Seminar Series 2006-2007

Fall Term 2006

October 4, 2006
Corby Kistler
Cereal Disease Laboratory, USDA-ARS
St. Paul, Minnesota
"Profiles in Scourge: Genome-wide gene
expression analysis of the wheat head blight
pathogen Fusarium graminearum"

Host: Lynda Ciuffetti

 

November 1, 2006
Shiv Grewal

National Cancer Institute
Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology
"RNAi-Mediated Epigenetic Control of the Genome"

Host: Jim Carrington

 

November 15, 2006
Steve Henikoff

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA
"Epigenetic patterns generated by histone replacement"

Host: Michael Freitag

 
November 29, 2006
Louise Glass
Plant and Microbial Biology Department
University of California, Berkeley
" Fatal Attraction: Nonself recognition and programmed cell death in Neurospora"

Host: Lynda Ciuffetti

 

Winter Term 2007

January 24, 2007
Christopher Somerville
Carnegie Institution
Stanford University
"Genetic Dissection of Cell Wall Synthesis "

Host: James Carrington

 
January 31, 2007
Joshua Akey
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington
"Evolution of gene expression levels: insights from yeast and humans"

Host: Erica Bakker

 
February 14, 2007
Evgeni Sokurenko
Department of Microbiology
University of Washington
"FimH adhesin of E. coli and the illuminating power of SNPs"

Host: HMIP Graduate Student Committee
Contact: Julie Early

 
March 7, 2007
Joe Takahashi

Dept. of Neurobiology & Physiology
Northwestern University
"Genetics and Neurobiology of Circadian Clocks in Mammals"

Host: Jaga Giebultowicz

 

Spring Term 2007

April 11, 2007
Marc Vidal
Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) &
Dept. of Cancer Biology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
"Interactome Networks"

Host: Jeff Chang

 

 
April 18, 2007
David Schwartz
Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics
University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center
"Single Molecule Approaches to Genome Analysis"

Host: Lynda Ciuffetti

 
April 25, 2007
George Somero

CANCELLED

Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University
Pacific Grove, CA
"Chipping Away at Molecular Ecology: What Gene Chips can (and cannot) Teach Us"

Host: Steve Giovannoni

 
May 2, 2007
Jian-Kang Zhu
Institute for Integrative Genomics, CEPEB
University of California, Riverside
"Stress regulated miRNAs and siRNAs"

Host: James Carrington

 
May 9, 2007
Brett Tyler
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
at Virginia Tech
"Functional Genomics of Phytophthora Infection"

Host: Lynda Ciuffetti

 
May 30-31, 2007
Susan Lindquist
Knudson Lecture
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Boston, MA
Public Lecture, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 30, 2007, LaSells Stewart Center, "Simple Solutions to Complex Problems: Yeast as a Discovery Platform for Complex Neurodegenerative Disease"

Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Thursday, May 31, 2007, ALS 4001
"Prion Proteins:  One Surprise After Another"

Host: Robert Tanguay