Submit a Seminar or Event Request RSS Feed		View Seminars and Events by: Day Month Sponsor Search Seminars/Events Using the arrows, select a month to display. Seminars and Events For: 11/2009 Monday November 2 Thesis Examination 9:00 A.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 264 - Biochemistry Seminar Room MICHAEL BRADLEY, Molecular Biophysics, Dr. Nathan Baker "Computational and Experimental Investigation of > Allosteric Communication in the Transcriptional Regulator NikR " Monday November 2 Dept. of Developmental Biology 12:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Philip Needleman Library DR. JANE PHILLIPS-CONROY, Professor, Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology "TBA" Monday November 2 Department of Neurology and Hope Center for Neurological Disorders 12:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Holden Case Study Room (Auditorium) TERRIE E. INDER, M.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics "Advances in Neuroprotection in Term Newborn Brain Injury" Monday November 2 Center for Computational Biology 2:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Holden Case Study Room (Auditorium) DAVID B. TEPLOW, PH.D., Professor of Neurology, Director, Biopolymer Lab, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA "Adventures in Chaos: Recent Progress in Understanding the Structural Biology of the amyloid â-protein and Alzheimer's Disease" Monday November 2 Thesis Examination 2:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928 MR. DONGYANG ZHANG, MSTP- Neurosciences, Dr. Marcus E. Raichle, M.D. "Intrinsic Brain Activity: Concept, Techniques, Application" Monday November 2 Immunology Program Research Seminar Series 4:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Connor Auditorium DR. MIRIAM MERAD, Mount Sinai "Functional Diversity of non lymphoid tissue DCs" Monday November 2 Dept. of Biology 4:00 P.M., Rebstock (Hilltop), Room 322 JOHN LIS, PH.D. , Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University "New Views of Local and Genome-wide Transcription Regulation In Vivo" Tuesday November 3 Molecular Microbiology & Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series 12:00 P.M., Cori Auditorium DR. KAMI KIM, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine "Using epigenomics to Understand Toxoplasma gondii gene expression" Tuesday November 3 Thesis Examination 2:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Philip Needleman Library BRADLEY RESS MILLER, MSTP- Neurosciences, Dr. Aaron DiAntonio, M.D., Ph.D. "A DLK and JNK Dependent Axon Self-Destruction Program Promotes Wallerian Degeneration" Tuesday November 3 2009 Dr. Jacob Probstein Research Lecture 4:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Connor Auditorium TERESA K. WOODRUFF, PH.D. , The Watkins Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology; Director of the Oncofertility Consortium , Feinberg School of Medicine- Northwestern University "TBA" Tuesday November 3 Department of Anesthesiology - Basic Research and Pain Center 4:00 P.M., Clinical Sciences Research Building, Room 5550 LARRY TRUSSELL, PH.D., Professor, Dept. of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery , Oregon Health Science University "Regulation of Synaptic Strength by Subthreshold Voltage Changes in Nerve Terminals" Wednesday November 4 2009 Dr. Jacob Probstein Grand Rounds Lecture 12:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Connor Auditorium SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED, SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED Wednesday November 4 Dept. of Developmental Biology 12:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Philip Needleman Library JUNG-EUN SHIN, DBBS Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Developmental Biology, DiAntonio Lab "TBA" Wednesday November 4 Dept. of Molecular Microbiology 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Pediatric Research Building, Room 8101 KAMI KIM, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine "Plasmodium yoelii as a Model for Development of Antimalarial Drugs and Vaccines" Thursday November 5 Dept. of Developmental Biology 11:00 A.M., Bernard Becker Medical Library, Room 521 SHRADHA KHURANA, DBBS Predoctoral Trainee "TBA" Thursday November 5 Dept. of Genetics 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 823 TIMOTHY A. GRAUBERT, M.D., Dept. of Medicine "Copy Number Variants: Important Contributors to Phenotypic Variability" Friday November 6 Dept. of Cell Biology & Physiology 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 426 DANIEL KERSCHENSTEINER, M.D., PH.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ophthalmology "Principles of Circuit Development in the Mammalian Retina" Friday November 6 37th Annual Carl Vernon Moore Memorial Lecture 4:00 P.M., Moore Auditorium GERALD SHULMAN, M.D., PH.D., F.A.C.P., Professor of Internal Medicine & Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Howard Hughes Medical Institution, Yale University School of Medicine "Cellular Mechanisms of Insulin Resistance: Implications for Obesity, Lipodystrophy, Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes" Friday November 6 Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology 4:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928 GAMMON EARHART, PH.D., P.T., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physical Therapy "Adaptive Control of Locomotor Spatial Orientation in Health and Disease" Monday November 9 Dept. of Developmental Biology 12:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Philip Needleman Library DR. SHIN IMAI, Associate Professor, Dept. of Developmental Biology "TBA" Monday November 9 Department of Neurology and Hope Center for Neurological Disorders 12:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Holden Case Study Room (Auditorium) SHANNON E.G. HAMRICK, M.D., Dept. of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine "Surgery and the Newborn Brain" Monday November 9 Thesis Examination 1:00 P.M., Southwest Tower, 7th Floor Conference Room ERWIN CALVO PUENTE, MSTP- Molecular Cell Biology, Dr. Simon J. Fisher, M.D., Ph.D. "Role of Hyperglycemia, Hypoglycemia, and Glucose Transporter 4 on Brain Glucose Sensing, Counterregulation, and Neuronal Viability" Monday November 9 Center for Computational Biology 2:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Room 214A PROFESSOR GORDON M. CRIPPEN, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Michigan, College of Pharmacy "SAGA: Rapid Automatic Mainchain NMR Assignment for Large Protein" Monday November 9 Siteman Cancer Center and Neuro-oncology Research Group 3:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Philip Needleman Library ROSALIND A. SEGAL, M.D., PH.D., Dana Farber Cancer Institute "Proteoglcyans Specify a Mitogenic Response to Sonic Hedgehog" Monday November 9 Immunology Program Research Seminar Series 4:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Connor Auditorium DR. WARREN LEONARD, NIH - Heart, Lung and Blood Institute "Common Cytokine Receptor Gamma Chain Cytokines: Old Ideas, New Lessons" Tuesday November 10 Molecular Microbiology & Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series 12:00 P.M., Cori Auditorium DR. ROBERT HEINZEN, Chief, Coxiella Pathogenesis Section, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Labs "New Insight into Host Cell Parasitism by the Q fever bacterium, Coxiella burnetii" Tuesday November 10 Dept. of Radiation Oncology 12:00 P.M., Steinberg Amphitheater GAYLE WOLOSCHAK, PH.D., Northwestern University "Biomedical Applications of Radiation Inducible TiO2 nanoparticles" Tuesday November 10 Thesis Examination 2:00 P.M., McDonnell Pediatric Research Bldg., 8th Floor Conference Room JOSÉ BERNARDO SÁENZ, MSTP- Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Dr. David Haslam, M.D. "Genetic and Chemical Genetic Approaches to Shiga Toxin Inhibition" Tuesday November 10 Biophysical Evenings 5:30 P.M., Cori Auditorium JIM HUETTNER, PH.D., Associate Professor Of Cell Biology & Physiology, Dept. of Cell Biology "Glutamate Receptor Regulation by Lipid-Derived Modulators" Tuesday November 10 student run statics study group 6:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Holden Case Study Room (Auditorium) PROF. BARAK COHEN, Dept. of Genetics "Binomial Statistics and Their Application to Comparative Genomics." Wednesday November 11 Dept. of Developmental Biology 12:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Philip Needleman Library AKIKO SATOH, PH.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Developmental Biology, Imai Lab "TBA" Wednesday November 11 Dept. of Molecular Microbiology 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Pediatric Research Building, Room 8101 SAMANTHA MCNULTY, DBBS Pre-Doctoral Trainee, Dept. of Internal Medicine - Infectious Diseases "Trans-kingdom Gene Transfer as a Mechanism of Evolution in lilarial nematodes" MICHAEL LANE, M. D., Clinical Fellow, Dept. of Internal Medicine - Infectious Diseases "Human paragonimiasis in North America" Wednesday November 11 PNP Medical School Seminar 12:30 P.M., East Building, 2nd floor Conference Room, 2311 DEANNA BARCH, PH.D. , Co-Director, Cognitive Control and Psychopathology (CCP) Laboratory ; Director, Silvio Conte Center for Neuroscience Research; Professor, Dept. of Psychology "COMT, Prefrontal Cortex and Striatum in Schizophrenia" Thursday November 12 Dept. of Genetics 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 823 SHARON L.R. KARDIA, PH.D., Dept. of Epidemiology, Director, Public Health Genetics Program, University of Michigan School of Public Health "Risk Prediction of Chronic Disease Outcomes using Ensemble Modeling Methods" Thursday November 12 Twenty-Ninth Oliver H. Lowry Lecture 4:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Connor Auditorium ERIC N. OLSON, PH.