Meetings and Seminars

Fall 2008 Monday Seminar Program

September 15   
SUSAN KIRCH, PH.D.  (Host: Dr. David Scicchitano)
Department of Teaching & Learning, NYU
“Teaching and Learning Science: Uncertainty and the Nature of Scientific Evidence”
    

September 22   
ERIC LAI, PH.D.  (Host: Dr. Christine Rushlow)
Developmental Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
“Small Regulatory RNAs in Drosophila”
    

October 6       
J. DAVID LAMBERT, PH.D.  (Host: Dr. Matt Rockman)
Department of Biology, University of Rochester
“From a Spiral to a Snail: Cell Lineage and Embryonic Patterning in Ilyanassa”
    

October 20       
FIONA DOETSCH, PH.D.  (Host: Dr. Ken Birnbaum)
Pathology, Neurology & Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center
“Stem Cells and their Niche in the Adult Mammalian Brain”
    

October 27       
RAFAEL IRIZARRY, PH.D.  (Host: Dr. Richard Bonneau)
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
“Genotyping and Copy Number Estimation with SNP Chips”
    

November 3   
WALLACE MARSHALL, PH.D.  (Host: Miriam Rosenberg, Post-Doc)
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California San Francisco
“Orienting Centrioles and Cilia”
    

November 10   
ADOLFO GARCIA-SASTRE, PH.D.  (Host: Dr. Carol Reiss)
Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
“Induction and Inhibition of Type I IFN by RNA Viruses”
    

November 17   
KAREN VASQUEZ, PH.D.  (Host: Dr. Suse Broyde)
Department of Carcinogenesis, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
“DNA Structure, Genetic Instability, and Cancer”
    

November 24   
BRIAN MCCABE, PH.D.  (Host: Dr. Justin Blau)
Departments of Neuroscience and Physiology & Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center
“Molecular Regulation of Synaptic Structure and Plasticity”
    

December 1   
DAVID GOLDSTEIN, PH.D.  (Host: Pranidhi Sood, Doctoral Program)  
Population Genomics & Pharmacogenetics, Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, Duke University
“Host Responses to HIV-1: The Role of Rare and Common Variants”
    

December 8   
MICHAEL LYNCH, PH.D.  (Host: Dr. Michael Purugganan)
Department of Biology, Indiana University
“The Origins of Genome Architecture”
           
Seminars are Mondays at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1003 Silver Center
NYU Department of Biology, 31 Washington Place, 1 009 Silver, New York, NY  10003  (212-998-8209) 
    

Spring 2009 Monday Seminar Program            

January 12       
TITIA DE LANGE, PH.D.  (Host: Dr. Claude Desplan)
Head, Laboratory of Cell Biology & Genetics, Rockefeller University
             

April 6        
TOM MISTELI, PH.D.  (Host: Dr. Justin Blau)
Receptor Biology & Gene Expression, National Cancer Institute, NIH
                  

April 13         
BONNIE BASSLER, PH.D.  (Host: Dr. Patrick Eichenberger)
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University      
            
April 27       
REBECCA BURDINE, PH.D.  (Host: Sandra Schnakenberg, Doctoral Program)  
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
            

May 4         
RICHARD LOSICK, PH.D.  (Host: Dr. Patrick Eichenberger)
The Biological Laboratories, Harvard University
                

May 11       
KEVIN STRUHL, PH.D.  (Host: Dr. Stephen Small)
Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School            
            

Seminars are at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1003 Silver Center
NYU Department of Biology, 31 Washington Place, 1 009 Silver, New York, NY  10003  (212-998-8209)