Special Seminars

Tuesday, October 17

2:30 - 3:30 pm
Irene Chen (Harvard Medical School)
“The edge of life ”
Sherman Fairchild, Room 177

Tuesday, October 24

3:00 - 4:00 pm
Kate Rubins (Stanford University)
“Genome-wide analysis of the host and viral responses during poxvirus infection ”
Sherman Fairchild, Room 177

Tuesday, October 31

2:00 - 3:00 pm
Katharina Ribbeck (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
“From nuclear pores to mucus - a study of hydrogen-based filters ”
Sherman Fairchild, Room 177

Monday, November 6

3:00 - 4:00 pm
Adam Paul Arkin (Physical Sciences Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley) "Towards the design of a tumor killing bacterium”
Bio Labs, Room 1075

Wednesday, November 8

2:00 - 3:00 pm
Mukund Thattai (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India)
“The origins of specificityin polyketide synthase protein interactions ”
Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, November 21

1:00 - 2:00 pm
Marcus Kronforst (University of Texas, Austin)
“Exploring the genetic basis of mimicry and speciation in Heliconius butterflies”
Bio Labs, Room 1058

Tuesday, November 28

2:00 - 3:00 pm
Suckjoon Jun (AMOLF, Amsterdam)
"Random thoughts: the role of stochasticity in the replication and segregation of chromosomes"
Sherman Fairchild, Room 177

Thursday, November 30

4:00 - 5:00 pm
Patrick Flaherty (University of California, Berkeley)
"Modeling the G Protein signal transduction system in macrophage cells"
Herbaria Seminar Room, 22 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, December 5

2:00 - 3:00 pm
Nik Putnam (University of California, Berkeley)
"The mother of all Eumetazoans: insights from the sea anemone genome"
Sherman Fairchild, Room 177

Tuesday, December 12

2:00 - 3:00 pm
Nicole Gerardo (University of Arizona, Tuscon)

"Host-parasite interactions in complex microbial communities"
Sherman Fairchild, Room 177

Wednesday, March 14

5:00 - 6:00 pm
Detlef Weigel (Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology)

"Whole-genome sequence diversity and reproductive isolation in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana".
Sherman Fairchild, Room 102

Tuesday, July 31

4:00 pm
Ned Wingreen (Princeton University)

"Modeling the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria".
Sherman Fairchild, Room 177

Thursday, Aug 9

2:00 pm
Naama Barkai (Weizmann Institute, Israel)

"Can flies teach us about frogs? Robustness and scaling in embryonic patterning"
Sherman Fairchild, Room 102