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Date
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Speaker
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Topic
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Thursday
Jan 10 |
Christine Insinna, graduate student in the Dr. Joseph Besharse Lab, Dept of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, MCW |
"Uncovering sensory cilia trafficking in the vertebrate photoreceptor" |
Tuesday
Jan 15
Special time:
9:30 AM
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Dr. Dana N Levasseur, Dana-Farber Cancer Inst & Children's Hospital of Boston Harvard Medical School & Harvard Stem Cell Inst
Host: Dr. Stephen Duncan |
"Molecular determinants of embryonic stem cell self-renewal" |
Thursday
Jan 17 |
Dr. Gayle Woloschak, Dept of Radiology and Dept of Cell & Molecular Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Host: Dr. D.J. Sidjanin |
"Nanotechnology approaches for cancer therapy and imaging" |
Thursday
Jan 24 |
Dr. David Rector, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University
Host: Dr. Carol Everson |
"Localized sleep and mechanisms of sleep homeostasis as measured by individual evoked responses"
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Thursday
Jan 31
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Dr. Joseph Carroll, Dept of Ophthalmology, The Eye Institute, MCW
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Research in Progress: "Imaging the effects of cone opsin mutations on the organization of the human cone mosaic" |
Thursday
Feb 7
|
Eryn Hassemer, graduate student in Dr. DJ Sidjanin's Lab, Dept of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, MCW |
"Positional cloning of the woe locus"
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Thursday
Feb 14 |
Dr. Claudia Huettner, Blood Research Institute, MCW |
"A new role for Bcl-xL"
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Tuesday
Feb 19 Special time:
9:30 AM |
Dr. Khanh D. Huynh, Dept of Pathology Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital
Host: Dr. Stephen Duncan |
"The Epigenetic Regulation of X-Chromosome Dosage in Development and Disease" |
Thursday
Feb 21
|
Dr. Andrew Huberman, Dept of Neurobiology, Stanford University
Host: Dr. Maureen Neitz |
"Mammalian visual circuit development"
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Tuesday
Feb 26 Special time:
9:30 AM |
Dr. Jean-Pyo Lee, Aging & Stem Cells, Burnham Inst for Medical Research, and Dept of Pediatrics, UCSD School of Medicine
Host: Dr. Stephen Duncan
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"Multiple actions of neural stem cells: impact on metabolic neurodegenerative diseases" |
Thursday
Feb 28 |
Dr. Patricia Wilson, Children's Research Institute, Dept of Nephrology. MCW
Host: Dr. Stephen Duncan |
"The role of polycystin-1 in renal development: implications for novel therapies" |
Tuesday
March 4 Special time:
9:30 AM |
Dr. Atsushi "Austin" Nakano, Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Host: Dr. Stephen Duncan |
"Multipotency of early and late lsl1+ cardiac progenitor cells"
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Thursday
Mar 13 |
Dr. Stephen D. Krasinski, GI Cell and Developmental Biology Laboratories, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard University
Host: Dr. Alan Mayer
|
"Role of Gata factors in intestinal gene expression and function" |
Thursday
Apr 3 |
Dr. Paul Overbeek, Dept of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
Host: Dr. Joseph Besharse
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"Connections between cell polarity, G2/M regulation, Rb proteins and cancer"
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Thursday
Apr 17 |
Dr. Julius Zhu, Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Virginia Health System
Host: Dr. Nashaat Gerges |
"Synapse-specific Ras signaling"
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Thursday
Apr 24 |
Dr. Jonathan M. Scholey
*STUDENT CHOICE SEMINAR*
Dept of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Univ of California, Davis
Host: Department Graduate Students
|
"Building the cell's antenna: Intraflagellar transport motors in C. elegans neurons" |
Monday
May 5
Special time:
3:30 PM |
Dr. David Diamond, Dept. of Psychology, University of South Florida
Host: Dr. Nashaat Gerges |
"A new perspective on the role of the hippocampus in the formation of traumatic memories"
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Thursday
May 8 |
Dr. David Bader, Department of Medicine, Cell & Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University
Host: Dr. Stephen Duncan |
"Making blood vessels to organs" |
Thursday
May 15 |
Dr. Ronald M. Harper, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Host: Dr. Margaret Wong-Riley
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"Altered brain function and structure in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome: Implications for Sudden Infant Death”
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Thursday
May 22 |
Dr. Edwin Weeber, Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology, University of South Florida
Host: Dr. Nashaat Gerges
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"Molecular changes in Angelman Syndrome; the first curable human cognitive disorder?" |
Thursday
May 29 |
Dr. Yasunori Hayashi, Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Dr. Nashaat Gerges |
"Molecular mechanism of hippocampal learning"
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Tuesday
June 3
Special time:
9:30 AM |
Dr. Michael Griffin, Dept. of Human Sciences, University of Southampton, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research
Host: Dr. Danny Riley |
"Hand-transmitted vibration: the hand-arm vibration syndrome and acute changes in finger blood flow" |