Bauer Forum

Bauer Forum talks are informal scientific seminars designed to foster communication and collaboration among people with an active interest in genomics and systems biology. The talks are held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm in Northwest Lab, Room 425, 52 Oxford Street.

Suggestions for speakers should be sent to the organizer: Bodo Stern (bstern@cgr.harvard.edu).

Wednesday, September 7, 4:00pm,
Ilana Kolodkin-Gal (MCB Department, Losick group)
"Self-produced triggers for biofilm disassembly in B. subtilis”

Wednesday, September 14, 4:00pm,
Pleuny Pennings (Harvard OEB Department)
"Population genetics, pre-existing mutations and the evolution of drug resistance in HIV”

Wednesday, September 28, 4:00pm,
Ethan Perlstein (Princeton University, Lewis Sigler Fellow)
"Do yeast get depressed? Tales of an evolutionary pharmacologist”

Wednesday, Oct 5, 4:00pm,
Rogier Braakman (Santa Fe Institute)
"The emergence and early evolution of biological carbon-fixation"

Wednesday, Oct 12, 4:00pm,
Maximino Aldana (Instituto de Ciencias Fîsicas, Cuernavaca)
"Dynamical criticality in genetic networks as an emergent property in evolution”

Wednesday, Oct 19, 4:00pm,
Chin-Lin Guo (Caltech)
"Long-range mechanical force enables self-assembly of epithelial tubules in fluidic/semi-fluidic phases”

Wednesday, Oct 26, 4:00pm,
Shimon Bershtein (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard)
"Mapping microscopic properties of destabilized proteins to organismal fitness”

Wednesday, Nov 2, 4:00pm,
Sophie Dumont (HMS Department of Systems Biology, Mitchison group)
"Mechanical Architecture of the Kinetochore-Microtubule Interface”

Wednesday, Nov 9, 4:00pm,
Aaron McGee (University of Southern California)
"Nogo-66 receptor limits plasticity in the intact and injured CNS”

Wednesday, Nov 16, 4:00pm,
no Bauer Forum: Bauer Fellow search symposium 2pm - 5pm

Wednesday, Nov 23, 4:00pm,
no Bauer Forum: Thanksgiving

Wednesday, Dec 7, 4:00pm
Stephen Mann (School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK)
"New paradigms at the proto-life/synthetic biology interface"

Wednesday, Jan 11, 4:00pm,
Janet Iwasa (HMS Department of Cell Biology)
"Animating the Model Figure"

Wednesday, Jan 18, 4:00pm,
Sagi Levy (Weizmann Institute, Barkai group, Rehovot, Israel)
"The competitive advantage of a dual-transporter system"

Wednesday, Jan 25, 4:00pm,
David Suter (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University)
"Transcription at the single cell level"

Wednesday, Feb 1, 4:00pm,
Ariel Amir (Harvard Junior Fellow, Department of Physics, Harvard University)
"Dislocation dynamics and bacterial growth"

Wednesday, Feb 8, 4:00pm,
Eugene Koonin (Senior Investigator, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH)
"Invariants of genome evolution and simple models to explain them: Are there laws in evolutionary genomics"
NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION: 52 Oxford Street Northwest Building, Lecture Hall B103

Wednesday, Feb 1, 4:00pm,
Ariel Amir (Harvard Junior Fellow, Department of Physics, Harvard University)
"Dislocation dynamics and bacterial growth"

Wednesday, March 14, 4:00pm,
Dann Huh (FAS Center for Systems Biology, Ramanathan lab)
"Non-genetic Heterogeneity Originating at Cell Division"

Wednesday, April 4, 4:00pm,
Dan Dykhuizen (Stony Brook University)
"Enzyme inhibition is an important cause of gene content and enzyme activity"

Wednesday, April 11, 4:00pm,
Michael Blower (Harvard Medical School)
"Analyzing the role of microtubule-localized RNAs during mitosis"

Wednesday, April 18, 4:00pm,
Liz Gavis (Princeton)
"Intracellular mRNA localization: Messages on the move"

Wednesday, April 25, 4:00pm,
Jeff Gore (MIT)
"Cooperation, cheating and collapse of microbial populations"

Wednesday, May 9, 4:00pm,
Ileana Cristea (Princeton)
"TBA"

Wednesday, May 16, 4:00pm,
Orna Amster-Choder (Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
"Spatial and temporal organization of proteins and mRNAs in bacteria"