SPRING 2008 ColloquiA Schedule

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

 

JANUARY 2008

January 7 - Classes begin (no colloquium)

January 14 - Valerie Gouon-Evans (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
Title: Generation of hepatocytes from embryonic stem cell-derived endoderm

Host:  Phyllis Strauss

January 21 - Martin Luther King Day (no colloquium)

January 28 - Nikolaus S. Trece,  MD, PhD (The Huntsman Cancer Institute, Univ. of Utah)

Title:  Modeling and treating immune dysregulation using transgenic zebrafish

Host: Phyllis Strauss

fEBRUARY 2008

February 4 - Dr. Daniel Eichinger (Dept. of Medical Parasitology, NYU Medical School)

Title: Self and host GI tract-derived compounds that control Entamoeba differentiation

Host:  Ed Jarroll

February 11 - Richard T. Lee (Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Harvard Medical School)

Title:  Cardiomyocyte Turnover and Regeneration

Host:  Carol Warner

 

February 18 - President's Day (no colloquium)


February 25 - Eugene Koonin (National Center for Biotechnology Information - NCBI)

Title:  Origin of Eukaryotes

Host:  Valentin Ilyin

March 2008

March 3- Spring Break (no colloquium)

             

March 10- Barbara Osborne (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Title:  Regulation of Peripheral T Cell Fate by Notch Signaling

Host: Misha Sitkovsky

March 17- Dr. Ron Etter (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Title: The origin and maintenance of the remarkable diversity in the deep sea.

Host: Steve Vollmer

March 24- Dr. Stephen Lory (Harvard University)

Title: Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms control the expression of virulence genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Host: Kim Lewis

March 31- Jeffrey Dukes (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Title:  TBA

Host: Graduate Students

APRIL 2008

April 7- Richard Callaghan (Nuffield Dept. of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Title:  Multidrug efflux pumps: how do they do it?

Host: Gail Begley

April 14- Cyrus Vaziri (Boston University Medical School)

Title:  Regulation of DNA Replication by S-phase Checkpoint Signaling

Host: Veronica Godoy

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