Seminars

Seminars are held in Higgins 310 at 3:00 on Tuesday afternoon*. Reception will follow in Higgins 465.
*Exceptions to this will be noted when necessary.

September 9, 2008

Concentration-dependent effects of Sonic hedgehog protein on axonal growth and membrane trafficking

    Zheng-Zheng Bao, Ph.D., Associate Professor
   UMass Medical School at Worcester
   3:00 p.m. Higgins 310

September 25, 2008*(Thursday)

Suppressing break-induced loss of heterozygosity

     Tim Humphrey, MCR Senior Group Leader
   University of Oxford
   3:00 p.m. Higgins 310


October 7, 2008

Advantage moderation: A tertiary structural fold regulates satellite C RNA replication

     Tilman Baumstark Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology 
   University of the Sciences in Philadelphia    
   3:00 p.m. Higgins 310


October 14, 2008

Informatics methods for next generation DNA sequencing data analysis

     Garbor Marth, D.Sc., Assistant Professor
   Boston College, Department of Biology
   3:00 p.m. Higgins 310
 

October 16, 2008*(Thursday)

Viral Attack and Cellular Defense: Harnessing Cellular Restrictions

     Mario Stevenson Ph.D., Professor    
   U Mass Medical School
   3:00 p.m. Higgins 310

October 28, 2008

     Lawrence Friedhoff  MD, Ph.D., FACP, President and CEO
   Pharmaceutical Special Projects Group, LLC
   3:00 p.m. Higgins 310

November 4, 2008

      Marc Muskavitch, Ph.D., Deluca Professor of Biology
   Boston College, Department of Biology
   3:00 p.m. Higgins 310

November 11, 2008

Glucose and Energy Signaling Network in Plants

November 13, 2008*(Thursday)

Predictions of nucleosome positions and histone modifications

     Guocheng Yuan, Assistant Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinfomatics
   Harvard School of Public Health, DFCI
   3:00 p.m. Higgins 310 

November 18, 2008

A genetic screen to identify genes that control Toxoplasma gondii differentiation

     Mariana Matrajt Ph.D., Assistant Professor
   University of Vermont
   3:00 p.m. Higgins 310