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May 1

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12:00pm 1:00pm Shedding Light on Glycans

Carolyn Bertozzi, UC Berkeley

Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall

7 Divinity Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

Molecular and Cellular Biology
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12:30pm 1:30pm b -D-2'-Deoxy- 2'-Fluoro-2'-C- Methylcytidine (SI-6130) a Potent Inhibitor of HCV: An Overview
of its In vitro and In Vivo Activity
Dr. Phillip Furman, Pharmasset Co.

Cannon Room

Building C, Harvard Medical School

260 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

Virology
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4:00pm 5:00pm Evolution of vertebrate developmental complexity Chris Amemiya, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

16 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
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4:00pm 5:00pm Cell Fate Determination in the Vertebrate Retina Constance Cepko, Harvard Medical School

Latham Library

Immune Disease Institute

200 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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5:00pm 6:00pm Probing Radical Intermediates of Bimolecular Reactions Laurie J. Butler, University of Chicago

Pfizer Lecture Hall

12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

May 2

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8:30am 9:30am Isotopic fractionation from microbes to humans

Noreen Tuross, Harvard

MSI offices, Conference Room 310

Center for the Environment

Harvard University

24 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Molecular and Cellular Biology
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9:00am 10:00am BIDMC Endocrine Grand Rounds: Adipocyte-Derived Factors: Impact on Insulin Sensitivity, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer

Philipp Scherer, UT Southwestern

Shapiro 10 Board Room

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center East Campus
330 Brookline Avenue

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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10:30am 11:30am The Role of Cytokines in Heat Stroke: Friend or Foe?

Lisa Leon, US Army Research Institute

Room 218, Sargent College
College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Boston University
635 Commonwealth Avenue

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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11:30am 12:30pm Mechanisms for perceptual decision-making in the human brain

Leslie Ungerleider,
NIH/HIMH

Bakst Auditorium Boston Univeristy School of Medicine

80 E Concord Street Boston, MA

Neuroscience
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1:00pm 4:30pm mTOR in Development and Disease

John Blenis, Harvard University
David Sabatini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Kwiatkowski, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Cannon Room

Building C, Harvard Medical School

260 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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1:30pm 2:30pm Biology of Sphingosine 1-phosphate release and signaling in the vasculature

Tim Hla, University of Connecticut School of Medicine

1st floor Conference Room

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

99 Brookline Avenue

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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1:30pm 2:45pm Exploiting Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling: PDE4 Inhibition as a Potential "Achilles Heel" in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

John Meyers, Boston University School of Medicine

Gottlieb Conference Room L-804

Instructional Building

Boston University Medical Campus

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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4:00pm 5:30pm

BCS Colloquium--The Hans-Lukas Lecture

Gilles Laurent, California Institute of Technology

Room 46

Building 3002

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

May 5

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11:30pm 12:30pm Endocytosis is required for synaptic-dependent release of amyloid-beta in vivo John Cirrito,
Washington University

Room 680

HIM

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

Boston, MA 02115

Neuroscience
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12:00pm 1:00pm Microbiology & ID Research Seminar Series with Lewis Wray Lewis Wray, Boston University School of Medicine

L504

Boston University School of Medicine
80 E. Concord Street Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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12:15pm 1:15pm Local Circuit Organization of Mouse Motor Cortex Gordon Shepherd, Northwestern University School of Medicine

Enders Auditorium

Children's Hospital
320 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA

Neuroscience
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12:15pm 1:30pm Telomerase and the consequences of telomere dysfunction Carol Greider, Johns Hopkins University

Cannon Room

Building C, Harvard Medical School

260 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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4:15pm 5:15pm Telomeres and Telemerase: Their Implications in Human Health and Disease Elizabeth Blackburn, University of California San Francisco

Pfizer Lecture Hall

12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

May 6

Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:15pm 1:15pm Attention at the gateway to visual cortex reciprocal effects in LGN and TRN Robert Wurtz, NEI/NIH

Goldenson 122

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA 02115

Neuroscience
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12:30pm 1:30pm Manipulation of Eukaryotic Membrane Transport Pathways by Intracellular Pathogens Craig Roy, Yale University School of Medicine

Microbiology Seminar Room

Harvard Medical School

Warren Alpert 341

Boston, MA 02115

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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4:00pm 5:00pm Understanding Baseball Team Standings and Streaks Sidney Redner, Boston University

One Brattle Square, 6th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138

Molecular and Cellular Biology
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4:00pm 5:00pm Thermodynamic control over electron transfer in enzymes, via protons Anne-Frances Miller, University of Kentucky

Pfizer Lecture Hall

12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

May 7

Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:00pm

1:00pm

Transcription factors and their DNA binding sites: cis regulatory codes in DNA Martha Bulyk, Harvard Medical School, HST

New Research Building

3rd Floor Genetics Conference Room 350

Harvard Medical School

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

Boston, MA   02115

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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12:00pm

1:00pm

Idiosyncratic drug reactions: mechanisms and avoidance

Jack Uetrecht, University of Toronto

Auditorium

Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
250 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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12:15pm

1:15pm

HMS Pathology Seminar Series with Daniel Haber Daniel Haber, Mass General Hospital

Lecture Room 138

HIM Building

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

Boston, MA 02115

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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1:00pm

4:30pm

How to Build a Blood Vessel?

Joanne Chen, Harvard Medical School
Joyce Bischoff, Harvard Medical School
Laura Benjamin, Harvard Medical School

Rm. 122

Goldenson Building, Harvard Medical School Quad
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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2:00pm

3:30pm

The Folding Free Energy Surface of Superoxide Dismutase: Implications For Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis C. Robert Matthews, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Room 110

Instructional Building

Boston University School of Medicine
80 E. Concord Street

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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3:30pm

4:30pm

Mast Cells and Eosinophils: The Main Players of Allergy. ­Are they the Main Targets for Therapy? Francesca Levi-Schaffer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Duncan Reid Conference Room

ASB1 Building- Level 2
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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4:00pm

5:00pm

Towards the Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by Nitrogenase Brian Hoffman, Northwestern University

Room 6-120

MIT

Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
5:00pm

6:00pm

Granzyme A Enters Mitochondria to Trigger a Serine Death Judy Lieberman, CBR Institute for Biomedical Research

Armenise Amphitheater

210 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA

Immunology
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6:00pm

7:00pm

Chiral Self-Assembly Zvonimir Dogic,
Brandeis Univeristy

2nd Floor Lounge

Maxwell Dworkin

33 Oxford St

Cambridge, MA 02138

Molecular and Cellular Biology
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6:00pm

7:30pm

Autism and Developmental Disorders Colloquium Series with Michael Rutter Michael Rutter, King's College London

Room 3002

Building 46

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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8:00pm

9:00pm

Rett Syndrome: insight into an autism spectrum disorder Huda Zoghbi, Baylor College of Medicine

Science Center Hall C

Harvard University

1 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Molecular and Cellular Biology

May 8

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12:00pm 1:00pm SCA1: complex balance Huda Zoghbi, Baylor College of Medicine

Northwest Science Building Lecture Hall 30 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Molecular and Cellular Biology
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12:00pm 1:00pm TOR Signaling and the control of organismal growth in Drosophila Pierre Leopold, Universite Nice, France

Room 350

New Research Building

Harvard Medical School

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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1:00pm 5:00pm Viruses and Cancer Peter Howley, Harvard Medical School
Karl Munger,Harvard Medical School,
James Decaprio, Harvard Medical School,
Fred Wang, Harvard Medical School

Room 122

Goldenson Building

Harvard Medical School Quad
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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4:00pm

5:00pm

Neuromechanics of ballistic movements Kiisa Nishikawa, Northern Arizona University

Main Lecture Hall

BioLabs Building

16 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
4:00pm

5:00pm

Ultra-conformal Chemical Vapor Deposition of Metallic and Dielectric Films: Control of the Surface Reactivity via Site-blocking and Inhibition Agents John R. Abelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Pfizer Lecture Hall

12 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
5:00pm

6:00pm

The Tumour Suppressor p53: Structure, Function-Rescue Alan Fersht, Cambridge University; MRC Centre For Protein Engineering

Pechet Room (HIM 138)

Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
Harvard Medical School

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
6:00pm

7:00pm

Daughter Cell Separation Anxiety and Other Tales of Envelope Distress Thomas G. Bernhardt, Harvard Medical School

