Regular seminars in Molecular Biology and Genetics are generally given at 4:00 PM on Fridays in G10 Biotechnology Building (large conference room). However, we have quite a few special seminars given on alternate days of the week, please check the date carefully. Seminars that are not held in G10 Biotechnology Building or are at a time other than 4:00 PM will be otherwise noted.

August 29, 2008
Dr. Amar Klar
Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology laboratory
National Cancer Institute at Frederick
Title: "Asymmetric cell division as a mechanism for human brain laterality, hand preference, psychoses diseases and for mouse visceral laterality development"
Host:  Bik Tye
http://ccr.cancer.gov/staff/staff.
asp?profileid=5697

September 5, 2008
Dr. Nate Sutter
Medical Genetics-College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Title: 
Host:    Bik Tye
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/faculty/
sutter/research.htm

September 12, 2008
Dr. Su-Ju Lin
Department of Microbiology
University of California-Davis
Title:  "Understanding the mechanisms of calorie restriction and life span regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
Host:  Sylvia Lee
http://biosci2.ucdavis.edu/BioSci/FacultyAndResearch/DisplayFacultyProfile.cfm?ResearcherID=1843

September 19, 2008
Dr. Eric Siggia
Center for Studies in Physics and Biology
The Rockefeller University
Title:
Host:  Bik Tye
http://uqbar.rockefeller.edu/siggia/

September 26, 2008
Dr. David Ron
Skirball Institute
NYU School of Medicine
Title:  “A physiological perspective on the unfolded protein response”.
Host:  Linq Qi-Nutritional Sciences
http://www.med.nyu.edu/people/D.Ron.html

October 3, 2008
Ray Wu Symposium

October 10, 2008
Dr. Neil Hunter
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of California Davis
Title:
Host:  Paula Cohen/ Eric Alani
http://biosci2.ucdavis.edu/BioSci/FacultyAndResearch/DisplayFacultyProfile.cfm?ResearcherID=1771

October 17, 2008
Dr. Sabeeha Merchant
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Title:  "Between a rock and a hard place: the cell biology of copper homeostasis"
Host:  Maureen Hanson
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/merchant/

October 24, 2008
Shu-Bing Qian
Nutritional Sciences
Cornell University
Title:
Host:  Bik Tye  
http://www.salk.edu/faculty/faculty_details.php?id=36

October 31, 2008
Dr. Dmitri Petrov
Department of Biology
Stanford University
Title:
Host:   Chip Aquadro
http://petrov.stanford.edu/

Novermber 5-7. 2008
Racker Lecture
Bob Horvitz

November 14, 2008
Dr. Rick Morimoto
Department of Biology
Northwestern University
Title:
Host:   John Lis/ Sylvia Lee
http://www.biochem.northwestern.edu/ibis/faculty/morimoto.htm

November 21, 2008
Dr. Claire Walczak
Department of Medical Sciences
Indiana University
Title:
Host:   Zane Bergman
http://medsci.indiana.edu/medsci/research/walczak/walczaklab.htm

December 5, 2008
Dr. Lorraine Symington
Department of Microbiology
Columbia University
Title:
Host:   Eric Alani
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/faculty-data/lorraine-symington/faculty.html

December 12, 2008
Dr. Frank Stahl
Video Conference

January 23, 2009
Dr. Michael Welte
Department of Biology
University of Rochester
Title: 
Host:  Bill Brown
http://www.rochester.edu/college/bio/professors/welte.html

January 30, 2009
Dr. Ted Weinert
Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
University of Arizona
Title:
Host:  Bik Tye
http://bmcb.biology.arizona.edu/weinert.html

February 6, 2009
Dr. Steve Henikoff
Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Basic Sciences Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title:
Host:  John Schimenti
http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/henikoff.html 

February 13, 2009
Dr. Neal Silverman
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Title:
Host:  Brian Lazzaro
http://www.umassmed.edu/igp/faculty/silverman.cfm

February 20, 2009
Tentative job talk

February 27, 2009
Susan Taylor
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, San Diego
Title:
Host:  George Hess
http://susantaylorlab.ucsd.edu

March 6, 2009
Tentative job talk

March 13, 2009
Kaveh Ashrafi
UCSF Mission Bay Campus
Title:
Host:  Sylvia Lee
http://ashrafilab.ucsf.edu/kashrafi.html

March 20, 2009
Vivek Malhotra
Centre for Genomic Regulation
Barcelona Spain
Title: 
Host:  Scott Emr
http://pasteur.crg.es/portal/page/portal/Internet

March 27, 2009
Bing Ren
Moores Cancer Center
University of California, San Diego
Title:
Host:  John Lis
http://cancer.ucsd.edu/Research/summaries/biren.asp

April 3, 2009
Harmit Malik
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title:
Host:  Nick Brideau
http://www.fhcrc.org/science/labs/malik/

April 10, 2009
Barbara Meyer
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Title:
Host:  Nicole Liachko
http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/GEN/meyerb.html

April 17, 2009
Reuling Lin
Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Title:
Host:  Kelly Liu
http://www8.utsouthwestern.edu/findfac/research/0,2357,31720,00.html

April 24, 2009
Evan Eichler
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington
Title:
Host:  Dan Barbash
http://eichlerlab.gs.washington.edu/

May 1, 2009
Raphael Kopan
Department of Developmental Biology
Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine
Title:
Host:  Doina Tumbar
http://molecool.wustl.edu/Kopan.html

May 8, 2009
Mike Levine
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Title:
Host:  Josh Waterfall
http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/GEN/levinem.html

May 15, 2009
Yang Shi
Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Harvard University
Title:
Host:  Sylvia Lee
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/shi_yang.html