HILS Home > HILS Calendar > April 2008
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Ceratopteris richardii as a model for photomorphogenesis: traits and tools | Timothy Short, Queens College | Seminar Room 22 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15pm | 1:15pm | Multi-sensory integration for perception of self-motion | Gregory DeAngelis, Univ of Rochester | Goldenson 122 Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02115 |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | The pathogenicity of pandemic influenza viruses | Peter Palese, Mount Sinai School of Medicine | Harvard Medical School Warren Alpert 341 Boston, MA 02115 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:00pm | 3:00pm | Zebrafish as a genetic model for sleep and sleep disorders | David Prober, Harvard | Enders Auditorium Children's Hospital Boston 300 Longwood Avenue |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Molecular and Neurobiological Studies in Rett Syndrome and Related MECP2 Disorders | Huda Zoghbi, Baylor College of Medicine | Enders Auditorium Children’s Hospital 300 Longwood Avenue |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | The Biology of small RNAs | Philip Sharp, Nobel Laureate, MIT | Auditorium Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research 250 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Ins and outs of the lysosomal chloride conductance: biophysics and biology of an organellar anion transporter | Joseph Mindell, National Institutes of Health | Location TBA Tufts Univeristy |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00pm | 2:00pm | Studying Alzheimer’s disease in mice and it translation to humans | Frank LaFerla, Univ of California | Goldenson 122 Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02115 |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Role of Autophagy in Antiviral Immunity | Akiko Iwasaki, Yale University School of Medicine | Room L-504 80 E. Concord Street Boston University School of Medicine |
Immunology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00pm | 6:00pm | Forging Durable Host-Microbe Interactions: Role of Foxp3 Positive Treg | Dr. Yasmine Belkaid, NIAID, NIH | Armenise Amphitheater 210 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA |
Immunology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Detecting natural selection and reconstructing demographic history from global patterns of human genomic diversity | Carlos Bustamante, Duke University | Yenching Auditorium 2 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Love at first light | Gero Miesenbock, Oxford Univ | Fairchild 102 7 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Using self to understand the mind of others | Jason Mitchell, Harvard | Bray Room HIM 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115 |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Multiple Cell Surface Receptors for Herpes Simplex Virus: Roles in Viral Entry and Disease | Dr. Patricia Spear, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University | Cannon Room Building C, Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
Virology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:00pm | 4:00pm | NFI genes: of glia and glioma | Benjamin Deneen, Caltech | Enders Auditorium Children’s Hospital 300 Longwood Avenue |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Finding and filling holes in the evolutionary biologist's toolbox | Brian O'Meara, Duke University | Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Avenue |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Cell Nanomechanics and Pathological States | Subra Suresh, Dean of Engineering and Ford Professor of Engineering, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology | Kresge G-2 Harvard School of Public Health 665 Huntington Avenue |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:30pm | 7:30pm | bioArt seminar with Jennifer Hall and Blyth Hazen |
Jennifer Hall (Mass. College of Art) and Blyth Hazen (Montserrat College of Art) | Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02115 |
Cross Disciplinary |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Vision, touch and attention in human occipital and parietal cortex | David Somers, Boston University | Rm 46-3002 MIT |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:20pm | 1:30pm | Models for chimeric ligands and 1:2 ligand-receptor systems | David Miguez, Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School | Room 563 Alpert Building Harvard Medical School Boston, MA |
Systems Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:00pm | 3:00pm | Sensational neurotrophins: shaping spiral ganglion neuron phenotype by BDNF and NT-3 | Robin Davis, Rutgers Univ | Sloane Teaching Room, 3rd Floor Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary 243 Charles Street Boston, MA |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:45am | 5:00pm | Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative Annual Symposium | Multiple Speakers | Lecture Hall C Science Center Harvard University 1 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:005am | 1:30pm | Multiple Speakers | Fairchild Lecture Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Cross Disciplinary |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Molecular dissection of primate evolution and human origins | Jianzhi George Zhang, University of Michigan | Geological Lecture Hall MCZ Building |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Molecular neuroimaging with MRI | Alan Jasanoff, MIT | Fairchild 177 7 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15pm | 1:15pm | Neural stem and progenitor cells in cortical development | Arnold Kriegstein, Univ of California, San Francisco | Enders Auditorium Children’s Hospital 300 Longwood Avenue |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15pm | 1:30pm | Using calcineurin to map Ca2+-dependent signaling pathways | Martha Cyert, Stanford University | Cannon Room Building C, Room 114 Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Altered prefrontal cortical function underlies impairment in reward and inhibitory control in cocaine addicted individuals | Rita Goldstein, SUNY at Stony Brook | Belmont Rm 132 deMarneffe Building McLean Hospital 115 Mill Street Belmont, MA |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Decomposition of plant litters, fungi involved and climatic relations with spore dispersal | John Dighton, Rutgers University | Seminar Room 22 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Making an effort to listen: mechanical amplification by myosin molecules and ion channels in hair cells of the inner ear | A.J. Hudspeth, HHMI/ Rockefeller Univ | Armenise Amphitheater Harvard Medical School 210 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Visualization of cytoplasmic structure reveals how platelets are produced and how they regulate angiogenesis | Joseph Italiano, Brigham and Women's Hospital | Enders Auditorium Children’s Hospital 300 Longwood Avenue |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Mining the Cancer Genome | Lynda Chin, Harvard Medical School | Jimmy Fund Auditorium Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 35 Binney Street Boston, MA 02115 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Important Things to Consider When Choosing a Lab | Graduate Students at GSAS | Goldenson 122 Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02115 |
Cross Disciplinary |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Recombination within genomes | Gil McVean, University of Oxford Dept. of Statistics | New Research Building 3rd Floor Genetics Conference Room 350 Boston, MA 02115
|
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00pm | 6:00pm | A Systems Approach to Dissecting Immunuity | Dr. Alan Aderem, Institute for Systems Biology, University of Washington | Armenise Amphitheater 210 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA |
Immunology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Thursday Seminar Series with Ulrike Heberlein | Ulrike Heberlein, University of California, San Francisco | Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall 7 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Host Factor Associated with Long-Term Non-Progression of HIV-1 Infection | Dr. Xhinzhen Yang, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital | Cannon Room Building C, Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
Virology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Cell-intrinsic regulation of neuronal connectivity | Azad Bonni, Harvard Medical School |
Rm 46-3310 MIT |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Phenotypic plasticity in complex life cycles: lessons from amphibians | Karen Warkentin, Boston University | Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Avenue |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Zero- and One-Dimensional Hybrid Nanocrystals: Synthesis and Self-Assembly | Eugene R. Zubarev, Rice University | Pfizer Lecture Hall 12 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Chemistry and Chemical Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:30pm | 5:45pm | Klaus Hahn, University of Noth Carolina, Chapel Hill | Enders Auditorium Children's Hospital Boston 300 Longwood Avenue |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00pm | 6:30pm | Putting Your Science to Work |
Peter Fiske, RAPT Industries | Jefferson Hall Room 250 Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Cross Disciplinary |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30am | 9:30am | Fleming’s Nemeses: Bacteria Feasting on Antibiotics | Morten O. A. Sommer, Harvard Medical School, and Gautam Dantas, Mass General Hospital | MSI offices, Conference Room 310 Center for the Environment Harvard University 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:30am | 12:30pm | The intricate interplay between GABA release, uptake and GABA-B receptor activation: relevance to epilepsy | John Huguenard, Stanford University | L-112 Boston University School of Medicine 80 E Concord Street Boston, MA |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:30pm | 2:30pm | Stem Cell and Tissue Repair | Amy Wagers, Harvard Medical School | Fisrt floor conference room Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Research North 99 Brookline Avenue Boston, MA |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00am | 11:00am | An epigenetic switch required for vertebrate neural development | Jiang Wu, Stanford University | Enders Auditorium Children's Hospital Boston 300 Longwood Avenue |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15pm | 1:30pm | Molecular Origami:Protein Folding and Misfolding in the Eukaryotic Cytosil Cell | Judith Frydman, Stanford University | Cannon Room Building C, Room 114 Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:30pm | 4:30pm | Unnatural Amino Acids as Drug Candidates: The Discovery of mGlu2/3 Receptor Agonists for Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders | James Monn, Eli Lilly & Co. |
Pfizer Lecture Hall 12 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Chemistry and Chemical Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Novel drugs targeting serotonin 5-HT2A/C receptors: antipsychotics devoid of weight-gain effects | Raymond Booth, University of Florida | Rm 132 deMarneffe Building McLean Hospital 115 Mill St Belmont, MA |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Neurobiology of fear, anxiety and extinction: implications for psychotherapy | Michael Davis, Emory University | Auditorium 46-3002 MIT Cambridge, MA |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:30pm | 5:30pm | From Targets to Strategies and Back Again: Some Examples from Complex Molecule Synthesis | Andrew Phillips, University of Colorado, Boulder | Pfizer Lecture Hall 12 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Chemistry and Chemical Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Conserved roles of small RNAs in genome defense | Gregory Hannon, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories | Auditorium Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research 250 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Demographic heterogeneity and life history evolution: the whole world is a plant | Steven Orzack, The Fresh Pond Research Institute | Seminar Room 22 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15pm | 1:15pm | Memory and membrane dynamics in dendritic microdomains | Michael Ehlers, Duke University Medical Center | Goldenson 122 Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02115 |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Genetic analysis of the transmissible state of Vibrio cholerae | Andy Camilli, Tufts University | Harvard Medical School Warren Alpert 341 Boston, MA 02115 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 6:00pm | The Childhood Roots of Adult Disease: Exploring the Biology & Psychology of Early Life Stress | Multiple Speakers | Enders Auditorium Children’s Hospital 300 Longwood Avenue |
Cross Disciplinary |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Biodiversity in Forest Communities | Sabrina Russo, University of Nebraska | Seminar room 122 Harvard Herbaria Cambridge, MA |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00pm | 6:00pm | Self-control of anti-microbial Th1 responses | Dr. Alan Sher, NIAID, NIH | Armenise Amphitheater 210 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA |
Immunology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 12:45pm | Spatial representation and cell types in the entorhinal cortex | May-Britt Moser, Norwegian Univ of Science & Technology | Cannon Room Building C, Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:45pm | 1:45pm | Phase precession in entorhinal grid cells | Edvard Moser, Norwegian Univ of Science & Technology | Cannon Room Building C, Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Nuclear Import Pathoways for Human Papillomavirus Proteins | Dr. Junona Moroianu, Boston College | Cannon Room Building C, Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
Virology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Niche Conservatism, Evolution, and Applied Ecology: Challenges and Opportunities | Robert Holt, University of Florida | Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Avenue |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:30pm | 5:45pm | Convergence of Immunoreceptor and Integrin Signaling Pathways in Leukocytes | Clifford A. Lowell, University of California, San Francisco | Enders Auditorium Children's Hospital Boston 300 Longwood Avenue |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30am | 9:30am | Antibiotic Resistance in Massachusetts Bay | Karen Lachmayr, Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard, HSPH Alumna | Haller Hall, 1st floor, Room 102 Geological Museum Harvard University 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Mechanisms of Mitotic Spindle Assembly | Rebecca Heald, University of California, Berkeley | Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall 7 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15pm | 1:30pm | Mechanisms of mitotic spindle assembly | Rebecca Heald, University of California, Berkeley | Cannon Room Building C, Room 114 Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:00pm | 5:00pm | Mechanisms of microRNA Silencing | David Bartel, Whitehead Institute; Carl Novina, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Gary Ruvkun, Mass General Hospital |
Goldenson 122 Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02115 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | The role of floral traits in pollination and plant defense | Rebecca Irwin, Dartmouth University | Seminar Room 22 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15pm | 1:15pm | TBA | Richard Aldrich, University of Texas, Austin | Goldenson 122 Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02115 |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Into the Natural Microbial World: From Hot Springs to Human Health | Norman Pace, University of Colorado, Boulder | Harvard Medical School Warren Alpert 341 Boston, MA 02115 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Sorting out receptor downregulation: getting to know your ESCRTs | Scott D. Emr, Cornell University | Amphitheater, New Research Building Joseph P. Martin Conference Center Harvard Medical School 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Role of D5 dopamine and AT1R receptor interaction in the regulation of blood pressure | Pedro Jose, Georgetown University | Isselbacher Auditorium, 7th Floor Building 149 Charlestown Navy Yard, MGH 13th Street Charlestown, MA 02129 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Stem cells, pluripotency and nuclear reprogramming | Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute | Auditorium Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research 250 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | The dynamic interplay of transcription factors and chromatin during gene activation | John Lis, Cornell University | New Research Building 3rd Floor Genetics Conference Room 350 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15pm | 1:15pm | HMS Pathology Seminar Series with Bradley Bernstein | Bradley Bernstein, Mass General Hospital | Lecture Room 138 HIM Building 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Phosphoinositide Lipid Signaling in the Regulation of Membrane Transport and Organelle Identity | Scott D. Emr, Cornell University | Amphitheater, New Research Building Joseph P. Martin Conference Center, Harvard Medical School 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00pm | 6:00pm | Innate regulation of dendritic cell function | Dr. Caetano Reis e Sousa, London Research Institute | Armenise Amphitheater 210 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA |
Immunology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:00pm | 7:00pm | Microfluidic Sample Preparation for Molecular Detection of Infectious Disease | Catherine Klapperich, Boston Univeristy |
2nd Floor Lounge Maxwell Dworkin 33 Oxford St Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Bloch Lecture | Ruth Lehman, Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine | Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall 7 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Receptors and Signals in Picornavirus Entry | Dr. Jeffrey Bergelson, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Cannon Room Building C, Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
