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BE Seminar Series Academic Year 2003-2004

All seminars will be presented in Rm. 56-114, unless otherwise noted, at 4:10 p.m.

Fall 2003
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic (Tentative)	Host(s)
September 11, 2003	Jeff Gelles	Brandeis University	How kinesin keeps its grip: The mechanism of a biological molecular motor.	Matt Lang
September 18, 2003
September 25, 2003	Neil Kelleher	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Top down proteomics: New approaches to mass spectrometry-based interrogation of intact proteins and their diverse post-translational modifications	Forest White
October 2, 2003	James Heath	California Institute of Technology	Nanosystems biology	Kim Hamad-Schifferli
October 9, 2003
October 16, 2003	Johnny Huard	University of Pittsburgh	Isolation and characterization of a population of muscle derived stem cells potential for tissue regeneration	James Sherley
October 23, 2003	Terrence Barrett	Northwestern University Medical School	The dual role of TNF in mediating iNOS induction and p53 activation during T cell-induced crypt cell apoptosis	David Schauer
October 30, 2003	BE Cultural Day	MIT	The Biological Engineering Diversity Group	Katarina Midelfort, Pete Dedon and Doug Lauffenburger
November 6, 2003	Catherine Drennan	MIT	Metalloenzymes: Structure and function	John Essigmann
November 13, 2003	Michael Tyers	University of Toronto	Integrative Genomics: Applications to cell size control	Forest White
November 20, 2003	James Sherley	MIT	Meet the Sherley lab: Adult stem cell biological engineering	Dane Wittrup
December 4, 2003	Terry Sheppard	Northwestern University	Nucleic acid engineering	Pete Dedon co-sponsored by CEHS
December 11, 2003	Peter Butler	Pennsylvania State University	Cell and tissue mechanotransduction	Roger Kamm
December 18, 2003
Spring 2004
February 5, 2004	George Church	Harvard Medical School	Measures, models and synthesis of "optimal" replicating biosystems	James Sherley
February 12, 2004	Charles Martin	University of Florida	Nanotube membranes	Jay Han
February 19, 2004	Marco E. Bianchi	San Raffaele University	Chromatin protein HMGB1 signals unprogrammed cell death, and promotes tissue repair	James Sherley
February 26, 2004
Friday, February 27 at 2 p.m. in room 56-614	Itay Rousso	Dept. of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science	Sensing hearing - A study using time-resolved atomic force microscopy	Paul Matsudaira
March 4, 2004	Richard Roberts	New England Biolabs	The Genomics of Restriction and Modification Robert Harris Lecture Refreshments at 3:10 See flyer	Pete Dedon co-sponsored by CEHS
March 11, 2004	Jim McGrath	University of Rochester	A Mechanistic Model of the Actin Cycle	C. Forbes Dewey, Jr.
March 18, 2004	Tom Knight	CSBI	Isolation, Modularity, Simplicity, and Minimality Engineering living cells	BE Student Committee, contact Nathan Tedford
March 25, 2004	Alan D. D'Andrea	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Department of Pediatric Oncology
April 1, 2004	Simona Socrate	MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering		Linda Griffith
April 8, 2004	Michael Sporn	Dartmouth Medical School	Gerald N. Wogan Lecture: Cancer Chemoprevention	Pete Dedon co-sponsored by CEHS
April 15, 2004
April 22, 2004	Penny Chisholm	MIT	Genetic diversity of ocean microorganisms	Doug Lauffenburger
April 29, 2004	Susan Wallace	University of Vermont	Processing of Oxidative DNA Damage	Bevin P. Engelward
May 6, 2004	Dr. Curtis C. Harris	National Cancer Institute	Radical Causes of Cancer	BE Graduate Students
May 20, 2004	Drew Endy	MIT	Design of Genetic Systems

All seminars will be presented in Rm. 56-114, unless otherwise noted, at 4:10 p.m.

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