Bauer Forum Archives: 2002-2003

Wednesday, September 18

3:00 pm
Joshua Plotkin (Harvard Junior Fellow, CGR)
“Quasispecies structure and the antigenic evolution of Influenza A virus”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, September 25

3:00 pm
Jon Wilkins (Harvard Junior Fellow, CGR)
“Asymmetry in the mechanisms of genomic imprinting: evidence for a three-way genetic conflict”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, October 2

3:00 pm
Reinhart Heinrich (Humboldt University Berlin and Department of Cell Biology, HMS)
“Mathematical models of metabolic and regulatory networks”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, October 9

3:00 pm
Stephanie Mohr (Gelbart Lab, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
“High-throughput approaches to mutational analysis in Drosophila”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, October 16

3:00 pm
Anita Goel (Research Fellow, Departments of Physics and Chemistry, and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology)
“Tuning and switching the DNA polymerase motor with mechanical tension”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, October 23

3:00 pm
Megan Murray (Harvard School of Public Health)
“Inferring the evolution of M. tuberculosis from comparative genomics”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, October 30

3:00 pm
Ian Tietjen (Dulac Lab, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
“Olfactory neurogenesis at single-cell resolution”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, November 6

3:00 pm
Cristian Castillo-Davis (Hartl Lab, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)
“GeneMerge: post-genomic analysis and data mining software for biologists (not just bioinformaticians)”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, November 13

3:00 pm
Chinlin Guo (Murray Lab, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
“The mechanism underlying yeast chemotropism”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, November 20

3:00 pm
Xandra Breakefield (Molecular Neurogenetics Unit, MGH)
“Herpes Simplex Virus amplicon vector designs for controlled delivery of large genes”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, November 27

3:00 pm
No talk (Thanksgiving)

Wednesday, December 4

3:00 pm
Jim Morris (Pierce and Haig Labs, OEB and CGR)
“When homologues meet: homologous chromosome interactions in gene expression and evolution”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, December 11

3:00 pm
Martha Bulyk (Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital)
“Experimental and computational approaches for studying transcriptional regulatory networks”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, December 18

3:00 pm
Drew Endy (Division of Biological Engineering and Department of Biology, MIT)
“Metaphors and yeast pheromone response”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, January 8

3:00 pm
Shai Shen-Orr (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
“Detecting building blocks of networks using network motifs”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, January 15

3:00 pm
Igor Rouzine (Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine)
“Tight regulation of primary cytotoxic immune response by innate helper cells and its impairment by persisting viruses”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, January 22

3:00 pm
Nick Ingolia (Murray Lab, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
“Explaining observed robustness in a model of a regulatory network”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, January 29

3:00 pm
Irina Arkhipova (Meselson Lab, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
“Intron-containing retroelements in diverse invertebrate taxa”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, February 5

3:00 pm
Elena Kramer (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)
“Gene duplication, functional divergence and the evolution of floral form”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, February 12

3:00 pm
Victor Sourjik (Berg Lab, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
“Using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) to study bacterial behavior”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, February 19

3:00 pm
Paul Clemons (Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology, HMS)
“Annotation of small-molecule libraries by multidimensional data analysis”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, February 26

3:00 pm
Dan Chasman (Variagenics)
“Prediction of deleterious polymorphisms and functional classification of proteins”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 5

3:00 pm
Manolis Kamvysselis (Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research)
“Computational comparative genomics: genes, regulation, evolution”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 12

3:00 pm
Guillermo García-Cardeña (Department of Pathology, HMS)
“Mechano-responsive genes and the identity of blood vessels”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 19

3:00 pm
Patrik D'haeseleer (Lipper Center for Computational Genetics, Harvard Medical School)
“Protein interactions: from noisy data to probabilistic networks”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, March 26

3:00 pm
Michael Yaffe (Department of Biology, MIT)
“Proteomics approaches to decode kinase signaling networks that control cell cycle progression”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, April 2

3:00 pm
William Gelbart (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
“From gene prediction to genome annotation”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, April 9

3:00 pm
Mariela Zirlinger (Dulac Lab, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
“Selecting genes from DNA array screens: applications to neuroscience”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, April 16

3:00 pm
Ned Wingreen (NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ)
“E. coli's division decision: modeling Min-protein oscillations”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, April 23

3:00 pm
Lydia Sohn (Department of Physics, Princeton University)
“Molecular sensing using an on-chip artificial pore”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, April 30

3:00 pm
Paul Gray (Ma Lab, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
“Approaches to understanding breathing and other behaviors in the post-genomic age”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, May 7

3:00 pm
Herbert Levine (Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego)
“Modeling eukaryotic chemotaxis”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, May 14

3:00 pm
Ernest Fraenkel (Whitehead Institute)
“Structural approaches to bioinformatics: deducing the specificity of transcription factors”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, May 21

3:00 pm
Naama Barkai (Weizmann Institute of Science)
“Shaping global properties of cellular networks by transcription regulation: emerging principles from large-scale expression data”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, May 28

3:00 pm
Pamela Silver (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
“Connecting the genome to the cytoplasm”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, June 4

3:00 pm
Oliver Rando (Bauer Center for Genomics Research)
“Genome-scale approaches to the primary structure of chromatin”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, June 11

3:00 pm
Daniel Segrè (Church Lab, Lipper Center for Computational Genetics, HMS)
“Constructing cell models from genomic information”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, June 18

3:00 pm
Orion Weiner (Kirschner Lab, Department of Cell Biology, HMS)
“Regulation of cell polarity during eukaryotic chemotaxis: the chemotactic compass”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, June 25

3:00 pm
Chris Burge (Department of Biology, MIT)
“Bioinformatics of microRNAs”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, July 2

3:00 pm
Birgit Schoeberl (Lauffenburger Lab, Department of Biology, MIT)
“Quantitative experiments and a mathematical model: the keys to ErbB signaling”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue