All seminars take place from 12:30-1:30 in Room 147, Nanaline Duke Building.
DATE |
SPEAKER |
INSTITUTION |
TITLE OF PRESENTATION |
HOST |
9/9 |
Nancy Andrews |
Duke University |
“Running in Circles” |
Hunt Willard |
9/16 |
Catherine Bowes Rickman |
Duke University |
“The Role of Amyloid in the Pathobiology of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)” |
Mike Hauser |
9/30
|
Mohamed Noor |
Duke University |
“Effects of recombination on diversity and divergence between species in the Drosophila pseudoobscura species group” |
|
10/7 |
Meta Kuehn |
Duke University |
“Bacterial Vesicles: Genes, Stress and Virulence” |
Jason Reeves |
10/14 |
Brian Oliver |
NIDDK/NIH |
“Genomics of Sex and the X in Drosophila” |
Dave Macalpine |
10/28 |
Jeanette McCarthy |
Duke University |
“Genotype by sex interaction: elucidating a role for sex hormones” |
Doug Marchuk |
| 11/11 |
Julia Zeitlinger |
Stowers Institute |
“Transcriptional regulatory networks in the early Drosophila embryo” |
Uwe Ohler |
| 11/18 |
Tom Cooper |
Baylor College of Medicine |
“Disruption of a developmental regulatory network of alternative splicing causes muscular dystrophy” |
Mariano Garcia-Blanco |
12/2 |
Eric Lai |
Sloan-Kettering Institute |
“microRNAs and other small RNAs in Drosophila” |
Uwe Ohler |
12/9 |
Jonathan Dworkin |
Columbia University |
Seminar postponed until 2009 |
|
1/6/09 |
Susan Rosenberg |
Baylor College of Medicine |
“Mutation as a stress response and the regulation of evolvability” |
Sue Jinks-Robertson |
1/13 |
Phil Febbo |
Duke University |
“Genetic modulators of prostate cancer response to mTOR inhibition” |
Joe Nevins |
1/20 |
Sandeep Dave |
Duke University |
“Microarrays and high throughput sequencing to transform the diagnosis and treatment of lymphoma” |
Joe Nevins |
1/27 |
Bing Ren |
UC, San Diego |
“Chromatin signatures of transcriptional enhancers” |
Greg Crawford |
2/3 |
Edward Buckler |
Cornell University |
“The Genetic Architecture of an Adaptive Trait: Maize Flowering Time” |
Philip Benfey |
2/10 |
Nicole King |
UC, Berkeley |
“Choanoflagellates, interkingdom signaling, and the building blocks of animal origins” |
Paul Magwene |
2/17 |
Brendan Cormack |
Johns Hopkins University |
“NAD+ and virulence in Candida glabrata” |
Meleah Hickman |
2/24 |
Karen Oegema |
UC, San Diego |
“Using the C. elegans embryo to dissect mitotic mechanisms” |
Terry Lechler |
3/3 |
Nick Rhind |
U Mass, Worcester |
“Regulation of DNA Replication Origin Timing and Efficiency” |
Steve Haase |
3/10 |
Keji Zhao |
NHLBI/NIH |
“Characterization of human epigenomes” |
Ashley Chi |
3/24 |
Wallace Marshall |
UC, San Francisco |
“The flagellar length control system” |
Terry Lechler |
3/31 |
Yong-hui Jiang |
Duke University |
“Modeling human Angelman syndrome and autism spectrum disorder in mice” |
Simon Gregory |
4/7 |
Amy Gladfelter*
1st Annual UPGG Alumni Distinguished Speaker |
Dartmouth College |
“Nuclear Anarchy: The Power of Variability in the Cell Cycle” |
Danny Lew |
4/14 |
Laura Landweber |
Princeton University |
“RNA-mediated epigenetic programming of genome rearrangement” |
Paul Modrich |
4/21 |
John Taylor |
UC, Berkeley |
“Adaptation in fungi: Comparative genomics of Coccidioides and relatives” |
Joe Heitman |
4/28 |
William Steinbach |
Duke University |
“Understanding the molecular control of Aspergillus fumigatus growth and disease” |
Joe St. Geme |
5/5 |
Robin Allshire |
Univ. of Edinburgh, UK |
TBA |
Beth Sullivan |
5/12 |
Oliver Rando |
U Mass, Worcester |
TBA |
Laura Rusche |
