Seminars 2011-2012
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 13
Elizabeth (Lisa) Petri Henske, MD
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
The role of mTOR and autophagy in the pathogenesis and treatment of tuberous sclerosis complex
September 27
Structural and Systems Genomic of Brain Parasitism
Huan Ngo, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
October 4
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
Mother knows best: Developmental plastiity during gut formation
October 18
Professor of Biology, Boston College
Fission forays into phosphodiesterases
October 25
Professor of Biology, M.I.T.
From junk DNA to noncoding RNAs:
LincRNAs and miRs that regulate formation of hematopoietic cells
November 1
Professor of Biology, Boston College
November 8
Tri-Institional Professor
Joy and Jack Fishman Professor
Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics
The Rockefeller University
Beyond the double helix: Varying the "histone code"
November 15
Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Decoding maternal transcripts in nematode embryogenesis
November 29
Biology Department
Tufts University
Translesion polymerases and DNA double-strand break repair:
Roles for sloppy copiers
December 13
Bioinformatics
National Institute of Environmental Health Services
ChIP-seq data analysis: methods and applications
February 23
Developmental Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore
Sequence based approaches to mechanisms of infectious disease
April 10
Cell Molecular and Developmental Biology, Genetics, Tufts University
Control of epithelial elongation of Drosophila imaginal discs
by mechanical forces and cellular rearrangements
The Boston College Biology Department is hosting Dr. Carlos Bustamante for this year’s Landmark Seminar in Biology on April 23 and 24. Dr. Bustamante is a Professor of Genetics at the Stanford School of Medicine.
Dr. Bustamante’s research focuses on analyzing genome wide patterns of variation within and between species to address fundamental questions in biology, anthropology, and medicine. His group works on a variety of organisms and model systems ranging from humans and other primates to domesticated plant and animals. Much of their research is at the interface of computational biology, mathematical genetics, and evolutionary genomics.
You and your colleagues are cordially invited to join us for the seminars that
Dr. Bustamante will present.
April 23 at 3:00 p.m. – Higgins Hall Room 300
Reconstructing the Great Human Diasporas From Genome Sequence Data
April 24 at 12:00 p.m. – Gasson Hall Room 305
Population Genetics in the Personal Genome Era