MCB Seminar Program Schedule

Spring 2012

Tuesdays – 4:00 p.m. (unless otherwise noted)
221 Integrated Sciences Building (unless otherwise noted)
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
Faculty Organizer: Michele Klingbeil - klingbeil@microbio.umass.edu
Student Organizers: Genevieve Abbruzzese, Leslie Conway  

January 24 - No Seminar Scheduled

January 31 - Stephen Duncan, Medical College of Wisconsin
"Studying Human Liver Development and Disease Using Pluripotent Stem Cells"
HOST: Kimberly Tremblay

February 7 - Angela DePace, Harvard Medical School
"Quantitative Comparison of Regulatory Circuits Across Drosophila Species"
HOST: Peter Chien

March 6 – Reggie Saraceno, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
"TBA"
HOST: Jeanne Hardy

March 13 – Jason Gestwicki, University of Michigan
"Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions in the Heat Shock Protein 70 (Hsp70) Chaperone Complex"
HOST: Elizabeth Vierling

March 27 – Kristen Verhey, University of Michigan
"Kinesin Motors and Transport into and within the Ciliary Compartment"
HOST: Jennifer Ross

April 3 - Julia Chekanova, University of Missouri, Kansas City
"Role of the Arabidopsis Exosome in Regulation of Gene Expression"
HOST: Alice Cheung

April 10 - Samara Reck-Peterson, Harvard Medical School
"A Molecular Clutch Regulates Cytoplasmic Dynein"
HOST: Peter Chien

April 24 - NORDIN LECTURE: Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University*
"Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicity "
HOSTS: Peter Chien & Elizabeth Vierling

*Nordin Lecture Location: Integrated Sciences Building, Room 135

May 1 - Suckjoon Jun, Harvard University
"Chromosome, Cell Cycle and Entropy (or: why I love E. coli)"
HOST: Steven Sandler