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Joint Seminars in Molecular Biology

All Joint Seminars in Molecular Biology are held on Thursdays, from 4:10 - 5:00 p.m. in Life Sciences Room 1022.

The Joint Seminars in Molecular Biology series is sponsored by:
The College of Biological Sciences, Graduate Groups in Biochemistry  & Molecular Biology and Cell & Developmental Biology, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Departments of Biological Chemistry and Cell Biology & Human Anatomy, the Molecular & Cellular Biology Training Grant (NIH), and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The schedules for winter 2010 and spring 2010 are below fall quarter on this page.

Download a PDF file of the Fall Quarter 2009 Joint Seminars in Molecular Biology Schedule.

Schedule for Fall Quarter 2009, Joint Seminars in Molecular Biology

Date

Speaker

Host

September 24 "ER export defect due to SEC23A mutation results in a novel craniofacial syndrome"
Simeon Boyd, MD, M.I.N.D. Institute, UC Davis
Bruce Draper
October 1 "The Intraflagellar Transport Machinery of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii"
Doug Cole,, University of Idaho
Scott Dawson
October 8 "Life emerged to quicken the hydrogenation of CO2 to CH3COOH and CH4"
Michael Russell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
John Roth
October 15 "Functional insights from protein-protein and genetic interaction maps"
Nevan Krogan, UCSF
Wolf Heyer
October 22 "Sequence, biogenesis, and function of diverse small RNA classes bound to the Piwi-family proteins of Tetrahymena thermophila"
Kathleen Collins, UC Berkeley
Cory Ellison
October 29 "LIS1 and NudEL control brain development by a new form of motor protein regulation"
Richard Vallee, Columbia University Medical Center
Dan Starr
November 5 "Generating Dynamic Kinetochore-Microtubule Interactions"
Iain Cheeseman, Whitehead Institute & MIT
Frank McNally
November 12 "Mechanisms for maintaining genome stability at the replication fork and beyond"
Karlene Cimprich, Stanford
Erin Schwartz
November 19 "The genetic code revisited - Four decades after Francis Crick"
Dieter Söll, Yale University
Wolf Heyer
November 26 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
December 3 "The Sgs1/BLM helicase in DNA repair: Insights and questions from a new functional domain and new SUMO synthetic interactor"
Steven Brill, Rutgers University
Shannon Ceballos

Schedule for Winter Quarter 2010

Date

Speaker

Host

January 7 "Title TBD"
William Campbell, Medical College of Wisconsin
Bruck Hammock
January 14 "Title TBD"
Daniel Fletcher,UC Berkeley
Andrew Hamilton
January 21 "Towards understanding the molecular mechanism of Ca2+-triggered synaptic vesicle fusion"
Axel Brunger, Stanford University
David Gae
January 28 "Title TBD"
Norman Pace, University of Colorado
Scott Dawson
February 4 "The Molecular Genetics of Meiosis"
Scott Hawley, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Ken Burtis
February 11 "Title TBD"
Jan-Åke Gustafsson, University of Houston
Monica Watson
February 18 "Title TBD"
Allan Spradling, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Bruce Draper
February 25 "How development transforms the cell cycle"
Patrick O'Farrell, UCSF
Ken Kaplan
March 4 BMB/CDB Recruitment (NO SEMINAR)
March 11 "Live cell studies on how Taxol, a microtubule-stabilizing drug used to treat cancers, affects cell cycle progression and mitosis"
Conly L. Rieder, State University of New York
Jon Scholey


Schedule for Spring Quarter 2010, Joint Seminars in Molecular Biology

Date

Speaker

Host

April 1 "Title TBD"
Rebecca Heald, UC Berkeley
Jodi Nunnari
April 8 "Title TBD"
John Ohlrogge, Michigan State University
Damian Guerra
April 15 "Title TBD"
Mike Tamkun, Colorado State University
Danielle Mandikian
April 22 "Title TBD"
Boris Striepen, University of Georgia
Scott Dawson
April 29 "Title TBD"
John Postlethwait, University of Oregon
Artyom Kopp
May 6 "Title TBD"
Angelika Amon, MIT
Sean Burgess
May 13 "Title TBD"
Jeremy Thorner, UC Berkeley
Jodi Nunnari
May 20 "Title TBD"
Kelsey Martin, UCLA
Karen Zito
May 27 "Title TBD"
James Berger, UC Berkeley
Nancy Villa
June 3 "Title TBD"
Daniel Zilberman, UC Berkeley
Paul Ginno