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Seminars and Colloquium

FALL 2011

 

Thursday, August 25-

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Nagarajan Vaidehi from the Beckman Research Institute, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "The Relevance of Conformational Dynamics of G-Protein Coupled Receptors in Drug Design "

Host: Frank Alber

 

Thursday, September 1-

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Peter Bickel, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Some Examples of Statistical Inference in Genomics "

Host: Michael Waterman

 

Thursday, September 8-

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Kai Wang from the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Detecting Genomic Variants: Application of Hidden Markov Models "

Host: Fengzhu Sun

 

Thursday, September 29-

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Yi Xing from University of Iowa, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "RNA Regulatory Networks in Health and Disease "

Host: Xionghong Jasmine Zhou

 

Thursday, October 6-

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Paul Thomas from USC, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Modeling the Evolution of Gene Function Using Phylogenies and the Gene Ontology"

Host: Fengzhu Sun

 

Friday, October 7-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Takeshi Saito from USC Keck School of Medicine, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Intracellular Antiviral Innate Immunity that Regulate Hepatitis C Virus Infection"

Host: Myron Goodman

 

Friday, October 14-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Cornelius Murre from UC San Diego, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Lin Chen & Frank Alber

 

Friday, October 21-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Venugopala Reddy Gonehal from UC Riverside, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Live Imaging & Microgenomics of Stem Cell Maintenance"

Host: Xuelin Wu

 

Friday, November 4-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Charlie Boone from University of Toronto, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Ian Ehrenreich

 

Friday, November 11-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Daniel Kliebenstein from UC Davis, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Sergey Nuzhdin

 

Thursday, December 1

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Yael Mandel-Gutfreund from Israel, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA "

Host: Remo Rohs

 

Friday, December 2-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Ed Green from UC Santa Cruz, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Matt Dean

 

Tuesday, December 6 -

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Angela DePace from Harvard University, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA "

Host: Sergey Nuzhdin & Fengzhu Sun

 

 

SPRING 2012

Thursday, January 12-

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Buhm Han from UCLA Computer Center, 2:00-3:00 pm in RRI 101

Title: "Large Scale Genome Wide Association Studies: Multiple Testing Correction & Meta-Analysis "

Host: Fengzhu Sun

 

Friday, January 13-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Jeremy Sanford from UC Santa Cruz, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Protein -- RNA Interactions in Gene Expression & Human Disease "

Host: Andrew Smith

 

Thursday, January 19-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Antoine van Oijen from Groningen University, The Netherlands, 2:00-3:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Under the Hood: Single-Molecule Studies of DNA Replication "

Host: Myron Goodman

 

Friday, January 20-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Laurent Gentzbittel from Toulouse University, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Biodiversity & Adaptation to Environmental Stress: Is the Wild Legume Medicago Truncatula a Promising Model"

Host: Sergey Nuzhdin

 

Thursday, January 26-

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Grace Shieh from Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2:00-3:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Modeling & Comparing the Organization of Circular Genomes"

Host: Michael Waterman

 

Friday, January 27-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Matthew Champion from University of Notre Dame, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Probing the Molecular & Enzyme Biology of Pathogens with Targeted Proteomics"

Host: Steve Finkel

 

Wednesday, February 1-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Erik Griffin from Johns Hopkins Medicine, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Matthew Michael

 

Wednesday, February 8-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Irene Chiolo from Yale University, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Oscar Aparicio

 

Thursday, February 9-

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Qing Nie from UC Irvine, 2:00-3:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Fengzhu Sun

 

Wednesday, February 15-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Emily Foley from Rockefeller University, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Examining Mechanisms of Cell Death in Response to Anti-Mitotic Drug Treatment"

Host: Matthew Michael

 

Thursday, February 16-

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ William Noble from University of Washington, 2:00-3:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "The One-Dimensional & Three-Dimensional Structure of the Genome"

Host: Frank Alber

 

Tuesday, February 21-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Ada Yonath from Weizmann Institute of Science, in GER

Title: "The Amazing Ribosome, its Tiny Enemies and Hints About its Origin"

Host: Remo Rohs

 

Wednesday, February 22-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Jamy Peng from Yale University, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Susan Forsburg

 

Thursday, February 23-

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Lucy Forrest from Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt, 2:00-3:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Remo Rohs

 

Wednesday, February 29-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Michael Nodine from MIT, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "RNA Biology of Plant Embryos"

Host: Xuelin Wu

 

Thursday, March 1-

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Abel Rodriguez from UC Santa Cruz, 2:00-3:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Fengzhu Sun

 

Friday, March 2-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Gary Dunny from Minnesota, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Steven FInkel

 

Friday, March 23-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Stephen Wright from University of Toronto, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA "

Host: Matt Dean

 

Friday, March 30-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Mary Ann Handel from Jackson Labs, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA "

Host: Matt Dean

 

Friday, April 6-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Toshio Tsukiyama, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA "

Host: Oscar Aparicio & Matt Dean

 

Friday, April 13-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Richard Mann from Columbia University, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA "

Host: Remo Rohs

 

Wednesday, April 18-

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Martha Bulyk from Harvard Medical School, 2:00-3:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA "

Host: Remo Rohs

 

Friday, April 20-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Lisa Stubbs from Institute for Genomic Biology, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Andrew Smith

 

Friday, April 27-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ Danzhou Yang from University of Arizona, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA "

Host: Lin Chen & Matt Dean

 

Friday, May 25-

Molecular Biology Seminar w/ James Stivers from Johns Hopkins University, 12:00-1:00 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA "

Host: Myron Goodman

 

 

 

 

 

 

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