Seminars 2011-2012
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All Deparment Seminars are held on Wednesday at noon in Jordan Hall 1-14, unless otherwise noted. Clicking on the seminar date below will open a window with vCal and iCal scheduling options. |
| Friday, 1 July 2011:
2pm (Jordan 3006-08) Regulation of Sirtuins by NAD Biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Julie McClure, Dissertation Seminar (J. Smith lab) |
| Wednesday, 27 July 2011:
2pm (Jordan 3006-08) The Ndc80 complex utilizes a tripartite attachment point to generate kinetochore-microtubule interactions John Tooley, Dissertation Defense and Seminar (Stukenberg lab) |
| Thursday, 28 July 2011:
1:30pm (Jordan 3006-08) Nocturnin, A Novel Circadian Deadenylase Regulates mRNA Processing Danielle Shingle, Dissertation Seminar (C. Green lab) |
| 21 September
2011 Prolonged prometaphase blocks daughter cell proliferation despite normal completion of mitosis Greenfield Sluder, Ph.D., Professor, UMASS Medical Center Host - George Bloom and Todd Stukenberg |
| Friday, 30 September,
2:30pm (Jordan 3006-08) Leucine and arginine regulate trophoblast motility through mTOR-dependent and independent pathways in the preimplantation mouse embryo Isabel Gonzalez, Dissertation Seminar (A. Sutherland lab) |
| 12 October
2011 Wnt signaling and cell polarity in early vertebrate development Sergei Sokol, Ph.D., Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Host - Ian Macara |
| Friday, 14 October 2011:
1pm (Jordan 3006-08) ADAM Functions in Early Development of Xenopus tropicalis Guofeng Xu, Dissertation Seminar (DeSimone lab) |
| 26 October
2011 Wnt signaling in development and diseases Yingzi Yang, Ph. D., Head - Developmental Genetics Section, NIH Host - Jing Yu |
| Tuesday, 8 November 2011:
4pm (Jordan Hall 1-14) Elizabeth Fisher, Professor, Institute of Neurology, UCL, London Host - NSGP Co-host Cell Biology |
| 9 November
2011 MCDB/Cell Biology 1st Year Graduate Student Rotation Talks |
| 16 November
2011 MicroRNAs and other short RNAs in cell proliferation and differentiation Anindya Dutta, MD, Ph.D., Byrd Professor, Department of Biochemisty & Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia Host - Ying Yu |
| 30 November
2011 Development of spinal cord locomotor circuitries Samuel L. Pfaff, Ph.D., Investigator, HHMI, Professor, Salk Institute Host - Noelle Dwyer |
| 7 March
2012 Molecular Constitutents of the Mechanotransduction Machinery of Hair Cells Uli Mueller, Ph.D., Professor, The Scripps Research Institute Host - Xiaowei Lu |
| 14 March
2012 Regulation of Cell Adhesion by the Mechanics and Structure of the Actin Dr. Margaret Gardel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Host - Dorothy Schafer & Rick Horwitz |
| 21 March
2012 Mechanisms of Polarized Sorting in Neurons Juan S. Bonifacino, Ph.D., Professor & Director, Dorris Neuroscience Center, The Scripps Research Institute Host - Jim Casanova |
| 28 March
2012 Curing diabetes one fish at a time: the long road of translational research Didier Stainier, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UCSF Host - Adrian Halme |
| Monday, 9 April 2012,
12:15pm Amyloid-β Induced, Tau-Dependent, Neuronal Cell Cycle Re-Entry in Alzheimer's Disease Matt Seward, Dissertation Seminar (Bloom lab) |
| Friday, 27 April
2012 MCDB/Cell Biology 1st Year Graduate Student Rotation Talks |
| Thursday, 3 May
2012, 4pm (Jordan Hall Conference Center Auditorium) Distinguished Lecture Series Cell biology of virus entry and uncoating Ari Helenius, Department of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Host: Judy White Sponsors: Departments of Cell Biology; Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology; and Biophysics |
| 9 May 2012 Extrinsic and intrinsic force regulation of cancer progression Valerie M. Weaver, Ph.D., Professor, Dept's of Surgery, Anatomy & Bioengineering & Therapeutics Host - Jennifer Hodges, MCDB graduate program |
| 23 May 2012 If you only have time to attend one talk on autophagy today, this is the one Daniel J. Klionsky, Ph.D., Professor, University of Michigan Host - Gordon Laurie |

