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Biology Colloquium

 

The Biology Colloquium is a weekly seminar held throughout the academic year, featuring distinguished speakers in many areas of the biological sciences, from universities and institutions worldwide. Unless noted otherwise, the Colloquium takes place at the Stata Center's Kirsch Auditorium, 32-123, at 4:00 p.m. every Monday. Refreshments are served at 3:30 p.m. The fall talks are below.

Further information on each week's talk also appears on our Department Calendar.

Spring 2007
date
speaker
university
title
host
January 22 Li-Huei Tsai Picower Ctr for Learning and Memory Alzheimer's: Understanding the causes and potential treatments Jackie Lees
January 29 Tom Blundell Cambridge University, UK, Dept. of Biochemistry Structural biology of multiprotein assemblies involved in cell regulation: Challenges for Drug Discovery Alex Rich
February 5 Elaine Fuchs Rockefeller University Stem Cells, Lineage Determination,
and Morphogenesis		 Rudolf Jaenisch
February 12 Graduate Open House no colloquium    
February 19 President's Day no colloquium    
February 26
 Graduate Open House no colloquium    
March 5 M. Celeste Simon Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Adaptations to Oxygen Starvation: effects on metabolism, stem cells, and tumor growth

postdocs
March 12 Graduate Open House no colloquium    
March 19
 Denise Montell Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Genetics meets live cell imaging in the study of border cell migration Frank Gertler
March 26 Spring Vacation no colloquium    
April 2
 Bruce Goode Brandeis Rise of the Actin Machines: Control of Cell Polarity and Shape Troy Littleton
April 9
Alex Rich Lecture		 Robert Langer MIT Chemical Engineering & MIT BE Advances in Drug Delivery:
From microspheres to microchips to siRNA		 Tom RajBhandary
April 16 President's Day no colloquium    
April 23 Katheryn Anderson Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute Developmental Genetics in the mouse: Cell biology meets embryonic patterning Hazel Sive
April 30
Chipperfield Lecture
 Joe DeRisi University of California, San Francisco Parasites and Viruses:
Genomic Approaches to Infectious Disease		 grad students
May 7 Lucy Shapiro Stanford TBA postdocs
June 4 Elena Conti EMBL CANCELLED Thomas Schwartz
 

Fall 2006
date
speaker
university
title
host
September 11 Yang Shi Harvard Medical School Dynamic Regulation of Histone Lysine Methylation by Demethylases Hidde Ploegh
September 18 Troy Littleton MIT Picower Inst. & Biology Bidirectional Communication at Synapses: A Genetic Dissection of Synaptic Plasticity in Drosophila Chris Kaiser
September 25 Rick Morimoto Northwestern Univ. Sensing Stress: Misfolded Proteins in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease Susan Lindquist
October 2 Matthias Peter ETH-Zurich, Inst. of Biochemistry   Angelika Amon
October 9 Colombus Day no colloquium    
October 16
 David Ginty Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Growth and Survival Signals Controlling Development of the Peripheral Nervous System Elly Nedivi
October 23
Sackler Lecture		 Charles Weissmann Scripps Institute Propagation of Prion Strains

Phillip Sharp
October 30
Buchanan Lecture		 Victor Ambros Dartmouth MicroRNA Pathways in Animal Development David Bartel
November 6
Holt Lecture
David Page Whitehead Institute Egg or Sperm — How's a Mouse to Decide? BUSA
November 13 Anne Ridley University College, London Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Rho GTPases: Regulating Cell Shape and Migration Frank Gertler
November 20
Mayer Lecture
 Pascale Cossart Pasteur Institute The Fascinating Strategies Used by the Bacterial Pathogen Listeria Monocytogenes to Establish an Infection Gerald Fink
November 27
Schmitt Lecture		 Hugo Bellen Baylor College of Medicine Flies to Study Mechanisms of Neural Protection Troy Littleton
December 4 Michael Lichten NIH Where, When and How Meiotic Crossovers Happen Angelika Amon
December 11 Tyler Jacks Center for Cancer Research Creating Cancer (and Trying to Cure it) Phillip Sharp
 

 

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To see which researchers spoke during the 2005-2006 academic year, please go to the archived pages:
Colloquium Fall 2005
Colloquium Spring 2006

To be added to our mailing list to receive further information and flyers about the speakers, please email: biocolloquium [at] mit.edu.

this page updated 3/6/07

 
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