SPRING 2009 ColloquiA Schedule

All Seminars in 90 Snell Library at Noon unless otherwise noted
Refreshments at 11:45 a.m.

 

JANUARY 2009

January 12 - Dr. William Detrich (Northeastern University)

Title:  Evolutionary Mutant Models for Human Disease

Host: Fred Davis

January 19- No Seminar - Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 26 -Dr. Sunny Zhou (Northeastern University)

Title: Protein Modifications and Bacterial Boifilms

Host: Kostia Bergman

FEBRUARY 2009

February 2 - Dr. Dan Distel (New England Biolabs, Ipswich)

Title:Ocean Genome Legacy Stories, Chapter 1 - Clams that live on a diet of wood and air

Host:  Don Cheney

February 9 - Dr. Anne C. Hart (Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital)

Title: C. elegans models of neurodegenerative disease

Host: Graduate Students

February 16 - No Seminar - Presidents Day

February 23 - Dr. Mitchell Sogin (Marine Biological Labs, Woods Hole)

Title:  The rare biosphere is everywhere

Host:  Slava Epstein

MARCH 2009

March 2 - No Seminar - Spring Break

         

March 9- Dr. Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard University)

Title:  TBA

Host: Steve Vollmer

March 16 - Dr. Jeremy Rich (Brown University)

Title: New twists in the nitrogen cycle: anammox in estuarine and marine sediments

Host: Matt Bracken

March 23 - Dr. Al Singer (Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute NIH)

Title: Molecular mechanisms of T cell activation and differentiation

Host: Misha Sitkovsky

March 30 - Dr. Frederic Thomas (The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montpellier, France)

Title: Behavioural changes in crickets parasitized by hairworms

Host: Becky Rosengaus

APRIL 2009

April 6 - Dr. Abraham L. Sonenshein (Tufts University, School of Medicine)

Title:  Sporulation, germination and virulence of Clostridium difficile

Host: Kim Lewis

April 13 - Dr. David Newburg

Title:  Human milk glycans comprise an innate immune system

Host: Ed Jarroll

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