Upcoming Biology Seminars

Everyone is encouraged to attend seminars in the Department. Seminars are normally held either in the D'Ambra Auditorium on the 2nd floor of the Life Sciences Building or in room 248A on the 2nd floor of the Biology Building.

• Thursday, December 13, 4:00 P.M., D'Ambra Auditoriusm. Jun Yao, The Salk Institute, Lab of Genetics, "Ca2+ dependent synaptic vesibcle recycling: A study originating from synaptotagmin I". [Host: P. Rangan]
• Monday, December 17, 1:30P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium, Alan Chen, Ph.D., Center for Biotechnology and Information Science, RPI
• Wednesday, December 19, 1:30P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium, Hasan Demirci, Ph.D., Brown University, "Structural Studies of Ribosome Modifying Enzymes and Mutant Ribosomes". [Host: RNA Institute]
• Tuesday, January 15, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Jennifer Bestman, Scripps Research Institute, CA, Dept of Cell Biology. "Watching Neurodevelopment in the intact animal." [Host: B. Szaro]
• Thursday, January 17, 1:30P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium, Shi-Jie Chen, Ph.D., University of Missouri [Host: RNA Institute]
• Thursday, January 17, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Brendan Lilley, Harvard Unversity, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology. "A signaling network that controls multiple phase4s of neural development". [Host: M. Larsen]
• Monday, January 21, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium.Yu Sun, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Cancer Biology. "The role of olig2 phosphorylation in neural stem/progenitor cells." [Host: P. Rangan]
• Tuesday, January 22, 1:30P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium, Sharon Aviran, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley [Host: RNA Institute]
• Thursday, January 24, 1:30P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium, Anurag Sethi, Ph.D., Los Alamos National Lab. "Evolution and Modeling of Information Processing in the Cell" [Host: RNA Institute]
• Tuesday, January 29, 4:00 P.M., DAmbra Auditorium. Hong-Ping Xu, Yale University, Department of Neurobiology. "How activity regulates visual circuit development." [Host: H. Chen]
• Wednesday, January 30, 1:30P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium, Jia Sheng, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, "Nucleic Acid Crystallography: from Methodology Development to the Origin of Life" [Host: RNA Institute]
• Thursday, January 31, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Annalisa Scimemi, NIH Neurological Disorders & Stroke. "Dynamics of synaptic transmission in the hippocampus." [Host: M. Larsen]
• Monday, February 4, 1:30 P.M., D'Ambra Auditorium. Dahai Luo, Yale University.
• Tuesday, February 5, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Chun Han, HHMI, University of California-San Francisco, Department of Physiology. "Regulation of dentrite phophogenesis by the neuronal environment." [Host: G. Lnenicka]
• Thursday, February 7, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Shengjian Ji, Weill Medical College, Cornell University. "Transcription factors in axons." [Host: H. Chen]
• Thursday, February 14, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Paolo Forni, NIDS Porter Neuroscience Center. "When the nose4 connects to the brain: new developmental prospective for smell and reproduction." [Host: B. Szaro]
• Tuesday, February 19, 4:00 P.M., D’Ambra Auditorium. Daniel Miller, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Genetics. "tba" [Host: G. Lnenicka]