Seminars 2012-2013
biology department
Seminars are held in Higgins 310 at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon*.
Reception will follow in Higgins 465.
*Exceptions to this will be noted when necessary.
September 11, 2012
Targeting membrane lipids with designed peptides
Boston College
September 18, 2012
A versatile engineered platform for direct, multi-dimensional control of cellular RNA functions
Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering
MIT
September 25, 2012
Expression of p16INK4A in HPV-associated cancers:
More than just a biomarker
Margaret McLaughlin-Drubin, Ph.D.
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
October 2, 2012
no seminar scheduled
October 9, 2012
no seminar scheduled
October 16, 2012
Rethinking the rotting Y chromosome
Whitehead Institute, MIT
October 23, 2012
Determinants of host resistance to babesiosis:
An emerging infectious disease
Tufts University
November 6, 2012
Tracking the evolution of novel enzymatic function at atomic resolution
Brandeis University
November 13, 2012
How a cell gets its shape and makes the right connections
Harvard Medical School
November 20, 2012
no seminar scheduled
November 27, 2012
Using yeast to study eukaryotic transcription and chromatin strucure
Harvard Medical School
November 29, 2012
Short chain fatty acid fermentation products of the gut microbiome:
Implications in autism spectrum disorders
University of Western Ontario, Canada
December 4, 2012
Host and viral regulation of the innate immune sensors RIG-1 and MDA5
Harvard Medical School
December 7, 2012
What is the epigenetic landscape of the human kinetochore?
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology
University of Edinburgh
December 11, 2012