Virology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Sexual Communication in Tungara Frogs: Brain, Behavior, and Evolution | Mike Ryan, University of Texas-Austin | Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Avenue |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | A Thin Film Approach to Engineering Functionality into Oxides | Darrell G. Schlom, Pennsylvania State University | Pfizer Lecture Hall 12 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Chemistry and Chemical Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30am | 9:30am | Sinorhizobium (nitrogen-fixing bacterium) motility and chemotaxis | Birgit Scharf, Berg Lab, MCB at Harvard | MSI offices, Conference Room 310 Center for the Environment Harvard University 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:20pm | 1:30pm | The spread of health phenomena in complex, longitudinally resolved social networks | Nicholas Christakis, Harvard Medical School | Room 563 Alpert Building Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
|
Systems Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:30pm | BCS Colloquium: The Bidwell Lecture | Nora Volkow, National Institutes of Health | Room 3002 Building 36 MIT |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Bacillus subtilis Glutamine Synthetase Functions as a Chaperone to Stabilize GlnR-DNA Complexes | Lewis Wray, Boston University School of Medicine | Room 504 Instructional Building Boston University Medical School Boston, MA |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15pm | 1:15pm | Cofilin acting up in growth cone guidance and synapse development | James Zheng, UMDNJ-Robt Wood Johnson Medical School | Enders Auditorium Children’s Hospital 300 Longwood Avenue |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15pm | 1:30pm | TBA | Morgan Sheng, MIT | Cannon Room Building C, Room 114 Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30pm | 2:00pm | Chromatin mechanisms regulating early and late gene activation processes in the hematopoietic system | Conny Bonifer, University of Leeds | Room 1031 Harvard Institutes of Medicine Boston, MA |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00pm | 2:00pm | When half is not enough: Disrupted forebrain development in the 22q11 Deletion Syndrome | Anthony LaMantia, UNC Chapel Hill, School of Medicine | Room 218, Sargent College College of Health and Rehabilitation 635 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Demonstrating the sufficiency of microevolutionary processes | David Penny, Massey University, New Zealand | Main Lecture Hall BioLabs Building 16 Divinity Avenue |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Central regulation of core body temperature and aging: lessons from a transgenic model | Bruno Conti, The Scripps Research Institute | Rm 132 deMarneffe Building McLean Hospital 115 Mill Street Belmont, MA |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:15pm | 5:15pm | Looking back, Selectively | Gilbert Stork, Columbia University |
Pfizer Lecture Hall 12 Oxford Street |
Chemistry and Chemical Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Revisionary Systematics of the Tuberaceae and phylogenetic placement of unidentified Tuber mycorrhiza | Greg Bonito, Duke University | Seminar Room 22 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15pm | 1:15pm | TBA | Judith Hirsch, University of Southern California | Goldenson 122 Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02115 |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | The Macroecology of Microorganisms | Brendan Bohannan, University of Oregon | Harvard Medical School Warren Alpert 341 Boston, MA 02115 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:00pm | 4:00pm | RNA polymerase is poised for rapid activation | Karen Adelman, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | SM 308/309 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 44 Binney Street |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | New perspectives on how the endocytic clathrin machinery works | Tom Kirchhausen, Harvard Medical School | Isselbacher Auditorium, 7th Floor Building 149 Charlestown Navy Yard, MGH 13th Street Charlestown, MA 02129 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | How the ER gets into shape | Tom A. Rapoport, Harvard Medical School | Jimmy Fund Auditorium Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 44 Binney Street |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00pm | 6:00pm | Inventing High Impact & High Value Medical Therapies: Methods & Case Studies in Clinical Innovation | Zen Chu, 3DM, Inc.; Robert Creeden,Partners Research Ventures; David Milne, SV Life Sciences Advisers, Thomas Stossel; Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital |
Simulation and Skills Center |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Can one learn history from the allelic spectrum? | Nick Patterson, Broad Institute | New Research Building Genetics Division Seminar Room (457) 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Systemic T Cell Tolerance and Autoimmunity | Abul Abbas, University of California, San Francisco | Room L504 Boston University School of Medicine 80 E. Concord Street Boston, MA |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Survival pathways in erythropoietic | Merav Socolovsky, University of Massachusetts Medical School | Boston Biomedical Research Institute 64 Grove Street Watertown, MA 02472 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Current limitations and future directions of genotoxicity testing | David Kirkland, Covance Laboratories, Ltd, UK | Auditorium Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research 250 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15pm | 1:15pm | MGH Cancer Center Seminar Series with Robert T. Abraham | Robert T. Abraham, The Burnham Institute | Isselbacher Auditorium 7th Floor, Building 149 MGH East Campus Charlestown, MA |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:00pm | 3:30pm | Recent Advances in Medication Development in Alcoholism and Addiction | Domenic Ciraulo, Boston University School of Medicine | Keefer Auditorium Evans 1st Floor Boston University School of Medicine 80 E. Concord Street Boston, MA |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00pm | 6:00pm | Lymphocyte migration and the antibody response | Dr. Jason Cyster, University of California at San Francisco | Armenise Amphitheater 210 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA |
Immunology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:30pm | 6:30pm | Surface Tension in Biology | John Bush, Harvard University |
2nd Floor Lounge Maxwell Dworkin 33 Oxford St Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
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