Bauer Lectures Archive: 2005-2006

Tuesday, September 20

12:00 pm
Elizabeth Spelke (Department of Psychology)
“Sources of mathematical reasoning”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, November 29

12:00 pm
Thomas Silhavy (Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University)
“Outer membrane biogenesis in E. coli: building a membrane outside the cell”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Thursday, December 8

12:00 pm
Naama Barkai (Departments of Molecular Genetics and Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science)
“Divergence of gene expression between closely related species: a genetic signature conserved from yeast to human”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, January 3

12:00 pm
Bruce Lahn (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago)
“Probing the genetic basis of human brain evolution using comparative genomics and population genetics”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Thursday, February 2

12:00 pm
Gilles Laurent (Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology)
“Building a pattern encoder: tips from olfaction”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, March 28

12:00 pm
Dianne Newman (Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology)
“Can we trace the evolution of metabolism in the rock record? A case study on Fe(II)-based photosynthesis”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, May 16

12:00 pm
Philippe Cluzel (Department of Physics, University of Chicago)
“The logic of adaptation at the single-cell level”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, June 27

11:00 am (note different time)
Leonid Kruglyak (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University)
“Yeast as a model system for complex traits and population genetics”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Bauer Lectures Archive: 2003-2004

Tuesday, September 23

4:00 pm
Eric Siggia (Laboratory of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, The Rockefeller University)
“Predicting patterns of transcriptional regulation in early fly embryos”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, October 21

4:00 pm
Fabio Piano (Department of Biology, New York University)
“Worm embryogenesis as a model for building a phenome map and probing its evolution”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, November 18

4:00 pm
Jef Boeke (Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
“Yeast genetics on microarrays”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, December 9

4:00 pm
Jonathan Weissman (Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco)
“Mechanism of amyloid formation and propagation: lessons from a yeast prion”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, February 24

4:30 pm
NOTE NEW TIME!
Steven Gygi (Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School)
“New age proteomics: identification, characterization, and quantification”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, March 16

4:30 pm
Leonard Guarente (Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Regulation of aging by SIR2 and calorie restriction”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, April 13

4:30 pm
David Botstein (Lewis–Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University)
“Functional genomics: getting beyond simple descriptive studies”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, May 4

4:30 pm
Calestous Juma (John F. Kennedy School of Government)
“Social responses to genomics: lessons from history”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, June 15

4:30 pm
James Ferrell, Jr. (Departments of Molecular Pharmacology and Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine)
“To oscillate, or not to oscillate: dissecting the Cdk1/APC cell cycle circuit”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Bauer Lectures Archive: 2002-2003

Tuesday, June 25

4:00 pm
Adam Arkin (Departments of Bioengineering and Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley)
“Comparative analysis of bacterial signal transduction pathways”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Wednesday, July 31

3:00 pm
Tony Kouzarides (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology)
“Chromatin modifications in transcriptional control”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, August 13

4:00 pm
Axel Meyer (University of Konstanz)
“Comparative, developmental, and genomic approaches to the study of the adaptive radiations of cichlid fish”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, January 14

4:00 pm
Massimo Pigliucci (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
“The evolution of complex phenotypes”
Main Lecture Hall, Biological Laboratories, 16 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, February 11

4:00 pm
Michael Grunstein (Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles)
“Novel functions for histone acetylation in yeast”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, March 18

4:00 pm
Susan Lindquist (The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research)
“Prions: one surprise after another”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, April 15

4:00 pm
Erin O'Shea (Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco)
“Analysis of the budding yeast proteome”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, May 27

4:00 pm
Frank Rosenzweig (Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana)
“A genomic approach to the study of adaptive evolution in yeast”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue

Tuesday, June 24

4:00 pm
Connie Cepko (Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School)
“Genomics approaches to photoreceptor development and disease”
Sherman Fairchild room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue