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All the following seminars were financially supported by the HHMI fund.
Summer 2008 - Biomedical Speaker Series
Anne Lally, M.D.
Associate at Hartford Transplant Associates
Active Associate Staff member, Department of Surgery, Hartford Hospital
Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Connecticut Medical School
“My Balancing Act"
Dr. Lally will talk about her life and career as a transplant surgeon.
4:15 - 5:30pm, July 9, 2008
Stoddard G2
Spring 2008
Igor Kaltashov, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
“Mass spectrometry as a versatile tool to study protein behavior: from model systems to biopharmaceutical products”
4:30 - 5:30pm, Februray 25, 2008
McConnell 103
Co-sponsored by the Center for Proteomics and the Center for Molecular Biology
Hosted by Stylianos Scordilis
Joshua LaBaer, Ph.D.
Director of the Institute of Proteomics at Harvard Medical School
“Functional Proteomics for Biomarker and Target Discovery”
4:30 - 5:30pm, March 31, 2008
McConnell 103
Co-sponsored by the Center for Proteomics and the Center for Molecular Biology
Hosted by
Stylianos Scordilis
Darrell Yamashiro, Ph.D.
Columbia University
“Role of angiogenesis in cancer”
4:30 - 5:30pm, April 14, 2008
McConnell 103
Hosted by Elizabeth Jamieson and YiLi Liao
Fall 2007
The CMB sponsors celebrating 10 years of the Smith Neuroscience Major with HHMI fund
Derek Tan, Ph.D.
Tri-Institutional Assistant Professor & Assistant Member
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"Diversity and design: new small molecule probes for biology and medicine"
12-1pm, December 11, 2007
McConnell 103
Michael Hood, Ph.D.
Amherst College
"Sex chromosome in the genomic of species hybridization"
4:30-5:30pm, November 19, 2007
McConnell 103
Hosted by Robert Merritt, Rob Dorit, Laura Katz
Rolf Karlstrom, Ph.D.
University of Massacusetts, Amherst
”Patterning the forebrain and pituitary gland: zebrafish, hedgehogs, and glis...”
4:30-5:30pm, November 12, 2007
McConnell 103
Hosted by Amy Burnside
Spring 2007
Anne Moscona, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology
Vice Chair for Research of Pediatrics
New York Weill Cornell Medical Center
Pre-Health talk with students
"Devotion to a calling: a path in medical research"
12:15 - 1pm, February 26, 2007
McConnell B05
Molecular Biology Seminar
"Influenza today and in the future: peril and promise"
4:30 - 5:30pm, February 26, 2007
Weistein auditorium (Wright Hall)
Hosted by CMB, Health Services/Student Affairs
Peter FisPher, Ph.D.
Visiting Associate Professor
Washington University School of Medicine
Infectious Disease Division
"Elimination of lymphatic filariasis on Alor Island,Indonesia"
4:30-5:30pm, February 19, 2007
McConnell B05
Hosted by Steven Williams
Fall 2006
Dr. Marc Freeman
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Neuronal and gliall responses to acute nerve injury in Drosophila"
4:30 - 5:30pm, November 6, 2006
McConnell B05
Hosted by Michael Barresi
Spring 2006
Dr. John R. McCarrey
Professor of Cell & Molecular Biology
Department of Biology
University of Texas at San Antonio
"Epigenetic Regulation of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression"
4:50 - 5:50pm, April 13, 2006 (Thursday)
McConnell 103
Hosted by: Dr. Steven Williams
Dr. Deborah Hogan
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Dartmouth Medical School
Bacterial-fungal interactions: Molecular mechanisms and biological consequences
Date: April 3, 2006
Time: 4:30 - 5:30pm
Location: McConnell B05
Hosted by Christine White-Ziegler
Refreshments will be provided at 4pm in the McConnell foyer.
Dr. Katerina Leftheris
Associate Director of Discovery Chemistry Pharmaceutical Research Institute,
a Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
"Farnesyl transferase Inhibitors: From Peptides to a Clinical Candidiate"
Time: 4:30 - 5:30pm
Location: McConnell B15
Refreshments will be provided at 4pm in the McConnell foyer.
Related events on the same day:
Meeting with students
What it is like to be a practicing scientist and what career paths Dr. Leftheris took after Smith
Time: 12 - 1pm
Location: SR408
Lunch will be provided.
Meeting with Faculty
BMS Recruitment at Smith
Time: 3:00 - 4:00pm
Location: TBA
Fall 2005
Dr. Xiaole Shirley Liu (’97)
Dept. of Biostatistics and Computational Biology,
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health
Unravel Transcription Regulation Mechanisms in Humans: A Genomics and Computational Biology Approach
Date: November 17, 2005
Time: 4:30 – 5:30pm
Location: McConnell B15
Abstract:
With the complete sequencing of the human genome and the advent of
high-throughput molecular biology techniques, biologists are studying the gene regulatory mechanism at whole genome level. A new technique called ChIP-chip allows biologists to study where a transcription factor binds DNA in the genome, and how it regulates gene expression. This technique, when applied to human, generates megabytes to gigabytes of data per experiment, which is difficult for biologists to analyze. Our research in computational biology stands at the intersection between biology, statistics and computer science. We design statistical algorithms to analyze ChIP-chip data and reliably map the transcription factor binding regions onto the human genome. In addition, by searching for enriched sequence patterns in the binding regions, we help biologists identify the cooperative binding partners of the transcription factor, and refine its regulation mechanisms.
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