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.

Information on our Fall 2007 speakers is below.

Spring 2008
Date	Speaker/Affiliation/Title	host
Jan 8	James Berger, UC Berkeley :: Molecular mechanisms for initiating DNA replication	Steve Bell
Jan 15	Mark Ginsberg, UCSD :: Rapping Up Cell-Cell and Cell-Matrix Adhesion	Richard Hynes
Jan 22	No Colloquium
Jan 29	No Colloquium
Feb 5	Jeff Kelly, Scripps :: Reestablishing Protein Homeostasis to Ameliorate loss- and gain-of-function Protein Misfolding Diseases	Susan Lindquist
Feb 12	Stuart Orkin, Children's Hospital/Dana Farber/HHMI :: Molecular regulation of stem cells	Harvey Lodish
Feb 19	POSTPONED: Karsten Weis, UC Berkeley (to be rescheduled Fall 08)	Thomas Schwartz
Feb 26 Holt Lecture	Linda G. Griffith, MIT :: Tissue Engineering, from the Bench to the Bedside and Back	Biology Undergrads
Mar 4	Dianne Newman, MIT :: Electron transfer in times of stress: new roles for redox active antibiotics	Chris Kaiser
Mar 11	Jeff Pollard, Albert Einstein College of Medicine :: Macrophages: A Cellular Toolbox Used by Tumors to Promote Progression and Metastasis.	Richard Hynes
Mar 18	Bruce Beutler, Scripps :: Genetic analysis of innate immune sensing and response in mammals.	Biology Postdoc Assoc
Mar 25	(no colloquium, Spring Break)
Apr 1 Sackler Lecture	Barry Dickson, IMP :: Wired for sex: how the mating instinct is programmed into the fly's brain	Phil Sharp
Apr 8 Chipperfield Lecture	Scott Fraser, Caltech :: Imaging the Signals and Mechanics that Build Embryos	Assoc. of Biology Graduate Students
Apr 15 Rich Lecture	Paul Schimmel, Scripps :: Genetic Code Development and Connection to Disease	Lenny Guarente
Apr 22	Sue McConnell, Stanford :: Wiring up the brain during development: transcriptional control of cortical connectivity	Frank Gertler
Apr 29	Bob Darnell, Rockefeller :: RNA regulatory maps in the brain	Chris Burge
May 6 Note: colloquium is in 26-100 this day	Sean Morrison, Univ. of Michigan :: Stem cell self-renewal versus cancer cell proliferation	Biology Postdoc Assoc
May 13 Buchanan Lecture	Bruce Zetter, Children's Hospital/Harvard :: Regulation of Prostate Cancer Metastasis	Gene Brown
May 20	Gary Ruvkun, Harvard Medical School :: Saturation genetic analyziz of C. elegans RNAi and miRNA pathways	Dennis Kim

Fall 2007
Date	Speaker/Affiliation/Title	host
Sep 11	Douglas Black, UCLA :: Alternative Splicing and the Regulation of Neuronal Gene Expression.	Chris Burge
Sep 18	Angela Belcher, MIT :: Genetic control of the synthesis and assembly of materials for electronics and energy	Tyler Jacks
Sep 25	(no colloquium, student holiday schedule)
Oct 2	Anna Pyle, Yale :: A diversity of mechanical behaviors drives RNA unwinding by the HCV helicase motor NS3	Tania Baker
Oct 9	Claude Desplan, NYU :: Detection and processing of color information in Drosophila	Carlos Lois
Oct 16	Xi He, Children's Hospital/Harvard :: Understanding Wnt signalling in development and disease	Laurie Boyer
Oct 23	Tania Baker, MIT :: Remodeling proteins and the proteome by AAA+ unfolding machines	Steve Bell
Oct 30	Rongfu Wang, Baylor College of Mediciine :: Toll-like receptor signaling and regulatory T cells in cancer	Michael Hemann
Nov 6	David Sabatini, MIT/WI :: Growth Control by the mTOR Pathway	Chris Kaiser
Nov 13 Mayer Lecture	Jan Michael Peters, Inst. of Molecular Pathology :: How cohesin controls sister chromatid cohesion and transcription	Angelika Amon
Nov 20	Jeremy Nathans, Johns Hopkins Univ. :: Frizzled receptors in vertebrate development and disease	Carlos Lois
Nov 27 Schmitt Lecture	Alex Schier, Harvard :: MicroRNAs in development	Peter Reddien
Dec 4	Christine Guthrie, UCSF Medical :: Recent Insights into the Regulation of mRNA Splicing	Gerry Fink
Dec 11	Cori Bargmann, Rockefeller :: Assembling a circuit for olfactory behavior	Bob Weinberg
Dec 18 Luria Lecture	Mike Brown, UT Southwestern :: How Cells Sense Sterols	Lenny Guarente

To see which researchers spoke during the 2006-2007 academic year, please go to the archived page: Colloquium 06-07.

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this page updated 12/19/07