Microbial Sciences Office, Harvard University

3rd Floor

24 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

May 9

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12:00pm 1:00pm Math1: evolution through balance Huda Zoghbi, Baylor College of Medicine

Northwest Science Building Lecture Hall

30 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 Alexander van Oudenaarden, MIT

Room 563

Alpert Building

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Systems Biology
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2:00pm 3:00pm Evidence for allosteric regulation of rhodopsin Clint Makino, HMS/MEEI

Sloane Teaching Room, 3rd Floor

Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary

243 Charles Street

Boston, MA

Neuroscience
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4:00pm 5:30pm BCS Colloquium Series with Yansunouri Hayashi

Yansunouri Hayashi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Room 46

Building 3002

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

May 12

Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:00pm 1:00pm Transcriptional signatures of bone marrow stem cell differentiation Katya Ravid, Boston University School of Medicine

LSE B01

Boston University

24 Cummington Street Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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12:00pm 1:30pm Information in the prebiotic world (Chen); Could a template system of hydrophobic polymer amide on water have preceded an RNA-based code? (McGeoch) Irene Chen, Harvard University
Julie McGeoch, Harvard University

Fairchild 177

7 Divinity Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

Molecular and Cellular Biology
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12:15pm 1:15pm Optogenetics: Development and Application Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University

Enders Auditorium

Children's Hospital
320 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:15pm 1:30pm TBA Liqun Luo, Stanford University

Cannon Room

Building C, Harvard Medical School

260 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

May 13

Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:30pm 1:30pm Dengue Pathogenesis: From Mice to Humans Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley

Microbiology Seminar Room

Harvard Medical School

Warren Alpert 341

Boston, MA 02115

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

May 14

Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:00pm

1:00pm

RNAi screening identifies regeneration and stem cell regulatory genes in planarians Peter Reddien,Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and 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
12:15pm

1:15pm

HMS Pathology Seminar Series with Michael Karin Michael Karin, University of California, San Diego

Lecture Room 138
HIM Building

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

Boston, MA 02115

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
2:00pm

3:30pm

Multimodal Targeting of the BCL-2 Family in Cancer Loren C. Walensky,Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Room 110

Instructional Building

Boston University School of Medicine
80 E. Concord Street

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
4:00pm

5:00pm

Symbiogenesis and Gaia: Evolution of the Living Earth Prof. Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Biolabs Lecture Hall

16 Divinity Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

Molecular and Cellular Biology
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
4:30pm

6:00pm

What can we learn from the prospective identification of cancer stem cells? Matthew F. Clarke,Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

Smith 308-309

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

44 Binney Street
Boston, MA 02115

Molecular and Cellular Biology
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
5:30pm

6:30pm

Gene brushes: From crowding and the search problem to synthetic systems Roy Bar Ziv, Weizmann Institute

2nd Floor Lounge

Maxwell Dworkin

33 Oxford St

Cambridge, MA 02138

Molecular and Cellular Biology

May 15

Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:00pm 1:00pm TBA Sandy Johnson, University of California, San Francisco

Sherman Fairchild 102

7 Divinity Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

Molecular and Cellular Biology
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:30pm 1:30pm Reovirus Receptor Interactions and Pathogenesis Terence Dermody, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Cannon Room

Building C, Harvard Medical School

260 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

Virology
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1:00pm 4:00pm Vesicular Transport: mechanisms, model systems and physiology Thomas Scwarz, Harvard Medical School
Victor Hsu, Harvard Medical School

Room 209

Tosteson Medical Education Center

Harvard Medical School Quad
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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4:00pm 5:00pm How Selenium Has Altered our Understanding of the Genetic Code and Redox Regulation Vadim N. Gladyshev, University of Nebraska

BWH Genetics Division Seminar Room (457)

New Research Building
Harvard Medical School

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

May 16

Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:20pm 1:30pm Design principles of biological circuits Uri Alon, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovat, Israel

Room 563

Alpert Building

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Systems Biology

May 19

Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:00pm 1:00pm TBA Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University

Fairchild 177

7 Divinity Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

Molecular and Cellular Biology
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:15pm 1:15pm Generation and Roles of Spontaneous Rhythmic Activity in Spinal Motor Circuit Formation Lynn Landmesser, Case Western Reserve University

