Department of Genetics & Development

SPRING 2008 (Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are held on Tuesdays in HHSC 312 at 4:00 p.m.)
DATE	SPEAKER/AFFILIATION	TOPIC	SPONSOR

1/15/08	Heiner Westphal NICHD/NIH	Control of mouse embryogenesis by Lhx/Ldb transcription complexes	Hobert
1/22/08	Ulrike Gaul Rockefeller University	Decoding regulatory networks: Transcription and translation control in Drosophila development	Hobert/Struhl
2/12/08	Rachel Cox Carnegie Institute	The effects of altered mitochondrial dymamics on development	Karsenty
2/19/08	Joseph Baur Harvard University	Small molecule regulators of SIRT1 in health and longevity	Karsenty
2/26/08	Richard Behringer MD Anderson Cancer Center	Genetic regulation of organ diversity in mammals	Sussel
3/18/08	Duoja Pan Johns Hopkins	The Hippo signaling pathway	Johnston
4/1/08	Peter Warburton Mount Sinai Medical Center	Organization of kinetochore chromatin domains at human centromeres	Bestor
4/8/08	Stephen Tapscott Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	The circuitry of a master switch: Myod and the regulations of skeletal muscle gene expression	Johnston
4/22/08	Suzanne Eaton Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics	Epthelial remodeling and the planar cell polarity pathway	Johnston
4/29/08 1:00 p.m. HHSC 301	Matthew Meselson Harvard University	Why does sex exist?	Rothstein
5/6/08	Gordon Keller McEwen Center for Regenerative Medicine	Lineage specific differentiation of embryonic stem cells	Sussel
5/13/08	Nipam Patel UC Berkeley	The evolution of segmentation and body patterning	Johnston
5/20/08	Gian Garriga UC Berkeley	Wnt signaling and membrane trafficking during C. elegans neuronal development	Hobert

(updated 5/9/08)