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 Fridays 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).

Friday, September 18, 4:00pm
Juan Pedraza (HMS Department of Systems Biology, Paullson lab)
"Counteracting feedbacks can tune bimodality ranges and transition rates”

Friday, Sept 25, 4:00pm, Home and Away: Harvard-Princeton NIGMS Centers Seminar
Lee Swem (Princeton University, Bonnie Bassler group)
“Manipulating Quorum-Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenesis”

Friday, Oct 2, 3:00pm, PED Seminar
David Shuker (University of St. Andrews, UK)
“Sex ratio behaviour in Nasonia wasps: towards the genetic basis of an adaptive paradigm”

Friday, Oct 16, 4:00pm
Sara Mitri (School of Engineering, Lausanne University, Switzerland)
"The Evolution of Communication in social robots"

Friday, Oct 23, 4:00pm
Curtis Huttenhower (Harvard School of Public Health, Biostatistics Department)
"Large scale genomic data mining"

Friday, Nov 6, 3:00pm
Ran Kafris (Harvard Medical School, Department of Systems Biology)
"Cell size regulation in metazoan cell cycle"

Friday, Nov 13,
Systems Biology Program retreat

Friday, Nov 20, 4:00pm, Home and Away: Harvard-Princeton NIGMS Centers Seminar
Hilary Coller (Princeton University, Lewis-Sigler Institute)
"Quiet time: The secret life of quiescent fibroblasts"

Friday, Dec 4, 4:00pm
Felice Frankel (science photographer, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard)
"More than pretty pictures"

Friday, Dec 11, 4:00pm
Systems Biology PhD Program talk

Friday, Jan 15,
one-day conference "Cells, Circuits and Computation", Northwest Building, lecture hall 103

Friday, Jan 22, 4:00pm, Home and Away: Harvard-Princeton NIGMS Centers Seminar
Matthias Kaschube (Princeton University, Lewis-Sigler Theory Fellow)
"High-precision cross-scale analysis of cortical development and tissue morphogenesis"

Friday, Jan 29, 4:00pm
Amir Mitchell (Pilpel lab, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)
"Cellular response strategies in a changing environment – micro-organisms evolve to anticipate upcoming challenges"

Friday, Feb 5, 4:00pm
Oded Shaham (Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Mootha lab)
""A Metabolic Profiling Approach to Human Disorders of Energy Metabolisms"

Friday, Feb 12, 4:00pm
Systems Biology PhD Program talk

Friday, Feb 26, 4:00pm
Ulrich Gerland (University of Munich)
"tbd"