All seminars will be presented in Rm. 32-141, unless otherwise noted, at 4:05pm.
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Host(s) |
| September 24 |
Sebastian Seung
MIT |
Connectome: the quest to deconstruct the brain |
Scott Manalis |
| October 1 |
M. Fatih Yanik
MIT |
Highthroughput microfluidics and ultrafast optics for in vivo compound and genetic discoveries |
Scott Manalis |
| October 22 |
Matthew Nugent
Boston University |
Extracellular communication: growth factor dynamics in tissue injury and repair |
Douglas Lauffenburger |
October 30
|
Gut Microbes and Cancer—A Pioneer's Passion
A Celebration of the Life and Work of David B. Schauer [poster]
Killian Hall, 14W-111,
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Reception at 5:00 PM |
Peter Dedon,
Jim Fox,
Steve Tannenbaum |
| November 5 |
James Eberwine
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center |
Molecular biology and functional genomics of single cells |
Ed Boyden |
November 12
|
Jonathon Howard
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics |
Networks of cytoskeletal and motor proteins underlying cellular motility |
Roger Kamm |
| November 19 |
Forest White
MIT |
Biological insights from quantitative analysis of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling networks |
Douglas Lauffenburger |
| December 3 |
Tejal Desai
University of California,
San Francisco |
Nanostructured interfaces for enhanced therapeutic delivery
|
Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli |
| February 4 |
Marsha Moses
Children's Hospital, Boston |
Molecular Regulation of Angiogenesis: From the Angiogenic Switch Through Tumor Progression: Implications for Therapy, Diagnosis and Prognosis |
Linda Griffith |
| February 11 |
Anne Robinson
University of Delaware |
Production and trafficking of active GPCRs in yeast for biophysical characterization |
Douglas Lauffenburger |
| February 18 |
Eric Siggia
Rockefeller University |
Geometry, Genetics, and Evolution: Predicting gene regulatory networks |
Ernest Fraenkel |
February 25
Dewey Lecture |
Trey Ideker
University of California,
San Diego |
New Opportunities in Network Biology: Network-based Biomarkers and Network-Wide Association Studies (NWAS) |
Douglas Lauffenburger |
| March 11 |
Fred Chang
Columbia University |
How Cells Divide in the Middle |
Mark Bathe |
| April 1 |
Farren J. Isaacs
Harvard Medical School |
Genome Engineering Technologies for Rapid Programming & Evolution of Organisms |
Douglas Lauffenburger |
| April 8 |
Christopher Snow
California Institute of Technology |
Understanding and Engineering Enzymes via Recombination |
Douglas Lauffenburger |
| April 15 |
James R. Williamson
The Scripps Research Institute |
Structural and Temporal Analysis of Ribosome Assembly and Biogenesis: Systems Biology of the Core Machine |
Jacquin Niles |
| April 29 |
David A. Relman
Stanford University |
Perturbation of the human microbiome: unrest at home |
Eric Alm |
May 6
Harris Lecture |
John Tainer
Dept. of Life Sciences, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory & Structurally Integrated Biology for Life
Sciences (SIBLYS) |
DNA repair machine structures, predictive biology, and insights for cancer interventions |
Leona Samson |
| May 20 |
Christopher Voigt, University of California, San Francisco |
Synthetic Biology: Towards Refactoring Prokaryotic Gene Clusters |
Douglas Lauffenburger |
| May 27 |
Anna Wu, University of California, Los Angeles |
Engineered Antibodies for Molecular Targeting and Imaging of Cancer |
K. Dane Wittrup |
| June 10 |
Gerald N. Wogan |
AFLATOXIN: THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS
Basic science as a tool to solve problems in public health |
Steven R. Tannebaum and John M. Essigmann |
