Bauer Forum Archives: 2003-2004

Wednesday, September 10

3:00 pm
Andrew Murray (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
“Questions about evolution”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, September 17

3:00 pm
David Nelson (Department of Physics and DEAS)
“Plateaus and jumps in single-molecule DNA unzipping experiments”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, September 24

3:00 pm
Duccio Cavalieri (Bauer Center for Genomics Research)
“Genomics of adaptation to environmental stress in yeast”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, October 1

3:00 pm
Patrick Eichenberger (Losick Lab, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
“Identifying the entire program of gene expression for a single differentiating bacterial cell type”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, October 8

3:00 pm
Mark Daly (Whitehead Institute)
“Human genetic variation and complex disease”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, October 15

3:00 pm
Sui Huang (Ingber Lab, HMS)
“Mammalian cell fates as attractors in gene expression state space”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, October 22

3:00 pm
Fred Ausubel (Department of Molecular Biology, MGH)
“C. elegans as a surrogate host for human microbial pathogens”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, October 29

3:00 pm
Richard Young (Whitehead Institute)
“Genome expression in health and disease”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, November 5

3:00 pm
Shirley Liu (Harvard School of Public Health)
“Integrating regulatory motif discovery and genome-wide expression analysis”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, November 12

3:00 pm
Leonid Mirny (Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology)
“What evolution can tell us about protein specificity”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, November 19

3:00 pm
Zach Perlman (Mitchison Lab, Department of Cell Biology, HMS)
“Automated image analysis for high-throughput screening and high-throughput cell biology”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, November 26

No talk (Thanksgiving)

Wednesday, December 3

3:00 pm
Kurt Thorn (Bauer Center for Genomics Research)
“Measuring the structure of the yeast septin ring with FRET microscopy”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, December 10

3:00 pm
Will Blake (Center for BioDynamics, Boston University)
“Using artificial gene networks to explore phenotypic variation in yeast”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, December 17

3:00 pm
Matthieu Piel (Murray Lab, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
“Gradient detection in yeast: a new experimental setup and some new ideas”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, January 7

3:00 pm
Jack Szostak (Department of Molecular Biology, MGH)
“Informational complexity and functional activity of RNA structures”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, January 14

3:00 pm
Nir Friedman (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University, and Bauer Center for Genomics Research)
“Using gene expression signatures in blood cells to classify and predict post-traumatic stress disorder”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, January 21

3:00 pm
Hans Hofmann (Bauer Center for Genomics Research)
“Fish and chips: social regulation of neural and behavioral plasticity in African cichlids”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue
CANCELLED

Wednesday, January 28

3:00 pm
Roberto Kolter (Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, HMS)
“Comparative genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, February 4

3:00 pm
Reinhard Bürger (Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna, and Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics)
“Frequency-dependent selection on polygenic traits”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, February 11

3:00 pm
Peter Sorger (Computational and Systems Biology Initiative, MIT)
“Chromosome segregation and genomic stability”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, February 18

3:00 pm
Eva Jablonka (Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University)
“Evolutionary epigenetics: perspectives and prospects”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, February 25

3:00 pm
Gaddy Getz (Golub Lab, Broad Institute)
“Coupled two-way clustering of gene expression data and its application in cancer projects”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 3

3:00 pm
Stephen Haggarty (Broad Institute)
“Biology and topology of chemical genetic networks”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 10

3:00 pm
NOTE LOCATION CHANGE
Joshua Plotkin (Bauer Center for Genomics Research)
“Detecting selection using a single genome sequence”
Sherman Fairchild room 211, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 17

3:00 pm
Greg Stephanopoulos (Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT)
“Metabolic engineering: an integrated approach to the analysis and manipulation of metabolic pathways”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 24

3:00 pm
David Bartel (Whitehead Institute, MIT)
“Tiny regulatory RNAs in animals and plants”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 31

3:00 pm
Michael Resnick (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
“p53: master regulatory gene, master gene of diversity, and source of individual variation”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, April 7

3:00 pm
Fritz Roth (Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, HMS)
“Systematic analysis of a yeast's synthetic-lethal genetic network”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, April 14

3:00 pm
Richard Jones (MacBeath Lab, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology)
“Using protein microarrays to define the human phosphotyrosine interactome”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, April 21

3:00 pm
Sunney Xie (Department of Chemistry and and Chemical Biology)
“Single-molecule approach to biology: from in vitro to in vivo studies”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, April 28

3:00 pm
Wing Wong (Department of Statistics)
“The analysis of cis-regulatory signals in genomic sequences”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, May 5

3:00 pm
Ryan Baugh (Hunter Lab, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
“Developmental genomics in C. elegans: dynamics, topology and buffering of an embryonic regulatory network”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, May 12

3:00 pm
Kevin Struhl (Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, HMS)
“Genome-wide association of transcriptional regulatory proteins in yeast and human cells: the relationship between association and function”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, May 19

3:00 pm
Michael Turelli (Section of Evolution and Ecology and Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, and Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics)
“A new approach to describing multilocus epistasis and its consequences”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, May 26

3:00 pm
John Wakeley (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)
“Gene geneologies in subdivided populations in the presence of natural selection”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, June 2

3:00 pm
Alexander van Oudenaarden (Department of Physics, MIT)
“Information storage and propagation in genetic networks”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue
CANCELLED

Wednesday, June 9

3:00 pm
Todd Golub (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
“Genomic information and cancer”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, June 16

3:00 pm
NOTE LOCATION CHANGE
Naama Barkai (Weizmann Institute of Science)
“Buffering perturbations in bicoid gene dosage: morphogen decoding 'on the fly'”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, June 23

3:00 pm
Galit Lahav (Bauer Center for Genomics Research)
“Digital oscillations of p53 in individual living cells”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, June 30

3:00 pm
Alice Ting (Department of Chemistry, MIT)
“Small-molecule and protein-based reporters of cellular biochemistry”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, July 7

3:00 pm
Eric Rubin (Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health)
“Tuberculosis genomics: talkin' TraSH”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, July 14

3:00 pm
Stephen Lory (Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, HMS)
“Analysis of regulatory networks of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by means of transcriptional profiling”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, July 21

3:00 pm
Roberto Kolter (Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, HMS)
“Comparative genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, July 28

3:00 pm
Niro Ramachandran (Harvard Institute of Proteomics)
“Manipulating the proteome”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue