2015-2016 Thursday Series Archives

DateSpeakerTitle
September 10Nels Elde
The University of Utah
Host: Jörn Coers		How pathogens shape host cell biology
September 17Sarah Kucenas
University of Virginia
Host: Susan Wopat		Through the Looking Glass: Nervous System Transition Zones in Development and Disease
September 24Alice Ting
MIT
Host: Harold Erickson		Discovery of novel synaptic and mitochondrial proteins and functions using APEX-based live cell proteomic mapping
October 1Saskia Neher
UNC-CH
Host: Don Fox		Cutting the Fat: Uncovering Mechanisms of LPL Regulation
October 8Kelly Monk
Washington University
Host: Jeff Stogsdill
Adhesion GPCRs in glial cell development and myelination
October 15Chay Kuo
Duke University Med Ctr
Host: TBD		Curious electrical & liquid flow in the brain: implications for injury and disease remodeling
October 22Katherine Borden
Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer
Host: Jack Keene		The oncogene eIF4E in Acute Myeloid Leukemia: It’s out of control and what are we going to do about it?
November 5Gian Garriga
University of CA, Berkeley
Host: Dong Yan		Life and Death: Regulating
Apoptosis in C. elegans
November 12Olivier Pourquie
Harvard University
Host: Michael Bagnat		The vertebrate embryonic axis:
periodic patterns and bilateral symmetry
November 19Flora Vaccarino
Yale University
Host: Debby Silver		Developmental transcriptomics of telencephalic organoids derived from patients with autism
December 3David Weiss
Emory Vaccine Ctr
Host: Raphael Valdivia		CRISPR-Cas9 RNA targeting in bacterial gene regulation and beyond
December 17Paul Michael Yen
Duke-NUS
Host: Dwight Koeberl		Suppression of Autophagy in
Hepatosteatosis: Opportunity
for Therapy
January 7Nicolas Buchon
Cornell University
Host: John Rawls		Deciphering the complex interactions between microbes and the gut epithelium: insights from Drosophila
January 14Clodagh O’Shea
Salk Institute
Host: Micah Luftig		Exploiting viruses to understand
and treat cancer
January 21Haifan Lin
Duke University Med Ctr
Host: Don Fox		Uniting the Genome: a Novel Function of piRNAs in the Germline
February 4James Evans
UNC School of Medicine		Navigating the Genome In Health and Disease
February 11Xin Lin, MD
Anderson
Host: Mari Shinohara		C-type lectin receptors in antifungal innate immune responses
February 18Rebecca Yang
Duke University
Host: Danny Lew		 Learning and decision making in Drosophila
February 25Mike Eisen
Univ of CA, Berkeley
Host: Stefan Di Talia		Activation of the enhancer activity in early Drosophila development
March 10Tim Stearns
Stanford University
Host: Andrew Muroyama		Cilia, Centrosomes and Cell Signaling
March 17Ekaterina Grishchuk Sch of Med, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Terry Lechler		Powering chromosome movement in mitosis: mobile tethers on dynamic microtubule ends
March 24Catherine Wu
Harvard University
Host: Kris Woods		Genetic drivers in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and impact on clonal heterogeneity and evolution
March 31Vicki Bautch
UNC
Host: Hasan Abbas
April 7Kim Lewis
Northeastern Univ
Host: Lawrence David		The Quest for New Antibiotics
April 14Ben Deneen
Baylor College
Host: Chay Kuo		Developmental Gliogenesis: The Crossroads of Cell Fate and Malignancy in the CNS
April 21Tobias Walther
Harvard Univ
Host: Mike Boyce		The Phase of Fat: Mechanisms and Physiology of Lipid Storage
April 28Aaron Straight
Stanford University
Host: Beth Sullivan		RNA dependent regulation of silent chromatin
May 12Michael Griggs
National Institutes of Health
Host: Joseph Heitman		Genetic Exchange, Surface Antigens & Inflammasome Sensors activated by Protozoan Pathogens
May 19Clio Rooney
Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers
Host: Bryan Cullen and Micah Luftig
May 26Baljit Khakh
UCLA
Host: Cagla Eroglu		Astrocyte roles n Neural circuits
June 16Bill Kelly
Host: Eda Yildirim