All of the following talks are on Monday’s at noon in Hutch 473.
Sept 12 – Dr. William Saxton, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Physical & Biological Sciences, “Peering into Drosophila oocytes and axons to understand intracellular motion and neurodegenerative disease”
Sept 19 – Dr. Rich Glor, University of Rochester, Department of Biology, “The Evolution of Species Diversity in Anolis Lizards”
Sept 26 – Dr. Justin Ramsey, University of Rochester, Department of Biology, “An intersection of ecology and genetics: how polyploidy mediates population processes in
flowering plants”
Oct 3 – Dr. Andrew Read, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Biology & Entomology, “How best to manage the ‘natural’ selection created by medical practice”
Oct 10 – Fall Retreat – No talk scheduled
Oct 17 – TBA
Oct 24 – Dr. Daniela Drummond-Barbosa, Johns Hopkins University, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, “Control of stem cells by diet and systemic factors in the Drosophila ovary”
Oct 31 – Dr. Nima Mosammaparast, Harvard Medical School, Department of Pathology, “The DNA damage response in the chromatin context”
Nov 7 – Dr. Eric Brown, McMaster University, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, “Chemical genomics: charting chemical genetic interactions in bacteria”
Nov 14 – Dr. Chris Lowe, Stanford University, Department of Biology, “Early evolutionary origins of the vertebrate head developmental program – a hemichordate
perspective”
Nov 21 – Dr. Tobias Walther, Yale University, Department of Cell Biology, “Greasy Stuff: mechanisms of lipid homeostasis and storage”
Nov 28 – Dr. Laura Niedernhofer, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, “DNA damage as a driver of aging-related degenerative diseases”
Dec 5 – Dr. Claude Desplan, New York University, Department of Biology, “Processing of color information in Drosophila”
Dec 12 – Dr. Eckhard Jankowsky, Case Western Reserve Univ. School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, “Mutual modulation: functional crosstalk between RNA helicase and poly(A) polymerase in the TRAMP complex”