Enders Auditorium

Children's Hospital
320 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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12:15pm 1:30pm From Peppers to Peppermints: Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway David Julius, University of California, Berkeley

Cannon Room

Building C

Harvard Medical School

260 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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1:30pm 5:00pm Mechanisms of Mechanotransduction in Development Guillermo Garcia-Cardena, Don Ingber and Kit Parker; Harvard Medical School

Goldenson 122

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA 02115

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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4:15pm 5:15pm TBA Karl Wieghardt, Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry

Pfizer Lecture Hall

12 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

May 20

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12:30pm 1:30pm Nematode Life and Insect Death: How Can One Bacterium Do It All? Heidi Goodrich-Blair, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Microbiology Seminar Room

Harvard Medical School

Warren Alpert 341

Boston, MA 02115

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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4:00pm 5:00pm Regulation of Metabolism in Cancer Cells Lewis C. Cantley, Harvard Medical School

Behrakis Auditorium

1st Floor, Jaharis Building

150 Harrison Avenue

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

May 21

Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:00pm

1:00pm

High throughput histone genetics Jef Boeke, Johns Hopkins University

New Research Building

3rd Floor Genetics Conference Room 350

Harvard Medical School

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 Jim Wells Jim Wells, University of California, San Francisco

Lecture Room 138

HIM Building

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

Boston, MA 02115

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
5:00pm

6:00pm

Balancing Tumor Immunity and Inflammation

Glenn Dranoff, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Armenise Amphitheater

210 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA

Immunology
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
5:30pm

6:30pm

Intranuclear quorum sensing during eukaryotic DNA replication

Ron Lebofsky, Harvard Medical School

2nd Floor Lounge

Maxwell Dworkin

33 Oxford St

Cambridge, MA 02138

Molecular and Cellular Biology

May 22

Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:00pm

1:00pm

Thursday Seminar Series with Brian Wandell Brian Wandell, Stanford University

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

How Epstein-Barr virus establishes and maintains persistent infection Dr. David Thorley-Lawson, Tufts University School of Medicine

Cannon Room

Building C, Harvard Medical School

260 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

Virology

May 23

Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:20pm

1:30pm

Antimicrobial resistance in bacteria: understanding and trying to control its prevalence Marc Lipsitch, Harvard School of Public Health

Room 563

Alpert Building

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Systems Biology

May 27

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12:30pm 1:30pm Synthetic Biology in Pursuit of Low-Cost, Effective, Anti-Malarial Drugs Jay Keasling, University of California, Berkeley

Microbiology Seminar Room

Harvard Medical School

Warren Alpert 341

Boston, MA 02115

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

May 28

Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:15pm

1:15pm

HMS Pathology Seminar Series with Bob Eisenman Bob Eisenman, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Lecture Room 138

HIM Building

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

Boston, MA 02115

Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
5:00pm

6:00pm

Safety in Numbers: Deconstructing T Cell Recognition Mark Davis, Stanford University School of Medicine

Armenise Amphitheater

210 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA

Immunology
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
6:00pm

7:00pm

How Does a Protein Find It's Site on DNA Leonid Mirny,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2nd Floor Lounge

Maxwell Dworkin

33 Oxford St

Cambridge, MA 02138

Molecular and Cellular Biology

May 29

Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:00pm

1:00pm

Fundamental biological processes in Alzheimer’s disease Alvin Lyckman, Tufts Univ School of Med

Neuroscience Center Conf Rm 6033

Bldg 149

MGH-East

Charlestown, MA 02129

Neuroscience
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
12:00pm

1:00pm

How Telomeres Protect Chromosome Ends Titia De Lange, The Rockefeller University

Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall

7 Divinity Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

Molecular and Cellular Biology
Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
4:30pm

5:45pm

Dissecting TNF Signaling in Vasculature Wang Min, Yale University School of Medicine

Enders Auditorium

Children's Hospital Boston

320 Longwood Avenue

Boston, MA

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

May 30

Start Time End Time Title Speaker Location Disciplines
2:00pm

3:00pm

Cloning genes involved in hearing Cynthia Morton, BWH/HMS

Sloan Teaching Rm

3rd Floor

Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary

243 Charles St

Boston, MA 02114

Neuroscience