin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Airway Biology, Harvard School of Public Health

March '13
5
    4 2pm - 3pm Michael Sheetz, PhD, William R Kenan Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University
    11 2pm - 3pm Nava Segev, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
    18 2pm - 3pm Robert D. Goldman, Ph.D., Stephen Walter Ranson Professor and Chair, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology 
    25 2pm - 3pm Johnathan M. Scholey, PhD.

April '13
5
    1 2pm - 3pm Matt Lord, PhD, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, CRB, Austrian Auditorium
    8 2pm - 3pm Susan P. Gilbert, PhD. Professor and Head, Department of Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    15 2pm - 3pm Don C. Rockey, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina
    22 2pm - 3pm David Drubin, PhD, Cell and Developmental Biology, Univ of California, Berkeley
    29 2pm - 3pm  

May '13
5
    6 2pm - 3pm  
    13 2pm - 3pm  
    20 2pm - 3pm  
    27 2pm - 3pm  

June '13
5
         
         

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