Special Seminars Archive: 2005-2006

Monday, September 12

10:00 am
Erez Dekel (Alon Lab, Weizmann Institute of Science)
“Optimality and evolutionary tuning of the expression level of a protein”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, October 18

12:00 noon
Ben Lehner (The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
“Using RNAi to map genetic interactions during metazoan development: a genetic interaction map for signal transduction in C. elegans”
Bio Labs Lecture Hall (room 1068), 16 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, November 22

12:15 pm
Kevin Foster (Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics, University of Helsinki)
“Sociobiology at the genetic level: cooperation and conflict in microorganisms”
Museum of Comparative Zoology room 101, 26 Oxford Street

Thursday, December 1

12:00 pm
Allan Drummond (Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology)
“How protein misfolding governs the rate of molecular evolution”
Museum of Comparative Zoology room 101, 26 Oxford Street

Tuesday, December 20

12:00 pm
Tim Cooper (School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland)
“Adaptation and the network: understanding the interplay between adaptation and transcription network structure”
Museum of Comparative Zoology room 101, 26 Oxford Street

Thursday, January 5

12:00 pm
Banu Ozkan (Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco)
“Using protein physics to guide protein structure prediction”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, January 10

3:00 pm
Erez Braun (Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
“Gene recruitment and adaptive reprogramming of gene regulation in yeast ”
Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, January 17

12:00 pm
Maya Said (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT)
“Signaling in biological cells: challenges and opportunities”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, January 31

12:00 pm
Michael Lampson (Laboratory of Chemistry and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University)
“Partitioning the genome: local signaling to ensure accurate chromosome segregation in cell division”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, February 7

12:00 pm
Ben Lehner (The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
“Metazoan genetic interaction networks”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, February 14

3:00 pm
Anton Zilman (Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University)
“Physical mechanisms of nuclear-cytoplasmic transport: nano-sieves inside the cell”
Haller Hall, 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street

Tuesday, July 18

4:00 pm
Ned Wingreen (Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University)
“Lipid localization in bacterial membranes”
Sherman Fairchild room 177, 7 Divinity Avenue