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Tuesday Seminar Series


2009-2010

Co-sponsored by UPGG and IGSP

All seminars take place from 12:30-1:30 in Room 147, Nanaline Duke Building.


Annual UPGG Alumni Distinguished Speaker


DATE

SPEAKER

INSTITUTION

TITLE OF PRESENTATION

HOST

9/8

Duke University

Following light into the nucleus, phytochrome nuclear bodies and light signaling in plants

Xinnian Dong

9/15

Jenny Marshall-Graves

Australia National University

Weird animal genomes and the evolution of sex

Blanche Capel

9/22

Ryan Baugh

Duke University

Nutritional control of c. elegans post-embryonic development Dave Sherwood

9/29

Cagla Eroglu

Duke University

Look who is weaving the neural net: How do astrocytes control central nervous system synapse formation?

Ken Poss

10/6

Judith Berman

University of Minnesota

Genome dynamics in Candida albicans Beth Sullivan

10/15

No seminar – Distinguished Lecturer Thursday (Roger Beachy)

10/20 Michal Olszewski University of Michigan Modulation of pulmonary host responses in cryptococcal infections Kristi L. Williams
10/27 Eric Selker University of Oregon Control of DNA methylation & heterochromatinformation in neurospora Laura Rusche/Tami MacDonald

11/3

Gary Karpen

LBNL/UC Berkeley

Epigenetic tails of genome stability

Beth Sullivan/Kaitlin Stimpson

11/10

John Pringle

Stanford University

Cytokinesis in yeast and other creatures

Tom Petes

11/17

Michel Bagnat

Duke University

Genetic control of fluid secretion in zebrafish

 

11/24

No seminar – Thanksgiving week

12/1

Virginia Zakian

Princeton University

Maintaining the end: regulation of telomerase in yeast

Laura Rusche

12/8

Sergey Nuzhdin

University of Southern California

Genomics of adaptation to local environments in flies and plants

Mohamed Noor

12/15

Arturo Casadevall

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Thoughts on the origin of virulence for pathogenic microbes

Megan Orloski

1/12/2010

Nicholas Buchler

Duke University

Bait and switch: how protein sequestration generates a flexible ultrasensitive response

Danny Lew

1/19

Amy Schmid

Duke University

Systems biology in Archaea: transcriptional network responses to environmental extremes

Blanche Capel

1/26

Jeffrey Marks

Duke University

Trying to understand breast and ovarian cancer

Doug Marchuk

2/2

Hiten Madhani

University of California, San Francisco

Nucleosome positioning and identity in the control of gene expression:  two recent surprises

Danny Lew

2/9

Nina Sherwood

Duke University

Regulation of neuronal form and function by microtubule severing proteins

Joe Heitman

2/16

Jorn Coers

Harvard University

A persistent problem: studying the human pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis in the mouse

Alejandro Aballay

2/23

John Logsdon

University of Iowa

TBA

Joe Heitman

3/2

Pelin Volkan

Duke University

TBA

 

3/9

Manuel Linas

Princeton University

Exploring transcription and metabolism in plasmodium falciparum

Ashley Chi

3/16

No seminar – Distinguished Lecturer Thursday (Altshuler)

3/23

Mike Boehnke

University of Michigan

Identifying genes for type 2 diabetes and related traits

Allison Ashley-Koch

3/30

Shyam Unniraman

Duke University

TBA

Yuan Zhuang

4/6

Jonathan Dworkin

Columbia University

Exit from dormancy in bacteria

Joe Heitman

4/13

Hernan Darwin

New York University

TBA

 

4/15

No seminar – Distinguished Lecturer Thursday (Kenyon)

4/20

Jim Kadanoga

University of California, San Diego

Experiments in transcription and chromatin dynamics

Uwe Ohler

4/27

Jianping Yu

McMaster University

TBA

Tom Mitchell

5/4

No seminar – Distinguished Lecturer Thursday (Shubin)

5/11

Nicholas Katsanis

Duke University

TBA

 



Tuesday Seminar Series schedules (pdf):

2009–2010
Spring 2009
Fall 2008

 

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