HILS Home > HILS Calendar > November 2009
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | TBD | Ann Graybiel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Center for Brain Science, Northwest Building 243, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge |
Neuroscience | |
| 12:15pm | 1:30pm | Natural Selection in Humans and Pathogens | Pardis Sabeti, Harvard University | Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Cannon Room, Building C Boston, MA |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| 4:00pm | TBD | Intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms regulating adult neural stem cells and neurogenesis | Hongjun Song, Johns Hopkins University | Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Cannon Room, Building C Boston, MA |
Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Juan Pablo Giraldo, |
Seminar Room 22 Divinity Ave, Farlow Herbarium Cambridge, MA |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology | |
| 12:30pm | 1:00pm | Nicola Carraro, Harvard University |
Seminar Room 22 Divinity Ave, Farlow Herbarium Cambridge, MA |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology | |
| 12:15pm | TBD | Proteins that Make Up the Sensory Hair Bundle of Inner Ear Hair Cells |
Peter G. Gillespie, Oregon Hearing Research Center & Vollum Institute |
Harvard Medical School, 220 Longwood Avenue, Goldenson Building Room 122, Boston, MA |
Neuroscience |
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Post-transcriptional Regulation by the Csr System | Tony Romeo, University of Florida |
Harvard Medical School Warren Alpert Building Room 341 200 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Social Shake-Up: Ecosystem Dynamics Driven by Environmental Noise | Morten Ernebjerg, Harvard University (Paulsson Lab) | Harvard Medical School Microbiology Seminar Room Warren Alpert Building Room 563 200 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
Systems Biology |
| 2:30pm | TBD | Spatial Aspects of Neuronal Survival Signaling in Sensory Neurons: A Role for Mef2D and Bcl-w | Stephanie Courchesne, Program in Neuroscience, dissertation defense seminar | Harvard Medical School, 220 Longwood Avenue, Goldenson Building Room 122, Boston, MA | Neuroscience |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Analyzing the role of microtubule-localized RNAs during mitosis |
Michael Blower, Harvard University |
Harvard Medical School Genetics Seminar Room (NRB 350) 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115 |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| 2:00pm | TBD | Structural and functional changes in cortical pyramidal neurons during normal and pathological aging |
Jennifer Luebke, Boston University |
Boston University School of Medicine, 72 East Concord Street, R-115. Boston, MA |
Neuroscience |
| 5:30pm | 6:30pm | Next Generation Biomaterials and Stem Cell Therapeutics | Jeffrey Karp, MIT/HMS |
Maxwell Dworkin Building 2nd Floor Lounge 33 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA |
Mollecular and Cellular Biology |
| 5:00pm | 6:00pm | Dr. Steve Reiner, UPenn |
Armenise Amphitheater 210 Longwood Ave. Boston, MA 02115 |
Immunology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | TBD | Neuroimaging and Intra-Operative Recordings of Cingulate Cortex in Humans |
George Bush, Harvard Medical School |
Harvard Institute of Medicine Bray Room, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA |
Neuroscience |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Discriminating and Classifying Synapses by Array Tomography: The Synaptome meets the Connectome | Stephen Smith, Stanford | Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall 7 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Dr. Ulrich von Andrian, Harvard Medical School | Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Cannon Room, Building C Boston, MA |
Virology | |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Materials and Mechanics for Stretchable Electronics: From Electronic Eye Cameras to Devices for Cardiac Electrophysiology | John Rogers, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Mb-23 Pfizer Lecture Hall |
Chemistry and Chemical Biology |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Fossil evidence for the evolution of hearing in mammals throughout the Cenozoic | Mark Coleman, Midwestern University | Peabody Museum Room 52H 11 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Making population biology relevant to conservation: The California tiger salamander as a test case | H. Bradley Shaffer, Harvard University | Bio Labs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| 4:15pm | 5:15pm | Programming cells by multiplex genome engineeringand acceperated evolution | Anthony Burgett and Pun Wangkanont | Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Cannon Room, Building C Boston, MA |
Chemical Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:30pm | 12:30pm | TBA | Nikhil Sharma and Scott Chilton, Harvard University |
Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall 7 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Domitilla Del Vecchio, University of Michigan | Harvard Medical School Warren Alpert Building Room 563 200 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
