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Guest Speaker

Title

Host

Aug 23

Dr. Michael Pack
Dept. of Medicine
Univ. of Pennsylvania

Genetic Analysis of Hepatobiliary Development in Zebrafish

Xiaolei Xu, Ph.D.

Aug 30

Dr. Helmut Kramer
Center for Basic Neuroscience
Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Endocytic Trafficking: A View Through the Fly Eye

Bruce Horazdovsky, Ph.D.

Sep 6

Dr. Guowei Fang
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Stanford Univ.

Functional Genomic Approaches

Junjie Chen, Ph.D.

Sep 12

Jonathan S. Wall, Ph.D.
Dept. Human Biology and Cancer Center
University of Texas
Knoxville, TN

PET, SPECT, and CT Micro-Imaging of Peripheral Amyloid in Mice

Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D.

Sep 13

Dr. Lori Wallrath
Dept. of Medicine
Univ. of Iowa

Connections Between a Gene Silencing Protein and Breast Cancer Metastasis. Studies of HP1 in Fruit Flies and Humans

Raul Urrutia, M.D.

Sep 19

Sep 20

Dr. Jessica Treisman
Developmental Genetics Program
New York Univ. Medical Center

UPDATED

Pattern Formation in the Drosophila Eye Disc

Amy Tang, Ph.D.

Sep 26

Steven Henikoff, Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington

Histone Turnover and Epigenetics

Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D.

Sep 27

Dr. Kenneth A. Jacobson
Cell and Development Biology
University of North Carolina

Looking for Lipid Rafts

Drs. LaRusso and McNiven

Oct 3

Jason D. Kahn, Ph.D.
Dept. Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Maryland
College Park, MD

Flexibility and Control of Protein-DNA Loops

James Maher, Ph.D.

Oct 4

Dr. Thomas Melendy
Univ. of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

An in vitro replication checkpoint response dependent on ATR but independent of hChk1

Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D.

Oct 10

Gary Nelsestuen, Ph.D.
Dept Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Factor VII and Other Vitamin K-Dependent Proteins with Enhanced Function

Whyte Owen, Ph.D.

Oct 11

Dr. Howard Young
Dept. of Biochemistry
Univ. of Alberta

Molecular Insights Into Heart Disease: Phospholamban is a Perfect Reversible Inhibitor

Emanuel Strehler, Ph.D.

Oct 18

Dr. Carole Mendelson
Univ. of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Fetal-Maternal Signaling in the Initiation of Parturition

Bruce Horazdovsky, Ph.D.

Oct 25

Geoffrey M. Wahl, Ph.D.
Salk Institute
La Jolla, California

Mouse Bites Dogma: Mouse Models Provide New Insights Into the Mechanisms That Control the p53 Stress Response Pathway

Junjie Chen, Ph.D.

Nov 1

Dr. Judith Karp
Division of Hematologic Malignancies
Johns Hopkins Oncology Center

Amy Tang, Ph.D.

Nov 8

Dr. Gilles Trave
Ecole Superieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg
Universite Louis Pasteur

Georges Mer, Ph.D.

Nov 15

Dr. Joel Buxbaum
Dept. of Molecular and Experimental Medicine
The Scripps Research Institute

Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D.

Nov 29

Dr. Vladimir Parpura
Dept. of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Univ. of California

Stanimir Vuk-Pavlovic, Ph.D.

Dec 6

Dr. Thomas Clemens
Dept. of Pathology
Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham

Drs. Oursler and Spelsberg

Dec 13

Dr. Anja-Katrin Bielinsky
Dept. of Biochemistry
Univ. of Minnesota Medical School

Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D.

Jan 17

Samuel I. Gunderson, Ph.D.
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ

Daniel Billadeau, Ph.D.

Jan 24

Dr. Jason Kahn
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Univ. of Maryland

Jim Maher, Ph.D.

Jan 31

Dr. Anna Marie Kenney
Dept. of Pediatrics-CH
Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Cynthia Wetmore, Ph.D.

Feb 7

Dr. Guillermo Garcia-Carena
Lab. for Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School

Vijay Shah, M.D.

Mar 14

Dr. Patricia Clark
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Univ. of Notre Dame

Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D.

Mar 21

Dr. Gregory Payne
Dept. of Biological Chemistry
UCLA School of Medicine

David Katzmann, Ph.D.

Mar 28

Dr. Wesley Sundquist
Dept. of Biochemistry
Univ. of Utah

Roberto Cattaneo, Ph.D.

Apr 4

Dr. Robert Batey
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Univ. of Colorado-Boulder

Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D.

Apr 11

Dr. Richard Morimoto
Dept. of Biochemistry,
Molecular Biology and Cell Biology
Northwestern Univ.

Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D.

Apr 18

Dr. Steven Brill
Dept. of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Rutgers Univ.

Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D.

Apr 25

Dr. W. Lee Kraus
Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Cornell Univ.

Drs. Dehm and Tindall

May 2

Dr. Ann Marie Pendergast
Dept. of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Duke Univ. Medical Center

Daniel Billadeau, Ph.D.

May 9

Dr. Jasper Rine
Univ. of California, Berkeley

Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D.

May 16

Dr. Keji Zhao
Lab. of Molecular Immunology
NIHLBI/NIH

Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D.

May 23

William G. Kaelin, Jr., M.D.
Dana Farber Cancer Insitute,
Harvard Medical School

Dev Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D.

May 30

Dr. Alan Kimmel
Molecular Mechanisms of Deveopment Section, Cheif
Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology
NIDDK, NIH

Daniel Billadeau, Ph.D.