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas "MicroRNA Control of Cardiovascular Development and Disease" Friday November 13 Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology 9:00 A.M., McDonnell Sciences Building Conference Room 785 SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED, SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED Friday November 13 Dept. of Cell Biology & Physiology 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 426 KATHERINE A. HENZLER-WILDMAN, PH.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics "Animating the Transport Cycle: The role of Protein Dynamics in Multi-drug Resistance Activity of EmrEA" Friday November 13 Electrical and Systems Engineering 3:00 P.M., Bryan Hall, Room 305 DR. XUDONG (SHERMAN) FAN, Associate Professor, Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Missouri "Optofluidic Ring Resonator Technology Platform for Rapid and Sensitive Biological and Chemical Sensing" Friday November 13 Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology 4:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928 JOE CULVER, PH.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Radiology "Mapping Human Brain Function with Light" Monday November 16 Dept. of Developmental Biology 12:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Philip Needleman Library DR. RANDALL MOON, University of Washington School of Medicine "TBA" Monday November 16 Siteman Cancer Center Prevention and Control Program Seminar Series 12:00 P.M., 132 Goldfarb -GWB School of Social Work - Danforth Campus BARBARA L. RILEY, PH.D., University of Waterloo "Achieving Population Health Impact Through Integrating Evaluation Science and Service: Some Directions and Dilemmas" Monday November 16 Thesis Examination 1:30 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Holden Case Study Room (Auditorium) ERIC JONAS GAPUD, MSTP- Immunology, Dr. Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D. "Regulation of DNA repair by Atm and DNA-PKcs during V(D)J recombination" Monday November 16 Center for Computational Biology 2:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Room 214A MICHAEL FEIG, PH.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University "Dynamics of Biomolecules in Cellular Environments" Monday November 16 Immunology Program Research Seminar Series 4:00 P.M., Moore Auditorium DR. JOHN TODD, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research "The etiology of type 1 diabetes" Monday November 16 Dept. of Biology 4:00 P.M., Rebstock (Hilltop), Room 322 KEVIN SMITH, PH.D., Associate Director, Tyson Research Center "Species Additions and Extinctions Across Spatial Scales: Biotic Homogenization as a Form of Global Change" Monday November 16 Department of Physics 4:00 P.M., Compton (Danforth Campus), Room 241 PROFESSOR MICHAEL BRENT, Washington University "Kinetic Models of Gene Regulatory Networks" Monday November 16 The 14th Annual Donald C. Shreffler Memorial Lecture 4:00 P.M., Moore Auditorium JOHN TODD, PH.D., Dept. of Medical Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge "The Etiology of Type 1 Diabetes" Tuesday November 17 Molecular Microbiology & Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series 12:00 P.M., Cori Auditorium DR. THOMAS SHENK, Elkins Professor, Molecular Biology, Princeton University "Metabolomic Analysis of Human cytomegalovirus Infected Cells: origin of the cytoplasmic Assembly Zone" Tuesday November 17 Thesis Examination 3:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Philip Needleman Library SAMUEL ANDREW MERRILL, MSTP- Molecular Cell Biology, Dr. Phyllis Hanson, M.D., Ph.D. "Regulation of VPS4 activity during Endosomal Maturation by CHMPs and LIP5" Tuesday November 17 Anesthesiology Research Seminar Series 4:00 P.M., Clinical Sciences Research Building, Room 5550 IAN PARKER, PH.D. , Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California - Irvine "Imaging the Activity and Localization of Individual Calcium Channels" Wednesday November 18 MOgene 10:00 A.M., MOgene, 4633 World Parkway Circle, St. Louis EDUARD AKHUNOV, PH.D. , Kansas State University "Next Generation Sequencing of Flow-Sorted Wheat Chromosomes" PAT SCHNABLE, PH.D., Iowa State University "The Maize Genome: New Patterns and Complexities" MATTHEW HUDSON, PH.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Using Genomic Survey Sequences, Resequencing and RNA Sequencing to Understand Crop Plant Genomes " Wednesday November 18 Dept. of Developmental Biology 12:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Philip Needleman Library JESSIE GEAHLEN, DBBS Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Immunobiology, Mills Lab "TBA" Wednesday November 18 Dept. of Molecular Microbiology 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Pediatric Research Building, Room 8101 AUDREY R. ODOM, M.D., PH.D, Instructor, Dept. of Pediatrics "Biological Functions of isoprenoids in Malaria" Wednesday November 18 Siteman Cancer Center, Breast Cancer Research Group Seminar Series 4:00 P.M., Center for Advanced Medicine, Farrell Conference Room 1 ANNA H. WU, PH.D., Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center "Breast cancer in Asian-American women" Thursday November 19 Dept. of