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BE Seminar Series Academic Year 2004-2005

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

Fall 2004
Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic	Host(s)
September 9, 2004
September 16, 2004
September 23, 2004
to be rescheduled to a later date *	Andrey Shaw	Washington University in Saint Louis	The function of CD2AP in Immunological Synapses and the Kidney	Darrell Irvine
October 7, 2004	James Sherley	MIT Biological Engineering Division	Elucidation of adult stem cell asymmetric self-renewal at the intersection of cancer, aging, and tissue engineering	Pete Dedon
October 14, 2004	Noo Li Jeon	University of California at Irvine, Department of Biomedical Engineering	Microfluidic Neuronal Culture Device for AD and Axonal Regeneration	Jongyoon Han
October 21, 2004
October 28, 2004	Bevin Engelward	MIT Division of Biological Engineering	Engineered Recombo-Mice and -Cells Shed Light on Mechanisms and Causes of DNA Recombination in Mammals	Pete Dedon
November 4, 2004	Andy Ellington	University of Texas at Austin	Nucleic acids as devices for signal transduction: the medium is the message	Scott Manalis
November 11, 2004
November 18, 2004	Robert Tranquillo	University of Minnesota Dept. of Biomedical Engineering	Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Based on Controlled Cell Remodeling of Biopolymers	Medtronic Distinguished Lecture in Biological Engineering
November 25, 2004	* Thanksgiving *
December 2, 2004	Barbara Imperiali & trainees	MIT Chemistry Department	Meet the Imperiali Lab	Dane Wittrup
December 9, 2004	Scott Manalis	MIT Media Arts and Sciences	Microdevices for biomolecular detection	Douglas Lauffenberger
December 16, 2004	* Final Exam Period *
Spring 2005
January 11, 2005 * Please note special time and place: noon in 66-110 *	Yosef Shiloh	Dept. of Human Genetics & Molecular Medicine, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel	ATM: The Art of Maintaining Genome Integrity	Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS), Leona Samson, Director
February 10, 2005	Steve Altschuler	Harvard University Bauer Center for Genomics Research	Observing cells on drugs
February 17, 2005	Haw Yang	University of California at Berkeley Department of Chemistry	Exploring Structure-Function Dynamics of Single Biomolecules	Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli
February 24, 2005	Dr. Ernest Fraenkel	Whitehead Institute	Computational Discovery of Genomic Regulatory Mechanisms	BE Faculty Search Committee
March 3, 2005	Dr. Elebeoba May	Sandia National Laboratories	Life, Or Something Like It--Simulations of Life in Parallel	BE Faculty Search Committee
March 10, 2005
March 17, 2005	Mark Gerstein	Yale University Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry	Understanding Protein Function on a Genome Scale through Integrated Networks	Bruce Tidor
March 24, 2005	* Spring Vacation *
March 31, 2005	Pamela Silver	Harvard University Medical School Department of Systems Biology	Spatial control, perturbation and redesign of nuclear programs	Drew Endy
April 7, 2005	Ting Wu	Harvard Medical School: Dept. of Genetics	Transvection: Pairing up the genome	James Sherley
April 14, 2005	Charles Ofria	Michigan State University Department of Computer Science and Engineering	Experimental Evolution with Digital Organisms	Catherine Drennan
April 21, 2005
April 28, 2005	David Hunter	Harvard School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology	Gene-Environment Interactions	Harris Lecture
May 5, 2005 Shapiro Lecture	Shu Chien	University of California at San Diego Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Biomedical Engineering	Mechanotransduction in Vascular Endothelial Cells	Roger D. Kamm
May 12, 2005	Gerald W. Hart	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine: Department of Biological Chemistry	Dynamic Protein Glycosylation by O-GlcNAc is a Metabolic Sensor Modulating Transcription, Signaling and Stress Responses in all Multicellular Organisms	Ram Sasisekharan
May 19, 2005	* Final Exam Week *
May 26, 2005

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

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