Department of Genetics & Development

SPRING 2008 (Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are held on Friday at 12 noon HHSC 312)
DATE	SPEAKER	SEMINAR TITLE	LAB MENTOR
Jan. 23 12 noon HHSC 1504 Disseration Seminar	Justin Weinstein	Studies of the genetic interactions of Sgs1, the budding yeast	Rothstein
Feb. 29	Roy Maute	Experimental appraoches to miRNA target identification	Dalla-Favera
March 7	Andrew Goldsmith	Behavioral, genetic and live imaging approaches to amino acid gustation in C. elegans	Hobert
March 14	Ripla Arora	Role of Tbx4 in allantois vascular development	Papaioannou
March 28	Maggie O'Meara	Lsy-12 controls a left/right asymmetric neuronal fate in C. elegans	Hobert
April 4	Katherine Lelli	Extradenticle: Hox is just a Ho without it	Mann
April 11	Daniel Concepcion	Understanding the role of T-box transcription factor Tbx6 in the determination of left/right body asymmetry	Papaioannou
April 18	John Dittmar	Automating synthetic dosage lethality screening in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Rothstein
April 25		NO SEMINAR
May 2 Dissertation Seminar	Jacqueline Barlow	Cell cycle regulation of checkpoint activation and DNA double-strand break repair	Rothstein
May 9	Binyamin Berkovits	Function of the Bromodomain-containing Protein Brdt During Spermatogenesis	Wolgemuth
May 15 Dissertation Seminar	Benson Lu	GDNF target genes in the developing mouse kidney	Costantini