Seminars
GCD Spring 2012 seminars
Thursdays at noon in 2-101 Hasselmo Hall
January 19: Microfabricated Cerebrovascular Tissues for Studying Mechanotransduced Vasospasms and Aneurysms Patrick Alford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota (Host: Tom Hays)
January 26: Axolotl and miRNAS: regenerative repair of spinal cord injury Karen Echeverri, PhD, Assistant Professor, Stem Cell Institute, and Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development (Host: Tom Hays)
February 2: The Migration and Evolution of Ideas, David Fan, PhD., Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minneapolis (Host: Mike O’Connor)
February 9: Regulation of Vps4 Function by Bro 1 Family Members, David Katzmann, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota (Host: Sean Conner)
February 16: Good T Cells for Bad B Cells. Turning T Cells into Drugs Laurence Cooper, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas and National Institutes of Health (Host: Perry Hackett)
February 23: Mechanisms of KinesinMotor Regulation, Sara Rice, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Fienberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois (Host: Gant Luxton)
March 1: Jill Bettinger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia (Host: Ann Rougvie)
March 8: Mining the microbial universe for gene targeting reagents: the structure, function and engineering of homing endonuclease and TAL effectors Berry Stoddard, Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington (Host: Dan Voytas)
March 15: Spring Break
March 22: How the fly got his sexy legs: The origin and evolution of novel sex-specific traits Artyom Kopp, Ph.D., Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Davis.
March 29: Retinoic Acid Synthesis and Signaling during Organogenesis Gregg Duester, Ph.D., Professor, Developmental Biology, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Host: Yasu Kawakami)
April 5: TBA
April 12: Tales of Tubulin Tails: Insights into the Mechanism of Tubulin Tyrosine Ligase Antonia Roll-Mecak, Ph.D., Investigator, Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, NINDS Porter Neuroscience Research Center, National Institute of Health Bethesda, Maryland (Host: Melissa Gardner)
April 19: TorsinA - unlocking the mysteries of an AAA+ ATPase in the endoplasmic reticulum and nuclear envelope Phyllis Hanson, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (Host: Gant Luxton)
April 26: The SCF Ubiquitin Ligases-Regulation of Their Activity Through Modification of the Ubiquitin Conjugating Enzyme Cdc34. Mark Goebl, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana (Host: Deanna Koepp)
May 3: Mitotic Spindle Assembly in Mammalian Cells Pat Wadsworth, Professor, Institute for Cellular Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts (Host: Melissa Gardner)
May 10: The Role of microRNAs in Understanding Health and Disease Clifford Steer, M.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota (Host: Tom Hays)
