MIT Department of Biology: 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. More information on speakers, their affiliations, and titles of their talks will be added as available. Please check back regularly!

The Colloquium takes place at the Stata Center's Kirsch Auditorium, 32-123, at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesdays. (Please note some location changes as indicated below.) Refreshments are served at 3:40 p.m.

Also see information on these and other events on our Department Calendar

Spring 2009 (scroll down for Fall 2008)
Date	Speaker/Affiliation/Title	host
Jan 6	Danny Reinberg, NYU School of Medicine :: Chromatin and its Impact on Gene Expression and Cellular Memory	Richard Young
Jan 13 Mayer Lecture	Lewis Cantley, Harvard Medical School :: PI 3-Kinase and Disease	Phillip Sharp
Jan 20	Pamela Sklar, Harvard Medical School :: Genetics and Genomics of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia	Edward Scolnick
Jan 27	Brenda Schulman, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital :: Dynamic mechanisms in ubiquitin conjugation cascades	David Page
Feb 3	John Diffley, Cancer Research UK :: DNA Replication and Cancer: Lessons from Budding Yeast	Stephen Bell
Feb 10	No Colloquium
Feb 17 Schmitt Lecture	Matthew Wilson, MIT :: Hippocampal memory: Moving at the speed of thought	Troy Littleton
Feb 24	Marc Kirschner, Harvard Medical School :: Signaling and response in the Wnt pathway	Terry Orr-Weaver
Mar 3	No Colloquium
Mar 10	Harinder Singh, University of Chicago :: Gene Regulatory Networks and Large-Scale Chromatin Dynamics Underlying Development of Mammalian Immune Cells	Laurie Boyer
Mar 17	Geoff Rosenfeld, UCSD/HHMI :: Life, Death and Regulated Tumor Translocations: Movements, Repeats and ncRNA's	Leonard Guarente
Mar 24	No Colloquium
Mar 31 Buchanan Lecture	Erich Nigg, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry :: Cell Cycle Control of Chromosome Segregation: Focus on Mitosis and the Centrosome Cycle	Iain Cheeseman
Apr 7 Sackler lecturer	Kari Stefansson, deCODE Genetics :: A few observations on the genetics of common/complex traits	Phillip Sharp
Apr 14 Rich Lecture	Gregory Petsko, Brandeis University :: The Structural Enzymology of Parkinson's Disease	Shuguang Zhang
Apr 21 Chipperfield Lecture	Teresa Nicolson, Vollum Institue of Oregon Health & Science University	Chipperfield Lecture Committee
Apr 28 cancelled	Roy Parker, University of Arizona :: Control of mRNA degradation and translation in a simple eukaryote	Angelika Amon
May 5	Maria Masucci, Karolinska Institutet :: Mechanisms of Epstein-Barr virus induced oncogenesis	Susan Lindquist
May 12	John Lis, Cornell University :: New Views of Local and Genome-wide Transcription Regulation In Vivo	Laurie Boyer
May 19	Jan Lowe, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology :: Actin-driven plasmid segregation by ParMRC	Biology Postdocs

Fall 2008
Date	Speaker/Affiliation/Title	host
Sep 2	Richard Behringer, U of Tex MD Anderson :: Genetic regulation of morphological diversity between mammals	David Page
Sep 9 Note: Location is 10-250	Leonid Kruglyak, Princeton :: Learning C. elegans biology from natural genetic variation	Dennis Kim
Sep 16 Luria Lecture	Ronald Davis, Stanford :: Revolutionizing Biomedical Research and Medicine through Innovation and Cost Effective Technology	Phillip Sharp
Sep 23	No Colloquium
Sep 30	No Colloquium
Oct 7	Karsten Weis, UC-Berkeley :: A novel role of the nuclear pore complex in the regulation of gene expression	Thomas Schwartz
Oct 14	Clare Waterman, NIH :: Integrating Acting Dynamics with Adhesion in Cell Migration	Frank Gertler
Oct 21 Holt Lecture	Hermann Steller, The Rockefeller University/HHMI :: Deaty by Degradation: Regulation of Apoptosis and Tumor Suppression by the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System	Biology Undergraduates
Oct 28	Andrea Mussachio, IFOM-IEO Campus Milan :: The Molecular Basis of Chromosome Segregation	Iain Cheeseman
Nov 4	Martin Matzuk, Baylor College of Medicine :: Small RNAs, Reproduction, and Cancer	David Page
Nov 11	No Colloquium
Nov 18	Alan Hinnebush, NIH :: Mechanism and Modulation of Start Codon Recognition	Gerry Fink
Nov 25	Frédéric Allain, ETH-Zürich :: Insight into Mechanisms of Splicing Regulation and RNA editing from the solution structure of several protein-RNA Complexes	Chris Burge
Dec 2 Note: Location is 10-250	Reinhard Fässler, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry :: Genetic analysis of integrin signalling in mice	Richard Hynes
Dec 9	Andrew Clark, Cornell	David Page
Dec 16	Steven Reiner, University of Pennsylvania :: Asymmetric Cell Division of Non-adherent Cells: Lessons from Lymphocytes	Jianzhu Chen

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this page updated 08/25/08