Tuesday Seminar Series
A weekly seminar series focusing on current issues in genetics and genomics
Tuesdays 12:30pm
Room 147 Nanaline Duke Building
Fall 2008 Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title of Presentation |
| 9/9 | Nancy Andrews | Duke University | Running in Circles |
| 9/16 | Catherine Bowes Rickman | Duke University | The Role of Amyloid in the Pathobiology of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) |
| 9/30 | Mohamed Noor | Duke University | Effects of recombination on diversity and divergence between species in the Drosophila pseudoobscura species group |
| 10/7 | Meta Kuehn | Duke University | Bacterial Vesicles: Genes, Stress and Virulence |
| 10/14 | Brian Oliver | NIDDK/NIH | Genomics of Sex and the X in Drosophila |
| 10/28 | Jeanette McCarthy | Duke University | TBA |
| 11/11 | Julia Zeitlinger | Stowers University | TBA |
| 11/18 | Tom Cooper | Baylor College of Medicine | TBA |
| 12/2 | Eric Lai | Sloan-Kettering Institute | TBA |
| 12/9 | Jonathan Dworkin | Columbia University | TBA |
Spring 2008 Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title of Presentation |
| 1/15 | Jasper Rine | University of California, Berkeley | Looking for Good News in the Human Genome |
| 1/22 | Andrew Murray | Harvard University | Friday Night at the Singles Bar: How Yeast Cells Find a Mate |
| 1/29 | Barbara Trask | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Dynamic Duplications in the Human Genome: Focus on Subtelomeres |
| 2/5 | Nina Sherwood | IGSP; Dept. of Biology | Microtubule Severing in Nervous System Development and Disease |
| 2/12 | Susan Alberts | Dept. of Biology | Signposts in the Genetic Landscape: Using Genetic Markers to Understand the Behavior and Ecology of a Wild Primate Population |
| 2/19 | Barbara Wakimoto | University of Washington | Epigenetic Landscapes and Other Views of Heterochromatin in Drosophila |
| 2/26 | John Stiller | East Carolina University | The Complexity of Genome Evolution: Challenges to the Emerging Eukaryotic Tree of Live |
| 3/4 | Micah Luftig | Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | Signaling at the Host-microbe Interface: Identifying pathways that modulate Epstein-Barr virus transformation |
| 3/18 | Michelle Winn | Dept. of Medicine - Nephrology | TRPC6 Mutations as a Cause for Hereditary Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) |
| 3/25 | Hunt Willard | Duke IGSP | Sex, Chromosomes, and Genomes: Evolution, Phenotypes and Mechanisms |
| 4/1 | Iqbal Hamza | University of Maryland, College Park | Specification of Heme Trafficking Pathways in Eukaryotes |
| 4/8 | Natasha Raikhel | University of California, Riverside | Plant Endomembrane System and Chemical Genomics |
| 4/15 | Terri Young | Dept. of Opthamology | The Molecular Genetics of Heritable Myopia |
| 4/22 | Greg Copenhaver | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Using Full-color Tetrads to Understand Meiosis |
| 4/29 | David McClay | Dept. of Biology | Building Gene Regulatory Network Dynamics |
| 5/6 | Hal Dietz | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine/Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Marfan Syndrome and Related Disorders: From Molecules to Medicines |
| 5/13 | Steven Henikoff | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Histone Variant Dynamics and Epigenetics |
Fall 2007 Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title of Presentation |
| 9/4 | Sue Wessler | University of Georgia | It’s Alive! Analyzing the Movement of Virtual Transposable Elements in Arabidopsis and Yeast |
| 9/11 | Mary Lou Guerinot | Dartmouth College | Metals, Mutants and Mayhem |
| 9/18 | Xinnian Dong | Duke University | Transcription and Homologous DNA Recombination Induced During Plant Defense |
| 9/25 | Uwe Ohler | Duke University | Computational Models and Analyses of Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes |
| 10/2 | Molly Przeworski | University of Chicago | An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Recombination |
| 10/9 | Tim Galitski | Institute for Systems Biology | Systems Genetics |
| 10/16 | David Gilbert | Florida State University | Spatial and Temporal Control of Mammalian Chromosome Replication |
| 10/23 | Frederic Blattner | University Wisconsin - Madison | Emergent Properties of Reduced Genome in E. Coli |
| 10/30 | Janet Shaw | University of Utah | Mitochondrial Fusion, Fission and Transport: a cytoplasmic story in three acts |
| 11/6 | Silke Schmidt | Duke University | Genes and Environment in Complex Human Diseases |
| 11/13 | Ethan Bier | University of California, San Diego | Using Drosophila to Answer Questions in Human Genetics |
| 11/27 | Jan Karlseder | The Salk Institute | Telomere Dynamics during the Cell Cycle |
| 12/4 | Hermann Steller | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Regulation of Caspases in Cell Death, Cell Proliferation and Cancer |
| 12/11 | Allison Ashley-Koch | Duke University | Disentangling the Complex Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders |
Spring 2007 Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title of Presentation |
| 1/23 | Terry Lechler | Duke University - Cell Biology | Morphogenesis of the Epidermis |
| 1/30 | Maki Asano | Duke University - Molecular Genetics & Microbiology | Cell Cycle Regulation in Drosophila |
| 2/6 | Anita Sil | University of California, San Francisco | Using Genomics and Genetics to Study Histoplasma Capsulatum Pathogenesis |
| 2/13 | Paul Turner | Yale University | Sex, Conflict, and Dominance in RNA Virus Evolution |
| 2/20 | Brent Derry | The Hospital for Sick Children/ University of Toronto | Functional Genomic Analysis of the p53 Network in C. elegans |
| 2/27 | Hiro Matsunami | Duke University - Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | Smell and Taste: from Receptors to Perception |
| 3/6 | Stuart Kim | Stanford University | Systems Biology of Human Aging |
| 3/13 | James Galagan | Broad Institute | Microbial Genomics: From Models to Pathogens |
| 3/20 | Ethan Bier | University of California, San Diego | Using Drosophila to Answer Questions in Human Genetics |
| 3/27 | Nipam Patel | TBA | |
| 4/3 | Doug Koshland | Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Carnegie Institution | DNA Double-strand Breaks Trigger Genome-wide Activation of Sister Chromatid Cohesion |
| 4/10 | Aaron Mitchell | Columbia University | Genetic Dissection of Candida Albicans Biofilm Formation |
| 4/17 | Fred Winston | Harvard Medical School | School Analysis of Transcription and Chromatin Structure in Yeast |
| 4/24 | Kevin Morano | University of Texas Medical School | TBD |
| 5/1 | Dan Gottschling | Gottschling Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Nuclear Incontinence: The Effects of Old Age on the Genome |
| 5/8 | Chris Burge | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cooperative, Compensatory, and Context-Dependent Effects in Pre-mRNA Splicing |
Sponsored by UPGG and IGSP