Bauer Forum Archives: 2004-2005

Wednesday, September 8

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

Wednesday, September 15

3:00 pm
Michael Laub (Bauer Center for Genomics Research)
“A systems-biology approach to dissecting the bacterial cell cycle”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, September 22

3:00 pm
David Reich (Department of Genetics, HMS)
“Human sequence variation, history and natural selection, and applying that understanding to find genes for common disease”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, September 29

3:00 pm
Oliver Rando (Bauer Center for Genomics Research)
“Anatomy and physiology of the primary structure of chromatin in yeast”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, October 6

3:00 pm
Tim Mitchison (Department of Systems Biology, HMS)
“How do you build a meiotic spindle?”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, October 13

3:00 pm
Scott Edwards (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)
“Non-avian reptiles: the final frontier in vertebrate genomics”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, October 20

3:00 pm
Fred Winston (Department of Genetics, HMS)
“Analysis of transcription and chromatin structure in yeast”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, October 27

3:00 pm
Timothy Gardner (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University)
“Inference of genetic networks from expression profiles: applications to microbial engineering and drug discovery”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, November 3

3:00 pm
Boris Shakhnovich (Bioinformatics Program, Boston University)
“Role of lethality in molecular evolution: dynamical insights into the uneven distribution of sequence and structure space”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, November 10

3:00 pm
Dmitry Nurminsky (Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Tufts University School of Medicine)
“Insights into nuclear organization from genome sequence analysis”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, November 17

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

Wednesday, November 24

No talk (Thanksgiving)

Wednesday, December 1

3:00 pm
Danesh Moazed (Department of Cell Biology, HMS)
“RNAi-mediated assembly of epigenetic chromatin domains”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, December 8

3:00 pm
Atul Butte (Division of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital)
“Exploring genomic medicine using integrative biology and bioinformatics”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue
CANCELLED

Wednesday, December 15

3:00 pm
Leona Samson (Biological Engineering Division and Center for Environmental Health Sciences, MIT)
“Complex cellular responses to DNA damaging agents”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, December 22 & 29

Holiday break

Wednesday, January 5

3:00 pm
Steve Altschuler (Bauer Center for Genomics Research)
“Multi-dimensional drug profiling by automated microscopy”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, January 12

3:00 pm
Guillaume Achaz (Wakeley Lab, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)
“Turnover of HIV populations within infected patients”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, January 19

3:00 pm
NOTE ROOM CHANGE
David Sabatini (Whitehead Institute)
“The regulation of cell growth by the TOR pathway”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, January 26

3:00 pm
Christine Queitsch (Bauer Center for Genomics Research)
“Under cover: Hsp90 buffers genetic variation”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, February 2

3:00 pm
Roy Kishony (Bauer Center for Genomics Research)
“Functional organization in genetic networks”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, February 9

3:00 pm
L Mahadevan (Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
“Water movements in gels, cells and tissues”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, February 16

No talk

Wednesday, February 23

3:00 pm
Geoff Cooper (Biology Department, Boston University)
“Identification of transcription factor binding sites upstream of genes regulated by specific signaling pathways in mammalian cells”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 2

3:00 pm
Frank Vollmer (Rowland Institute)
“Molecular analysis with micro-optical resonances”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 9

3:30 pm
NOTE TIME AND ROOM CHANGE
David Baker (Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington)
“Progress in high-resolution modeling of protein structures and interactions”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 16

3:00 pm
Daniel Weinreich (Hartl Lab, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)
“The population genetics of evolutionary trajectories through sequence space”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 23

3:00 pm
Kevin Eggan (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
“Reprogramming of developmental gene expression after nuclear transplantation”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 30

3:00 pm
Aimee Dudley (Church Lab, Department of Genetics, HMS)
“A global view of pleiotropy and phenotypically derived gene function in yeast”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, April 6

3:00 pm
John Stinchcombe (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University)
“To flower or not to flower: ecological genomics of life history transitions in Arabidopsis thaliana”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, April 13

Wednesday, April 20

3:00 pm
Viara Grantcharova (MacBeath Lab, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology)
“Genome-scale study of PDZ domain interactions”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, April 27

3:00 pm
Mark DePristo (Hartl Lab, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)
“On the function and evolution of simple protein sequence”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, May 4

3:00 pm
Erez Lieberman (Program for Evolutionary Dynamics)
“Evolution on graphs”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, May 11

3:00 pm
Michael Sorenson (Department of Biology, Boston University)
“The genetics of speciation in brood parasitic finches”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, May 18

3:00 pm
Edward Kravitz (Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School)
“Genes, modules and behavior: a work in progress”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, May 25

3:00 pm
Bradley Bernstein (Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT)
“Global views of mammalian chromatin and implications for colinear HOX gene regulation”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, June 1

3:00 pm
Martin Polz (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Microbial diversity in the wild: genomes, populations and species”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, June 8

3:00 pm
Ran Kafri (Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science)
“Design and evolution of genetic backup circuits”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, June 15

3:00 pm Sarah Calvo (Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Evolution and comparative genomics: insights from three Aspergilli”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, June 22

3:00 pm
Leah Cowen (Lindquist Lab, Whitehead Institute)
“Hsp90 potentiates the evolution of new traits: drug resistance in diverse fungi”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, June 29

3:00 pm
Job Dekker (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
“Chromosome architecture: chromatin hubs and puffs”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, July 6

3:00 pm
Vamsi Mootha (Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School)
“Systematic dissection of pathways altered in human diabetes”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, July 13

3:00 pm
Stuart Milstein (Vidal Lab, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
“What happens between the nodes? A study of the edges in the apoptotic interactome of C. elegans”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, July 20

3:00 pm
Michael Rape (Kirschner Lab, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School)
“Regulation of substrate ordering of the anaphase-promoting complex by kinetic proofreading”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, July 27

3:00 pm
Jake Jaffe (Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT)
“A microbial Energizer Bunny: interactions of the proteomes of Prochlorococcus MED4 and its phage P-SSP7”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue