News & Events - CGRB Seminar Series

Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm. Refreshments at 4:30 pm
Location: ALS 4001
2011-12 CGRB Seminar Series Schedule
Fall Term 2011
October 5, 2011 Danny Schnell
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

"Protein Targeting and Chloroplast Biogenesis"

Host: Valerian Dolja

October 19, 2011 Daniel Szymanski
Department of Agronomy
Purdue University

"Integration of Cytoskeletal and Endomembrane Systems During Plant Cell Morphogenesis"

Host: Valerian Dolja

November 2, 2011 Jay Lennon
W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Michigan State University

"Microbial Seed Banks: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications of Dormancy"

Host: David Myrold

November 16, 2011 Anthony Bretscher
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Cornell University

"How the Myosin-V Molecular Motor Selects, Transports, and Delivers its Cargo"

Host: Valerian Dolja

November 30, 2011

Eva Stukenbrock
Department of Organismic Interactions
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Ecology

"Speciation Processes in Pathogenic Fungi: Insight from Comparative Population Genomic Studies"

Host: Nik Grunwald

Winter Term 2012
January 11, 2012 Nina Salama
Microbiology; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
University of Washington

"How and why Heliobacter pylori builds a helical rod"

Host: Luiz Bermudez

January 25, 2012  Dennis Roop
Department of Dermatology; Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology
University of Colorado

"Exploring the Therapeutic Potential of Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cells"

Host: Arup Indra

February 8, 2012 Karlene Cimprich
Chemical and Systems Biology
Stanford School of Medicine

"Mechanisms for Maintaining Genome Stability at the Replication Fork"

 
Host: John Hays

February 22, 2012 Eric Johnson
Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine
The Scripps Research Institute

"Structural Genomics of Mammalian Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenases"

Host: Craig Marcus

March 7, 2012

 

Aleksandra Sikora
College of Pharmacy
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Oregon State University

"Omics in the Time of Cholera"

Host: CGRB

Spring Term 2012
April 4, 2012 Richard Caprioli
Department of Biochemistry
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

"Molecular Imaging of Tissue Sections by Mass Spectrometry"

Seminar CANCELLED

Host: Craig Marcus   

April 4, 2012

  

Kevin Foster
Department of Zoology
Oxford University

"Social Evolution in Microbes"

Host: Martin Schuster

April 18, 2012

A. Elizabeth Arnold
Division of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
The University of Arizona School of Plant Sciences

"Fungal Endophytes from the Tropics to the Tundra: Clues to Understanding the Evolution of Fungal Symbioses"

Host: Joey Spatafora

Special Seminar 

   April 19, 2012
10:30-11:30am
LPSC 402

Shin-Han Shiu
Department of Plant Biology
Michigan State University

"Evolutionary and mechanistic studies of plant genomic response to stress"

Host: Jeff Chang

May 2, 2012

Beth Sullivan
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy

"Epigenomic Mechanisms of Human Centromere Assembly and Genome Stability"

 
Host: Michael Freitag

May 16, 2012

Michael Niederweis
Department of Microbiology
University of Alabama

"Death by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis"

 
Host: Luiz Bermudez

May 30, 2012 Joe Heitman
Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Duke University School of Medicine

"Evolution of sex in fungi"

Host: Michael Freitag