Systems Biology | |
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | CCB Graduate & Postdoc Seminar Series | Alejandro Wolf-Yadlin (MacBeath Lab) & Emily Eames (Betley Group) |
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Mb-23 Pfizer Lecture Hall |
Chemical Biology |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Total Syntheses of the Angular-type Polycyclic Natural Products based on the Stereochemical Relay Strategy | Ken Ohmori, Tokyo Institute of Technology | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Mb-23 Pfizer Lecture Hall |
Chemical Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | TBD | Neural Mechanisms of Emotion Regulation: Implications for Psychopathology |
Christine Hooker, Harvard University |
Center for Brain Science, Northwest Building 243, 52 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA |
Neuroscience |
| 12:15pm | 1:15pm | The mechanisms by which sensory experience builds the layer 4 neocortical circuit probed using single cell resolution 2-photon glutamate uncaging | John Isaac, National Institutes of Health | Children's Hospital, Enders Auditorium, 320 Longwood Avenue, Boston , MA | Neuroscience |
| 2:30pm | 3:30pm | Role of Kappa Opioid Receptors in Fear and Anxiety-like Behavior in Rats | Allison Terra Knoll, Program in Neuroscience, dissertation defense seminar | McLean Hospital 115 Mill Street George Putnam Room 122 Belmont, MA |
Neuroscience |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Costly cooperation and punishment from a behavioral economics perspective | Simon Gaechter, University of Nottingham | 1 Brattle Square 6th Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:30pm | 6:30pm | Roger Kamm, MIT |
Maxwell Dworkin Building 2nd Floor Lounge 33 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Sticking together as a family: Molecular Mechanisms of cadherin-mediated cell adhesion |
Larry Shapiro, Columbia University |
Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall 7 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Species-specific Adaptations of the Primate Lentiviruses for Overcoming Restriction by Tetherin |
Dr. David Evans, Harvard Medical School, NEPRC |
Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Cannon Room, Building C Boston, MA |
Virology |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | The evolution of novel, serially homologous, compex traits: butterfly eyespots | Antonia Monteiro, Yale University |
Bio Labs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| 6:00pm | 7:00pm | Teamwork in Anaerobic Metabolism: Syntrophy and Interspecies Metabolic Interactions | Michael McInerney, University of Oklahoma |
Harvard Center for the Environment 24 Oxford St, Geological Museum, 3rd floor, Rm 310 Cambridge, MA |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:30pm | 12:30pm | Kiana Frank and Philippe Cluzel, Harvard University |
Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall 7 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular and cellular Biology | |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Neuropeptide regulation of innate and adaptive immunity in ocular immune privilege |
Andrew Taylor, Harvard Medical School |
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary 243 Charles Street Meltzer Auditorium Boston, MA |
Neuroscience |
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Notch signaling and the control of metazoan cell fates | Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, Harvard University | Harvard Institute of Medicine Bray Room 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA |
Neuroscience |
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Enzymatic N-hydroxylation in Siderophore Biosynthesis | Elizabeth Sattely, Harvard Universiy, Walsh Lab |
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Mb-23 Pfizer Lecture Hall |
Chemistry and Chemical Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Ken Nakayama, Harvard University |
Center for Brain Science Northwest Building 243 52 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA |
Neuroscience | |
| 12:15pm | 1:15pm | Primary cilia in neural stem cells and cancer | Arturo Alvarez-Buylia, University of California, San Francisco | Children's Hospital Enders Auditorium 320 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA |
Neuroscience |
| 12:15pm | 1:30pm | Strategies for the Discovery of Antibiotics | Suzanne Walker, Harvard Medical School | Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Cannon Room, Building C Boston, MA |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Neuropharmacology of bipolar disorder in youth | Melissa DelBello, University of Cincinnati | McLean Hospital 115 Mill Street deMarneffe Building Room 132 Belmont, MA |
Neuroscience |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Chemical and Biological Studies of Marine Natural Products | Chuo Chen, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Mb-23 Pfizer Lecture Hall |
