Bauer Lectures Archive: 2005-2006

Tuesday, September 20

12:00 pm
Elizabeth Spelke (Department of Psychology)
“Sources of mathematical reasoning”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, November 29

12:00 pm
Thomas Silhavy (Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University)
“Outer membrane biogenesis in E. coli: building a membrane outside the cell”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Thursday, December 8

12:00 pm
Naama Barkai (Departments of Molecular Genetics and Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science)
“Divergence of gene expression between closely related species: a genetic signature conserved from yeast to human”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, January 3

12:00 pm
Bruce Lahn (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago)
“Probing the genetic basis of human brain evolution using comparative genomics and population genetics”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Thursday, February 2

12:00 pm
Gilles Laurent (Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology)
“Building a pattern encoder: tips from olfaction”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, March 28

12:00 pm
Dianne Newman (Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology)
“Can we trace the evolution of metabolism in the rock record? A case study on Fe(II)-based photosynthesis”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, May 16

12:00 pm
Philippe Cluzel (Department of Physics, University of Chicago)
“The logic of adaptation at the single-cell level”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, June 27

11:00 am (note different time)
Leonid Kruglyak (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University)
“Yeast as a model system for complex traits and population genetics”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue