All seminars will be presented in Rm. 32-141, unless otherwise noted, at 4:05pm.
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Host(s) |
| Fall Semester |
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| September 13 |
Cynthia Reinhart-King
Cornell University
|
Pulling apart at the seams: The role of cell contractility in atherosclerosis and cancer progression |
Doug Lauffenburger |
| September 20 |
Chin-Lin Guo
California Institute of Technology
|
Geometrical circuits in the patterning of cell shapes and tubular structures |
Scott Manalis |
| October 4 |
Rebecca Carrier
Northeastern University
|
Enabling oral drug delivery: overcoming barriers to intestinal absorption |
Doug Lauffenburger |
| October 18 |
Eric Alm
MIT |
How microbial communities impact our health and environment |
Doug Lauffenburger |
| November 1 |
Ernest Fraenkel
MIT |
Combining high-throughput measurements and network modeling to reveal hidden mechanisms of disease |
Doug Lauffenburger |
| November 8 |
Jeff Kelly
The Scripps Research Institute |
Adapting cellular proteostasis to ameliorate human misfolding and
aggregation diseases |
Ernest Fraenkel |
November 16 Date & Location Change:
32-123 4PM |
Eric Davidson
California Institute of Technology
|
Gene network models and logic processing in development |
Roger Kamm |
| November 29 |
Ralph Tripp
The University of Georgia
|
Respiratory virus disease detection and intervention strategies |
Jonathan Runstadler |
| Spring Semester |
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| February 21 |
Antoine van Oijen
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
|
Single-molecule studies of the DNA-replication machinery |
Paul Blainey |
February 28
|
Edward J Rebar
Sangamo BioSciences
|
Design and applications of sequence-specific endonucleases |
Feng Zhang |
March 5
Date & Location Change:
4-163 4PM
|
Sharon Aviran
University of California-Berkeley
|
High-throughput RNA structure analysis from chemical footprinting experiments |
Doug Lauffenburger |
| March 14 |
James Boedicker
California Institute of Technology
|
Predicting and controlling microbial activity through quantitative theory and experiments |
Doug Lauffenburger |
| March 21 |
Angela Koehler
Broad Institute
|
Chemical approaches to modulate transcriptional regulators |
Doug Lauffenburger |
| April 4 |
Zachary Pincus
Yale University
|
Variability in longevity and the origins of individuality |
Doug Lauffenburger |
| April 11 |
Yonggang Ke
Harvard Medical School
|
Programmable self-assembly of three-dimensional DNA structures |
Doug Lauffenburger |
| April 25 |
Michael Marletta
Scripps Research Institute
Harris Lecture
|
Functions of nitric oxide: from human to prokaryotic biology |
John Essigmann |
| May 2 |
Dame Janet Thornton
EMBL-EBI
Dewey Lecture |
The evolution of enzyme mechanisms and functional diversity |
C. Forbes Dewey & Doug Lauffenburger |
| May 9 |
Hao Yan
Arizona State University
|
DNA architectures for programmable self-assembly |
Mark Bathe |
| May 16 |
Stephen Barthold
UC Davis
Schauer Lecture
|
There's something about borrelia |
James Fox |
