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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