All seminars will be presented in Rm. 32-141, unless otherwise noted, at 4:05pm.
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Host(s) |
| September 13 |
Christina Smolke
Caltech |
A framework for programming integrated RNA devices |
Drew Endy |
| September 20 |
Stephen Lippard
MIT |
Meet the Lab—The Lippard Group |
K. Dane Wittrup |
| September 27 |
Ron Weiss
Princeton University |
Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells |
Doug Lauffenburger |
| October 25 |
Bernhardt Trout
MIT |
Meet the Lab—The Trout Group |
K.Dane Wittrup |
| November 1 |
Steven Henikoff
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
Histone variant dynamics and epigenetics |
Ernest Fraenkel |
| November 8 |
Todd Thorsen
MIT |
Microfluidics for the cell biologist: tools for cell culture and analysis |
Roger Kamm |
| November 15 |
Brian Duling
University of Virginia |
The endothelial cell surface glycocalyx - where does the plasma stop and the matrix begin, and why? |
C. Forbes Dewey |
| December 6 |
Gavin MacBeath
Harvard University |
Insight into Protein Function through Genome-wide Investigations |
Forest White |
| February 14 |
Kam W. Leong
Duke University |
Response of stem cells to nanostructures |
Darrell Irvine |
| February 21 |
Mark Bathe
CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette |
Cytoskeletal actin bundles: in search of nature's design principles |
Douglas Lauffenburger |
| March 13 |
Ram Sasisekharan
MIT |
Meet the Lab—The Sasisekharan Group |
K.Dane Wittrup |
March 18
(56-114) |
Michael Smith
ETH Zurich |
The changing face of the extracellular matrix under force: role of fibronectin in mechanotransduction |
Douglas Lauffenburger |
| March 20 |
Jan Lammerding
Harvard Medical School |
The role of nuclear mechanics and nuclear-cytoskeletal coupling in human diseases |
Douglas Lauffenburger |
April 3
Harris Lecture |
Samuel H. Wilson
NIEHS |
Molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis during base excision repair |
Leona Samson and Pete Dedon |
| April 10 |
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir
Stanford University |
Molecular imag(in)ing in living subjects |
Alan Jasanoff |
| April 17 |
Paul Selvin
University of Illinois |
Molecular motors one step at a time: in vitro & in vivo |
Matthew Lang |
| April 24 |
Manuel Llinas
Princeton University |
Gene Regulation and Metabolism in Plasmodium falciparum |
Jacquin Niles |
May 1
Wogan Lecture |
Cheryl Walker
University of Texas –MD Anderson Cancer Center |
Cross-talk between ATM and TSC2 to regulate mTOR signaling in response to damage |
Steven Tannenbaum |
