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BE Seminar Series Academic Year 2006 - 2007

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All seminars will be presented in Rm. 32-141, unless otherwise noted, at 4:05PM.

Fall 2006
Date
Speaker
Institution
Topic
Host(s)

Sept 14, 2006

Linda Griffith MIT Meet the Griffith Lab K. Dane Wittrup
Sept 21, 2006 Alice Ting MIT Meet the Ting Lab K. Dane Wittrup
Sept 28, 2006 Eric V. Shusta University of Wisconsin-Madison Engineering Strategies for Mimicking the Blood-Brain Barrier In Vitro and Overcoming it In Vivo K. Dane Wittrup
Oct 5, 2006 David Schaffer University of California-Berkeley Molecular Engineering and Systems Biology Analysis of Human Viruses. Douglas Lauffenburger

Oct 12, 2006
WOGAN LECTURE

Raymond Dubois Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Molecular Targets for Cancer Prevention and Treatment: COX-2 and Others Steve Tannenbaum
Oct 19, 2006 David Botstein Princeton University Nutritional Homeostasis and Growth Rate Regulation in Yeast Ernest Fraenkel
Nov 2, 2006 Lydia L. Sohn University of California at Berkeley Artificial Pores: From Single Molecules to Single Cells Jongyoon Han
Nov 9, 2006
*** Veteran's Day—NO SEMINAR ***
Nov 16, 2006 Pardis Sabeti Broad Institute Detecting Natural Selection in the Human and Malaria Genomes Bevin Engelward
Nov 23, 2006
*** Thanksgiving Vacation—NO SEMINAR ***
Nov 30, 2006 Brian Kuhlman UNC-Chapel Hill Computer-based design of protein switches and interfaces Eric Alm
Dec 7, 2006 Jason Chin MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Expanding the Functions of Living Matter Paul Matsudaira
Dec 14, 2006 Michelle Chang University of California-Berkeley Engineering E. coli for Production of an Effective Anti-Malarial Drug Paul Matsudaira

Spring 2007
Date
Speaker
Institution
Topic
Host(s)
Jan 10, 2007
IAP Seminars
Steven Luperchio Cubist Pharmaceuticals Bad Bugs, No Drugs TBA
Jan 17, 2007 Hilary Coller Princeton University Cell Cycles and Life Cycles: Researching Cancer and Pursuing Happiness in Academia TBA
Jan 25, 2007
4:05pm, 32-141
HARRIS LECTURE
David Schwartz NIEHS Environmental Genomics and Human Health Leona Samson and Pete Dedon
Jan 31, 2007
IAP Seminars
Dr. Kevin Pojasek PureTech Ventures Transitioning From Academia to Venture Creation David Schauer
Feb 8, 2007 Adrian Whitty Biogen-Idec A Quantitative View of Growth Factor Receptor Activation Paul Matsudaira
Feb 15, 2007 Jacquin Niles University of California-Berkeley Modulating Heme Biosynthesis and Detoxification in a Model Organism and the Human Malarial Parasite Using Aptamers Doug Lauffenburger
Feb 22, 2007 John Scott Vollum Institute at Oregon Health and Science University Cell Signaling in Space and Time Forest White
Mar 15, 2007
MEDTRONIC LECTURE
Steve Goldstein University of Michigan May the Force Stay With You: The Influence of Physical Forces on Bone Formation, Adaptation and Regeneration Alan Grodzinsky
Mar 22, 2007 Daniel Hammer University of Pennsylvania Neutrophil Mechano-dynamics: Rolling, Signaling and Crawling Roger Kamm
Mar 28, 2007
*** Spring Vacation—NO SEMINAR ***
Apr 5, 2007        
Apr 12, 2007 Kevin J. Yarema Johns Hopkins University Metabolic Oligosaccharide Engineering: Links between Stems Cells and Cancer John Essigmann
Apr 19, 2007 Ed Boyden MIT Media Lab Technologies for engineering neural circuit functions Scott Manalis
Apr 26, 2007 Krystyn Van Vliet MIT Seeing by feeling: Chemomechanical mapping of biological surfaces to image mechanotransduction Doug Lauffenburger
May 3, 2007 Yitzhak (Tzachi) Pilpel Weizmamn Institute of Science, Rehovot Israel Control of translation efficiency: comparative genomics and mechanistic aspects Ernest Fraenkel
May 10, 2007        
May 17, 2007 Grant Jensen Caltech Bacterial cytoskeleton and ultrastructure, by electron cryotomography Drew Endy

All seminars will be presented in Rm. 32-141, unless otherwise noted, at 4:05PM.

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