Chemical Biology |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | TBD | Philip Sabes, University of California at San Francisco | Brandeis University Gerstenzang Science Library Room 121 415 South St |
Neuroscience |
| 5:00pm | 6:00pm | TBD | Martin Eastgate, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Inc. | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Mb-23 Pfizer Lecture Hall |
Chemical Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Annette Baudisch, |
Harvard University |
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology | |
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Extraction and Analysis of Cell Lineages in the Zebrafish Ear Using GoFigure2 | Arnaud Gelas & Kishore Mosaliganti, Harvard University (Megason Lab) | Harvard Medical School Microbiology Seminar Room Warren Alpert Building Room 563 200 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
Systems Biology |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Regulation of gene expression through quality-control and condition-dependent mechanisms of mRNA decay | Lynne Maquat, University of Rochester | Tufts University School of Medicine Medical & Veterinary Building Room 412 136 Harrison Avenue Boston, MA |
Biological Sciences in Public Health |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:15pm | 1:15pm | Michael Starnbach, Harvard Medical School |
Harvard Medical School Pechet Room (HIM 138) Joseph B. Martin Conference Center 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences | |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Exploring the Relationship Between Genes and Social Behavior: Lessons from the Honey Bee | Gene Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Harvard Medical School New Research Building Room 350 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA |
Neuroscience |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | BCL-2 family proteins: More than just life and death | Vincent Duronio, The University of British Columbia (UBC) | Auditorium, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research 250 Mass Ave, Cambridge | Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Epigenetic silencing of transposable elements: an evolutionary trade-off? | Jesse Hollister, Harvard University Herbaria |
MCZ 101 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA |
Organismic & Evolutionary Biology |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Conditional Signaling During Phagocytosis and Pinosytosis | Dr. Joel Swanson, University of Michigan Medical School | Tufts University Medical & Veterinary Building Room 412 136 Harrison Ave Boston, MA |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| 2:00pm | 3:00pm | Protective effects of cannabinoids on Substance P and HIV-1 Gp120 mediated insult to the blood brain barrier | Hava Avraham, Harvard Medical School | Boston University School of Medicine 72 East Concord Street R-115 Boston, MA |
Neuroscience |
| 3:00pm | 4:00pm | Dynamic Structure of the Human Protein Interactome Predicts Breast Cancer Outcome | Ian W. Taylor, University of Toronto | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Dana 1620 |
Biological Sciences in Public Health |
| 5:00pm | 6:00pm | Activation of host immune surveillance pathways by vacuolar pathogens |
Dr. Craig Roy, Yale University |
Armenise Amphitheater. 210 Longwood Ave. Boston, MA 02115 |
Immunology |
| 5:00pm | 6:00pm | Recent Advances in Computational Structural Biology | Michael Levitt, Stanford University | MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street Cambridge, MA |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| 5:30pm | 6:30pm | Magnetic induction of neural activity: from ring cultures to rotating fields | Assaf Rotem, Harvard University |
Maxwell Dworkin Building 2nd Floor Lounge 33 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| 6:00pm | 7:30pm | Functional imaging of social communication deficits in autism and relation to autism risk genes | Susan Bookheimer, UCLA School of Medicine | MIT Room 3002, Building 46 43 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA |
Biological Sciences in Public Health |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, |
Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall 7 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| 12:15pm | 1:45pm | A simple method for identifying dysregulated mRNA targets of microRNA in cancer with application to ccRCC | Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers University | Boston University Life Science and Engineering Building Room 103 24 Cummington St. Boston, MA |
Systems Biology |
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Ms. Megan Mefford, Harvard Medical School |
Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Cannon Room, Building C Boston, MA |
Virology | |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | TBA | Jo Handelsman, University of Wisconsin |
Bio Labs Lecture Hall 16 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA |
Organismic & Evolutionary Biology |
| 3:30pm | 4:30pm | Experimental and computational mapping of SH3 domain interactions from yeast to worm | Gary W. Bader, University of Toronto | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Smith 308/309 44 Binney Street Boston, MA |