Developmental Biology 11:00 A.M., Bernard Becker Medical Library, Room 521 AKIKO SATOH, PH.D., Postdoc Research Associate, Developmental Biology "TBA" Thursday November 19 Dept. of Genetics 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 823 YVES A. LUSSIER, M.D., University of Chicago Cancer Center, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Section of Genetic Medicine, Dept. of Medicine, The University of Chicago "Modeling The Systems Biology of Complex Traits in the Post-GWAS Era" Thursday November 19 Dept. of Radiation Oncology 12:00 P.M., Center for Advanced Medicine Lower Level, Perez Conference Room BUCK ROGERS, PH.D., Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Biology Division "Targeted Radionuclide Therapy and Imaging of Cancer in Mouse Models" Thursday November 19 Thesis Examination 1:00 P.M., McDonnell Pediatric Research Building, Room 8101 BRIAN CHRISTOPHER MILLER, MSTP- Immunology, Dr. Herbert W. Virgin, IV, M.D., Ph.D. "The Functions of Autophagy Genes in Lymphocytes and Osteoclasts" Thursday November 19 Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences 4:00 P.M., Maternity Building, Room 725 LAWRENCE TYCHSEN, M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology, Depts. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Pediatrics, Anatomy and Neurobiology "Damaged Input to Visual Area V1 as the Cause of Crossed-Eyes in Infant Human and Monkey" Friday November 20 Dept. of Cell Biology & Physiology 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 426 SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED, SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED Friday November 20 Thesis Examination 1:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928 MS. SHANNON L. MACAULEY-RAMBACH, Neurosciences, Mark Sands, Ph.D. "The Role of Astrocyte Activation in a Model of Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis" Friday November 20 Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology 4:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928 GUOJUN BU, PH.D., Professor, Dept of Pediatrics "TBA" Friday November 20 Hematology Division Seminar Series 4:00 P.M., Clinical Sciences Research Building, Room 8841 DANIEL S. ORY, M.D., Dept. of Internal Medicine - Division of Cardiology "The Niemann-Pick C Pathway: a Key Regulator of Cholesterol Homeostasis" Monday November 23 Department of Neurology and Hope Center for Neurological Disorders 12:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Holden Case Study Room (Auditorium) ERIK HERZOG, PH.D., Dept. of Biology "Synchrony...on the Minds of Flies and Mice" PAUL TAGHERT, PH.D., Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology "Synchrony...on the Minds of Flies and Mice" Monday November 23 Immunology Program Research Seminar Series 4:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Connor Auditorium DR. ANDREY SHAW, Emil R. Unanue Professor of Immunobiology "TBA" Monday November 23 Siteman Cancer Center, Breast Cancer Research Group Seminar Series 4:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Holden Case Study Room (Auditorium) GEORGE WEINSTOCK, PH.D., Professor of Genetics, Associate Director of Genome Sequencing Center "Next Generation Sequencing from Genomes to Microbiomes" Tuesday November 24 Thesis Examination 11:00 A.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Room 401 KYLE J. EASH, MSTP- Molecular Cell Biology, Dr. Daniel C. Link, M.D. "Regulation of Neutrophil Homeostasis by Chemokines Signaling Through the CXCR2 and CXCR4 Receptors" Tuesday November 24 Molecular Microbiology & Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series 12:00 P.M., Cori Auditorium DR. AUDREY ODOM, Instructor of Pediatrics "Isoprenoid Biosynthesis is Required for erythrocytic schizogony in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria" Wednesday November 25 Dept. of Molecular Microbiology 12:00 P.M., McDonnell Pediatric Research Building, Room 8101 MICHAEL S. BEHNKE, PH.D., Dept. of Molecular Microbiology "Mapping virulence in the type I GT1 X type II Me49 cross of Toxoplasma " Wednesday November 25 Thesis Examination 2:00 P.M., McDonnell Sciences Building, Room 928 MS. BIYU HE, Neurosciences, Marcus Raichle, M.D. "A Quest for Meaning in Spontaneous Brain Activity - From fMRI to Electrophysiology to Complexity Science" Monday November 30 Dept. of Developmental Biology 12:00 P.M., South Building, Room 3907, Philip Needleman Library DR. JEFF MILBRANDT, Professor of Pathology and Immunology "TBA" Monday November 30 Department of Neurology and Hope Center for Neurological Disorders 12:00 P.M., Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Holden Case Study Room (Auditorium) DALE E. BREDESEN, M.D., Buck Institute for Age Research "Prionics, Molecular Switches, and Alzheimer's Disease" Monday November 30 Immunology Program Research Seminar Series 4:00 P.M., Moore Auditorium DR. THADDEUS STAPPENBECK, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pathology & Immunology "Injury Susceptibility and Repair of the Intestinal Epithelium"