Systems Biology |
| 4:30pm | 5:30pm | Vascular Biology Seminar--Leukocyte Entry into the Brain and Retina: Vascular Ram-Raiders or Sophisticated Locksmiths? | John Greenwood, University College, London, UK | Children's Hospital Boston Enders Auditorium 300 Longwood Avenue |
Cross Disciplinary |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30am | 9:30pm | Microbiology of Cultural Heritage Materials | Nick Konkol, Harvard Medical School |
Harvard University Center for the Environment |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| 11:30am | 12:30pm | TBA | Melis Yilmaz and Jimmy Zhuang, Harvard University |
Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall 7 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | From genes to physiology via metabolism | F Nijhout & M Reed, Duke University | Harvard Medical School Microbiology Seminar Room Warren Alpert Building Room 563 200 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 |
Systems Biology |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Biofilm-associated genes in clinical isolates of Streptococcus mutans, and establishment of in vivo new model for oral infection | Hidenobu Senpuku, National Institute of Infectious Diseases Japan | The Forsyth Institute Schulze Conference Room #2 140 The Fenway Boston, MA |
Biological Sciences in Public Health |
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | CCB Graduate & Postdoc Seminar Series | Santanu Mukherjee (Corey Group) & Yiqun Liu (Gordon Group) |
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Mb-23 Pfizer Lecture Hall |
Chemical Biology |
| 2:00pm | 3:00pm | Eiman Azim, Program in Neuroscience, dissertation defense seminar |
Harvard Medical School 220 Longwood Avenue Goldenson Building Room 122 Boston, MA |
Neuroscience | |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Quiet time: The secret life of quiescent fibroblasts | Hillary Coller, Princeton University. Lewis-Sigler Institute | Northwest Science Building Room 425 52 Oxford St Cambridge, MA |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Clifford Woolf , Harvard Medical School |
Center for Brain Science Northwest Building 243 52 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA |
Neuroscience | |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Sjögren's Syndrome: Many Questions, Few Answers | Seunghee Cha, College of Dentistry, University of Florida | The Forsyth Institute Schulze Conference Room #2 140 The Fenway Boston, MA |
Biological Sciences in Public Health |
| 12:15pm | 1:15pm | Studying and Modifying the Dynamics of Neural Networks | Larry Abbott, Columbia University | Children's Hospital Enders Auditorium 320 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA |
Neuroscience |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | TBA | Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Mb-23 Pfizer Lecture Hall |
Chemical Biology |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Natural Product Antibiotic Biosynthesis: Two New Roles for Diiron Monooxygenases | John D. Lipscomb, University of Minnesota | MIT 21 Ames Street Building 56, Room 114 Cambridge, MA |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Biocultural Diversity of Forest Tea Systems in Yunnan, China |
Selena Ahmed, |
Seminar Room 22 Divinity Ave, Farlow Herbarium Cambridge, MA |
Organismic & Evolutionary Biology |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | 1. Mechanism of excision and integration of the Bacteroides conjugative transposon CTnDOT and 2. Regulation of excision and transfer of the Bacteroides conjugative transposon CTnDOT | Jeffrey Gardner & Abigail Saylers, University of Illinois |
The Forsyth Institute Schulze Conference Room #2 140 The Fenway Boston, MA |
Biological Sciences in Public Health |
| 12:30pm | 1:30pm | Protein complexes that control transcription and chromatin structure |
Fred Winston, Harvard Medical School |
Harvard Medical School Warren Alpert Building Room 341 200 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Speaker | Location | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | TBD | TBA |
LSEB B01 24 Cummington St Boston, MA 02215 |
Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| 12:15pm | 1:15pm | Odorant-Induced Plasticity in the Neural Circuits of the Mammalian Olfactory Bulb | Leonardo Belluscio, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke | Children's Hospital Enders Auditorium 320 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA |
Neuroscience |
| 12:15pm | 1:30pm | TBA | Steve Elledge, Harvard Medical School | Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue Cannon Room, Building C Boston, MA |
Biological and Biomedical Sciences |
| 1:30pm | 2:30pm | Neural control of the HSC niche | Paul Frenette, Mount Sinai School of Medicine | Children's Hospital Enders Auditorium 320 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA |
Neuroscience |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | Cancer Chemical Biology | Gregory Verdine, Harvard Universiy | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Mb-23 Pfizer Lecture Hall |
Chemical Biology |
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